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This is an investigation of the contributions of a long-term, very prolific editor ( User:Darius Dhlomo, or "DD") who is currently blocked indefinitely. In approximately 4 years and 164,000 edits, DD created almost 10,000 articles and made non-minor contributions to over 13,000 more. Unfortunately, a large number of his contributions appear to contain text copied from other sources. All 23,000+ of these articles are now under investigation, with Uncle G's major work 'bot about to blank the articles DD created, for manual review by the editing community. A follow-on bot operation is under discussion to revert each of the other 13,000 articles to the revision just prior to DD's first nontrivial addition to that article.
The articles are almost entirely about athletes and sporting events, loaded with names and event results and the like. Quite a few, like Rishat Shafikov, have essentially no text and (by Wikipedia's understanding) no copyright problems since they contain only factual data. However, any nontrivial amount of continuous text ever inserted by DD into any article is considered suspect at this point. For more info, see the "scale of the problem" section of the ANI discussion. You can also participate at that page in more general discussion about how to deal with the incident.
Note: we don't have any particular reason to think that DD infringed copyrights on purpose. He instead seemed to have a poor understanding of WP's copyright policy and what constitutes unacceptable copying.
This list, created by VernoWhitney ( talk · contribs), includes the 23,000+ articles which need review. Uncle G's major work 'bot ( talk · contribs) is going to blank the first subset, placing this notice on them, whilst retaining the categories and interwiki links (and ensuring that the blanked pages do not show up on short page lists). See here for more on that and here for the 'bot discussion.
Instructions for editors on how to help are linked to from the notice on the blanked article and are what editors will find if they come across a blanked article.
Note: User:Boissière has been experimenting with some approaches for coarse mechanical separation of articles that contain sizeable blocks of text from those that don't, [1] which may make spotting large vios easier, but human review will still be needed.
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All contributors with no history of copyright problems are welcome to contribute to clean up.
If contributors have been shown to have a history of extensive copyright violation, it may be assumed without further evidence that all of their major contributions are copyright violations, and they may be removed indiscriminately in accordance with Wikipedia:Copyright violations. However, to avoid collateral damage, efforts should be made when possible to verify infringement before removal.
When every section is completed, please alter the listing for this CCI at Wikipedia:CCI#Open_investigations to include the tag "completed=yes". This will alert a clerk that the listing needs to be archived.
{{CCI-open|Contributor name|Day Month Year|completed=yes}}
If you're interested primarily in articles from a specific category (e.g. Volleyball players), you might try a category intersection tool like CATSCAN to locate articles in your category of interest that have been blanked by the bot. Articles blanked by the bot are in Category:Articles tagged for CCI copyright problems, so you'll want to intersect that category with your category.
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, linking to the investigation subpage in the url parameter. List the article as instructed at the copyright problems board, but you do not need to notify the contributor. Your note on the CCI investigation page serves that purpose.{{subst:copyvio|url=see talk}}
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CCI pages | |
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CCI case main page 'bot task explanation how to help 'bot approval discussion cleanup discussion changes to the 10,000 articles | |
Policy | |
Copyright policy | |
On this page | |
This is an investigation of the contributions of a long-term, very prolific editor ( User:Darius Dhlomo, or "DD") who is currently blocked indefinitely. In approximately 4 years and 164,000 edits, DD created almost 10,000 articles and made non-minor contributions to over 13,000 more. Unfortunately, a large number of his contributions appear to contain text copied from other sources. All 23,000+ of these articles are now under investigation, with Uncle G's major work 'bot about to blank the articles DD created, for manual review by the editing community. A follow-on bot operation is under discussion to revert each of the other 13,000 articles to the revision just prior to DD's first nontrivial addition to that article.
The articles are almost entirely about athletes and sporting events, loaded with names and event results and the like. Quite a few, like Rishat Shafikov, have essentially no text and (by Wikipedia's understanding) no copyright problems since they contain only factual data. However, any nontrivial amount of continuous text ever inserted by DD into any article is considered suspect at this point. For more info, see the "scale of the problem" section of the ANI discussion. You can also participate at that page in more general discussion about how to deal with the incident.
Note: we don't have any particular reason to think that DD infringed copyrights on purpose. He instead seemed to have a poor understanding of WP's copyright policy and what constitutes unacceptable copying.
This list, created by VernoWhitney ( talk · contribs), includes the 23,000+ articles which need review. Uncle G's major work 'bot ( talk · contribs) is going to blank the first subset, placing this notice on them, whilst retaining the categories and interwiki links (and ensuring that the blanked pages do not show up on short page lists). See here for more on that and here for the 'bot discussion.
Instructions for editors on how to help are linked to from the notice on the blanked article and are what editors will find if they come across a blanked article.
Note: User:Boissière has been experimenting with some approaches for coarse mechanical separation of articles that contain sizeable blocks of text from those that don't, [1] which may make spotting large vios easier, but human review will still be needed.
Extended content
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All contributors with no history of copyright problems are welcome to contribute to clean up.
If contributors have been shown to have a history of extensive copyright violation, it may be assumed without further evidence that all of their major contributions are copyright violations, and they may be removed indiscriminately in accordance with Wikipedia:Copyright violations. However, to avoid collateral damage, efforts should be made when possible to verify infringement before removal.
When every section is completed, please alter the listing for this CCI at Wikipedia:CCI#Open_investigations to include the tag "completed=yes". This will alert a clerk that the listing needs to be archived.
{{CCI-open|Contributor name|Day Month Year|completed=yes}}
If you're interested primarily in articles from a specific category (e.g. Volleyball players), you might try a category intersection tool like CATSCAN to locate articles in your category of interest that have been blanked by the bot. Articles blanked by the bot are in Category:Articles tagged for CCI copyright problems, so you'll want to intersect that category with your category.
{{
subst:CCI|name=Darius Dhlomo}}
on the article's talk page.{{
subst:cclean}}
on the article's talk page. The url parameter may be optionally used to indicate source.{{
subst:copyvio}}
, linking to the investigation subpage in the url parameter. List the article as instructed at the copyright problems board, but you do not need to notify the contributor. Your note on the CCI investigation page serves that purpose.{{subst:copyvio|url=see talk}}
on the article's face and {{
subst:CCId|name=Darius Dhlomo}}
on the article's talk page. List the article as instructed at the copyright problems board, but you do not need to notify the contributor.