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http://[0-9]{5}.us/
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Neustar/Vendare Media -- Controller of .us TLD | http://10001.us/ | low | none, dump of ?action=render | support.us@neustar.us ISP (Amazon AWS) email: abuse@amazonaws.com, Abuse Form |
none yet | January 7, 2024 | Unknown
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http://www.101languages.net/
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101 Languages | http://www.101languages.net/slovenian/history.html | medium | A separate page explains that the content in the "Language" section is taken from Wikipedia and available under GFDL, but does not link to original articles, doesn't list authors and doesn't provide local copy of the license (just a link to gnu.org is provided). | Only a contact form is provided. | none yet | Unknown | Unknown
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http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=IAbUcEsv-x0C&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_atb#v=onepage&q&f=false
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21st century Cambodia: View and Vision | low | A compilation of Wikipedia and other online articles published by Global Vision Publishing House without attribution. | nsingh_2004@vsnl.net, info@globalvisionpub.com | Unknown | Unknown
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http://www.2violent.com/
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2violent.com | http://www.2violent.com/sharon_tate.html | medium | There is a notice that mentions Wikipedia and the GFDL. The whole thing links to wikipedia.org, but there is no history section, link to the original article, or link to the GFDL. Other pages besides "Sharon Tate" appear to be a partial derivation of older wikipedia articles, or, just possibly, some text from them has been uploaded to wikipedia, as I have found exact word for word passages in
Jay Sebring and
Charles Manson from around 2004 November 8 or later. -
Wikibob -
Talk 19:32, 2005 May 22 (UTC)
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webmaster AT 2violent.com, clasione AT verizon.net (domain admin), abuse AT godaddy.com (host) |
- Wikibob - Talk 20:52, 2005 May 22 (UTC)
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http://www.99colors.net/
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99Colors | http://www.99colors.net/name/dark-candy-apple-red | low | List of colo[u]r details, such as names & RGB values, at least partially scraped from en.wikipedia. Contains some problematic content which was removed from enwiki for other reasons (ie. simply made up by an editor); existence of this (mirrored) content has been used to justify re-adding it. | contact@99colors.net | Repeated emails; all bounced. | Unknown | Unknown |
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https://abcdef.wiki
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abcdef.wiki (title: QWERTY.WIKI) | formerly xcv.wiki, qwerty.wiki, que.wiki, qaz.wiki and other.wiki: they all redirect to abcdef.wiki at the moment; it may change domain again in the future. It seems to use live machine translations from the English Wikipedia to generate mirrors in 16 languages, without references. Some translations are very poor (e.g. Russian) while others are very good (e.g. Italian). Too many invasive ads, some of which are mildly pornographic. | https://es.abcdef.wiki/wiki/Wikipedia | low | matches WP:CCBYSAC | admin@qwerty.wiki | (qwe.wiki) reported to Google AdSense; it definitely violates the rules on invasive ads. | Unknown | Unknown
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http://www.about.com
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about.com | URL | not rated | *
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www.about.com
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About.com (not url) | http://classiclit.about.com/cs/profileswriters/p/aa_mshelley.htm?terms=Mary+Shelley is a former version of Mary Shelley. | not rated | This one has a copyright on the bottom saying that it is copyright of About.com , a member of the New York Times Company. | classiclit.guide AT about.com is the email address to the specific guide of this page. The problem was mentioned above. To other people, I don't know.
Check this out though, it almost sounds like the "guide" claims she wrote the article: http://classiclit.about.com/mbiopage.htm |
None. | Unknown | Unknown
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http://everythingeveryone.wikia.com/wiki/About_Everything,_everyone_Wiki
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About Everything, everyone Wiki | http://everythingeveryone.wikia.com/wiki/John_Augustine_Smith | none | No attribution to Wikipedia, no links to original article nor page history. Wikia CC-BY-SA 3.0 license automatically applies to content. | copyright AT wikia.com. Further contact details: http://www.wikia.com/Terms_of_Use#Claims of Copyright Infringement | I've copied the latest version on Wikipedia of the John Augustine Smith article and added the Wikipedia template. What other articles were plagiarized/plagiarised from Wikipedia? Stranger195 ( talk • contribs • guest book) 09:13, 5 December 2015 (UTC) | Unknown | Unknown
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http://www.absoluteastronomy.com
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Absolute Astronomy | http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Choctawhatchee_Mid-Bay_Bridge | medium | Off-site GFDL. Javascript required to view mention.
This website formerly violated the GFDL. I am uncertain whether they currently use Wikipedia articles. http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/planets/Uranus.htm , for instance, is similar to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranus but I haven't determine whether there's still copying. If you remove this entry, be sure to archive it. I am one of the creators of this site. The GFDL violation was related to displaying source information inside javascripts. This created problems for visitors who had javascript disabled. The problem was corrected when it was brought to our attention. No obvious sign of GFDL, copyrighted by website and no mention of wikipedia - http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Alice%27s_Restaurant_(film) L∴V 15:12, 10 April 2009 (UTC) May 2010: http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/terms.aspx "COPYRIGHT - AbsoluteAstronomy asserts its legal copyright for all original works of authorship or intellectual property published on AbsoluteAstronomy.com. You may not publish, modify, or transmit this content without express written permission from AbsoluteAstronomy" This implies that AbsoluteAstronomy has copyright to the content on it's site, but mostly it doesn't. The vast majority of content on the site is copyrighted by wikipedia authors, and licensed to AbsoluteAstronomy under certain terms (GFDL I guess?), which include the right for others to 'publish, modify, and transmit' the content of the site. IMHO it's a bit misleading. Decora 23:12, 23 May 2010 (UTC) August 2014: Articles from Wikipedia are now linked at their bottom to the corresponding wp article, and the GFDL is asserted. LeadSongDog come howl! 07:15, 27 August 2014 (UTC) |
{{{contact}}} | {{{action}}} | Unknown | Unknown
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http://www.absolutearts.com/
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AbsoluteArts.com / World Wide Arts Resources | http://www.absolutearts.com/artsnews/2006/01/06/33592.html | not rated | I have no idea whether they often crib from us, but the last paragraph of the cited sample page on "Archival Investigations: Early Electro-mechanical Sound Works and Artifacts from Trimpin’s First Five Years in Seattle" is a straight-out copy of the first two paragraphs of our article on Trimpin - Jmabel | Telephone: 740-587-3326, Fax: 740-587-4103 Email: help AT wwar.com or help AT absolutearts.com |
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https://academic-accelerator.com/encyclopedia/
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Academic Accelerator: The Most Up-to-Date Encyclopedia, News, Review, & Research | Apparently a complete mirror, though badly done and apparently disguised.
Articles (at least the Alouette 1 article that I found) are badly formatted with no internal links present in the text (but see below), all text styling removed, lists presented as flat text (including the "See also" and "External links" sections), and subheadings presented as full headings wrapped in equals signs, indicating poor parsing. Ironically, while they claim to be academic, the References section is completely omitted. So are all categories and infobox content. They add a dynamically-populated "Scholarly Articles" section right below the introduction, though it's empty for the Alouette 1 article, as well as sections of videos (that look like they're from YouTube, and some of which are irrelevant (anime, etc.) that happened to include the word "Alouette") and images (all images in the article, even those used only as icons in navboxes). Images are also shown all combined into one thumbnail at the top. Clicking an image in either place opens a lightbox where you can cycle through them. In all three of those places, the captions are all missing. In the "Related topics" section at the very bottom of the page, below the videos and images, there is a list of what I guess are the target articles of all of the links from the article, including those in navboxes, in alphabetical order, meaning they've lost their context and link titling. And, because they apparently tried to reinvent hyperlink functionality using scripting and failed, the links don't work, even with scripts enabled in the browser. They seem to have modified the text in various ways, presumably to avoid detection. For example, the wording "deactivated Canadian" in the first sentence of the Alouette 1 article is changed to "Canadian deactivated", and "Parts used for the construction of Alouette 1 can still be found in the Musée des ondes Emile Berliner in Montreal…" became "The parts used in the construction of Alouette 1 can still be seen at the Emile Berlina Museum in Montreal…", both wordings that, as far as I could tell with a bit of WikiBlame and manual searching, have never appeared in Wikipedia. If you do a simple diff (with an external tool), you'll find many more examples. To do this in so many places in presumably every article, it must have been automated. |
https://academic-accelerator.com/encyclopedia/alouette-1 | low | No mention of or links to Wikipedia, copyright, or licensing anywhere, even with scripts enabled. Text is modified in ways that look like the goal is to avoid plagiarism detection.
If you point at an image, before opening the lightbox, and look at the target URL your browser displays, you'll see the URL of the bare image (not the file description page), e.g., https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e5/Alouette_1.jpg; it can also be copied from the contextual menu there. That's the only hint of any connection to anything Wikimedia-related. |
Academic Accelerator: contact (at) academic-accelerator.com (from https://academic-accelerator.com footer)
Cloudflare (CDN): https://abuse.cloudflare.com/ (email not accepted) Namecheap (domain registrar): abuse (at) namecheap.com, +1.6613102107 (abuse contact info from whois) Host unknown |
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enacademic.com / en.academic.ru
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Academic Dictionaries and Encyclopedias | http://en.academic.ru/dic.nsf/enwiki/15588, http://deacademic.com/dic.nsf/dewiki/631248 | low | Mentions Wikipedia but not copyright, authors or license; doesn't link back to articles or images. Confusing footer "Wikimedia Foundation". | support@academic.ru | Unknown | Unknown
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http://academickids.com/encyclopedia/index.php/Main_Page
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Academic Kids | http://academickids.com/encyclopedia/index.php/User:Jimbo_Wales | not rated | Only contains top edit in article history, looks to be a mirror of the WP database as of June 23, 2005. No links back to Wikipedia, no mention of Wikipedia as a source, GFDL is mentioned via its link to Wikipedia. | http://academickids.com/contact/index.htm lists jd4ga7 AT yaoo.com [ sic] as the contact, WHOIS lists jd4ga AT classroomclipart.com, (310)832-5686. | Unknown | Unknown
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http://www.net-lexikon.de/
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Academie.de Net-Lexikon | * copies German-language Wikipedia | URL | not rated | * indicates Wikipedia as source
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http://ama-awards.com
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African Movie Academy Awards | [1] from 5th African Movie Academy Awards; [2] from 4th African Movie Academy Awards | low | Contents are copied entirely from Wikipedia, including our own internal links, with no mention made that the content comes from Wikipedia. The bottom of each page bears the notice "copyright © 2010 AMAA" | ? | The contributor whose content was copied wrote to the webmaster and the content has been removed. There may be no future issues, but the listing here can be helpful in case the problem recurs. It is particularly important to document these issues in the event that they should continue and should become less obvious, to avoid our contributors being unfairly accused of copyright infringement. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 12:21, 8 September 2010 (UTC) | Unknown | Unknown
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https://alchetron.com/
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Alchetron.com ~ Free Social Encyclopedia for the World | Wikipedia articles mixed with some info and YouTube videos. | https://alchetron.com/Natasha-Bedingfield | medium | Links back to Wikipedia with an unclear "(Text) CC BY-SA" link at the very bottom of the page while erroneously claiming in the footer " Alchetron © 2019", No mention of licence for images | support@alchetron.com | None so far. | Unknown | Unknown
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http://www.algebra.com/algebra/about/history/Main_Page.wikipedia
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Algebra.com | http://www.algebra.com/algebra/about/history/KForge.wikipedia | high | A seeming verbatim copy of all Wikipedia. It does not seem to use remote loading except when it has no copy of the article. In other cases, it appears to refresh a cache occasionally. However, it does appear to load images remotely, which is unacceptable. This should be verified. Now has text "Source: this wikipedia article, under CC-BY-SA", with appropriate links, on every page. | ichudov@algebra.com , ichudov@gmail.com (from WHOIS) |
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http://www.allmichaeljordan.com/
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allmichaeljordan.com / Michael Jordan | http://www.allmichaeljordan.com/career.php | high | As of 17 April 2020 the website is compliant.
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Site administrator: Mike Azif aziml AT aol.com. | Standard GFDL compliance request sent.
Sancho 15:32, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
GFDL licensing information is now included on the web site, giving credit to Wikipedia and linking to the article. However, the GFDL is not hosted locally, but is a link to Wikipedia's GFDL page. I changed this site's compliance rating to Medium. Sancho 23:21, 21 August 2007 (UTC) |
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https://wiki.alquds.edu
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Alquds | Appears to be a complete mirror | https://wiki.alquds.edu/?query=Wikipedia | not rated | Describe details of compliance or lack thereof. List violations here. | ISP: Al-Quds University, email (pr/general contact): pr@alquds.edu | Actions taken (if any) to attempt to make the website comply. | Unknown | Unknown
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http://www.amazines.com
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Amazines | http://amazines.com/Superoxide_related.html, http://www.amazines.com/Jesse_Jackson_related.html | not rated | I have added notices but am unsure if this is sufficient. - Ryan (website owner).
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Ryan Jones - 805-579-0545 | Unknown | Unknown
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http://www.amazon.com/echo
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Amazon Alexa | http://wikipediocracy.com/2017/07/24/alexa/ | low | Wikipedia content is used without attribution or re-licensing. | Adele Vrana, Wikimedia Foundation director of strategic partnerships, reached out to Amazon in 2017. | Unknown | Unknown
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http://www.amazon.de/Sachiko-M-Lambert-M-Surhone/dp/613110610X/ as just one of over 80.000 articles by this author
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Amazon books published by Betascript, authors Lambert M. Surhone, Miriam T. Timpledon, and Susan F. Marseken | not rated | The abstract is taken from the Wikipedia article Sachiko Matsubara with no attribution. This is not just a single incident, but a massive misuse of Wikipedia material. The publisher advertises "High Quality content by WIKIPEDIA articles [sic]!" on the book covers. It is a books-on-demand publisher. | January 23, 2011 | Unknown
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http://www.amazon.com/This-New-Ocean-Illustrated-ebook/dp/B008WAWFRQ/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1370172801&sr=1-2&keywords=this+new+ocean
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This New Ocean: A History of Project Mercury (Annotated and Illustrated) [Kindle Edition] | not rated | The Wikipedia article Project Mercury is copy pasted into the beginning of this Kindle book | Unknown | Unknown |
URL | http://www.animefanwiki.de |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.animefanwiki.de/index.php?title=Elfen_Lied&limit=500&action=history (see first entry) |
Rating | "None" |
Compliance | The articles are translations from en:wikipedia, this is nowhere mentioned, GFDL and original authors are not mentioned. |
Contact info | main page says write to webmaster AT animefanboard.de |
Actions |
de:Benutzer:Don-kun pointed to the copyright violation at
main page discussion before it was deleted and the discussion page was blocked. Then he tried to discuss it in
the forum but was dismissed.
since 11.11.2007, the GNU-Licence is mentioned at [3]-- 141.30.140.100 09:25, 13 November 2007 (UTC)( don-kun) got a mail from one sysop of animefanwiki. The problem may be solved soon. -- 141.30.140.100 15:45, 13 November 2007 (UTC) ( don-kun) once more, GDFL oder wikipedia is not mentioned [4]. No solution found in Diskussion in the forum [5]. They have no will to mention GNU or wikipedia. What to do? -- 141.30.140.100 ( talk) 09:37, 20 November 2007 (UTC) ( don-kun) |
URL | http://annawildingwikipedia.com/ |
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Description | Subject of the Article on Wikipedia is upset that the page removed her unsourced information and put in referenced information she didn't like, so has now gone and created her own verion of the page but linked to a time when it was full of false information |
Sample | https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Anna_Wilding&oldid=971096457#cite_note-3 |
Rating | "High", "Medium", or "Low/None" compliance with CC-BY-SA (matches Wikipedia:CC-BY-SA Compliance) (compare against GFDL if they choose that license). |
Compliance | Does not list or attribute extensive content taken from Wikipedia, and also trys to claim their own copyright on the page |
Contact info | GoDaddy can be emailed at copyrightcomplaints at godaddy.com or fill out form
here.
Can contact Anna Wilding directly through form on webpage as well http://annawildingwikipedia.com/contact-us |
Actions | Actions taken (if any) to attempt to make the website comply. |
URL | http://www.answers.com/ |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery?s=New+York&answers.x=0&answers.y=0&gwp=8, http://www.answers.com/topic/absolute-power-series |
Rating | Medium – only thing missing is the link to page history. |
Compliance |
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Contact info |
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Actions | None. |
URL | http://programs.wikia.com/ |
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Description | |
Sample | wikia:programs:Metapad |
Rating | High |
Compliance | So far, all Wikipedia articles have the wikia:programs:Template:En-WP attribution notice (a copy of Template:En-WP attribution notice) transcluded. |
Contact info | copyright AT wikia.com |
Actions | None. |
URL | http://www.ace.hu |
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Description | Hungarian journal |
Sample | http://www.ace.hu/am/2020_2/AM-2020-2-PA.pdf from Nevado Sajama, see discussion here. |
Rating | Low/None compliance with CC-BY-SA (matches Wikipedia:CC-BY-SA Compliance) (compare against GFDL if they choose that license). |
Compliance | No compliance |
Contact info | attila.pentek@yahoo.com abuse@iif.hu |
Actions | Filing this for User:Jo-Jo Eumerus, SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 16:58, 29 October 2020 (UTC) |
URL | http://www.armageddononline.org/ |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.armageddononline.org/comet_shoemaker-levy_9.php, http://www.armageddononline.org/worldwar3.php, http://www.armageddononline.org/biowarfare.php |
Rating | Low |
Compliance | Partial mirror, possibly with some additions.
