Wikipedia:Copyright problems
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This page is for listing and discussing possible copyright problems involving text on Wikipedia, including pages suspected to be copyright violations. Listings typically remain for at least five days before review and closure by a copyright problems clerk or administrator. During this time, interested contributors are invited to offer feedback about the problem at the relevant talk page, propose revisions to the material, or request copyright permission. After the listing period, a copyright problems clerk or administrator will review the listing and take further action if necessary.
Pages listed for copyright review appear in the bottom section of the page. The top includes information for people who have copyright concerns about pages or images, and for community volunteers who'd like to help resolve concerns.
To add a new listing, please go to today's section. Instructions for dealing with copyright concerns can be found at Instructions for dealing with text-based copyright concerns.
Handling previously published text on Wikipedia
Under the United States law that governs Wikipedia, copyright is automatically assumed as soon as any content (text or other media) is created in a physical form. An author does not need to apply for or claim copyright, for a copyright to exist.
Only one of the following allows works to be reused in Wikimedia projects:
A) Explicit Statement. An explicit statement (by the author, or by the holder of the rights to the work) that the material is either:
- in the public domain,
- licensed with the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY-SA), or
- otherwise compatible with CC-BY-SA.
B) Public Domain. If the work is inherently in the public domain, due to its age, source or lack of originality; or
C) Fair Use. United States law allows for fair use of copyrighted content, and (within limits) Wikipedia does as well. Under guidelines for non-free content, brief selections of copyrighted text may be used, but only if clearly marked and with full attribution.
Even if a source is public domain or compatibly licensed, material should be properly attributed in accordance with Wikipedia:Plagiarism in respect of local customs and attribution requirements of compatible licenses. If the terms of the compatible license are not met, use of the content can constitute a violation of copyright even if the license is compatible.
Repeated copyright violations
Contributors who repeatedly post copyrighted text or images may be subject to contributor copyright investigations, to ensure the removal from the project of all copyright infringement. Contributors who repeatedly post copyrighted material after appropriate warnings will be blocked from editing, to protect the project; see 17 United States Code § 512.
Backwards copying: when Wikipedia had (or may have had) it first
In some instances, it is clear that two pieces of text (one on Wikipedia, and one elsewhere) are copies of each other, but not clear which piece is the original and which is the copy. "Compliant" sites that copy Wikipedia text note that they have done so, but not all of our re-users are compliant.
If you've found such a case, you might first check the discussion page to see if a note has been added to the top of the talk page to allay people's concerns. If not, you can look for clues. Do other pages in the other website copy other Wikipedia articles? Did the content show up on Wikipedia all in one piece, placed by a single editor? If you don't see good evidence that Wikipedia had it first, it's a good idea to bring it up for investigation. You might follow the Instructions for listing below or tag the article {{copy-paste|url=possible source}}
so that others can evaluate.
If you confirm definitely that the content was on Wikipedia first, please consider adding {{backwardscopy}} to the article's talk page with an explanation of how you know. If you see an article somewhere else which was copied from Wikipedia without attribution, you might visit the CC-BY-SA compliance page or Wikipedia:Mirrors and forks. There are well-documented cases of plagiarism from Wikipedia by external publications.
Instructions for dealing with text-based copyright concerns
Blatant infringement
Pages exhibiting blatant copyright infringements may be speedily deleted if:
- Content was copied from a source which does not have a license compatible with Wikipedia, and was not copied from a mirror source.
- The page can neither be restored to a previous revision without infringing content, nor would the page be viable if the infringing content were removed.
- There is no credible assertion of public domain, fair use, or a free license.
To nominate an article for speedy deletion for copyright concerns, add one of these to the page:
{{db-copyvio|url=insert URL of source here}}
{{db-copyvio|describe non-web source here}}
Both of these templates will generate a notice that you should give the contributor of the content. This is important to help ensure that they do not continue to add copyrighted content to Wikipedia. An administrator will examine the article and decide whether to delete it or not. You should not blank the page in this instance.
Suspected or complicated infringement
If infringement is not blatant or the speedy deletion criteria do not apply:
- Remove or rewrite the infringing text avoiding copyright violations or revert the page to before the text was added.
