This is a page I thought would be useful for
Contributor copyright investigations contributors, and will make work easier there. Here, I rank the CCI's by their attributes. If you want to help out at CCI, please read
User:Moneytrees/Money's guide to CCI. These are listed in descending order of challenge. Before editing CCIs, always read the background information that comes with them. For 2011 CCI's, a more detailed page can be found at
User:Wizardman/2011 CCI sort. For bot maintained statistics, see
Firefly's bot.
For presumptive deletions/removals:
{{subst:copyvio|url=Presumptive deletion over copyright concerns, please see: [[Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/INSERTNAME]]}}
[[WP:PDEL|Presumptive removal]] over copyright concerns, please see: [[Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/INSERTNAME]]
Like the section title says, these Contributors would copy from books. Since 99% of these can't be found by earwig, are not online or are very hard to find online, presumptive removal is usually necessary. Some users may have copies of the sources.
These contributors would copy text from paywalled sources, such as journals or news sites. Earwig works on most mainstream news sites, but won't work on most journals.
If a file is suspicious, nominate it for deletion here, citing the CCI as a reason. If it was uploaded on commons, nominate it for deletion there and cite the CCI as rational for deletion. If you have any questions, ask away at
Wikipedia:Media copyright questions.
Public domain/free license/copying within Wikipedia CCIs
Usually the easiest CCIs, where the contributor copied from not copyrighted sources, but neglected to provide attribution. In wiki copies require
attribution on the talk page, while pd/free license stuff requires a template in the ref.
These CCIs either cover too many different styles of copying to be placed into one section, ot are weird and don't fall into the categories others do. I'll provide notes to give a general idea of what they consist of.
This is a page I thought would be useful for
Contributor copyright investigations contributors, and will make work easier there. Here, I rank the CCI's by their attributes. If you want to help out at CCI, please read
User:Moneytrees/Money's guide to CCI. These are listed in descending order of challenge. Before editing CCIs, always read the background information that comes with them. For 2011 CCI's, a more detailed page can be found at
User:Wizardman/2011 CCI sort. For bot maintained statistics, see
Firefly's bot.
For presumptive deletions/removals:
{{subst:copyvio|url=Presumptive deletion over copyright concerns, please see: [[Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/INSERTNAME]]}}
[[WP:PDEL|Presumptive removal]] over copyright concerns, please see: [[Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/INSERTNAME]]
Like the section title says, these Contributors would copy from books. Since 99% of these can't be found by earwig, are not online or are very hard to find online, presumptive removal is usually necessary. Some users may have copies of the sources.
These contributors would copy text from paywalled sources, such as journals or news sites. Earwig works on most mainstream news sites, but won't work on most journals.
If a file is suspicious, nominate it for deletion here, citing the CCI as a reason. If it was uploaded on commons, nominate it for deletion there and cite the CCI as rational for deletion. If you have any questions, ask away at
Wikipedia:Media copyright questions.
Public domain/free license/copying within Wikipedia CCIs
Usually the easiest CCIs, where the contributor copied from not copyrighted sources, but neglected to provide attribution. In wiki copies require
attribution on the talk page, while pd/free license stuff requires a template in the ref.
These CCIs either cover too many different styles of copying to be placed into one section, ot are weird and don't fall into the categories others do. I'll provide notes to give a general idea of what they consist of.