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Contact info | amazingbible AT verizon.net, http://www.armageddononline.org/contactadmin.php, http://www.armageddononline.org/contactwebmaster.php |
Actions | Sent tweaked standard violation letter to amazingbible AT verizon.net. Superm401 - Talk 23:37, 5 January 2007 (UTC) |
URL | http://www.armeniapedia.org/index.php?title=Main_Page |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.armeniapedia.org/index.php?title=Raffi_Cavoukian |
Rating | Medium |
Compliance | Attributes (including linking to) Wikipedia and has a GFDL notice. But no link to history and no comment in general terms. |
Contact info | http://www.armeniapedia.org/index.php?title=User_talk:Raffi |
Actions | Violation letter sent. Superm401 |
Note Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2007-07-23/News and notes and Australian Refugee Review Tribunal
URL | http://arstechnica.com/ |
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Description | |
Sample | http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/11/to-restore-credibility-nist-will-audit-its-standards-development-process/?comments=1 |
Rating | Medium |
Compliance | They have a feature called "embeds". If someone links to Wikipedia in a comment, it will have an option, "show embeds". If you click this, it includes a significant chunk of the Wikipedia article. They could argue fair use, but I think it may not be when done on a consistent basis. It has the Wikipedia logo, the text "Wikipedia", and the full URL (which is also a link). However, there is no mention of the CC-BY-SA. |
Contact info | http://arstechnica.com/contact-us/ |
Actions | Contacted using the "Contact the Editorial Team" option. Superm401 - Talk 03:21, 2 November 2013 (UTC) |
URL | http://www.artexpertswebsite.com |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.artexpertswebsite.com/pages/artists/clovio.php "He is pointing to this work in the El Greco portrait (above). " which picture is in our page but not theirs. |
Rating | "Low/None" |
Compliance | "All contents © copyright 2011 Art Experts, Inc." |
Contact info | 1-866-484-8017 info@artexpertswebsite.com |
Actions |
URL | http://articlehubs.com/ |
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Description | |
Sample | http://articlehubs.com/GNU_General_Public_License.html |
Rating | None |
Compliance | There is no statement about the source or license of the text at all. |
Contact info | the site's contact form |
Actions | none so far. |
-- Wondigoma ( talk) 13:17, 4 November 2009 (UTC)
URL | http://articles.co.nr (clicking that link displays http://124.125.21.126/wcd/) |
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Description | |
Sample | http://124.125.21.126/wcd/wp/e/Enceladus_%2528moon%2529.htm compared to Enceladus_(moon) |
Rating | Medium |
Compliance | Each page has a link that acknowledges wikipedia with links to a local copy of the GFDL and their notice of copyright and disclaimer. Images are kept locally but no image information is available. Individual pages have no wikipedia history, in fact the reader is told The original authors or creators of content and images from Wikipedia may be found by going to the article in the English Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page) with the same article name and tracing content via the page history. |
Contact info | User:Achalmeena has been inserting spam links to this site in wikipedia and claims that industrial.org is his website. The top level of the domain http://124.125.21.126/ identifies itself as software.org, with the contact details of root AT industrialsoft.org. Whois doesn't return the users name (Achal Meena), but ?? |
Actions | None — Graibeard (talk) 12:10, 16 July 2006 (UTC) |
URL | http://www.artistopia.com |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.artistopia.com/the-pussycat-dolls |
Rating | Medium |
Compliance | Every page has a Copyright citations section at the bottom. "It says This article is licensed under the GNU License", with GNU license linking to an off-site copy of the GFDL. The next line is " Click here for original article: ABBA". The article name links back to Wikipedia. At the very bottom it says "Copyright 2007, iCubator Labs, LLC, All Rights Reserved." |
Contact info | corporate AT artistopia.com (WHOIS), http://www.artistopia.com/About-Us/Contact.asp |
Actions |
URL | http://www.artline.ro/ |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.artline.ro/2_588_Baba__Corneliu_4945.html |
Rating | "Low/None" |
Compliance | Non-compliant. Page appears to be an image of some sort, not HTML text, but it is our content (I know, because I wrote this one). I haven't examined beyond the one page. - Jmabel |
Contact info | unknown |
Actions | Nothing so far |
URL | https://www.asclepiusopen.com/ |
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Description | a group of open access journals, another infringement by Alain L. Fymat, International Institute of Medicine and Science, journal editor |
Sample | https://www.asclepiusopen.com/clinical-research-in-neurology/volume-2-issue-1/1 |
Rating | Low/None compliance with CC-BY-SA |
Compliance | Does not list or attribute extensive content taken from Wikipedia |
Contact info | see full information at User:SandyGeorgia/AlainFymat |
Actions | Letters sent |
URL | http://www.artvee.com/ |
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Description | Multiple of their 'artist' pages are either close or identical copies of the relevant article from here. The site appears to have been created in 2020, and the content seems to have been forked around about that time. |
Sample | https://artvee.com/artist/claude-monet/ |
Rating | "Low/None" |
Compliance | Non-compliant. They do reference Wikimedia in one of the terms & conditions in relation to 'some of their images', but no reference to Wikipedia anywhere as far as I can see. |
Contact info | info@artvee.com |
Actions | Standard notice sent today: JeffUK 21:51, 7 February 2023 (UTC) |
URL | http://www.asianheritagesociety.org/asian-american-data/ |
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Description | Copy of the first three sections of the wikipedia article Asian Americans |
Sample | http://www.asianheritagesociety.org/asian-american-data/ |
Rating | None |
Compliance | No attribution, no copyright notice |
Contact info | email: event@asianheritageawards.com (see http://www.asianheritagesociety.org/contact-us/) |
Actions | None |
URL | http://askville.amazon.com/Index.do/ |
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Description | |
Sample | http://askville.amazon.com/SimilarQuestions.do?req=favorite+newspaper+comic+strip |
Rating | |
Compliance | Has a link to the Wikipedia source page |
Contact info | |
Actions |
URL | http://www.astra2d.com/ |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.astra2d.com/dab.htm |
Rating | Low/None |
Compliance | Site takes some text and tables from Wikipedia articles on television and radio technology in the UK, no GFDL mention or links. GFDL violation became apparent after a suspected copyright violation discussion, with evidence on the Birdsong (digital radio channel) talk page. |
Contact info | expat AT astra2d.com |
Actions | None -- tgheretford ( talk) 23:24, 16 May 2009 (UTC) |
URL | https://www.auctoresonline.org/ |
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Description | a group of open access journals, another infringement by Alain L. Fymat, International Institute of Medicine and Science, journal editor |
Sample | https://www.auctoresonline.org/journals/psychiatry-and-psychotherapy/archive/614 |
Rating | Low/None compliance with CC-BY-SA |
Compliance | Does not list or attribute extensive content taken from Wikipedia, and claims copyright |
Contact info | see full information at User:SandyGeorgia/AlainFymat |
Actions | Sent letters, AUCTORES removed the article completely SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 22:56, 11 August 2020 (UTC) |
URL | http://australialaw.org |
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Description | |
Sample | http://australialaw.org/worker/ |
Rating | "None" |
Compliance | |
Contact info | |
Actions |
URL | https://spicelandtown.com/ |
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Description | Uses the beginning of the Wikipedia Troubleshooting article on a page showing a troubleshooting video |
Sample | https://spicelandtown.com/electrical-contractors/basic-electrical-repair-troubleshooting-electric-circuits-1968-us-air-force-training-film/ |
Rating | None |
Compliance | No copyright notice |
Contact info |
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Actions | None yet |
URL | http://www.babylon-software.com/ |
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Description | |
Sample | inside the application |
Rating | Undetermined |
Compliance | Displays Wikipedia trademark on the page http://affiliate.babylon-software.com/. |
Contact info | http://www.babylon-software.com/contact.html |
Actions |
URL | http://www.backgammon.co.uk/ |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.backgammon.co.uk/strategies.htm (only article I can find) |
Rating | Medium |
Compliance | Does not link to enwiki article, but has GFDL notice. |
Contact info | info AT backgammon.co.uk |
Actions | The site uses an image I created, licensed under the GPL. I sent an email stating that the page should note the GPL license of the image, and the GFDL license of the article. I included links to the licenses at gnu.org and a link to
Backgammon.
4 October 2006: Webmaster replied to my email noting the updated copyright notice. |
— ptk✰ fgs 04:54, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
URL | http://www.backgammoned.net |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.backgammoned.net/all-about-backgammon.html (only article) |
Rating | Medium |
Compliance | States that content is under GFDL and is reprinted from Wikipedia. |
Contact info | info AT backgammoned.net |
Actions | Maintainer appears to have joined a discussion at Talk:Backgammon. I referred him to Wikipedia:Copyrights. |
— ptk✰ fgs 20:23, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
URL | http://www.barrystickets.com/ |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.barrystickets.com/hockey-tickets/index.php |
Rating | None |
Compliance | No mention of Wikipedia or the GFDL. Excerpts of various ticket-related articles are used. |
Contact info | info AT barrystickets.com, (800) 928-7199 (818) 990-8499 FAX (818) 990-5433, Technical Contact: Katz, Randy randyk AT CCSALES.COM, (213)307-9581 fax: 123 123 1234; Administrative Contact: Rudin, Barry info AT BARRYSTICKETS.COM, 818 990-8499; IP= 66.114.252.14 = Broadwing Communications |
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URL | http://www.bbcnewsamerica.com |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.bbcnewsamerica.com/tag/texas-chainsaw-massacre |
Rating | Low/None |
Compliance | No mention of Wikipedia or the GFDL. |
Contact info | |
Actions | MRG verified copyvio. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 01:29, 25 October 2010 (UTC) |
URL | https://en.bharatpedia.org/ |
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Description | A copy of the simple english wikipedia, made by converting WP Articles into simple Indian English. |
Sample | https://en.bharatpedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia |
Rating | "LMediam" |
Compliance | Clearly based on WP; copy and pasting as well as using the same citations word for word and the exact same UI and format. Easy to confuse with WP if not knowledgeable. No mention of Wikipedia, CC-BY-SA, or licensing except end of page disclaimer, which reads: "Content is available under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. This article may uses material from the Wikipedia article Earth, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License (view authors). Bharatpedia® is a registered trademark." It is the exact same wiki-format inc. lots of templates and the MOS. |
Contact info | All help links e.g. speaking to an administrator are red links |
Actions | The disclaimer at the bottom (see above) |
URL | http://www.biblio.com/ |
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Description | |
Sample | [14] of Identifying and Managing Project Risk (see talk page for evidence) |
Rating | Low/None |
Compliance | No mention of Wikipedia or GFDL/CC-By-SA. Page says Copyright © 2000-2011 Biblio, Inc. All Rights Reserved. |
Contact info | Online form: [15] |
Actions | None |
URL | http://bigmac.biz/ |
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Description | |
Sample | same as above |
Rating | Medium |
Compliance | Wholesale copy of Big Mac index from [16] or earlier. No mention of Wikipedia or GFDL on site. |
Contact info | webmaster AT bigmac.biz (given on site); +819.2934278, matt AT utsn.net (whois admin) |
Actions | Standard violation letter sent. --
Scott
eiπ 08:47, 18 April 2006 (UTC) No response or change. Second letter sent. -- Scott eiπ 02:11, 26 April 2006 (UTC) Fixed. -- Scott eiπ 09:31, 28 April 2006 (UTC) |
URL | http://www.bigmaybe.com |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.bigmaybe.com/learn?s=Citrus_warburgiana |
Rating | None |
Compliance | Houses Wikipedia articles under their "academic study guide" without acknowledging Wikipedia or listing the content licensing. |
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Actions |
URL | http://www.bigpedia.com/ |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.bigpedia.com/encyclopedia/Gray%27s_Anatomy |
Rating | "Medium" |
Compliance |
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Contact info |
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Actions | None -- WB 09:13, 12 February 2006 (UTC) |
URL | http://www.biocrawler.com/encyclopedia/Main_Page |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.biocrawler.com/encyclopedia/Illiad |
Rating | Medium |
Compliance | This is a mirror as of June 23, 2005 that has apparently had minor forking since then. However, almost all instances of Wikipedia have been changed, even in people's talk comments. This makes it a modified version, and these modifications have not been specifically mentioned on page history. Also, the GFDL specifically states that "The author(s) and publisher(s) of the Document do not by this License give permission to use their names for publicity for or to assert or imply endorsement of any Modified Version." However, the bottom of every page states, "Content is available under GNU Free Documentation License 1.2.", with a local link to the GFDL. With images, it also says "This document originates in his first or later version from the English Wikipedia. You can find it there under the keyword (ARTICLE). The list of previous authors is available here: (link to Wikipedia's history of ARTICLE). ... This text falls under the same license (GFDL). Additions to biocrawler (starting from 23.6.05 will be doubly licensed under the GFDL and CC-by-sa)." Without images, it also has simple links to Wikipedia, the original history, and Wikipedia's copy of the GFDL.
update: as of 04/24/2008, this site was flagged by Google with the verbiage, "visiting this web site may harm your computer!" For more information on Google's claims about this website, see http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=http://www.biocrawler.com/encyclopedia/Library_(computer_science) |
Contact info | boeckl AT biofacts.com, domain AT biofacts.com |
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Compliance | |
Contact info | |
Actions | None. Website is now a search-spammer and no longer mirrors wikipedia content; last wikipedia mirror found archived from 8 February 2008 at [17]. 84user ( talk) 16:00, 4 August 2009 (UTC) |
URL | http://www.biographicon.com |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.biographicon.com/view/4yf4i/Ethan_Allen |
Rating | "None" compliance with GFDL. |
Compliance | Site does copy wholesale biography articles from English wikipedia. It does not provide information of the source of the articles, it does not give attribution to authors or link to wikipedia history page, the site does not acknowledge that content sourced from wikipedia is licensed under GFDL. |
Contact info | feedback AT biographicon.com |
Actions | none yet |
URL | http://www.biographybase.com/ |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.biographybase.com/biography/Yarwood_Mike.html |
Rating | Medium |
Compliance | Links to GFDL and mentions individual Wikipedia article, but does not directly link to them or include history section. |
Contact info | leonardo.mikelic AT ri.htnet.hr (whois), abuse AT theplanet.com (host), legal-response AT theplanet.com (host) |
Actions | Sent violation letter to Biography Base, noting that they should link to Wikipedia article and provide on-site GFDL. Superm401 - Talk 02:08, 23 January 2006 (UTC) |
URL | http://biolicense.org |
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Description | |
Sample | http://biolicense.org/index.php/Shareware |
Rating | None. |
Compliance | No information about articles being copied from Wikipedia, imposes its own weird license called Biolicense. The site states: "Biolicense is a license scheme to enable human beings and machines to openfreely share information and knowledge for limitless number of purposes. It is a license that tries to protect information and knowledge from being exclusively owned by limited number of classes, races, and economic groups in the world. It also aims to maximize human creativity and entrepreneurship." Also see http://biolicense.org/index.php/Biolicense.net:About The site seems to be a part of some spammer's link farm. See its links to other sites. |
Contact info | admin phone and email from whois: +82.01077996754 (Korean number); j@bio.cc |
Actions | None yet. |
URL | http://www.biologydaily.com/ |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.biologydaily.com/biology/Aerobiologyand http://www.biologydaily.com/biology/Gmail |
Rating | Medium |
Compliance | There is a notice that says the content is from Wikipedia and links to a local copy of the GFDL (part of a copyright page). Wikipedia is linked to the main Wikipedia URL backwards (gro.aidepikiw.www//:ptth). A javascript function reverses the link (if you have JS enabled). There is also a link to another section on the copyright page that is meant to tell users how to view the "transparent copy"; it just tells them to go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/<PAGENAME> by typing it in. Arguably, XHTML itself is transparent so this isn't necessary. However, it does vaguely help users vaguely find the history section. |
Contact info | |
Actions |
URL | http://www.bizgos.com/ |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.bizgos.com/AnheuserBusch/ARINC.php |
Rating | None |
Compliance | No mention of GFDL. Claims copyright. No links to original article or mention of Wikipedia. No history section. Contains copies of the old wiki entries. Apparently related to gamelow.com, which infringes similarly and has the same graphics. |
Contact info | BIZGOS.COM AT domainsbyproxy.com |
Actions | Sent standard violation letter. Superm401 - Talk 20:20, 19 January 2007 (UTC) |
URL | http://www.blinkbits.com/en_wikifeeds/ |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.blinkbits.com/en_wikifeeds/HQ9_Plus_Plus |
Rating | Medium |
Compliance | Has notice, "User Bits and Wikipedia articles licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. The wikipedia articles uses material from the Wikipedia article name.". However, this links to " http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/article_name" (i.e. that actual URL, unsubstituted), and an offsite GFDL. |
Contact info | |
Actions |
URL | https://blog.shops-net.com/ |
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Description | Many but pages are mirrored, apparently manually. |
Sample | https://blog.shops-net.com/50721738/1/201617-fc-basel-season.html |
Rating | None |
Compliance | No attribution or mention that the content is copied. |
Contact info | |
Actions |
URL | http://information-headquarter.blogspot.com/search/label/Grand%20Opera%20House |
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Description | |
Sample | http://information-headquarter.blogspot.com/search/label/Grand%20Opera%20House |
Rating | Absolutely no compliance. |
Compliance | Straight out theft of Grand Opera House (Seattle), which I recently wrote |
Contact info | At
http://www.google.com/blogger_dmca.html, they make it clear that they will consider only complaints sent to them on paper or by fax. Kind of amazing: this is Google, and they provide no online means to complain when they plagiarize. And the wording on that page is very belligerent: "Indeed, in a recent case (please see
http://www.onlinepolicy.org/action/legpolicy/opg_v_diebold/ for more information), a company that sent an infringement notification seeking removal of online materials that were protected by the fair use doctrine was ordered to pay such costs and attorneys fees."