- The infringing text will remain in the page history, and it may be tagged for {{copyvio-revdel}}. Administrators hold discretion on the appropriateness of revision deletion for each case. Please note the reason for removal in the edit summary and at the article's talk page (you may wish to use {{subst:cclean}}). Please identify and alert the contributor of the material to the problem, unless advised not to. The template {{Uw-copyright}} may be used for this purpose.
- However, if all revisions have copyright problems, the removal of the copyright problem is contested, reversion/removal is otherwise complicated, or the article is eligible for presumptive deletion:
- Replace the text with one of the following:
{{subst:copyvio|url=insert URL here}}
{{subst:copyvio|identify non-web source here}}
- Go to today's section and add:
{{subst:article-cv|PageName}}
from [insert URL or identify non-web source here] ~~~~
- to the bottom of the list. Put the page's name in place of "PageName". If you do not have a URL, enter a description of the source. (This text can be copied from the top of the template after substituting it and the page name and url will be filled for you.) If there is not already a page for the day, as yours would be the first listing, please add a header to the top of the page using the page for another date as an example.
- Advise the contributor of the listing at their talk page. The template on the now blanked page supplies a notice you may use for that purpose.
Instructions for special cases
- Probable copyvios without a known source: If you suspect that a page contains a copyright violation, but you cannot find a source for the violation (so you can't be sure that it's a violation), do not list it here. Instead, place {{cv-unsure|~~~|2=FULL_URL}} on the page's talk page, but replace FULL_URL with the full URL of the page version that you believe contains a violation. (To determine the URL, click on "Permanent link" in the toolbox area, and copy the URL.)
- One contributor has verifiably introduced copyright problems into multiple pages or files and assistance is needed in further review: See Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations.
Instructions for handling image copyright concerns
Image copyright concerns are not handled on this board. For images that are clear copyright violations, follow the procedure for speedy deletion; otherwise list at Files for Discussion. To request assistance with contributors who have infringed copyright in multiple articles or files, see Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations.
Responding to articles listed for copyright investigation
Any contributor is welcome to help investigate articles listed for copyright concerns, although only administrators, copyright problems board clerks, and VRT (formerly OTRS) agents should remove {{copyvio}} tags and mark listings resolved.
Assistance might include supplying evidence of non-infringement (or, conversely, of infringement) or obtaining and verifying permission of license. You might also help by rewriting problematic articles or removing infringing text (without removing {{copyvio}}).
Supplying evidence of non-infringement
Articles listed here are suspect of copyright concern, but not every article contains infringement. The content may be on Wikipedia first, in the public domain, compatibly licensed, or falls below threshold of originality for copyright. Sometimes, the person who placed it here is the copyright owner of freely-licensed material and this simply needs to be verified.
Information can be provided to prove compatible licensing or public domain status under the listing of the article on the copyright problems board or on the talk page of the article. A link or a clear explanation can be very helpful when a clerk or administrator evaluates the matter. As listings are not immediately addressed on the board, it may take a few days after you make your note before a response is provided.
If the article is tagged for {{copyvio}}, you should allow an administrator or copyright problems clerk to remove the tag. If the article is tagged for {{copy-paste}} or {{close paraphrasing}}, you may remove the tag from the article when the problem is addressed (or disproven), but please do not close the listing on the copyright problems board itself.
Obtaining/verifying permission
Sometimes material was placed on Wikipedia with the permission of the copyright owner. Sometimes copyright owners are willing to give permission (and proper license!) even if it was not.
Any contributor can write to the owner of copyright and check whether they gave or will give permission (or maybe they in fact posted it here!). See Wikipedia:Example requests for permission. In either case, unless a statement authorizing the material under compatible license is placed online at the point of original publication, permission will need to be confirmed through e-mail to the Wikimedia Foundation. See Wikipedia:Confirmation of permission. If a compatible license is placed online at the point of original publication, please provide a link to that under the listing for the article on the copyright problems board or on the talk page of the article.
Please note that it may take a few days for letters to clear once they are sent. Do not worry if the content is deleted prematurely; it can be restored at any point usable permission is logged.