Fax number is 650-618-2680, Attn: Blogger Legal Support, DMCA Complaints. I think someone should follow this up, and also Wikimedia Foundation, who I understand have some working relationships with Google, should ask about setting up a procedure to streamline it when their bloggers plagiarize us so blatantly. Further examples from Blogspot are listed on the talk page, to document other Blogspot users' WP usage without messing up the format above. |
Actions |
URL | http://truskemata.blogspot.de + http://truskemata.blogspot.com |
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Description | |
Sample | http://truskemata.blogspot.de/2012/09/atasi-masalah-silau-dengan-helmet.html |
Rating | ? |
Compliance | Copied part of Motorcycle helmet#Laws and standards ( oldid=491661146) including blue & red wikilinks; marked as "Copyright © 2013 Mata & Penglihatan - Created by SoraTemplates and Blogger Templates" at the page bottom |
Contact info | "Contact" link at truskemata.blogspot.de does not work
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Actions | none (as I am new to these procedures) |
URL | http://bluerhinos.co.uk/ |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.bluerhinos.co.uk/molview/view/propan-1-ol |
Rating | "High", "Medium", or "Low/None" compliance with GFDL (matches Wikipedia:GFDL Compliance). |
Compliance | Includes a backlink to WP, but doesn't appear to mention GFDL; in fact, it includes a lot of claims to copyright for all content. |
Contact info | The request posted by User:Walkerma |
Actions | None |
URL | http://www.blurbwire.com/ |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.blurbwire.com/topics/Kohlu |
Rating | Low |
Compliance | Brief mention of Wikipedia on homepage, copied articles lack attribution. [EDIT]: On their sources page (linked at the bottom) they cite "Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Data from Wikipedia is licensed under the GFDL". There are no backlinks to the Wikipedia article, there is a notice at the bottom 'Copyright 2010, Discovery Media'. |
Contact info | discoverysites AT gmail.com (from contact) |
Actions |
URL | http://www.bobby-fischer.net/ |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.bobby-fischer.net/paul_morphy.htm |
Rating | Low/None |
Compliance | The site includes a page on the chessplayer Paul Morphy that mirrors full paragraphs of the Wikipedia article Paul Morphy. This is also the case for numerous other chessplayers. |
Contact info | chuck_ayoub@hotmail.com, ISP=TUCOWS INC. (according to whois) |
Actions |
URL | http://www.bobbysouthworth.com/ |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.bobbysouthworth.com/bio.htm |
Rating | Medium |
Compliance | Originally no mention, but was added after I notified them. |
Contact info | Contact@Sanctmm.com |
Actions |
URL | http://bookonlinesale.com/ and http://booksonlinesale.com |
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Description | |
Sample | http://bookonlinesale.com/258082_edgar-prestage_1131743628lettersofaportuguesenundiscountbookstores.html and http://www.booksonlinesale.com/623250_margaret-mitchell_113517007xautantenemporteleventbookreportforfree.html |
Rating | High |
Compliance | Includes text "This artikel <ARTICLENAME> is licensed under the GNU free Documentation License. There is a list of authors available. You can edit this article if you like. " The article name links to the original wikipedia article, "GNU" links to the GNU's copy of the GFDL, Authors links to the history tab, and edit links to the edit page. However, on some pages none of these links are colored or formatted distinctly from normal text (until you hover over them); thus, it is hard to tell they can be clicked. |
Contact info | INFO AT 100000BOOKS.COM (whois), http://www.cd-music.org/mailform.php (contact form), info AT server4you.de (host) |
Actions |
URL | http://www.bookrags.com |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.bookrags.com/wiki/High_Commissioner |
Rating | |
Compliance | |
Contact info | whois |
Actions |
URL | http://booksllc.net/ |
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Description | |
Sample | "Wikipedia Introduction": http://booksllc.net/book.cfm?id=3744759 Sample title and summary on Amazon: [19]. Google Books search: [20] |
Rating | |
Compliance | The website states that "Paperbacks marked "OCR" may have numerous typos or missing text. Other paperbacks contain Wikipedia content." The FAQ states that: "All content cam [
sic] from Wikipedia. Please check the book's Publication page, Introduction and the end of each chapter for further details. For example, you can click the hyperlink at the end of any chapter and then click the history tab to see a list of each chapter's contributors. Our license with Wikipedia is at
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
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Contact info | Contact form |
Actions | No action yet taken. |
URL | |
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Description | |
Sample | Print on demand books [21] |
Rating | Low |
Compliance | States "High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles!" and contains direct copy of the start of the article as a blurb, which is then published online (the creation of the book itself is a separate issue). No links to original article or authors. Claims to be published by VSD and/or authors Ronald Cohn and Jesse Russell, but the article content is still copyrighted. See also VDM Publishing. |
Contact info | None |
Actions |
URL | http://www.bookyards.com |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.bookyards.com/biography.html?author_id=2011&author_name=Janvier%2C%20Thomas%20A. |
Rating | None |
Compliance | No mention of GFDL; only mentions of Wikipedia are from copied cleanup notices; links back to original article are edit links only and not labelled |
Contact info | ? |
Actions | None yet |
*Link to local copy of the GFDL: yes (As of 2 Nov 2006
DES
(talk)). No longer true.
Superm401 |
Talk 06:14, 6 November 2005 (UTC)
Seems to be HIGH compliance, as far as I can see. DES (talk) 21:33, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
Example fails to produce meaningful content -- Rumping 16:43, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
URL | http://borgfind.com/ , http://albania.geeks.dnip.net/ |
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Description | |
Sample | http://albania.borgfind.com/ |
Rating | High |
Compliance | Articles end with "borgfind.com, 2005. This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Albania"" with links to local GFDL and to original article. Redirects from geeks.dnip.net, e.g. http://albania.geeks.dnip.net/ |
Contact info | |
Actions |
Examples not loading Wikipedia content -- Rumping 16:44, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
Site: http://sthweb.bu.edu/shaw/anna-howard-shaw-center/biography?view=mediawiki&article=Main_Page
Site: http://sthweb.bu.edu/archives/index.php?option=com_awiki&view=mediawiki&article=Category:Spy_novels
Research requested. JesseW 22:23, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
URL | http://www.braindex.com/encyclopedia/mainpage.php |
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Description | |
Sample | http://braindex.com/encyclopedia/index.php/Ring_of_the_Fisherman |
Rating | Medium |
Compliance | Pages link to Wikipedia main page and offsite copy of the GFDL. There is no link to the original Wikipedia article or included history section. Pages display "© 2005 BrainDex LLC". |
Contact info | kevin AT braindex.com (whois), http://www.braindex.com/products/contact_us.php (site contact form), support AT iicinternet.com (host) |
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URL | http://www.brainyencyclopedia.com/ |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.brainyencyclopedia.com/encyclopedia/t/te/telectronics.html |
Rating | Low |
Compliance | Without JavaScript, no mention of Wikipedia or the GFDL. With Javascript, has notice that "The Wikipedia article included on this page is licensed under the GFDL" with link to Wikipedia main page and local copy of the GFDL. Is not clear what "the Wikipedia article" is. There is no link to the original Wikipedia article or included history section."
Home page gives 403 Forbidden as of 00:39, 29 July 2009 (UTC). |
Contact info | domain.names AT xplore.com (whois), service84 AT brainyquote.com (customer service email) |
Actions |
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URL | http://www.brassbandinformation.co.uk |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.brassbandinformation.co.uk/brass-instruments.html
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Rating | Low/None |
Compliance | yes |
Contact info | Address info AT brassbandinformation.co.uk is mentioned. WHOIS says very little:
Registrant: Carl Wilkinson Registrant type: UK Individual Registrant's address: The registrant is a non-trading individual who has opted to have their address omitted from the WHOIS service. Registrar: GX Networks Ltd t/a 123-Reg.co.uk [Tag = 123-REG] URL: http://www.123-reg.co.uk |
Actions | none |
Looks like a parked domain advertising page at first sight. Filled with ads. No good purpose for existence. This, that and the other [ talk 06:41, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
URL | http://www.briswiki.com and |
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Description | |
Sample | http://briswiki.com/wiki/The_Myer_Centre from Myer Centre, Brisbane. |
Rating | Unrated |
Compliance | I believe that site is compliant. However I have only imported one article as above and request that someone more up to speed with this advise whether current efforts are acceptable. Thanks in advance Nicholas Perkins ( T• C) 14:38, 13 May 2008 (UTC) |
Contact info | supernicko AT gmail.com |
Actions |
URL | http://www.britain.tv/articles/publish/ and http://www.britain.tv/wikipedia.php |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.britain.tv/articles/publish/parliament_house_of_commons.shtml from British House of Commons and http://www.britain.tv/articles/publish/belly_dance_belly_dancing_music.shtml from Belly Dance and http://www.britain.tv/wikipedia.php?title=Philippines. |
Rating | Low/None |
Compliance | There are two separate groups of copied articles. Some of them are linked from http://www.britain.tv/articles/publish/. Examples of this include http://www.britain.tv/articles/publish/parliament_house_of_commons.shtml, http://www.britain.tv/articles/publish/belly_dance_belly_dancing_music.shtml, http://www.britain.tv/articles/publish/george_galloway_respect_member_parliament.shtml, http://www.britain.tv/articles/publish/regional_assembly_assemblies_england.shtml, http://www.britain.tv/articles/publish/york_city_minster_yorkshire_england.shtml. Not all of the articles in the "articles/publish" section are from Wikipedia, but violations are widespread, especially in certain categories (such as Cities and Towns). These now say "© Copyright Wikipedia - Under GNU Free License " right beneath the article, in addition to "All rights reserved. Material may not be copied or reprinted without written permission." which is at the very bottom of every page. They also still credit the submitter, such as "By Brian Fox" at the top, where Brian Fox is some disingenuous Britain.tv contributor.
A separate mirror has also been created. This is located at http://www.britain.tv/wikipedia.php. An example is http://www.britain.tv/wikipedia.php?title=Philippines. Articles in this section clearly note that Wikipedia is the source. They say "extracted from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia" with a link to the Wikipedia main page; Wikipedia also appears prominently elsewhere on the page. However, there is no link to Wikipedia or the GFDL, and "Copyright (c) 2006 Britain.tv All rights reserved" appears at the bottom in a graphic.
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Contact info | webmaster AT elite-media.co.uk |
Actions |
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URL | http://www.breathittteens.com/research.php |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.breathittteens.com/research.php?title=Common_Raccoon |
Rating | Low |
Compliance | Another dynamic loader. Uses a dynamic loading script (
http://www.vacilando.org/index.php?x=7065) Links to Wikipedia Main Page, but claims that Wikipedia content is under a Creative Commons license. Not just any Creative Commons license, but a NonCommmercial license. Never mind that this is a commercial site with ads (see
http://breathittteens.com/vb/index.php).
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Contact info | BREATHITTTEENS.COM AT domainsbyproxy.com (private whois), DMCA AT liquidweb.com |
Actions |
URL | http://www.buddytv.com |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.buddytv.com/articles/so-you-think-you-can-dance/the-so-you-think-you-can-dance-31992.aspx |
Rating | "Low/None" |
Compliance | Almost completely copy and pasted from the Tabitha and Napoleon article here on wikipedia but not written verbatim. It's written in the author's own words but clearly all the information is taken from wikipedia with no attribution at all. It's even in the same arrangement (early life, career, directing, married life) but without the section headings. |
Contact info | email: vlado AT thracetech.com and andrewiliu AT yahoo.com phone number +1.2068594180 Full WhoIs summary here ISP: easydns.com |
Actions | None |
URL | http://www.buddytv.com/ |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.buddytv.com/info/tabitha-and-napoleon-info.aspx |
Rating | "Low/None" |
Compliance | Same as above. The "biography" section is taken from the Tabitha and Napoleon article here with no attribution. |
Contact info | email: vlado AT thracetech.com and andrewiliu AT yahoo.com phone number +1.2068594180 Full WhoIs summary here ISP: easydns.com |
Actions | None |
URL | http://bulgos.in/wp.php?page=en.wikipedia.org |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.bulgos.in/wp.php?page=en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdullah_of_Saudi_Arabia |
Rating | |
Compliance | exact copy except with banner at top |
Contact info | |
Actions |
URL | http://bvio.com/index.php/Main_Page |
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Description | |
Sample | http://bvio.com/index.php/Credit_card |
Rating | Low |
Compliance |
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Contact info | biopark AT kaist.ac.kr |
Actions |
URL |
http://books.google.com/books?id=t4YZUcjx6poC&printsec=frontcover
Calendar of historical events births holidays and observances is an e-book published by MobileReference for use on mobile devices. The URL links to Google books' incomplete copy. A complete copy has to be purchased from a commercial supplier. |
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Description | |
Sample | p.197 incorporates text from an earlier version of Wikipedia's article Scientology holidays. |
Rating | Medium, judging from the Google books copy. Precise degree of compliance is difficult to evaluate without buying a commercial copy |
Compliance |
The licensing information provided on the "back cover" acknowledges that material from Wikipedia has been used, and that this material is licensed under the GFDL, although it also wrongly implies that this material is also "public domain". However, it also asserts "all rights reserved" over the work as a whole, whereas the GFDL requires that the whole of any modification of a work licensed under it—which is what this is—must also be licensed under the same licence or a substantially similar version.
A copy of the GFDL licence doesn't appear to be included anywhere in the publication, as required by the terms of that licence, although a link to an on-line copy of the licence appears to be provided with the licensing information. The licensing information includes an apology for not listing all the authors of the Wikipedia material, and asserts that these can be seen "by following the hyperlink at the bottom of each article". As far as is possible to tell from the Google books copy, such links do appear regularly throughout the the publication, but it doesn't appear to be possible to use the Google books copy to check that these links work and do in fact point to the proper articles. |
Contact info | support@soundtells.com |
Actions | None as yet. |
URL | http://encyclopedia.stateuniversity.com |
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Description | |
Sample | http://encyclopedia.stateuniversity.com/pages/19270/Russian-Orthodox-Church.html |
Rating | "Low/None" compliance with GFDL |
Compliance | Articles state towards top that "Portions of the summary below have been contributed by Wikipedia." but fails to identify the readers rights nor link back to Wikipedia. As an example the sample URL contains content that is word-for-word identical to this diff [24] which I do not believe is WP:COPYVIO. The text at the bottom says that "Content on this website is from high-quality, licensed material originally published in print form. You can always be sure you're reading unbiased, factual, and accurate information." which is wrong as Wikipedia is not published originally in print form. |
Contact info | |
Actions | See entry listed under "S" [25] for actions. |
URL | http://www.campusempire.net |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.campusempire.net/school_index.php?school_id=342 |
Rating | "Low/None" |
Compliance | Copies a portion of the University of Oklahoma article with no mention of Wikipedia anywhere on the page. Has CampusEmpire.net copyright at the bottom. |
Contact info | admin AT campusempire.net |
Actions | Sent first GFDL notice (1/15/07).↔
NMajdan•
talk Sent followup notice (4/5/07).↔ NMajdan• talk 20:57, 5 April 2007 (UTC) |
URL | http://www.canbet.com |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.canbet.com/whatsnew/atlanta-falcons-history.aspx |
Rating | Medium |
Compliance | Uses sections of sports-related articles. GFDL notice with link to original article and offsite GFDL. |
Contact info | mail AT canbet.com, marketing AT canbet.com |
Actions | Sent
GFDL violation letter to contact on
April 4, 2006. --
JerryOrr 19:14, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
No response to email or change to the page in violation; sent follow-up GFDL violation letter on May 16, 2006. -- JerryOrr 16:17, 16 May 2006 (UTC) Received response to follow-up email on May 16, 2006 stating that they would resolve the problem -- JerryOrr 11:52, 17 May 2006 (UTC) |
URL | http://www.canineconcepts.co.uk/ccp51/cc/dog-training/dog-agility-training.shtml |
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Description | |
Sample | |
Rating | |
Compliance | |
Contact info | Patricia Hunter is owner, cannot find email or phone number of admin and ISP. Patricia's company's phone number (UK: 01608 73 83 77) is on their web site, along with snail-mail address. April 4, got response from info (at) canineconcepts (dot) co.uk, signed Peter Hunter. |
Actions | 01:46, 3 April 2006 (UTC), emailing standard letter from Wikipedia:Standard GFDL violation letter using GFDL letter for site that doesn't acknowldge WP (since compliance is so minimal). Used their form-based emailer since that seemed to be the only way to get them email. User:Elf . April 4, 2006: They revised this page and are in full compliance. Note: I have not checked their site for other wikipedia-source articles. User:Elf |
URL | http://www.canineconcepts.co.uk/dog-breed-directory |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.canineconcepts.co.uk/dog-breeds--Affenpinscher--Affenpinscher |
Rating | Low compliance but working on it (see above). |
Compliance | Has a note at the bottom of article (which includes photos from wikipedia), that says "courtesy of thefreedictionary" with a link to their main page. No GFDL, no link to the article ( dog agility), no clarification that both text & photos come from there--and they have their own copyright notice at the bottom of the page. (freedictionary is a wikipedia mirror) |
Contact info | info (at) canineconcepts (dot) co.uk, signed Peter Hunter. |
Actions | 4 April 2006 (UTC), sent nice email about breed articles in reponse to his fix of the agility article (above). User:Elf |
URL | http://www.caninecrib.com/dog/pictures/ |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.caninecrib.com/dog/pictures/bostonterrier/boston4.asp -- compare to Image:BostonTerrierBrindleStand_w.jpg) |
Rating | None |
Compliance | Doesn't give credit or link back to WP; claims copyright by prominently adding THEIR copyright directly onto each photo |
Contact info | caninecrib AT caninecrib.com, legal AT crystaltech.com (host DMCA) |
Actions |
Update: Just got this email (email address syntax edited by me): Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 09:19:47 -0700 Subject: re: invalid use of Wikipedia material on your site From: "CanineCrib" <caninecrib(at)caninecrib(dot)com> Apologise for the late reply. Photos were sent to me via the public. I will go through them and take them ones that are from wikipedia regards Chung |
LarsSanders 17:33, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
URL | http://www.caribbeanmd.com/ |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.caribbeanmd.com/?page_id=6 |
Rating | None |
Compliance | No attribution. Indicates "Copyright © 2008 CaribbeanMD". Only four pages found. |
Contact info | |
Actions |
URL | http://www.carloszambrano.com/ |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.carloszambrano.com/ |
Rating | None. |
Compliance | Verbatim copy of Carlos Zambrano article introduction, without mention of GFDL or Wikipedia. |
Contact info | frontoffice AT gmail.com |
Actions | Sent standard violation letter to frontoffice AT gmail.com. Superm401 - Talk 00:12, 7 January 2007 (UTC) |
URL | http://www.celebritygenius.com/ |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.celebritygenius.com/Nikki-Cox/biography.html?title=Ryan_White |
Rating | Low |
Compliance | Includes link back to en.wp root page (no path) but not to the original article. makes no mention of GFDL; has no attribution/history. copyright claimed in footer: "Celebrity Genius © Copyright 2006 - 2008" |
Contact info | E-mail, phone number of admin and ISP. |
Actions | None so far Jeremyb ( talk) 05:35, 17 August 2008 (UTC) |
URL | http://celebrityspy.org/indepth/PageName |
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Description | |
Sample | http://celebrityspy.org/indepth/California |
Rating | Low/None |
Compliance | No mention of Wikipedia or GFDL. Pages copied verbatim from Wikipedia. |
Contact info | No contact details listed on site. Whois lists contact as Ian Hawkins of AcornSearch, ian AT acornsearch.com, with a UK postal address & mobile phone number. Webhost appears to be Easynet, who publish an abuse contact email on their website & in whois. |
Actions |
Standard letter emailed to whois contact at 23:23, 2 September 2007 (UTC) by
User:AJR. Awaiting response.
404 Page not found -- Rumping 17:09, 23 September 2007 (UTC) |
URL | http://www.celebroad.com/ |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.celebroad.com/people/christi-shake |
Rating | None |
Compliance | There is no mention of the information coming from Wikipedia at all |
Contact info | Can't find a contact address. Maybe webmaster AT celebroad.com would work? |
Actions | none taken, I don't understand all the red tape that encompasses Fair Use images so I'm not even going to try contacting anyone off site. |
URL | https://www.celebsagewiki.com |
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Description | Changes article format into timeline, possibly with some LLM or templated text on each of their articles. |
Sample | https://www.celebsagewiki.com/kauko-kangasniemi |
Rating | None |
Compliance | © 2020 Celebrity Wiki at bottom of every page, unable to find attribution or anything linking to Wikipedia
|
Contact info | contact link at bottom of page with organizational email adress |
Actions |
URL | https://www.celebyolo.com/ |
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Description | Repackages the first lines of Wikipedia articles about celebrities and their photos, adds a gallery of photos from random non-attributed sources. |
Sample | https://www.celebyolo.com/celebs/abbie-cornish |
Rating | None |
Compliance | No copyright information whatsoever, links back to the English Wikipedia article with a sentence like "Read More about Natasha Bedingfield on Wikipedia". |
Contact info | No contact information but celebyolo@gmail.com |
Actions |
URL | http://www.championsukplc.com/after-dinner-speaking/ |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.championsukplc.com/after-dinner-speaking/speaker_details.cfm?speakerID=530 |
Rating | |
Compliance | No mention of Wikipedia/GFDL. Seems to copy text directly from biographical articles. |
Contact info | |
Actions |
URL | http://www.chatrium.com |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.chatrium.com/destination.php |
Rating | |
Compliance | no mention of GFDL or Wikipedia, no backlink, claims own copyright |
Contact info | |
Actions |
URL | http://www.chemeurope.com |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.chemeurope.com/lexikon/e/Nanoscale_iron_particles |
Rating | |
Compliance | Gives both local copy of GFDL and Wikipedia backlink |
Contact info | |
Actions |
Identical website at http://www.chemie.de.
Example url: http://mp3player.chesnutz.info/dir11/mp3-player-compact-flash.html
I don't know what the term for this is, but it's basically link spam, they try to attract every search engine match possible to their link pages. That particular page rips off content from Limb darkening. There are lots more on that group of sites. No wikipedia credit or gfdl mention whatsoever. Actually the several that I looked at all use Sun-related snippets. Weird.
(article about Howard Staunton)
URL | http://www.christiansontheleft.org.uk/everyday_violence |
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Description | |
Sample | URL |
Rating | "High" compliance with CC-BY-SA (matches Wikipedia:CC-BY-SA Compliance) (compare against GFDL if they choose that license). |
Compliance | In sharing information about IJM's work, Christians on the Left Web site used some of IJM's own language, descriptions and case studies to best describe what IJM does. |
Contact info | E-mails, phone numbers, contact form URLs, etc. of admin and ISP. |
Actions | IJM will contact Christians on the Left to ask to reference material/Wikipedia. |
URL | http://www.citizendia.org/ |
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Description | \ |
Sample | Academy Award |
Rating | Uncertain |
Compliance | Partial. Copyright notice in page footer includes "parts available under the terms of GNU Free Documentation License, from http://en.wikipedia.org" |
Contact info | Unknown |
Actions | None yet |
URL | http://www.citizendium.org |
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Description | |
Sample | Ellipse |
Rating | N/A |
Compliance | Partial. Some articles credit Wikipedia, some do not |
Contact info | admin AT citizendium.org |
Actions | At 14/07/2009 I sent the standard letter about the article
Chess.
SyG At 25/07/2009 I sent a follow-up letter. SyG At 27/07/2009 I received a letter from "constables@citizendium.org" saying they had started a discussion on their forum at http://forum.citizendium.org/index.php/topic,2787.15/topicseen.html and they added a mention on Wikipedia on their "Chess" article. SyG At 01/08/2009 I checked that the link to WP was in their "Chess" article indeed, and I sent a reply saying thank you (among other things). SyG |
Geni 01:19, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
URL | http://www.citymayors.com/ |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.citymayors.com/mayors/denver_mayor.html (city description is the lead to the article Denver, Colorado) |
Rating | Low |
Compliance | No mention of GFDL. Site claims copyright to material from Wikipedia. |
Contact info | info AT citymayors.com, telephone: +44.20.8209.1722. |
Actions |
See Wikipedia:Mirrors_and_forks/Mno#Otherground
URL | http://www.classictvhits.com |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.classictvhits.com/network.php?id=15 |
Rating | Medium to Low |
Compliance | In very small print: "(Source: wikipedia.org)" The text "wikipedia.org" links to www.wikipedia.org. Does same thing for some pages taken from IMDb. No mention of GFDL. Claims copyright at bottom of page. On its "disclaimer" page, it quotes U.S. copyright law on fair use. |
Contact info | Admin: webmaster AT classictvhits.com 978-886-2357 ISP: domains AT ev1servers.net 713-333-7873 |
Actions | none so far |
This Pot Smoker of the Month is in significant parts a copyvio of Wikipedia's article on Melissa Etheridge
URL | http://www.clearups.com/ |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.clearups.com/af.html |
Rating | "Low/None" |
Compliance | [32] "Content is for general informational purposes only and any copyrighted materials with be removed immediately if requested by the rightful copyright owners." |
Contact info | admin AT clearups.com |
Actions |
URL | http://www.clickabove.com/ |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.clickabove.com/wm.html |
Rating | Low/None |
Compliance | Completely copies Wikipedia article without logging the changes or giving credit to Wikipedia. |
Contact info | jeff AT uci.net |
Actions | none |
URL | http://clubblogs.com/ |
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Description | |
Sample | http://clubblogs.com/train |
Rating | "Low/None" compliance with GFDL (matches Wikipedia:GFDL Compliance). |
Compliance | mirror of wikipedia without any comment |
Contact info | |
Actions | none |
URL | http://wiki.clusty.com |
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Description | |
Sample | http://clusty.com/search?v%3Aproject=clusty-encyclopedia&query=dog |
Rating | High |
Compliance | All uses are accompanied by a GFDL notice, link to the original article, and mention of Wikipedia as the source. This is a search engine with a mirror of Wikipedia's Main Page. Searches show abstracts from Wikipedia. The front page (http://wiki.clusty.com/) is a direct copy of Main Page. License notices state, "Results from Wikipedia are licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License." The GFDL is linked to Wikipedia:Text of the GNU Free Documentation License. However, there is a copyright notice stating "© 2004-2006 Vivísimo, Inc. Clusty is created entirely with Vivísimo Velocity." The use of the Wikipedia logo is specifically authorized by the Wikimedia Foundation (by way of Jimbo Wales). |
Contact info | arment AT vivisimo.com |
Actions |
Talk 01:34, 20 January 2006 (UTC) |
URL | http://www.codabooks.co.uk/ |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B005FMRWO0/ref=s9_simh_gw_p351_d0_g351_i1?pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=0J48C8NBQF7Y8QX0328E&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=467128533&pf_rd_i=468294 |
Rating | Low/None |
Compliance | Book's copyright page mentions Wikimedia Commons as the source of the images, but there is no mention of the GFDL. The text is clearly stolen from a variety of articles related to Manchester United F.C. but no mention of Wikipedia is made. |
Contact info | info@codabooks.com |
Actions | I attempted to email the company using the email address on their website, but I immediately received a failed email notice. I have also submitted a copyright (or copyleft) infringement notice to Amazon. |
Research requested. JesseW 22:16, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
URL | http://wikipedia.cognition.com/ |
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Description | |
Sample | http://wikipedia.cognition.com/?num=10&from_val=1&to_val=10&f=simple&d=wikipedia1,wikipedia2,wikipedia3,wikipedia4,wikipedia5,wikipedia6,wikipedia7,wikipedia8&win=0&sf=524418&fld=-1&search=beat%20a%20drum%20in%20combo&Submit=Search&window=0&positional=1 |
Rating | ""Low/None" compliance with GFDL |
Compliance | Absolutely false copyright claim on Wikipedia data, inappropriate usage of Wikipedia Trademark as logo
http://wikipedia.cognition.com/info/tos.html Ownership of Materials Materials are copyrighted and are protected by worldwide copyright laws and treaty provisions. They may not be copied, reproduced, modified, published, uploaded, posted, transmitted, or distributed in any way, without Cognition Technologies' prior written permission. |
Contact info | http://whois.domaintools.com/cognition.com ljkutcher@earthlink.net |
Actions | Website warned from the web fonm. |
URL | http://www.collectionagencysupport.com/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1 |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.collectionagencysupport.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=22&Itemid=32 |
Rating | Low/None |
Compliance | Copy of Collection agency on various pages including the sample above. The author even kept in the Wiki markup. |
Contact info | Owner/Admin: bobur2002 AT hotmail.com, 302-345-1634
ISP: abuse AT site5.com, 888-748-3526 Owner/Admin Address: Bob Kurbanov, 309 Waters Edge Drive, Newark 19702 |
Actions | none |
URL | http://www.colombialink.com/01_INDEX/index_finanzas_eng.html |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.colombialink.com/01_INDEX/index_finanzas_eng/arrow_impossibility.html |
Rating | Medium |
Compliance | GFDL notice with mention of Wikipedia and local link to the GFDL on all economics page copied. However, every page links to our list of economics topics rather than the particular page copied. |
Contact info | duran AT colombialink.com, sales AT ifxcorp.com (host) |
Actions |
URL | http://www.comedy-zone.net |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.comedy-zone.net/standup/comedian/s/stephenson-pamela.htm |
Rating | Low/none |
Compliance | Site features numerous comedian profiles; all four I checked were cut-and-pasted from Wikipedia articles with minor editing. Pamela Stephenson article includes material written by me. Comedy Zone notices claim copyright to site content, no mention of Wikipedia, GFDL, or link to source. I checked |
Contact info | ray.chapman AT comedy-zone.net (registrant whois), hostmaster AT POSITIVE-INTERNET.COM (technical whois), good AT positive-internet.com (host email listed on their site) |
Actions |
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Still non-compliant more than a year later, http://www.comedy-zone.net/standup/comedian/s/smirnoff-yakov.htm does make it appear that in Soviet Russia, copyright violates YOU!! -- carlb ( talk) 17:41, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
URL | http://www.compwisdom.com |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.compwisdom.com/topics/BSD |
Rating | Low/None |
Compliance | Some entries credit Wikipedia. Most don't. Some attribute material to unrelated other Wikipedia mirrors. (e.g., WordIQ.) |
Contact info | contact page |
Actions | None. |
URL | http://books.google.com/books?id=9dNOT9iYxcMC (at Google Books) |
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Description | |
Sample | http://books.google.com/books?id=9dNOT9iYxcMC&lpg=PA1104&pg=PA1104#v=onepage&q&f=false (at Google Books). This was questioned as a source for Etymology of Assam at WP:RS/N. |
Rating | Low/None |
Compliance | Note that this is a book, not a website. I don't see any credit given to (nor any other mention of) Wikipedia. Publisher claims "All Rights Reserved." |
Contact info | www.atlanticbooks.com, info@atlanticbooks.com (as given in the book) |
Actions | None. |
URL | http://encyc.connectonline.com/ |
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Description | |
Sample | http://encyc.connectonline.com/index.php/Tonga |
Rating | Medium |
Compliance | Notes that material ("information" as the site says) is from Wikipedia, with link to original article and main page (at top and bottom of article respectively) and links to local copy of the GFDL. Specifically disclaims copyright of Wikipedia material in copyright section (with another local link to the GFDL). Authors and dates are not listed. |
Contact info | jrutherfordmd AT hotmail.com (whois), support AT oar.net (host) |
Actions |
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URL | http://www.consumersresearchcncl.org |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.consumersresearchcncl.org/Healthcare/Dermatologists/derma_chapter1.html (compare [33], which shows page was put together on wiki slowly) |
Rating | "Low/None" |
Compliance | Poor compliance: "Copyright © Consumers' Research Council of America. All rights reserved. " |
Contact info | See [34], [35] |
Actions | none yet |
URL | http://www.cookingvinyl.com/ |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.cookingvinyl.com/artist_info.php?id=26#albdesc |
Rating | None |
Compliance | Uses text directly from Billy Bragg with no acknowledgement of source |
Contact info | Tel: +44 (0)20 8600 9200 Fax: +44 (0)20 8743 7448 |
Actions | None yet |
URL | http://www.cooldictionary.com/ |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.cooldictionary.com/words/Main_Page.wikipedia |
Rating | Medium |
Compliance | Like #Algebra.com, it looks like a nearly complete copy of Wikipedia from May 18. Links to the corresponding Wikipedia articles and notes that each article is licensed under the GFDL at the bottom of each page. However, it appears to be dynamically fetched, which is a major drain on Wikipedia resources. See for instance http://www.cooldictionary.com/words/Portal:Current%20events.wikipedia. |
Contact info | |
Actions | Notified wikitech-l about dynamic loading. Superm401 - Talk 01:53, 3 January 2007 (UTC) |
URL | http://creekin.net/ |
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Description | |
Sample | http://creekin.net/c5157-n125-western-sahara-morocco.html |
Rating | Low |
Compliance |
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Contact info |
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Actions | Asked for DMCA takedown notices at Portal talk:Geography. Superm401 - Talk 00:50, 7 January 2007 (UTC) |
URL | http://www.cricketupdates.org |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.cricketupdates.org/cricket-bowling-machine.html |
Rating | Low/None |
Compliance | The above sample is a slightly amended and shortened version of the Wikipedia article Bowling machine. No mention is made of GFDL or Wikipedia. I found two other examples: [36], a significant portion of which is lifted, with only minor re-wording, from Hawk-Eye and [37], which consists of a few extracts from Hot Spot (cricket). These pages aren't complete copies of whole articles, but they are clearly derived from them and consist mainly of shortened and slightly modified extracts. At the foot of every page it says "This blog copyright � 2008 Cricket Updates. All Rights Reserved" |
Contact info | admin AT cricketupdates.org (from WHOIS) |
Actions | Sent an E-mail 8 May 2009 |
URL | http://www.crystalinks.com/ |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.crystalinks.com/chupacabras.html |
Rating | Medium |
Compliance | Uses content from Chupacabra. No mention of Wikipedia or GFDL, claims copyright on front page. Links to Answers.com copy of article. |
Contact info | http://www.crystalinks.com/email.html WHOIS: ecrystal AT nyc.rr.com, 10031 4th Avenue Apt 6A, Brooklyn, NY 11209, US, Phone: (718) 833-4264 |
Actions |
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URL | http://www.cuil.com/ |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.cuil.com/search?q=dublin&sl=long&m=Dublin%20Ireland |
Rating | Medium |
Compliance | Uses wikipedia categorisation & article content for tooltips and search organisiation |
Contact info | |
Actions |
URL | http://www.culturecentric.com/ |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.culturecentric.com/Language-A/affricate_consonant.php |
Rating | None |
Compliance | No mention of Wikipedia or the GFDL. Page says "© CultureCentric.com. All Rights Reserved" |
Contact info | I can't find any contact information. |
Actions | None yet. — An gr 19:30, 16 October 2006 (UTC) |
URL | http://cunnan.sca.org.au/wiki/Main_Page |
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Description | |
Sample | http://cunnan.sca.org.au/wiki/SCA |
Rating | Low |
Compliance | Links to local copy of GFDL (under the text "legal small-print"). Articles do not mention Wikipedia. |
Contact info | Webmaster: Delbert von Straßburg (del AT sca.org.au); ISP: Babel Com Australia ( http://www.babel.com.au) |
Actions | None |
URL | http://www.cured.com/ |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.cured.com/drug-index/Aripiprazole/ |
Rating | "None" |
Compliance | no mention of wikipedia or gfdl. LeadSongDog come howl! 15:41, 26 August 2014 (UTC) |
Contact info | whois masked by Godaddy and Domains By Proxy |
Actions |
URL | http://cutewalls.com/ |
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Description | |
Sample | http://cutewalls.com/a-to-f/anne-hathaway.html |
Rating | "None" |
Compliance | no mention of wikipedia or gfdl. Patstuart talk· edits 08:01, 25 March 2007 (UTC) |
Contact info | 9a30232f81f94adab722fcb45955739e.protect AT whoisguard.com (yes, this is correct), Phone:6613102107. |
Actions |
URL | http://cyberpedia.net/ |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.cyberpedia.net/info.php?title=Immune_system |
Rating | Medium |
Compliance | Mentions wikipedia, links to original article. Mentions gfdl, links to the GNU project site |
Contact info | |
Actions | none |
URL | http://www.cyclechaos.com/ |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.cyclechaos.com/wiki/Cruiser |
Rating | Low/None |
Compliance | No apparent GFDL, no article history, no credit to Wikipedia. |
Contact info | cyclechaos.com AT proxy.dreamhost.com cyclechaos.com Private Registrant |
Actions | Actions taken (if any) to attempt to make the website comply. |
Domain | Name | Description | Sample page | Compliance rating | Compliance notes | Contact info | Actions taken | Last updated | Current status |
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http://[0-9]{5}.us/
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Neustar/Vendare Media -- Controller of .us TLD | http://10001.us/ | low | none, dump of ?action=render | support.us@neustar.us ISP (Amazon AWS) email: abuse@amazonaws.com, Abuse Form |
none yet | January 7, 2024 | Unknown
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http://www.101languages.net/
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101 Languages | http://www.101languages.net/slovenian/history.html | medium | A separate page explains that the content in the "Language" section is taken from Wikipedia and available under GFDL, but does not link to original articles, doesn't list authors and doesn't provide local copy of the license (just a link to gnu.org is provided). | Only a contact form is provided. | none yet | Unknown | Unknown
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http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=IAbUcEsv-x0C&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_atb#v=onepage&q&f=false
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21st century Cambodia: View and Vision | low | A compilation of Wikipedia and other online articles published by Global Vision Publishing House without attribution. | nsingh_2004@vsnl.net, info@globalvisionpub.com | Unknown | Unknown
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http://www.2violent.com/
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2violent.com | http://www.2violent.com/sharon_tate.html | medium | There is a notice that mentions Wikipedia and the GFDL. The whole thing links to wikipedia.org, but there is no history section, link to the original article, or link to the GFDL. Other pages besides "Sharon Tate" appear to be a partial derivation of older wikipedia articles, or, just possibly, some text from them has been uploaded to wikipedia, as I have found exact word for word passages in
Jay Sebring and
Charles Manson from around 2004 November 8 or later. -
Wikibob -
Talk 19:32, 2005 May 22 (UTC)
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webmaster AT 2violent.com, clasione AT verizon.net (domain admin), abuse AT godaddy.com (host) |
- Wikibob - Talk 20:52, 2005 May 22 (UTC)
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Unknown | Unknown
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http://www.99colors.net/
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99Colors | http://www.99colors.net/name/dark-candy-apple-red | low | List of colo[u]r details, such as names & RGB values, at least partially scraped from en.wikipedia. Contains some problematic content which was removed from enwiki for other reasons (ie. simply made up by an editor); existence of this (mirrored) content has been used to justify re-adding it. | contact@99colors.net | Repeated emails; all bounced. | Unknown | Unknown |
Domain | Name | Description | Sample page | Compliance rating | Compliance notes | Contact info | Actions taken | Last updated | Current status | |||
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https://abcdef.wiki
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abcdef.wiki (title: QWERTY.WIKI) | formerly xcv.wiki, qwerty.wiki, que.wiki, qaz.wiki and other.wiki: they all redirect to abcdef.wiki at the moment; it may change domain again in the future. It seems to use live machine translations from the English Wikipedia to generate mirrors in 16 languages, without references. Some translations are very poor (e.g. Russian) while others are very good (e.g. Italian). Too many invasive ads, some of which are mildly pornographic. | https://es.abcdef.wiki/wiki/Wikipedia | low | matches WP:CCBYSAC | admin@qwerty.wiki | (qwe.wiki) reported to Google AdSense; it definitely violates the rules on invasive ads. | Unknown | Unknown
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http://www.about.com
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about.com | URL | not rated | *
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www.about.com
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About.com (not url) | http://classiclit.about.com/cs/profileswriters/p/aa_mshelley.htm?terms=Mary+Shelley is a former version of Mary Shelley. | not rated | This one has a copyright on the bottom saying that it is copyright of About.com , a member of the New York Times Company. | classiclit.guide AT about.com is the email address to the specific guide of this page. The problem was mentioned above. To other people, I don't know.