Rewriting content
Any contributor may rewrite articles that are or seem to be copyight problems to exclude duplicated or closely paraphrased text. When articles or sections of articles are blanked as copyright problems, rewriting is done on a temporary page at Talk:PAGENAME/Temp so that the new material can be copied over the old. (The template blanking the article will link to the specific temporary page.)
Please do not copy over the version of the article that is a copyright problem as your base. All copied content, or material derived from it, should be removed first. Other content from the article can be used, if there is no reason to believe that it may be a copyright issue as well. It is often a good idea – and essential when the content is copied from an inaccessible source such as a book – to locate the point where the material entered the article and eliminate all text added by that contributor. This will help avoid inadvertently continuing the copyright issues in your rewrite. If you use any text at all from the earlier version of the article, please leave a note on the listing to alert the administrator or clerk who review the rewrite. The history of the old article will then have to be retained. (If the original turns out to be non-infringing, the two versions of the article can be merged.)
Rewrites can be done directly in articles that have been tagged for {{close paraphrasing}} and {{copy-paste}}, with those tags removed after the rewrite is complete.
Please review Wikipedia:Copy-paste and the linked guidelines and policies within it if necessary to review Wikipedia's practices for handling non-free text. Reviewing Wikipedia:Plagiarism is also helpful, particularly where content is compatibly licensed or public domain. Repairing these issues can sometimes be as simple as supplying proper attribution.
Copyright owners who submitted their own work to Wikipedia (or people editing on their behalf)
If you submitted work to Wikipedia which you had previously published and your submission was marked as a potential infringement of copyright, then stating on the article's talk page that you are the copyright holder of the work (or acting as his or her agent), while not likely to prevent deletion, helps. To completely resolve copyright concerns, it is sufficient to either:
- Link to a note permitting reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY-SA) and the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) (unversioned, with no invariant sections, front-cover texts, or back-cover texts) at the site of the original publication; or
- Send an email from an address associated with the original publication to permissions-commons@wikimedia.org or a postal message to the Wikimedia Foundation, ideally using the email template at WP:CONSENT.
See also Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials.
Please note that it may take a bit of time for letters and e-mails to clear once they are sent. Do not worry if the content is deleted prematurely; it can be restored at any point usable permission is logged. Your e-mail will receive a response whether the permission is usable or not. If you have not received a response to your letter within two weeks, it is a good idea to follow up.
One other factor you should consider, however, is that content that has been previously published elsewhere may not meet Wikipedia's specific guidelines and policies. If you are not familiar with these policies and guidelines, please review especially the core policies that govern the project. This may help prepare you to deal with any other issues with the text that may arise.
Should you choose to rewrite the content rather than release it under the requisite license, please see above.
Clerks and patrolling administrators
Copyright clerks
For a more complete description of clerks and their duties, as well as a list of active clerks, please see Wikipedia:Copyright problems/Clerks.
Copyright clerks are experienced editors on Wikipedia who are familiar with copyright and non-free content policies and its enforcement. They are trusted to evaluate and close listings and request administrative actions when necessary. Clerks are periodically reviewed by other clerks and patrolling administrators.
Copyright problems board administrators
For a more complete description of administrators on Wikipedia, please see Wikipedia:Administrators.
Any administrator may work the copyright problems board. Working the copyright problems board may involve evaluating listings personally or using tools as necessary to complete closures by clerks. Clerks have been evaluated in their work, and their recommendations may be implemented without double-checking, although any administrator is welcome to review recommendations and discuss them with the clerks in question.
Closing listings
Pages can be processed at any time by anyone, but are not formally closed until a clerk or administrator verifies that all problems are resolved. Pages listed for presumptive deletion stay open for a minimum of 7 days before being processed. VRT agents may close listings at any times.
For advice for resolving listings, see:
- Wikipedia:Copyright problems/Advice for admins (VRT agents, see section there)
- Wikipedia:Copyright problems/Advice for clerks
The templates collected at Template:CPC may be useful for administrators, clerks and VRT agents noting resolution.