Check this out though, it almost sounds like the "guide" claims she wrote the article: http://classiclit.about.com/mbiopage.htm |
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http://everythingeveryone.wikia.com/wiki/About_Everything,_everyone_Wiki
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About Everything, everyone Wiki | http://everythingeveryone.wikia.com/wiki/John_Augustine_Smith | none | No attribution to Wikipedia, no links to original article nor page history. Wikia CC-BY-SA 3.0 license automatically applies to content. | copyright AT wikia.com. Further contact details: http://www.wikia.com/Terms_of_Use#Claims of Copyright Infringement | I've copied the latest version on Wikipedia of the John Augustine Smith article and added the Wikipedia template. What other articles were plagiarized/plagiarised from Wikipedia? Stranger195 ( talk • contribs • guest book) 09:13, 5 December 2015 (UTC) | Unknown | Unknown
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http://www.absoluteastronomy.com
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Absolute Astronomy | http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Choctawhatchee_Mid-Bay_Bridge | medium | Off-site GFDL. Javascript required to view mention.
This website formerly violated the GFDL. I am uncertain whether they currently use Wikipedia articles. http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/planets/Uranus.htm , for instance, is similar to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranus but I haven't determine whether there's still copying. If you remove this entry, be sure to archive it. I am one of the creators of this site. The GFDL violation was related to displaying source information inside javascripts. This created problems for visitors who had javascript disabled. The problem was corrected when it was brought to our attention. No obvious sign of GFDL, copyrighted by website and no mention of wikipedia - http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Alice%27s_Restaurant_(film) L∴V 15:12, 10 April 2009 (UTC) May 2010: http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/terms.aspx "COPYRIGHT - AbsoluteAstronomy asserts its legal copyright for all original works of authorship or intellectual property published on AbsoluteAstronomy.com. You may not publish, modify, or transmit this content without express written permission from AbsoluteAstronomy" This implies that AbsoluteAstronomy has copyright to the content on it's site, but mostly it doesn't. The vast majority of content on the site is copyrighted by wikipedia authors, and licensed to AbsoluteAstronomy under certain terms (GFDL I guess?), which include the right for others to 'publish, modify, and transmit' the content of the site. IMHO it's a bit misleading. Decora 23:12, 23 May 2010 (UTC) August 2014: Articles from Wikipedia are now linked at their bottom to the corresponding wp article, and the GFDL is asserted. LeadSongDog come howl! 07:15, 27 August 2014 (UTC) |
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AbsoluteArts.com / World Wide Arts Resources | http://www.absolutearts.com/artsnews/2006/01/06/33592.html | not rated | I have no idea whether they often crib from us, but the last paragraph of the cited sample page on "Archival Investigations: Early Electro-mechanical Sound Works and Artifacts from Trimpin’s First Five Years in Seattle" is a straight-out copy of the first two paragraphs of our article on Trimpin - Jmabel | Telephone: 740-587-3326, Fax: 740-587-4103 Email: help AT wwar.com or help AT absolutearts.com |
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https://academic-accelerator.com/encyclopedia/
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Academic Accelerator: The Most Up-to-Date Encyclopedia, News, Review, & Research | Apparently a complete mirror, though badly done and apparently disguised.
Articles (at least the Alouette 1 article that I found) are badly formatted with no internal links present in the text (but see below), all text styling removed, lists presented as flat text (including the "See also" and "External links" sections), and subheadings presented as full headings wrapped in equals signs, indicating poor parsing. Ironically, while they claim to be academic, the References section is completely omitted. So are all categories and infobox content. They add a dynamically-populated "Scholarly Articles" section right below the introduction, though it's empty for the Alouette 1 article, as well as sections of videos (that look like they're from YouTube, and some of which are irrelevant (anime, etc.) that happened to include the word "Alouette") and images (all images in the article, even those used only as icons in navboxes). Images are also shown all combined into one thumbnail at the top. Clicking an image in either place opens a lightbox where you can cycle through them. In all three of those places, the captions are all missing. In the "Related topics" section at the very bottom of the page, below the videos and images, there is a list of what I guess are the target articles of all of the links from the article, including those in navboxes, in alphabetical order, meaning they've lost their context and link titling. And, because they apparently tried to reinvent hyperlink functionality using scripting and failed, the links don't work, even with scripts enabled in the browser. They seem to have modified the text in various ways, presumably to avoid detection. For example, the wording "deactivated Canadian" in the first sentence of the Alouette 1 article is changed to "Canadian deactivated", and "Parts used for the construction of Alouette 1 can still be found in the Musée des ondes Emile Berliner in Montreal…" became "The parts used in the construction of Alouette 1 can still be seen at the Emile Berlina Museum in Montreal…", both wordings that, as far as I could tell with a bit of WikiBlame and manual searching, have never appeared in Wikipedia. If you do a simple diff (with an external tool), you'll find many more examples. To do this in so many places in presumably every article, it must have been automated. |
https://academic-accelerator.com/encyclopedia/alouette-1 | low | No mention of or links to Wikipedia, copyright, or licensing anywhere, even with scripts enabled. Text is modified in ways that look like the goal is to avoid plagiarism detection.
If you point at an image, before opening the lightbox, and look at the target URL your browser displays, you'll see the URL of the bare image (not the file description page), e.g., https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e5/Alouette_1.jpg; it can also be copied from the contextual menu there. That's the only hint of any connection to anything Wikimedia-related. |
Academic Accelerator: contact (at) academic-accelerator.com (from https://academic-accelerator.com footer)
Cloudflare (CDN): https://abuse.cloudflare.com/ (email not accepted) Namecheap (domain registrar): abuse (at) namecheap.com, +1.6613102107 (abuse contact info from whois) Host unknown |
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Academic Dictionaries and Encyclopedias | http://en.academic.ru/dic.nsf/enwiki/15588, http://deacademic.com/dic.nsf/dewiki/631248 | low | Mentions Wikipedia but not copyright, authors or license; doesn't link back to articles or images. Confusing footer "Wikimedia Foundation". | support@academic.ru | Unknown | Unknown
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http://academickids.com/encyclopedia/index.php/Main_Page
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Academic Kids | http://academickids.com/encyclopedia/index.php/User:Jimbo_Wales | not rated | Only contains top edit in article history, looks to be a mirror of the WP database as of June 23, 2005. No links back to Wikipedia, no mention of Wikipedia as a source, GFDL is mentioned via its link to Wikipedia. | http://academickids.com/contact/index.htm lists jd4ga7 AT yaoo.com [ sic] as the contact, WHOIS lists jd4ga AT classroomclipart.com, (310)832-5686. | Unknown | Unknown
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http://www.net-lexikon.de/
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Academie.de Net-Lexikon | * copies German-language Wikipedia | URL | not rated | * indicates Wikipedia as source
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http://ama-awards.com
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African Movie Academy Awards | [1] from 5th African Movie Academy Awards; [2] from 4th African Movie Academy Awards | low | Contents are copied entirely from Wikipedia, including our own internal links, with no mention made that the content comes from Wikipedia. The bottom of each page bears the notice "copyright © 2010 AMAA" | ? | The contributor whose content was copied wrote to the webmaster and the content has been removed. There may be no future issues, but the listing here can be helpful in case the problem recurs. It is particularly important to document these issues in the event that they should continue and should become less obvious, to avoid our contributors being unfairly accused of copyright infringement. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 12:21, 8 September 2010 (UTC) | Unknown | Unknown
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https://alchetron.com/
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Alchetron.com ~ Free Social Encyclopedia for the World | Wikipedia articles mixed with some info and YouTube videos. | https://alchetron.com/Natasha-Bedingfield | medium | Links back to Wikipedia with an unclear "(Text) CC BY-SA" link at the very bottom of the page while erroneously claiming in the footer " Alchetron © 2019", No mention of licence for images | support@alchetron.com | None so far. | Unknown | Unknown
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http://www.algebra.com/algebra/about/history/Main_Page.wikipedia
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Algebra.com | http://www.algebra.com/algebra/about/history/KForge.wikipedia | high | A seeming verbatim copy of all Wikipedia. It does not seem to use remote loading except when it has no copy of the article. In other cases, it appears to refresh a cache occasionally. However, it does appear to load images remotely, which is unacceptable. This should be verified. Now has text "Source: this wikipedia article, under CC-BY-SA", with appropriate links, on every page. | ichudov@algebra.com , ichudov@gmail.com (from WHOIS) |
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http://www.allmichaeljordan.com/
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allmichaeljordan.com / Michael Jordan | http://www.allmichaeljordan.com/career.php | high | As of 17 April 2020 the website is compliant.
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Site administrator: Mike Azif aziml AT aol.com. | Standard GFDL compliance request sent.
Sancho 15:32, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
GFDL licensing information is now included on the web site, giving credit to Wikipedia and linking to the article. However, the GFDL is not hosted locally, but is a link to Wikipedia's GFDL page. I changed this site's compliance rating to Medium. Sancho 23:21, 21 August 2007 (UTC) |
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https://wiki.alquds.edu
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Alquds | Appears to be a complete mirror | https://wiki.alquds.edu/?query=Wikipedia | not rated | Describe details of compliance or lack thereof. List violations here. | ISP: Al-Quds University, email (pr/general contact): pr@alquds.edu | Actions taken (if any) to attempt to make the website comply. | Unknown | Unknown
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http://www.amazines.com
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Amazines | http://amazines.com/Superoxide_related.html, http://www.amazines.com/Jesse_Jackson_related.html | not rated | I have added notices but am unsure if this is sufficient. - Ryan (website owner).
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Ryan Jones - 805-579-0545 | Unknown | Unknown
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http://www.amazon.com/echo
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Amazon Alexa | http://wikipediocracy.com/2017/07/24/alexa/ | low | Wikipedia content is used without attribution or re-licensing. | Adele Vrana, Wikimedia Foundation director of strategic partnerships, reached out to Amazon in 2017. | Unknown | Unknown
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http://www.amazon.de/Sachiko-M-Lambert-M-Surhone/dp/613110610X/ as just one of over 80.000 articles by this author
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Amazon books published by Betascript, authors Lambert M. Surhone, Miriam T. Timpledon, and Susan F. Marseken | not rated | The abstract is taken from the Wikipedia article Sachiko Matsubara with no attribution. This is not just a single incident, but a massive misuse of Wikipedia material. The publisher advertises "High Quality content by WIKIPEDIA articles [sic]!" on the book covers. It is a books-on-demand publisher. | January 23, 2011 | Unknown
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http://www.amazon.com/This-New-Ocean-Illustrated-ebook/dp/B008WAWFRQ/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1370172801&sr=1-2&keywords=this+new+ocean
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This New Ocean: A History of Project Mercury (Annotated and Illustrated) [Kindle Edition] | not rated | The Wikipedia article Project Mercury is copy pasted into the beginning of this Kindle book | Unknown | Unknown |
URL | http://www.animefanwiki.de |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.animefanwiki.de/index.php?title=Elfen_Lied&limit=500&action=history (see first entry) |
Rating | "None" |
Compliance | The articles are translations from en:wikipedia, this is nowhere mentioned, GFDL and original authors are not mentioned. |
Contact info | main page says write to webmaster AT animefanboard.de |
Actions |
de:Benutzer:Don-kun pointed to the copyright violation at
main page discussion before it was deleted and the discussion page was blocked. Then he tried to discuss it in
the forum but was dismissed.
since 11.11.2007, the GNU-Licence is mentioned at [3]-- 141.30.140.100 09:25, 13 November 2007 (UTC)( don-kun) got a mail from one sysop of animefanwiki. The problem may be solved soon. -- 141.30.140.100 15:45, 13 November 2007 (UTC) ( don-kun) once more, GDFL oder wikipedia is not mentioned [4]. No solution found in Diskussion in the forum [5]. They have no will to mention GNU or wikipedia. What to do? -- 141.30.140.100 ( talk) 09:37, 20 November 2007 (UTC) ( don-kun) |
URL | http://annawildingwikipedia.com/ |
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Description | Subject of the Article on Wikipedia is upset that the page removed her unsourced information and put in referenced information she didn't like, so has now gone and created her own verion of the page but linked to a time when it was full of false information |
Sample | https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Anna_Wilding&oldid=971096457#cite_note-3 |
Rating | "High", "Medium", or "Low/None" compliance with CC-BY-SA (matches Wikipedia:CC-BY-SA Compliance) (compare against GFDL if they choose that license). |
Compliance | Does not list or attribute extensive content taken from Wikipedia, and also trys to claim their own copyright on the page |
Contact info | GoDaddy can be emailed at copyrightcomplaints at godaddy.com or fill out form
here.
Can contact Anna Wilding directly through form on webpage as well http://annawildingwikipedia.com/contact-us |
Actions | Actions taken (if any) to attempt to make the website comply. |
URL | http://www.answers.com/ |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery?s=New+York&answers.x=0&answers.y=0&gwp=8, http://www.answers.com/topic/absolute-power-series |
Rating | Medium – only thing missing is the link to page history. |
Compliance |
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Contact info |
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Actions | None. |
URL | http://programs.wikia.com/ |
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Description | |
Sample | wikia:programs:Metapad |
Rating | High |
Compliance | So far, all Wikipedia articles have the wikia:programs:Template:En-WP attribution notice (a copy of Template:En-WP attribution notice) transcluded. |
Contact info | copyright AT wikia.com |
Actions | None. |
URL | http://www.ace.hu |
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Description | Hungarian journal |
Sample | http://www.ace.hu/am/2020_2/AM-2020-2-PA.pdf from Nevado Sajama, see discussion here. |
Rating | Low/None compliance with CC-BY-SA (matches Wikipedia:CC-BY-SA Compliance) (compare against GFDL if they choose that license). |
Compliance | No compliance |
Contact info | attila.pentek@yahoo.com abuse@iif.hu |
Actions | Filing this for User:Jo-Jo Eumerus, SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 16:58, 29 October 2020 (UTC) |
URL | http://www.armageddononline.org/ |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.armageddononline.org/comet_shoemaker-levy_9.php, http://www.armageddononline.org/worldwar3.php, http://www.armageddononline.org/biowarfare.php |
Rating | Low |
Compliance | Partial mirror, possibly with some additions.
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Contact info | amazingbible AT verizon.net, http://www.armageddononline.org/contactadmin.php, http://www.armageddononline.org/contactwebmaster.php |
Actions | Sent tweaked standard violation letter to amazingbible AT verizon.net. Superm401 - Talk 23:37, 5 January 2007 (UTC) |
URL | http://www.armeniapedia.org/index.php?title=Main_Page |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.armeniapedia.org/index.php?title=Raffi_Cavoukian |
Rating | Medium |
Compliance | Attributes (including linking to) Wikipedia and has a GFDL notice. But no link to history and no comment in general terms. |
Contact info | http://www.armeniapedia.org/index.php?title=User_talk:Raffi |
Actions | Violation letter sent. Superm401 |
Note Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2007-07-23/News and notes and Australian Refugee Review Tribunal
URL | http://arstechnica.com/ |
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Description | |
Sample | http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/11/to-restore-credibility-nist-will-audit-its-standards-development-process/?comments=1 |
Rating | Medium |
Compliance | They have a feature called "embeds". If someone links to Wikipedia in a comment, it will have an option, "show embeds". If you click this, it includes a significant chunk of the Wikipedia article. They could argue fair use, but I think it may not be when done on a consistent basis. It has the Wikipedia logo, the text "Wikipedia", and the full URL (which is also a link). However, there is no mention of the CC-BY-SA. |
Contact info | http://arstechnica.com/contact-us/ |
Actions | Contacted using the "Contact the Editorial Team" option. Superm401 - Talk 03:21, 2 November 2013 (UTC) |
URL | http://www.artexpertswebsite.com |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.artexpertswebsite.com/pages/artists/clovio.php "He is pointing to this work in the El Greco portrait (above). " which picture is in our page but not theirs. |
Rating | "Low/None" |
Compliance | "All contents © copyright 2011 Art Experts, Inc." |
Contact info | 1-866-484-8017 info@artexpertswebsite.com |
Actions |
URL | http://articlehubs.com/ |
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Description | |
Sample | http://articlehubs.com/GNU_General_Public_License.html |
Rating | None |
Compliance | There is no statement about the source or license of the text at all. |
Contact info | the site's contact form |
Actions | none so far. |
-- Wondigoma ( talk) 13:17, 4 November 2009 (UTC)
URL | http://articles.co.nr (clicking that link displays http://124.125.21.126/wcd/) |
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Description | |
Sample | http://124.125.21.126/wcd/wp/e/Enceladus_%2528moon%2529.htm compared to Enceladus_(moon) |
Rating | Medium |
Compliance | Each page has a link that acknowledges wikipedia with links to a local copy of the GFDL and their notice of copyright and disclaimer. Images are kept locally but no image information is available. Individual pages have no wikipedia history, in fact the reader is told The original authors or creators of content and images from Wikipedia may be found by going to the article in the English Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page) with the same article name and tracing content via the page history. |
Contact info | User:Achalmeena has been inserting spam links to this site in wikipedia and claims that industrial.org is his website. The top level of the domain http://124.125.21.126/ identifies itself as software.org, with the contact details of root AT industrialsoft.org. Whois doesn't return the users name (Achal Meena), but ?? |
Actions | None — Graibeard (talk) 12:10, 16 July 2006 (UTC) |
URL | http://www.artistopia.com |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.artistopia.com/the-pussycat-dolls |
Rating | Medium |
Compliance | Every page has a Copyright citations section at the bottom. "It says This article is licensed under the GNU License", with GNU license linking to an off-site copy of the GFDL. The next line is " Click here for original article: ABBA". The article name links back to Wikipedia. At the very bottom it says "Copyright 2007, iCubator Labs, LLC, All Rights Reserved." |
Contact info | corporate AT artistopia.com (WHOIS), http://www.artistopia.com/About-Us/Contact.asp |
Actions |
URL | http://www.artline.ro/ |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.artline.ro/2_588_Baba__Corneliu_4945.html |
Rating | "Low/None" |
Compliance | Non-compliant. Page appears to be an image of some sort, not HTML text, but it is our content (I know, because I wrote this one). I haven't examined beyond the one page. - Jmabel |
Contact info | unknown |
Actions | Nothing so far |
URL | https://www.asclepiusopen.com/ |
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Description | a group of open access journals, another infringement by Alain L. Fymat, International Institute of Medicine and Science, journal editor |
Sample | https://www.asclepiusopen.com/clinical-research-in-neurology/volume-2-issue-1/1 |
Rating | Low/None compliance with CC-BY-SA |
Compliance | Does not list or attribute extensive content taken from Wikipedia |
Contact info | see full information at User:SandyGeorgia/AlainFymat |
Actions | Letters sent |
URL | http://www.artvee.com/ |
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Description | Multiple of their 'artist' pages are either close or identical copies of the relevant article from here. The site appears to have been created in 2020, and the content seems to have been forked around about that time. |
Sample | https://artvee.com/artist/claude-monet/ |
Rating | "Low/None" |
Compliance | Non-compliant. They do reference Wikimedia in one of the terms & conditions in relation to 'some of their images', but no reference to Wikipedia anywhere as far as I can see. |
Contact info | info@artvee.com |
Actions | Standard notice sent today: JeffUK 21:51, 7 February 2023 (UTC) |
URL | http://www.asianheritagesociety.org/asian-american-data/ |
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Description | Copy of the first three sections of the wikipedia article Asian Americans |
Sample | http://www.asianheritagesociety.org/asian-american-data/ |
Rating | None |
Compliance | No attribution, no copyright notice |
Contact info | email: event@asianheritageawards.com (see http://www.asianheritagesociety.org/contact-us/) |
Actions | None |
URL | http://askville.amazon.com/Index.do/ |
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Description | |
Sample | http://askville.amazon.com/SimilarQuestions.do?req=favorite+newspaper+comic+strip |
Rating | |
Compliance | Has a link to the Wikipedia source page |
Contact info | |
Actions |
URL | http://www.astra2d.com/ |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.astra2d.com/dab.htm |
Rating | Low/None |
Compliance | Site takes some text and tables from Wikipedia articles on television and radio technology in the UK, no GFDL mention or links. GFDL violation became apparent after a suspected copyright violation discussion, with evidence on the Birdsong (digital radio channel) talk page. |
Contact info | expat AT astra2d.com |
Actions | None -- tgheretford ( talk) 23:24, 16 May 2009 (UTC) |
URL | https://www.auctoresonline.org/ |
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Description | a group of open access journals, another infringement by Alain L. Fymat, International Institute of Medicine and Science, journal editor |
Sample | https://www.auctoresonline.org/journals/psychiatry-and-psychotherapy/archive/614 |
Rating | Low/None compliance with CC-BY-SA |
Compliance | Does not list or attribute extensive content taken from Wikipedia, and claims copyright |
Contact info | see full information at User:SandyGeorgia/AlainFymat |
Actions | Sent letters, AUCTORES removed the article completely SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 22:56, 11 August 2020 (UTC) |
URL | http://australialaw.org |
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Description | |
Sample | http://australialaw.org/worker/ |
Rating | "None" |
Compliance | |
Contact info | |
Actions |
URL | https://spicelandtown.com/ |
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Description | Uses the beginning of the Wikipedia Troubleshooting article on a page showing a troubleshooting video |
Sample | https://spicelandtown.com/electrical-contractors/basic-electrical-repair-troubleshooting-electric-circuits-1968-us-air-force-training-film/ |
Rating | None |
Compliance | No copyright notice |
Contact info |
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Actions | None yet |
URL | http://www.babylon-software.com/ |
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Description | |
Sample | inside the application |
Rating | Undetermined |
Compliance | Displays Wikipedia trademark on the page http://affiliate.babylon-software.com/. |
Contact info | http://www.babylon-software.com/contact.html |
Actions |
URL | http://www.backgammon.co.uk/ |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.backgammon.co.uk/strategies.htm (only article I can find) |
Rating | Medium |
Compliance | Does not link to enwiki article, but has GFDL notice. |
Contact info | info AT backgammon.co.uk |
Actions | The site uses an image I created, licensed under the GPL. I sent an email stating that the page should note the GPL license of the image, and the GFDL license of the article. I included links to the licenses at gnu.org and a link to
Backgammon.
4 October 2006: Webmaster replied to my email noting the updated copyright notice. |
— ptk✰ fgs 04:54, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
URL | http://www.backgammoned.net |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.backgammoned.net/all-about-backgammon.html (only article) |
Rating | Medium |
Compliance | States that content is under GFDL and is reprinted from Wikipedia. |
Contact info | info AT backgammoned.net |
Actions | Maintainer appears to have joined a discussion at Talk:Backgammon. I referred him to Wikipedia:Copyrights. |
— ptk✰ fgs 20:23, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
URL | http://www.barrystickets.com/ |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.barrystickets.com/hockey-tickets/index.php |
Rating | None |
Compliance | No mention of Wikipedia or the GFDL. Excerpts of various ticket-related articles are used. |
Contact info | info AT barrystickets.com, (800) 928-7199 (818) 990-8499 FAX (818) 990-5433, Technical Contact: Katz, Randy randyk AT CCSALES.COM, (213)307-9581 fax: 123 123 1234; Administrative Contact: Rudin, Barry info AT BARRYSTICKETS.COM, 818 990-8499; IP= 66.114.252.14 = Broadwing Communications |
Actions |
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URL | http://www.bbcnewsamerica.com |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.bbcnewsamerica.com/tag/texas-chainsaw-massacre |
Rating | Low/None |
Compliance | No mention of Wikipedia or the GFDL. |
Contact info | |
Actions | MRG verified copyvio. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 01:29, 25 October 2010 (UTC) |
URL | https://en.bharatpedia.org/ |
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Description | A copy of the simple english wikipedia, made by converting WP Articles into simple Indian English. |
Sample | https://en.bharatpedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia |
Rating | "LMediam" |
Compliance | Clearly based on WP; copy and pasting as well as using the same citations word for word and the exact same UI and format. Easy to confuse with WP if not knowledgeable. No mention of Wikipedia, CC-BY-SA, or licensing except end of page disclaimer, which reads: "Content is available under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. This article may uses material from the Wikipedia article Earth, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License (view authors). Bharatpedia® is a registered trademark." It is the exact same wiki-format inc. lots of templates and the MOS. |
Contact info | All help links e.g. speaking to an administrator are red links |
Actions | The disclaimer at the bottom (see above) |
URL | http://www.biblio.com/ |
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Description | |
Sample | [14] of Identifying and Managing Project Risk (see talk page for evidence) |
Rating | Low/None |
Compliance | No mention of Wikipedia or GFDL/CC-By-SA. Page says Copyright © 2000-2011 Biblio, Inc. All Rights Reserved. |
Contact info | Online form: [15] |
Actions | None |
URL | http://bigmac.biz/ |
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Description | |
Sample | same as above |
Rating | Medium |
Compliance | Wholesale copy of Big Mac index from [16] or earlier. No mention of Wikipedia or GFDL on site. |
Contact info | webmaster AT bigmac.biz (given on site); +819.2934278, matt AT utsn.net (whois admin) |
Actions | Standard violation letter sent. --
Scott
eiπ 08:47, 18 April 2006 (UTC) No response or change. Second letter sent. -- Scott eiπ 02:11, 26 April 2006 (UTC) Fixed. -- Scott eiπ 09:31, 28 April 2006 (UTC) |
URL | http://www.bigmaybe.com |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.bigmaybe.com/learn?s=Citrus_warburgiana |
Rating | None |
Compliance | Houses Wikipedia articles under their "academic study guide" without acknowledging Wikipedia or listing the content licensing. |
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URL | http://www.bigpedia.com/ |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.bigpedia.com/encyclopedia/Gray%27s_Anatomy |
Rating | "Medium" |
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Actions | None -- WB 09:13, 12 February 2006 (UTC) |
URL | http://www.biocrawler.com/encyclopedia/Main_Page |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.biocrawler.com/encyclopedia/Illiad |
Rating | Medium |
Compliance | This is a mirror as of June 23, 2005 that has apparently had minor forking since then. However, almost all instances of Wikipedia have been changed, even in people's talk comments. This makes it a modified version, and these modifications have not been specifically mentioned on page history. Also, the GFDL specifically states that "The author(s) and publisher(s) of the Document do not by this License give permission to use their names for publicity for or to assert or imply endorsement of any Modified Version." However, the bottom of every page states, "Content is available under GNU Free Documentation License 1.2.", with a local link to the GFDL. With images, it also says "This document originates in his first or later version from the English Wikipedia. You can find it there under the keyword (ARTICLE). The list of previous authors is available here: (link to Wikipedia's history of ARTICLE). ... This text falls under the same license (GFDL). Additions to biocrawler (starting from 23.6.05 will be doubly licensed under the GFDL and CC-by-sa)." Without images, it also has simple links to Wikipedia, the original history, and Wikipedia's copy of the GFDL.
update: as of 04/24/2008, this site was flagged by Google with the verbiage, "visiting this web site may harm your computer!" For more information on Google's claims about this website, see http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=http://www.biocrawler.com/encyclopedia/Library_(computer_science) |
Contact info | boeckl AT biofacts.com, domain AT biofacts.com |
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Actions | None. Website is now a search-spammer and no longer mirrors wikipedia content; last wikipedia mirror found archived from 8 February 2008 at [17]. 84user ( talk) 16:00, 4 August 2009 (UTC) |
URL | http://www.biographicon.com |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.biographicon.com/view/4yf4i/Ethan_Allen |
Rating | "None" compliance with GFDL. |
Compliance | Site does copy wholesale biography articles from English wikipedia. It does not provide information of the source of the articles, it does not give attribution to authors or link to wikipedia history page, the site does not acknowledge that content sourced from wikipedia is licensed under GFDL. |
Contact info | feedback AT biographicon.com |
Actions | none yet |
URL | http://www.biographybase.com/ |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.biographybase.com/biography/Yarwood_Mike.html |
Rating | Medium |
Compliance | Links to GFDL and mentions individual Wikipedia article, but does not directly link to them or include history section. |
Contact info | leonardo.mikelic AT ri.htnet.hr (whois), abuse AT theplanet.com (host), legal-response AT theplanet.com (host) |
Actions | Sent violation letter to Biography Base, noting that they should link to Wikipedia article and provide on-site GFDL. Superm401 - Talk 02:08, 23 January 2006 (UTC) |
URL | http://biolicense.org |
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Description | |
Sample | http://biolicense.org/index.php/Shareware |
Rating | None. |
Compliance | No information about articles being copied from Wikipedia, imposes its own weird license called Biolicense. The site states: "Biolicense is a license scheme to enable human beings and machines to openfreely share information and knowledge for limitless number of purposes. It is a license that tries to protect information and knowledge from being exclusively owned by limited number of classes, races, and economic groups in the world. It also aims to maximize human creativity and entrepreneurship." Also see http://biolicense.org/index.php/Biolicense.net:About The site seems to be a part of some spammer's link farm. See its links to other sites. |
Contact info | admin phone and email from whois: +82.01077996754 (Korean number); j@bio.cc |
Actions | None yet. |
URL | http://www.biologydaily.com/ |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.biologydaily.com/biology/Aerobiologyand http://www.biologydaily.com/biology/Gmail |
Rating | Medium |
Compliance | There is a notice that says the content is from Wikipedia and links to a local copy of the GFDL (part of a copyright page). Wikipedia is linked to the main Wikipedia URL backwards (gro.aidepikiw.www//:ptth). A javascript function reverses the link (if you have JS enabled). There is also a link to another section on the copyright page that is meant to tell users how to view the "transparent copy"; it just tells them to go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/<PAGENAME> by typing it in. Arguably, XHTML itself is transparent so this isn't necessary. However, it does vaguely help users vaguely find the history section. |
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URL | http://www.bizgos.com/ |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.bizgos.com/AnheuserBusch/ARINC.php |
Rating | None |
Compliance | No mention of GFDL. Claims copyright. No links to original article or mention of Wikipedia. No history section. Contains copies of the old wiki entries. Apparently related to gamelow.com, which infringes similarly and has the same graphics. |
Contact info | BIZGOS.COM AT domainsbyproxy.com |
Actions | Sent standard violation letter. Superm401 - Talk 20:20, 19 January 2007 (UTC) |
URL | http://www.blinkbits.com/en_wikifeeds/ |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.blinkbits.com/en_wikifeeds/HQ9_Plus_Plus |
Rating | Medium |
Compliance | Has notice, "User Bits and Wikipedia articles licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. The wikipedia articles uses material from the Wikipedia article name.". However, this links to " http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/article_name" (i.e. that actual URL, unsubstituted), and an offsite GFDL. |
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URL | https://blog.shops-net.com/ |
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Description | Many but pages are mirrored, apparently manually. |
Sample | https://blog.shops-net.com/50721738/1/201617-fc-basel-season.html |
Rating | None |
Compliance | No attribution or mention that the content is copied. |
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URL | http://information-headquarter.blogspot.com/search/label/Grand%20Opera%20House |
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Description | |
Sample | http://information-headquarter.blogspot.com/search/label/Grand%20Opera%20House |
Rating | Absolutely no compliance. |
Compliance | Straight out theft of Grand Opera House (Seattle), which I recently wrote |
Contact info | At
http://www.google.com/blogger_dmca.html, they make it clear that they will consider only complaints sent to them on paper or by fax. Kind of amazing: this is Google, and they provide no online means to complain when they plagiarize. And the wording on that page is very belligerent: "Indeed, in a recent case (please see
http://www.onlinepolicy.org/action/legpolicy/opg_v_diebold/ for more information), a company that sent an infringement notification seeking removal of online materials that were protected by the fair use doctrine was ordered to pay such costs and attorneys fees."