Listings of possible copyright problems
Older than 7 days
21 January 2023
- Saint Mary's College, Trinidad and Tobago (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.stmarys.edu.tt/welcome/index.php/about/our-history. Archer1234 (t·c) 04:42, 21 January 2023 (UTC)
- Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Sennecaster (Chat) 16:12, 5 February 2023 (UTC)
- Draft:CUNY Baccalaureate for Unique and Interdisciplinary Studies (history · last edit · rewrite) from <https://cunyba.cuny.edu/advising/handbook/> and <https://cunyba.cuny.edu/about/accreditation/>. — Red-tailed hawk (nest) 05:53, 21 January 2023 (UTC)
- Article deleted due to copyright concerns. MER-C 16:59, 28 January 2023 (UTC)
- Fort Assiniboine Sandhills Wildland Provincial Park (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://ia800505.us.archive.org/21/items/fortassiniboines00albe/fortassiniboines00albe.pdf. — Diannaa (talk) 15:43, 21 January 2023 (UTC)
- Salvo (artist) (history · last edit · rewrite) from <https://www.archiviosalvo.com/index.php/en/biography/> and <https://www.depart.it/it/-SALVO-Salvatore-Mangione.htm>(in Italian). While trying to clean up naked references I discovered one reference was suspiciously a direct copy of the page. — BeckyAnne(talk) 19:07, 21 January 2023 (UTC)
- Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Wizardman 16:38, 18 March 2023 (UTC)
- Murray Waas (history · last edit · rewrite) from Please see Earwig: <https://copyvios.toolforge.org/?lang=en&project=wikipedia&title=&oldid=1133861684&action=search&use_engine=1&use_links=1&turnitin=0&noskip=1>. Copyvio/nfcc issues from a large number of sources; this will need a thorough rewrite.. — Red-tailed hawk (nest) 19:52, 21 January 2023 (UTC)
- Note: There's a cleanup underway by someone who was involved in the article. They're doing it underneath the template, which is a bit unorthodox but seems fine to me. Please do not P-DEL the article. — Red-tailed hawk (nest) 00:18, 24 January 2023 (UTC)
- @Red-tailed hawk: Leaving this to you to double check; rewrite looks like it's been done for a while. Sennecaster (Chat) 23:13, 25 March 2023 (UTC)
27 March 2023
- Appeal to the League of Nations Haile Selassie June 1936 (history · last edit · rewrite) - Article contains so many quotes as to amount to essentially a copyright violation. * Pppery * it has begun... 00:13, 27 March 2023 (UTC)
- Labour discrimination (history · last edit · rewrite) from Various print sources. Presumptive, see Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/Indian Education Program. Foundational and fully written by User:Tb0412 for IEP. Wizardman 01:07, 27 March 2023 (UTC)
- Article deleted due to copyright concerns. MER-C 18:10, 3 April 2023 (UTC)
- Poverty alleviation programmes in India (history · last edit · rewrite) from Presumptive, see Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/Indian Education Program. Foundational content is from one of the CCI subjects with minimal changes since. Sources are all dead, textbook cannot be located. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 02:22, 27 March 2023 (UTC)
- Article deleted due to copyright concerns. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 20:18, 3 April 2023 (UTC)
- Lambert Automobile Company (history · last edit · rewrite) from various, presumptive deletion over copyright concerns, please see: Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20210315; created by DC from redirect, 86% DC content, and offline sources that can't be checked. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 10:21, 27 March 2023 (UTC)
- Delisted GA, save talk page. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 10:21, 27 March 2023 (UTC)
- Article redirected to a non-infringing target. MER-C 18:10, 3 April 2023 (UTC)
- Vänern (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.researchgate.net/publication/269695271_Atlantic_Salmon_and_Brown_Trout_in_Lake_Vanern_A_proposal_for_a_co-management_system. Not a straightforward copy and paste of entire paragraphs, but sentences can be matched to this 2014 publication. Also obvious by no attempts being made to convert academic references. Inserted in December 2020 [1] EditorInTheRye (talk) 20:50, 27 March 2023 (UTC)
- John Jonathon Pratt (history · last edit · rewrite) from various, presumptive deletion over copyright concerns, please see: Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20210315; created by DC, 93% DC content, and offline sources that can't be checked. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 21:04, 27 March 2023 (UTC)
- Delisted GA, save talk page. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 21:04, 27 March 2023 (UTC)
- All text content is DC. Sennecaster (Chat) 19:29, 3 April 2023 (UTC)
- Article deleted due to copyright concerns. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 20:18, 3 April 2023 (UTC)
4 April 2023
- Suspected copyright infringements without a source from June to August 2010
- Takeshi Fuji (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Hozumi Hasegawa (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Akinobu Hiranaka (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Hiroki Ioka (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Guts Ishimatsu (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Kuniaki Shibata (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Yasuei Yakushiji (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Takanori Hatakeyama (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Peer-mediated instruction (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (Atlanta) (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. MER-C 18:11, 12 April 2023 (UTC)
- Hindenburg Omen (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Lion's mane jellyfish (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Locksmithing (history · last edit · rewrite)
Ends. MER-C 17:13, 4 April 2023 (UTC)
5 April 2023
- Brian S. Kim (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://web.archive.org/web/20220120074222/https://briankimlab.org/profile/brian-kim/. Foundational; NB some subsequently-created pages seem to have copied some content either from us or from a common (but unidentified) source. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 15:12, 5 April 2023 (UTC)
- VRT Ticket received, article now licensed and compatible with CC BY-SA 3.0. MER-C 11:16, 16 April 2023 (UTC)
- Articles with close paraphrasing from October to December 2017
- List of Horrid Henry episodes (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Gagik Karapetyan (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Vicki Keith (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Bikini Moon (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. MER-C 15:46, 7 April 2023 (UTC)
- MacDill Air Force Base (history · last edit · rewrite)
- This is a Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20130819 article. MER-C 18:47, 5 April 2023 (UTC)
- Arthur V. Tobolsky (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Chino Champion (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Self-monitoring (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Suspected copyright infringements without a source from September 2010
- Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Ilaro (history · last edit · rewrite)
- List of Fame (1982 TV series) episodes (history · last edit · rewrite) (2015 archive)
- The Rutles (history · last edit · rewrite)
Ends. MER-C 16:55, 5 April 2023 (UTC)
7 April 2023
- Pedro Calungsod has contained multiple lengthy copyright violations since at least 2012. E.g. here, the "martyrdom" section (largely unchanged in the current version) is very close paraphrasing of this (source already listed in the article then, so not a mirror of our article probably). Example
- Article: "When Matapang learned of the baptism, he became even more furious. He violently hurled spears first at Pedro. The lad skirted the darting spears with remarkable dexterity. The witnesses said that Pedro had all the chances to escape because he was very agile, but he did not want to leave Padre Diego alone. "
- Source: "When Matapang learned of the baptism, he became even more furious. He violently hurled spears first at Pedro. The lad skirted the darting spears with remarkable dexterity. The witnesses said that Pedro had all the chances to escape because he was very agile, but he did not want to leave Padre Diego alone. "
- "Current article": "When Matå'pang learned of his daughter's baptism, he became even more furious. He violently hurled spears first at Calungsod, who was able to dodge them."
- Article: "Determined to kill the missionaries, Matapang went away and tried to enlist in his cause another villager, named Hirao, who was not a Christian. At first, Hirao refused, mindful of the kindness of the missionaries towards the natives; but when Matapang branded him a coward, he got piqued and so he consented. Meanwhile, during that brief absence of Matapang from his hut, Padre Diego and Pedro took the chance of baptizing the infant, with the consent of the Christian mother."
- Source: "Determined to kill the missionaries, Matapang went away and tried to enlist in his cause another villager, named Hirao, who was not a Christian. At first, Hirao refused, mindful of the kindness of the missionaries towards the natives; but when Matapang branded him a coward, he got piqued and so he consented. Meanwhile, during that brief absence of Matapang from his hut, Padre Diego and Pedro took the chance of baptizing the infant, with the consent of the Christian mother."