Fax number is 650-618-2680, Attn: Blogger Legal Support, DMCA Complaints. I think someone should follow this up, and also Wikimedia Foundation, who I understand have some working relationships with Google, should ask about setting up a procedure to streamline it when their bloggers plagiarize us so blatantly. Further examples from Blogspot are listed on the talk page, to document other Blogspot users' WP usage without messing up the format above. |
Actions |
URL | http://truskemata.blogspot.de + http://truskemata.blogspot.com |
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Description | |
Sample | http://truskemata.blogspot.de/2012/09/atasi-masalah-silau-dengan-helmet.html |
Rating | ? |
Compliance | Copied part of Motorcycle helmet#Laws and standards ( oldid=491661146) including blue & red wikilinks; marked as "Copyright © 2013 Mata & Penglihatan - Created by SoraTemplates and Blogger Templates" at the page bottom |
Contact info | "Contact" link at truskemata.blogspot.de does not work
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Actions | none (as I am new to these procedures) |
URL | http://bluerhinos.co.uk/ |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.bluerhinos.co.uk/molview/view/propan-1-ol |
Rating | "High", "Medium", or "Low/None" compliance with GFDL (matches Wikipedia:GFDL Compliance). |
Compliance | Includes a backlink to WP, but doesn't appear to mention GFDL; in fact, it includes a lot of claims to copyright for all content. |
Contact info | The request posted by User:Walkerma |
Actions | None |
URL | http://www.blurbwire.com/ |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.blurbwire.com/topics/Kohlu |
Rating | Low |
Compliance | Brief mention of Wikipedia on homepage, copied articles lack attribution. [EDIT]: On their sources page (linked at the bottom) they cite "Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Data from Wikipedia is licensed under the GFDL". There are no backlinks to the Wikipedia article, there is a notice at the bottom 'Copyright 2010, Discovery Media'. |
Contact info | discoverysites AT gmail.com (from contact) |
Actions |
URL | http://www.bobby-fischer.net/ |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.bobby-fischer.net/paul_morphy.htm |
Rating | Low/None |
Compliance | The site includes a page on the chessplayer Paul Morphy that mirrors full paragraphs of the Wikipedia article Paul Morphy. This is also the case for numerous other chessplayers. |
Contact info | chuck_ayoub@hotmail.com, ISP=TUCOWS INC. (according to whois) |
Actions |
URL | http://www.bobbysouthworth.com/ |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.bobbysouthworth.com/bio.htm |
Rating | Medium |
Compliance | Originally no mention, but was added after I notified them. |
Contact info | Contact@Sanctmm.com |
Actions |
URL | http://bookonlinesale.com/ and http://booksonlinesale.com |
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Description | |
Sample | http://bookonlinesale.com/258082_edgar-prestage_1131743628lettersofaportuguesenundiscountbookstores.html and http://www.booksonlinesale.com/623250_margaret-mitchell_113517007xautantenemporteleventbookreportforfree.html |
Rating | High |
Compliance | Includes text "This artikel <ARTICLENAME> is licensed under the GNU free Documentation License. There is a list of authors available. You can edit this article if you like. " The article name links to the original wikipedia article, "GNU" links to the GNU's copy of the GFDL, Authors links to the history tab, and edit links to the edit page. However, on some pages none of these links are colored or formatted distinctly from normal text (until you hover over them); thus, it is hard to tell they can be clicked. |
Contact info | INFO AT 100000BOOKS.COM (whois), http://www.cd-music.org/mailform.php (contact form), info AT server4you.de (host) |
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URL | http://www.bookrags.com |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.bookrags.com/wiki/High_Commissioner |
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Contact info | whois |
Actions |
URL | http://booksllc.net/ |
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Description | |
Sample | "Wikipedia Introduction": http://booksllc.net/book.cfm?id=3744759 Sample title and summary on Amazon: [19]. Google Books search: [20] |
Rating | |
Compliance | The website states that "Paperbacks marked "OCR" may have numerous typos or missing text. Other paperbacks contain Wikipedia content." The FAQ states that: "All content cam [
sic] from Wikipedia. Please check the book's Publication page, Introduction and the end of each chapter for further details. For example, you can click the hyperlink at the end of any chapter and then click the history tab to see a list of each chapter's contributors. Our license with Wikipedia is at
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
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Contact info | Contact form |
Actions | No action yet taken. |
URL | |
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Description | |
Sample | Print on demand books [21] |
Rating | Low |
Compliance | States "High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles!" and contains direct copy of the start of the article as a blurb, which is then published online (the creation of the book itself is a separate issue). No links to original article or authors. Claims to be published by VSD and/or authors Ronald Cohn and Jesse Russell, but the article content is still copyrighted. See also VDM Publishing. |
Contact info | None |
Actions |
URL | http://www.bookyards.com |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.bookyards.com/biography.html?author_id=2011&author_name=Janvier%2C%20Thomas%20A. |
Rating | None |
Compliance | No mention of GFDL; only mentions of Wikipedia are from copied cleanup notices; links back to original article are edit links only and not labelled |
Contact info | ? |
Actions | None yet |
*Link to local copy of the GFDL: yes (As of 2 Nov 2006
DES
(talk)). No longer true.
Superm401 |
Talk 06:14, 6 November 2005 (UTC)
Seems to be HIGH compliance, as far as I can see. DES (talk) 21:33, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
Example fails to produce meaningful content -- Rumping 16:43, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
URL | http://borgfind.com/ , http://albania.geeks.dnip.net/ |
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Description | |
Sample | http://albania.borgfind.com/ |
Rating | High |
Compliance | Articles end with "borgfind.com, 2005. This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Albania"" with links to local GFDL and to original article. Redirects from geeks.dnip.net, e.g. http://albania.geeks.dnip.net/ |
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Examples not loading Wikipedia content -- Rumping 16:44, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
Site: http://sthweb.bu.edu/shaw/anna-howard-shaw-center/biography?view=mediawiki&article=Main_Page
Site: http://sthweb.bu.edu/archives/index.php?option=com_awiki&view=mediawiki&article=Category:Spy_novels
Research requested. JesseW 22:23, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
URL | http://www.braindex.com/encyclopedia/mainpage.php |
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Description | |
Sample | http://braindex.com/encyclopedia/index.php/Ring_of_the_Fisherman |
Rating | Medium |
Compliance | Pages link to Wikipedia main page and offsite copy of the GFDL. There is no link to the original Wikipedia article or included history section. Pages display "© 2005 BrainDex LLC". |
Contact info | kevin AT braindex.com (whois), http://www.braindex.com/products/contact_us.php (site contact form), support AT iicinternet.com (host) |
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URL | http://www.brainyencyclopedia.com/ |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.brainyencyclopedia.com/encyclopedia/t/te/telectronics.html |
Rating | Low |
Compliance | Without JavaScript, no mention of Wikipedia or the GFDL. With Javascript, has notice that "The Wikipedia article included on this page is licensed under the GFDL" with link to Wikipedia main page and local copy of the GFDL. Is not clear what "the Wikipedia article" is. There is no link to the original Wikipedia article or included history section."
Home page gives 403 Forbidden as of 00:39, 29 July 2009 (UTC). |
Contact info | domain.names AT xplore.com (whois), service84 AT brainyquote.com (customer service email) |
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URL | http://www.brassbandinformation.co.uk |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.brassbandinformation.co.uk/brass-instruments.html
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Rating | Low/None |
Compliance | yes |
Contact info | Address info AT brassbandinformation.co.uk is mentioned. WHOIS says very little:
Registrant: Carl Wilkinson Registrant type: UK Individual Registrant's address: The registrant is a non-trading individual who has opted to have their address omitted from the WHOIS service. Registrar: GX Networks Ltd t/a 123-Reg.co.uk [Tag = 123-REG] URL: http://www.123-reg.co.uk |
Actions | none |
Looks like a parked domain advertising page at first sight. Filled with ads. No good purpose for existence. This, that and the other [ talk 06:41, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
URL | http://www.briswiki.com and |
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Description | |
Sample | http://briswiki.com/wiki/The_Myer_Centre from Myer Centre, Brisbane. |
Rating | Unrated |
Compliance | I believe that site is compliant. However I have only imported one article as above and request that someone more up to speed with this advise whether current efforts are acceptable. Thanks in advance Nicholas Perkins ( T• C) 14:38, 13 May 2008 (UTC) |
Contact info | supernicko AT gmail.com |
Actions |
URL | http://www.britain.tv/articles/publish/ and http://www.britain.tv/wikipedia.php |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.britain.tv/articles/publish/parliament_house_of_commons.shtml from British House of Commons and http://www.britain.tv/articles/publish/belly_dance_belly_dancing_music.shtml from Belly Dance and http://www.britain.tv/wikipedia.php?title=Philippines. |
Rating | Low/None |
Compliance | There are two separate groups of copied articles. Some of them are linked from http://www.britain.tv/articles/publish/. Examples of this include http://www.britain.tv/articles/publish/parliament_house_of_commons.shtml, http://www.britain.tv/articles/publish/belly_dance_belly_dancing_music.shtml, http://www.britain.tv/articles/publish/george_galloway_respect_member_parliament.shtml, http://www.britain.tv/articles/publish/regional_assembly_assemblies_england.shtml, http://www.britain.tv/articles/publish/york_city_minster_yorkshire_england.shtml. Not all of the articles in the "articles/publish" section are from Wikipedia, but violations are widespread, especially in certain categories (such as Cities and Towns). These now say "© Copyright Wikipedia - Under GNU Free License " right beneath the article, in addition to "All rights reserved. Material may not be copied or reprinted without written permission." which is at the very bottom of every page. They also still credit the submitter, such as "By Brian Fox" at the top, where Brian Fox is some disingenuous Britain.tv contributor.
A separate mirror has also been created. This is located at http://www.britain.tv/wikipedia.php. An example is http://www.britain.tv/wikipedia.php?title=Philippines. Articles in this section clearly note that Wikipedia is the source. They say "extracted from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia" with a link to the Wikipedia main page; Wikipedia also appears prominently elsewhere on the page. However, there is no link to Wikipedia or the GFDL, and "Copyright (c) 2006 Britain.tv All rights reserved" appears at the bottom in a graphic.
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Contact info | webmaster AT elite-media.co.uk |
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URL | http://www.breathittteens.com/research.php |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.breathittteens.com/research.php?title=Common_Raccoon |
Rating | Low |
Compliance | Another dynamic loader. Uses a dynamic loading script (
http://www.vacilando.org/index.php?x=7065) Links to Wikipedia Main Page, but claims that Wikipedia content is under a Creative Commons license. Not just any Creative Commons license, but a NonCommmercial license. Never mind that this is a commercial site with ads (see
http://breathittteens.com/vb/index.php).
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Contact info | BREATHITTTEENS.COM AT domainsbyproxy.com (private whois), DMCA AT liquidweb.com |
Actions |
URL | http://www.buddytv.com |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.buddytv.com/articles/so-you-think-you-can-dance/the-so-you-think-you-can-dance-31992.aspx |
Rating | "Low/None" |
Compliance | Almost completely copy and pasted from the Tabitha and Napoleon article here on wikipedia but not written verbatim. It's written in the author's own words but clearly all the information is taken from wikipedia with no attribution at all. It's even in the same arrangement (early life, career, directing, married life) but without the section headings. |
Contact info | email: vlado AT thracetech.com and andrewiliu AT yahoo.com phone number +1.2068594180 Full WhoIs summary here ISP: easydns.com |
Actions | None |
URL | http://www.buddytv.com/ |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.buddytv.com/info/tabitha-and-napoleon-info.aspx |
Rating | "Low/None" |
Compliance | Same as above. The "biography" section is taken from the Tabitha and Napoleon article here with no attribution. |
Contact info | email: vlado AT thracetech.com and andrewiliu AT yahoo.com phone number +1.2068594180 Full WhoIs summary here ISP: easydns.com |
Actions | None |
URL | http://bulgos.in/wp.php?page=en.wikipedia.org |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.bulgos.in/wp.php?page=en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdullah_of_Saudi_Arabia |
Rating | |
Compliance | exact copy except with banner at top |
Contact info | |
Actions |
URL | http://bvio.com/index.php/Main_Page |
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Description | |
Sample | http://bvio.com/index.php/Credit_card |
Rating | Low |
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Contact info | biopark AT kaist.ac.kr |
Actions |
URL |
http://books.google.com/books?id=t4YZUcjx6poC&printsec=frontcover
Calendar of historical events births holidays and observances is an e-book published by MobileReference for use on mobile devices. The URL links to Google books' incomplete copy. A complete copy has to be purchased from a commercial supplier. |
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Description | |
Sample | p.197 incorporates text from an earlier version of Wikipedia's article Scientology holidays. |
Rating | Medium, judging from the Google books copy. Precise degree of compliance is difficult to evaluate without buying a commercial copy |
Compliance |
The licensing information provided on the "back cover" acknowledges that material from Wikipedia has been used, and that this material is licensed under the GFDL, although it also wrongly implies that this material is also "public domain". However, it also asserts "all rights reserved" over the work as a whole, whereas the GFDL requires that the whole of any modification of a work licensed under it—which is what this is—must also be licensed under the same licence or a substantially similar version.
A copy of the GFDL licence doesn't appear to be included anywhere in the publication, as required by the terms of that licence, although a link to an on-line copy of the licence appears to be provided with the licensing information. The licensing information includes an apology for not listing all the authors of the Wikipedia material, and asserts that these can be seen "by following the hyperlink at the bottom of each article". As far as is possible to tell from the Google books copy, such links do appear regularly throughout the the publication, but it doesn't appear to be possible to use the Google books copy to check that these links work and do in fact point to the proper articles. |
Contact info | support@soundtells.com |
Actions | None as yet. |
URL | http://encyclopedia.stateuniversity.com |
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Description | |
Sample | http://encyclopedia.stateuniversity.com/pages/19270/Russian-Orthodox-Church.html |
Rating | "Low/None" compliance with GFDL |
Compliance | Articles state towards top that "Portions of the summary below have been contributed by Wikipedia." but fails to identify the readers rights nor link back to Wikipedia. As an example the sample URL contains content that is word-for-word identical to this diff [24] which I do not believe is WP:COPYVIO. The text at the bottom says that "Content on this website is from high-quality, licensed material originally published in print form. You can always be sure you're reading unbiased, factual, and accurate information." which is wrong as Wikipedia is not published originally in print form. |
Contact info | |
Actions | See entry listed under "S" [25] for actions. |
URL | http://www.campusempire.net |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.campusempire.net/school_index.php?school_id=342 |
Rating | "Low/None" |
Compliance | Copies a portion of the University of Oklahoma article with no mention of Wikipedia anywhere on the page. Has CampusEmpire.net copyright at the bottom. |
Contact info | admin AT campusempire.net |
Actions | Sent first GFDL notice (1/15/07).↔
NMajdan•
talk Sent followup notice (4/5/07).↔ NMajdan• talk 20:57, 5 April 2007 (UTC) |
URL | http://www.canbet.com |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.canbet.com/whatsnew/atlanta-falcons-history.aspx |
Rating | Medium |
Compliance | Uses sections of sports-related articles. GFDL notice with link to original article and offsite GFDL. |
Contact info | mail AT canbet.com, marketing AT canbet.com |
Actions | Sent
GFDL violation letter to contact on
April 4, 2006. --
JerryOrr 19:14, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
No response to email or change to the page in violation; sent follow-up GFDL violation letter on May 16, 2006. -- JerryOrr 16:17, 16 May 2006 (UTC) Received response to follow-up email on May 16, 2006 stating that they would resolve the problem -- JerryOrr 11:52, 17 May 2006 (UTC) |
URL | http://www.canineconcepts.co.uk/ccp51/cc/dog-training/dog-agility-training.shtml |
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Contact info | Patricia Hunter is owner, cannot find email or phone number of admin and ISP. Patricia's company's phone number (UK: 01608 73 83 77) is on their web site, along with snail-mail address. April 4, got response from info (at) canineconcepts (dot) co.uk, signed Peter Hunter. |
Actions | 01:46, 3 April 2006 (UTC), emailing standard letter from Wikipedia:Standard GFDL violation letter using GFDL letter for site that doesn't acknowldge WP (since compliance is so minimal). Used their form-based emailer since that seemed to be the only way to get them email. User:Elf . April 4, 2006: They revised this page and are in full compliance. Note: I have not checked their site for other wikipedia-source articles. User:Elf |
URL | http://www.canineconcepts.co.uk/dog-breed-directory |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.canineconcepts.co.uk/dog-breeds--Affenpinscher--Affenpinscher |
Rating | Low compliance but working on it (see above). |
Compliance | Has a note at the bottom of article (which includes photos from wikipedia), that says "courtesy of thefreedictionary" with a link to their main page. No GFDL, no link to the article ( dog agility), no clarification that both text & photos come from there--and they have their own copyright notice at the bottom of the page. (freedictionary is a wikipedia mirror) |
Contact info | info (at) canineconcepts (dot) co.uk, signed Peter Hunter. |
Actions | 4 April 2006 (UTC), sent nice email about breed articles in reponse to his fix of the agility article (above). User:Elf |
URL | http://www.caninecrib.com/dog/pictures/ |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.caninecrib.com/dog/pictures/bostonterrier/boston4.asp -- compare to Image:BostonTerrierBrindleStand_w.jpg) |
Rating | None |
Compliance | Doesn't give credit or link back to WP; claims copyright by prominently adding THEIR copyright directly onto each photo |
Contact info | caninecrib AT caninecrib.com, legal AT crystaltech.com (host DMCA) |
Actions |
Update: Just got this email (email address syntax edited by me): Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 09:19:47 -0700 Subject: re: invalid use of Wikipedia material on your site From: "CanineCrib" <caninecrib(at)caninecrib(dot)com> Apologise for the late reply. Photos were sent to me via the public. I will go through them and take them ones that are from wikipedia regards Chung |
LarsSanders 17:33, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
URL | http://www.caribbeanmd.com/ |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.caribbeanmd.com/?page_id=6 |
Rating | None |
Compliance | No attribution. Indicates "Copyright © 2008 CaribbeanMD". Only four pages found. |
Contact info | |
Actions |
URL | http://www.carloszambrano.com/ |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.carloszambrano.com/ |
Rating | None. |
Compliance | Verbatim copy of Carlos Zambrano article introduction, without mention of GFDL or Wikipedia. |
Contact info | frontoffice AT gmail.com |
Actions | Sent standard violation letter to frontoffice AT gmail.com. Superm401 - Talk 00:12, 7 January 2007 (UTC) |
URL | http://www.celebritygenius.com/ |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.celebritygenius.com/Nikki-Cox/biography.html?title=Ryan_White |
Rating | Low |
Compliance | Includes link back to en.wp root page (no path) but not to the original article. makes no mention of GFDL; has no attribution/history. copyright claimed in footer: "Celebrity Genius © Copyright 2006 - 2008" |
Contact info | E-mail, phone number of admin and ISP. |
Actions | None so far Jeremyb ( talk) 05:35, 17 August 2008 (UTC) |
URL | http://celebrityspy.org/indepth/PageName |
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Description | |
Sample | http://celebrityspy.org/indepth/California |
Rating | Low/None |
Compliance | No mention of Wikipedia or GFDL. Pages copied verbatim from Wikipedia. |
Contact info | No contact details listed on site. Whois lists contact as Ian Hawkins of AcornSearch, ian AT acornsearch.com, with a UK postal address & mobile phone number. Webhost appears to be Easynet, who publish an abuse contact email on their website & in whois. |
Actions |
Standard letter emailed to whois contact at 23:23, 2 September 2007 (UTC) by
User:AJR. Awaiting response.