- Current article: "Determined to kill the missionaries, Matå'pang went away and tried to enlist another villager, a pagan named Hirao. The latter initially refused, mindful of the missionaries' kindness towards the natives, but became piqued and eventually capitulated when Matå'pang branded him a coward.[12] While Matå'pang was away from his house, San Vitores and Calungsod baptized the baby girl with her Christian mother's consent."
Note that additional copyvios from other sources seem to have been added later, e.g. from here. Example from curren article:
- Enwiki: "A Chinese man named Choco, a criminal from Manila who was exiled in Guam, began spreading rumors that missionaries' baptismal water was poisonous. As some sickly Chamorro infants who were baptized eventually died, many believed the story and held the missionaries responsible."
- Source: "a Chinese man named Choco, a criminal from Manila who was exiled in Guam, began spreading rumors that the baptismal water used by missionaries was poisonous. As some sickly Chamorro infants who were baptized died, many believed the story and held the missionaries responsible."
Perhaps best to revert to an early 2012 version if those aren't found to contain further copyvios. Fram (talk) 09:20, 7 April 2023 (UTC)
- BBC's 100 Greatest Foreign-Language Films (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20181029-the-100-greatest-foreign-language-films. Potential violation of WP:TOP100 and WP:CLIST. Jovian Eclipse 17:58, 7 April 2023 (UTC)
- Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. MER-C 17:14, 15 April 2023 (UTC)
- Sight and Sound (history · last edit · rewrite) from 1952, 1962, 1972, 1982, 1992, 2002, 2012, 2022. Potential violation of WP:TOP100 and WP:CLIST. Jovian Eclipse 18:05, 7 April 2023 (UTC)
- Multiple attempts have been made to add the full list to these articles, all reverted. This level of detail is OK. MER-C 10:59, 16 April 2023 (UTC)
- The Sight & Sound Greatest Films of All Time 2012 (history · last edit · rewrite) from here and here. Potential violation of WP:TOP100 and WP:CLIST. Jovian Eclipse 18:12, 7 April 2023 (UTC)
- Multiple attempts have been made to add the full list to these articles, all reverted. This level of detail is OK. MER-C 10:59, 16 April 2023 (UTC)
- The Sight and Sound Greatest Films of All Time 2022 (history · last edit · rewrite) from here and here. Potential violation of WP:TOP100 and WP:CLIST. Jovian Eclipse 18:12, 7 April 2023 (UTC)
- Multiple attempts have been made to add the full list to these articles, all reverted. This level of detail is OK. MER-C 10:59, 16 April 2023 (UTC)
- James Meade (history · last edit · rewrite) from Various print sources. Presumptive, see Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/Indian Education Program. Almost fully written by User:Ratulsen2006 for IEP and there's also CV concerns on the talk page. Wizardman 18:27, 7 April 2023 (UTC)
- Article deleted due to copyright concerns. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 20:57, 14 April 2023 (UTC)
- Isn't he a Nobel Prize winner? 2600:8800:590E:BB00:7983:4EA3:B92:AAFB (talk) 09:15, 17 April 2023 (UTC)
- That is not relevant to this discussion. MER-C 16:39, 18 April 2023 (UTC)
- Isn't he a Nobel Prize winner? 2600:8800:590E:BB00:7983:4EA3:B92:AAFB (talk) 09:15, 17 April 2023 (UTC)
- Article deleted due to copyright concerns. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 20:57, 14 April 2023 (UTC)
- User:BrugesFR/Basilica of La Merced, Quito (history · last edit · rewrite). Presumptive deletion per Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/BrugesFR. MER-C 18:53, 7 April 2023 (UTC)
- Article deleted due to copyright concerns. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 20:57, 14 April 2023 (UTC)
- Directional control valve (history · last edit · rewrite) from Various. Presumptive, see Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/Indian Education Program. Almost fully written by Kedarbhide007 for IEP. Wizardman 19:05, 7 April 2023 (UTC)
- Article deleted due to copyright concerns. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 20:57, 14 April 2023 (UTC)
9 April 2023
- 1947 Rawalpindi massacres - This edit is a possible WP:COPYQUOTE violation. Oriental Aristocrat (talk) 15:18, 9 April 2023 (UTC)
- Naperville Fire Department (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://naperville.il.us/nfdhistory.aspx#Then . Copyvio is clearer in earlier edits, this one's been copyedited over time. Apocheir (talk) 00:05, 9 April 2023 (UTC)
- Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Department (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://http://www.miamidade.gov/fire/about-special-air-rescue.asp and http://miamidade.gov/fire/about-special-urban-search.asp. Apocheir (talk) 00:36, 9 April 2023 (UTC)
- Springfield Fire Department (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.mafirefighters.com/SpringfieldFD.htm, https://web.archive.org/web/20150317184518/http://www3.springfield-ma.gov/fire/history.0.html. Apocheir (talk) 02:11, 9 April 2023 (UTC)
- TV Koper-Capodistria (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://transdiffusion.org/2006/04/30/the_olive_grove. JSH-alive/talk/cont/mail 03:08, 9 April 2023 (UTC)
- Francis Cherry (governor) (history · last edit · rewrite) from Various. Presumptive, see Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20110727 03. Almost entirely written by Hathorn. Wizardman 19:08, 9 April 2023 (UTC)
- Article deleted due to copyright concerns. Deleted by Justlettersandnumbers MER-C 16:39, 18 April 2023 (UTC)
- Bob C. Riley (history · last edit · rewrite) from Various. Presumptive, see Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20110727 03. Almost entirely written by Hathorn. Wizardman 20:11, 9 April 2023 (UTC)
- Article deleted due to copyright concerns. Deleted by Justlettersandnumbers MER-C 16:39, 18 April 2023 (UTC)
11 April 2023
- William Beanes (history · last edit · rewrite) from various, presumptive deletion over copyright concerns, please see: Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20210315; created by DC, 74% DC content, many sources inaccessible and can't be checked but also foundational copy-paste from https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofwa0000unse_e0h1/page/42/mode/1up?view=theater&q=Beanes Heidler 2004. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 03:14, 11 April 2023 (UTC)
- Delisted GA, save talk page. Foundational copy-paste from 2004 source. Suggest redirect to Francis Scott Key after cleaning. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 03:14, 11 April 2023 (UTC)
- John Stuart Skinner (history · last edit · rewrite) from various, presumptive deletion over copyright concerns, please see: Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20210315; created by DC, 77% DC content, offline sources that can't be checked, and foundational copy-paste from https://archive.org/details/flagpoetsongstor00molo/mode/2up. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 04:54, 11 April 2023 (UTC)
- Delisted GA, save talk page. Foundational copy-paste from 2001 book although obscured by citing to other sources. Suggest redirect to Francis Scott Key. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 04:54, 11 April 2023 (UTC)
- Michigan logging wheels (history · last edit · rewrite) from various, presumptive deletion over copyright concerns, please see: Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20210315; created by DC, 71% DC content, many inaccessible sources, but oddly, most content does not come from the indicated source at all (sample), and when searching for the origin of the content, foundational copy-paste is found from https://web.archive.org/web/20020605231900/http://www.sos.state.mi.us/history/museum/explore/museums/hismus/prehist/lumber/bigwheel.html. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 05:46, 11 April 2023 (UTC)
- Delisted GA, save talk page. Foundational copy-paste from non-reliable sources, and much text in foundational versions did not come from the sources indicated. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 05:46, 11 April 2023 (UTC)
- Article deleted due to copyright concerns. MER-C 17:27, 18 April 2023 (UTC)
12 April 2023
- Rostow's stages of growth (history · last edit · rewrite) from Various print sources. Presumptive, see Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/Indian Education Program. Primarily written by User:Sonali256 for IEP. Copyvio was also noted at the time on the talk page but was never addressed. Wizardman 22:48, 12 April 2023 (UTC)
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15 April 2023
- Duane Simolke (history · last edit · rewrite) from Various. Presumptive, see Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20110727 03. Not foundational but fully written by Hathorn. Wizardman 02:09, 15 April 2023 (UTC)