404 Page not found -- Rumping 17:09, 23 September 2007 (UTC) |
URL | http://www.celebroad.com/ |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.celebroad.com/people/christi-shake |
Rating | None |
Compliance | There is no mention of the information coming from Wikipedia at all |
Contact info | Can't find a contact address. Maybe webmaster AT celebroad.com would work? |
Actions | none taken, I don't understand all the red tape that encompasses Fair Use images so I'm not even going to try contacting anyone off site. |
URL | https://www.celebsagewiki.com |
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Description | Changes article format into timeline, possibly with some LLM or templated text on each of their articles. |
Sample | https://www.celebsagewiki.com/kauko-kangasniemi |
Rating | None |
Compliance | © 2020 Celebrity Wiki at bottom of every page, unable to find attribution or anything linking to Wikipedia
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Contact info | contact link at bottom of page with organizational email adress |
Actions |
URL | https://www.celebyolo.com/ |
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Description | Repackages the first lines of Wikipedia articles about celebrities and their photos, adds a gallery of photos from random non-attributed sources. |
Sample | https://www.celebyolo.com/celebs/abbie-cornish |
Rating | None |
Compliance | No copyright information whatsoever, links back to the English Wikipedia article with a sentence like "Read More about Natasha Bedingfield on Wikipedia". |
Contact info | No contact information but celebyolo@gmail.com |
Actions |
URL | http://www.championsukplc.com/after-dinner-speaking/ |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.championsukplc.com/after-dinner-speaking/speaker_details.cfm?speakerID=530 |
Rating | |
Compliance | No mention of Wikipedia/GFDL. Seems to copy text directly from biographical articles. |
Contact info | |
Actions |
URL | http://www.chatrium.com |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.chatrium.com/destination.php |
Rating | |
Compliance | no mention of GFDL or Wikipedia, no backlink, claims own copyright |
Contact info | |
Actions |
URL | http://www.chemeurope.com |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.chemeurope.com/lexikon/e/Nanoscale_iron_particles |
Rating | |
Compliance | Gives both local copy of GFDL and Wikipedia backlink |
Contact info | |
Actions |
Identical website at http://www.chemie.de.
Example url: http://mp3player.chesnutz.info/dir11/mp3-player-compact-flash.html
I don't know what the term for this is, but it's basically link spam, they try to attract every search engine match possible to their link pages. That particular page rips off content from Limb darkening. There are lots more on that group of sites. No wikipedia credit or gfdl mention whatsoever. Actually the several that I looked at all use Sun-related snippets. Weird.
(article about Howard Staunton)
URL | http://www.christiansontheleft.org.uk/everyday_violence |
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Description | |
Sample | URL |
Rating | "High" compliance with CC-BY-SA (matches Wikipedia:CC-BY-SA Compliance) (compare against GFDL if they choose that license). |
Compliance | In sharing information about IJM's work, Christians on the Left Web site used some of IJM's own language, descriptions and case studies to best describe what IJM does. |
Contact info | E-mails, phone numbers, contact form URLs, etc. of admin and ISP. |
Actions | IJM will contact Christians on the Left to ask to reference material/Wikipedia. |
URL | http://www.citizendia.org/ |
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Description | \ |
Sample | Academy Award |
Rating | Uncertain |
Compliance | Partial. Copyright notice in page footer includes "parts available under the terms of GNU Free Documentation License, from http://en.wikipedia.org" |
Contact info | Unknown |
Actions | None yet |
URL | http://www.citizendium.org |
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Description | |
Sample | Ellipse |
Rating | N/A |
Compliance | Partial. Some articles credit Wikipedia, some do not |
Contact info | admin AT citizendium.org |
Actions | At 14/07/2009 I sent the standard letter about the article
Chess.
SyG At 25/07/2009 I sent a follow-up letter. SyG At 27/07/2009 I received a letter from "constables@citizendium.org" saying they had started a discussion on their forum at http://forum.citizendium.org/index.php/topic,2787.15/topicseen.html and they added a mention on Wikipedia on their "Chess" article. SyG At 01/08/2009 I checked that the link to WP was in their "Chess" article indeed, and I sent a reply saying thank you (among other things). SyG |
Geni 01:19, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
URL | http://www.citymayors.com/ |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.citymayors.com/mayors/denver_mayor.html (city description is the lead to the article Denver, Colorado) |
Rating | Low |
Compliance | No mention of GFDL. Site claims copyright to material from Wikipedia. |
Contact info | info AT citymayors.com, telephone: +44.20.8209.1722. |
Actions |
See Wikipedia:Mirrors_and_forks/Mno#Otherground
URL | http://www.classictvhits.com |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.classictvhits.com/network.php?id=15 |
Rating | Medium to Low |
Compliance | In very small print: "(Source: wikipedia.org)" The text "wikipedia.org" links to www.wikipedia.org. Does same thing for some pages taken from IMDb. No mention of GFDL. Claims copyright at bottom of page. On its "disclaimer" page, it quotes U.S. copyright law on fair use. |
Contact info | Admin: webmaster AT classictvhits.com 978-886-2357 ISP: domains AT ev1servers.net 713-333-7873 |
Actions | none so far |
This Pot Smoker of the Month is in significant parts a copyvio of Wikipedia's article on Melissa Etheridge
URL | http://www.clearups.com/ |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.clearups.com/af.html |
Rating | "Low/None" |
Compliance | [32] "Content is for general informational purposes only and any copyrighted materials with be removed immediately if requested by the rightful copyright owners." |
Contact info | admin AT clearups.com |
Actions |
URL | http://www.clickabove.com/ |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.clickabove.com/wm.html |
Rating | Low/None |
Compliance | Completely copies Wikipedia article without logging the changes or giving credit to Wikipedia. |
Contact info | jeff AT uci.net |
Actions | none |
URL | http://clubblogs.com/ |
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Description | |
Sample | http://clubblogs.com/train |
Rating | "Low/None" compliance with GFDL (matches Wikipedia:GFDL Compliance). |
Compliance | mirror of wikipedia without any comment |
Contact info | |
Actions | none |
URL | http://wiki.clusty.com |
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Description | |
Sample | http://clusty.com/search?v%3Aproject=clusty-encyclopedia&query=dog |
Rating | High |
Compliance | All uses are accompanied by a GFDL notice, link to the original article, and mention of Wikipedia as the source. This is a search engine with a mirror of Wikipedia's Main Page. Searches show abstracts from Wikipedia. The front page (http://wiki.clusty.com/) is a direct copy of Main Page. License notices state, "Results from Wikipedia are licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License." The GFDL is linked to Wikipedia:Text of the GNU Free Documentation License. However, there is a copyright notice stating "© 2004-2006 Vivísimo, Inc. Clusty is created entirely with Vivísimo Velocity." The use of the Wikipedia logo is specifically authorized by the Wikimedia Foundation (by way of Jimbo Wales). |
Contact info | arment AT vivisimo.com |
Actions |
Talk 01:34, 20 January 2006 (UTC) |
URL | http://www.codabooks.co.uk/ |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B005FMRWO0/ref=s9_simh_gw_p351_d0_g351_i1?pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=0J48C8NBQF7Y8QX0328E&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=467128533&pf_rd_i=468294 |
Rating | Low/None |
Compliance | Book's copyright page mentions Wikimedia Commons as the source of the images, but there is no mention of the GFDL. The text is clearly stolen from a variety of articles related to Manchester United F.C. but no mention of Wikipedia is made. |
Contact info | info@codabooks.com |
Actions | I attempted to email the company using the email address on their website, but I immediately received a failed email notice. I have also submitted a copyright (or copyleft) infringement notice to Amazon. |
Research requested. JesseW 22:16, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
URL | http://wikipedia.cognition.com/ |
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Description | |
Sample | http://wikipedia.cognition.com/?num=10&from_val=1&to_val=10&f=simple&d=wikipedia1,wikipedia2,wikipedia3,wikipedia4,wikipedia5,wikipedia6,wikipedia7,wikipedia8&win=0&sf=524418&fld=-1&search=beat%20a%20drum%20in%20combo&Submit=Search&window=0&positional=1 |
Rating | ""Low/None" compliance with GFDL |
Compliance | Absolutely false copyright claim on Wikipedia data, inappropriate usage of Wikipedia Trademark as logo
http://wikipedia.cognition.com/info/tos.html Ownership of Materials Materials are copyrighted and are protected by worldwide copyright laws and treaty provisions. They may not be copied, reproduced, modified, published, uploaded, posted, transmitted, or distributed in any way, without Cognition Technologies' prior written permission. |
Contact info | http://whois.domaintools.com/cognition.com ljkutcher@earthlink.net |
Actions | Website warned from the web fonm. |
URL | http://www.collectionagencysupport.com/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1 |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.collectionagencysupport.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=22&Itemid=32 |
Rating | Low/None |
Compliance | Copy of Collection agency on various pages including the sample above. The author even kept in the Wiki markup. |
Contact info | Owner/Admin: bobur2002 AT hotmail.com, 302-345-1634
ISP: abuse AT site5.com, 888-748-3526 Owner/Admin Address: Bob Kurbanov, 309 Waters Edge Drive, Newark 19702 |
Actions | none |
URL | http://www.colombialink.com/01_INDEX/index_finanzas_eng.html |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.colombialink.com/01_INDEX/index_finanzas_eng/arrow_impossibility.html |
Rating | Medium |
Compliance | GFDL notice with mention of Wikipedia and local link to the GFDL on all economics page copied. However, every page links to our list of economics topics rather than the particular page copied. |
Contact info | duran AT colombialink.com, sales AT ifxcorp.com (host) |
Actions |
URL | http://www.comedy-zone.net |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.comedy-zone.net/standup/comedian/s/stephenson-pamela.htm |
Rating | Low/none |
Compliance | Site features numerous comedian profiles; all four I checked were cut-and-pasted from Wikipedia articles with minor editing. Pamela Stephenson article includes material written by me. Comedy Zone notices claim copyright to site content, no mention of Wikipedia, GFDL, or link to source. I checked |
Contact info | ray.chapman AT comedy-zone.net (registrant whois), hostmaster AT POSITIVE-INTERNET.COM (technical whois), good AT positive-internet.com (host email listed on their site) |
Actions |
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Still non-compliant more than a year later, http://www.comedy-zone.net/standup/comedian/s/smirnoff-yakov.htm does make it appear that in Soviet Russia, copyright violates YOU!! -- carlb ( talk) 17:41, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
URL | http://www.compwisdom.com |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.compwisdom.com/topics/BSD |
Rating | Low/None |
Compliance | Some entries credit Wikipedia. Most don't. Some attribute material to unrelated other Wikipedia mirrors. (e.g., WordIQ.) |
Contact info | contact page |
Actions | None. |
URL | http://books.google.com/books?id=9dNOT9iYxcMC (at Google Books) |
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Description | |
Sample | http://books.google.com/books?id=9dNOT9iYxcMC&lpg=PA1104&pg=PA1104#v=onepage&q&f=false (at Google Books). This was questioned as a source for Etymology of Assam at WP:RS/N. |
Rating | Low/None |
Compliance | Note that this is a book, not a website. I don't see any credit given to (nor any other mention of) Wikipedia. Publisher claims "All Rights Reserved." |
Contact info | www.atlanticbooks.com, info@atlanticbooks.com (as given in the book) |
Actions | None. |
URL | http://encyc.connectonline.com/ |
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Description | |
Sample | http://encyc.connectonline.com/index.php/Tonga |
Rating | Medium |
Compliance | Notes that material ("information" as the site says) is from Wikipedia, with link to original article and main page (at top and bottom of article respectively) and links to local copy of the GFDL. Specifically disclaims copyright of Wikipedia material in copyright section (with another local link to the GFDL). Authors and dates are not listed. |
Contact info | jrutherfordmd AT hotmail.com (whois), support AT oar.net (host) |
Actions |
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URL | http://www.consumersresearchcncl.org |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.consumersresearchcncl.org/Healthcare/Dermatologists/derma_chapter1.html (compare [33], which shows page was put together on wiki slowly) |
Rating | "Low/None" |
Compliance | Poor compliance: "Copyright © Consumers' Research Council of America. All rights reserved. " |
Contact info | See [34], [35] |
Actions | none yet |
URL | http://www.cookingvinyl.com/ |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.cookingvinyl.com/artist_info.php?id=26#albdesc |
Rating | None |
Compliance | Uses text directly from Billy Bragg with no acknowledgement of source |
Contact info | Tel: +44 (0)20 8600 9200 Fax: +44 (0)20 8743 7448 |
Actions | None yet |
URL | http://www.cooldictionary.com/ |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.cooldictionary.com/words/Main_Page.wikipedia |
Rating | Medium |
Compliance | Like #Algebra.com, it looks like a nearly complete copy of Wikipedia from May 18. Links to the corresponding Wikipedia articles and notes that each article is licensed under the GFDL at the bottom of each page. However, it appears to be dynamically fetched, which is a major drain on Wikipedia resources. See for instance http://www.cooldictionary.com/words/Portal:Current%20events.wikipedia. |
Contact info | |
Actions | Notified wikitech-l about dynamic loading. Superm401 - Talk 01:53, 3 January 2007 (UTC) |
URL | http://creekin.net/ |
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Description | |
Sample | http://creekin.net/c5157-n125-western-sahara-morocco.html |
Rating | Low |
Compliance |
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Contact info |
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Actions | Asked for DMCA takedown notices at Portal talk:Geography. Superm401 - Talk 00:50, 7 January 2007 (UTC) |
URL | http://www.cricketupdates.org |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.cricketupdates.org/cricket-bowling-machine.html |
Rating | Low/None |
Compliance | The above sample is a slightly amended and shortened version of the Wikipedia article Bowling machine. No mention is made of GFDL or Wikipedia. I found two other examples: [36], a significant portion of which is lifted, with only minor re-wording, from Hawk-Eye and [37], which consists of a few extracts from Hot Spot (cricket). These pages aren't complete copies of whole articles, but they are clearly derived from them and consist mainly of shortened and slightly modified extracts. At the foot of every page it says "This blog copyright � 2008 Cricket Updates. All Rights Reserved" |
Contact info | admin AT cricketupdates.org (from WHOIS) |
Actions | Sent an E-mail 8 May 2009 |
URL | http://www.crystalinks.com/ |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.crystalinks.com/chupacabras.html |
Rating | Medium |
Compliance | Uses content from Chupacabra. No mention of Wikipedia or GFDL, claims copyright on front page. Links to Answers.com copy of article. |
Contact info | http://www.crystalinks.com/email.html WHOIS: ecrystal AT nyc.rr.com, 10031 4th Avenue Apt 6A, Brooklyn, NY 11209, US, Phone: (718) 833-4264 |
Actions |
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URL | http://www.cuil.com/ |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.cuil.com/search?q=dublin&sl=long&m=Dublin%20Ireland |
Rating | Medium |
Compliance | Uses wikipedia categorisation & article content for tooltips and search organisiation |
Contact info | |
Actions |
URL | http://www.culturecentric.com/ |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.culturecentric.com/Language-A/affricate_consonant.php |
Rating | None |
Compliance | No mention of Wikipedia or the GFDL. Page says "© CultureCentric.com. All Rights Reserved" |
Contact info | I can't find any contact information. |
Actions | None yet. — An gr 19:30, 16 October 2006 (UTC) |
URL | http://cunnan.sca.org.au/wiki/Main_Page |
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Description | |
Sample | http://cunnan.sca.org.au/wiki/SCA |
Rating | Low |
Compliance | Links to local copy of GFDL (under the text "legal small-print"). Articles do not mention Wikipedia. |
Contact info | Webmaster: Delbert von Straßburg (del AT sca.org.au); ISP: Babel Com Australia ( http://www.babel.com.au) |
Actions | None |
URL | http://www.cured.com/ |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.cured.com/drug-index/Aripiprazole/ |
Rating | "None" |
Compliance | no mention of wikipedia or gfdl. LeadSongDog come howl! 15:41, 26 August 2014 (UTC) |
Contact info | whois masked by Godaddy and Domains By Proxy |
Actions |
URL | http://cutewalls.com/ |
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Description | |
Sample | http://cutewalls.com/a-to-f/anne-hathaway.html |
Rating | "None" |
Compliance | no mention of wikipedia or gfdl. Patstuart talk· edits 08:01, 25 March 2007 (UTC) |
Contact info | 9a30232f81f94adab722fcb45955739e.protect AT whoisguard.com (yes, this is correct), Phone:6613102107. |
Actions |
URL | http://cyberpedia.net/ |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.cyberpedia.net/info.php?title=Immune_system |
Rating | Medium |
Compliance | Mentions wikipedia, links to original article. Mentions gfdl, links to the GNU project site |
Contact info | |
Actions | none |
URL | http://www.cyclechaos.com/ |
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Description | |
Sample | http://www.cyclechaos.com/wiki/Cruiser |
Rating | Low/None |
Compliance | No apparent GFDL, no article history, no credit to Wikipedia. |
Contact info | cyclechaos.com AT proxy.dreamhost.com cyclechaos.com Private Registrant |
Actions | Actions taken (if any) to attempt to make the website comply. |