- Alan Steelman (history · last edit · rewrite) from Various. Presumptive, see Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20110727 03. Most of the article Wizardman 13:57, 15 April 2023 (UTC)
- Sam H. Jones (history · last edit · rewrite) from Various. Presumptive, see Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20110727 03. Most of the article Wizardman 14:09, 15 April 2023 (UTC)
- Tina Benkiser (history · last edit · rewrite) from Various. Presumptive, see Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20110727 03. Most of the article Wizardman 15:46, 15 April 2023 (UTC)
17 April 2023
- Draft:Shaghasi (history · last edit · rewrite) from [2]. Not a direct copy from the internet source, but a copy of Barakzai dynasty without attribution but that article may have copied the internet source Whpq (talk) 02:52, 17 April 2023 (UTC)
- Barakzai dynasty (history · last edit · rewrite) from [3]. See also Draft:Shaghasi where this section was copied and submitted a draft. Whpq (talk) 02:54, 17 April 2023 (UTC)
- Julia Grant (history · last edit · rewrite) from [4], [5], and possibly others. Thebiguglyalien (talk) 17:14, 17 April 2023 (UTC)
- Chung–Jansen syndrome (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://web.archive.org/web/20230410091147/https://chungjansensyndrome.eu/en/about-phip/physical-problems/ https://chungjansensyndrome.eu/en/therapy/social-emotional-development https://chungjansensyndrome.eu/en/therapy/sensory-processing-disorder https://chungjansensyndrome.eu/en/therapy/motor-development/. NB the page on es.wp appears to contain copyvio from here, which has been carried over into our page; that Spanish page, in turn, appears to contain translational copyvios of the chungjansensyndrome.eu pages listed here. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 18:58, 17 April 2023 (UTC)
18 April 2023
- Joe Raymond Peace (history · last edit · rewrite) from Various. Presumptive, see Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20110727 03. Wizardman 00:31, 18 April 2023 (UTC)
- Maximum battleship (history · last edit · rewrite) from . 2600:1011:B191:2331:21B5:9E17:2D70:1CF9 (talk) 13:14, 18 April 2023 (UTC)
- Shafi's Campaign against the Sikhs (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.280259/2015.280259.History-Of_djvu.txt. — Diannaa (talk) 23:51, 18 April 2023 (UTC)
19 April 2023
- Mount Kilimanjaro climbing routes (history · last edit · rewrite) from [6]. Not sure which one is the copy. 1AmNobody24 (talk) 14:21, 19 April 2023 (UTC)
- There is a discussion at WP:Teahouse#Page was speedily deleted due to an unknown copyright violation that requires attention from an administrator experienced with copyright problems. Thank you. Cullen328 (talk) 17:55, 20 April 2023 (UTC)
20 April 2023
- McIntosh Laboratory (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.cultofmac.com/454244/steve-jobs-naming-macintosh/ and http://www.roger-russell.com/mcintosh1.htm. Andre🚐 02:27, 20 April 2023 (UTC)
- Debra Lehrmann (history · last edit · rewrite) from [Presumptive]. One of the last related Billy Hathorn-related articles. At least 40% of the article was written by him or his socks. Scorpions13256 (talk) 09:10, 20 April 2023 (UTC)
21 April 2023
Lip stain (history · last edit · rewrite), mostly from [7]], but also from 9 other sites (full Earwig result). It was copyvio even on a very early stage: 70% for 3-sentence-long sub-stub. a!rado🦈 (C✙T) 13:19, 21 April 2023 (UTC)
- MV Swift Rescue (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://web.archive.org/web/20130608062727/https://www.naval-technology.com/projects/mv-swift-rescue-submarine-support-rescue-vessel/ foundational copyvio from first edit. Kablammo (talk) 13:53, 21 April 2023 (UTC)
- George H. Mahon (history · last edit · rewrite) from Various. Presumptive, see Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20110727 03. Not foundational but almost the whole article. Wizardman 21:37, 21 April 2023 (UTC)
- Harold B. McSween (history · last edit · rewrite) from Various. Presumptive, see Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20110727 03. Not foundational but almost the whole article. Wizardman 22:04, 21 April 2023 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2023 April 22
Wikipedia's current date is 22 April 2023. Put new article listings in Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2023 April 22. Files should be handled by speedy deletion or Wikipedia:Files for discussion.