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Contributor copyright investigation
This
CCI cleanup subpage has been opened because concerns of multiple point infringement have been substantiated and further steps are necessary to address the serious risk of
copyright violation from the listed contributor. Listings are not intended to imply a presumption of bad faith on the part of any contributor, as copyright laws vary widely around the world and many contributors who violate
Wikipedia's copyrights policy do so inadvertently through not understanding it or the United States' laws that govern it.
If you are here because of a note on an article's talk page explaining removal of text, please do not restore any removed text without first ensuring that the text does not duplicate, closely paraphrase or plagiarize from a previously published source. You are welcome to use sourced facts that may have been removed to create new content in your own words or to incorporate brief quotations of copyrighted material in accordance with
the non-free content policy and guideline.
Instructions
All contributors with no history of copyright problems are welcome to contribute to clean up. Contributors who are the subject of a contributor copyright investigation are among contributors with a history of copyright problems and so are not welcome to directly evaluate their own or others' copyright violations in CCIs. They are welcome to assist with rewriting any problems identified.
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. Contributors who are the subject of a contributor copyright investigation are among contributors who have been shown to have a history of extensive copyright violation and so all of the below listed contributions may be removed indiscriminately. 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.
If the contributor has added creative content, either evaluate it carefully for copyright concerns or remove it.
Evaluating for copyright concerns may include checking the listed sources, spot-checking using google, google books and other search engines and looking for major differences in writing style. The background may give some indication of the kinds of copyright concerns that have been previously detected. For older text, mirrors of Wikipedia content may make determining which came first difficult. It may be helpful to look for significant changes to the text after it was entered. Searching for the earlier form of text can help eliminate later mirrors. If you cannot determine which came first, text should be removed presumptively, since there is an established history of copying with the editor in question.
If you remove text presumptively, place {{
subst:CCI|name=Contributor name}} on the article's talk page.
If you specifically locate infringement and remove it (or revert to a previous clean version), place {{
subst:cclean}} on the article's talk page. The url parameter may be optionally used to indicate source.
If there is insufficient creative content on the page for it to survive the removal of the text or it is impossible to extricate from subsequent improvements, replace it with {{
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.
To tag an article created by the contributor for presumptive deletion, place {{subst:copyvio|url=see talk}} on the article's face and {{
subst:CCId|name=Contributor name}} 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.
After examining an article:
replace the diffs after the colon on the listing with indication of whether a problem was found (add {{
y}}) or not (add {{
n}}). If the article is blanked and may be deleted, please indicate as much after the {{
y}}. The {{
?}} template may be used for articles where you were unable to determine whether or not a violation occurred, but are prepared to remove the article from consideration – either because the material is no longer present in the article, or it is adequately paraphrased so as to no longer be a violation (please specify which).
Follow with your username and the time to indicate to others that the article has been evaluated and appropriately addressed. This is automatically generated by four tildes (~~~~)
If a section is complete, consider collapsing it by placing {{
collapse top}} and {{
collapse bottom}} beneath the section header and after the final listing.
Images
Examine the images below. For free images:
Does the image look non-free? Is it likely the uploader is the copyright holder?
Is the image properly licensed and sourced? Be aware of images that say "this image is licensed under X" without specifying who created it.
Do a reverse image search using
Google Images. Check the license of the source page. Compare the last modified time with the (Commons) upload time.
Do a Google image search for phrases that describe the image's contents.
Note that Commons does not accept non-free content.
Annotate the listing with the action taken, e.g. if the image was tagged no source write "no source"; if the fair use claim is deemed ok you can write "OK fair use".
Editor was blocked in July 2017 (indef) for copyvios, unblocked a few days later, but now again blocked indef for coyvios by me as she either doesn't understand copyright vs. public domain, or doesn't care. New copyvios were found in
Allanah Harper,
Hugh Armigel Wade,
Valerie Violet French,
Emily Woodruff (philantropist). Also copyvio pictures on Commons.
Fram (
talk) 15:29, 31 January 2018 (UTC)reply
Note that there are at least three types of problems (plus some incorrect uploads at Commons, which is out of scope here): text copied which is tagged by her as "public domain" but isn't; text copied where the source is not tagged as public domain (rarer, mainly in older articles); and text translated from another language wikipedia article (e.g. German) without any indication of this fact.
Fram (
talk) 14:57, 20 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Note: Any sources from The Washington Sketch Book might require PD-Notice as there's unattributed PD copying. However, PD-Notice is only required if there's any copying. Also, the book has a supplement section, so the content might be from there such as the edit at
Thomas Brackett Reed. Any source tagged PD-notice needs to be confirmed it's PD.
United States and
United Kingdom copyright lengths are ones that need to be consulted. For example: The Book Of Beauty (1933) is not PD in the United States or United Kingdom per
Commons. Wikipedia requires the source to be PD in the United States in order to allow PD copying. --
MrLinkinPark333 (
talk) 01:47, 1 November 2021 (UTC)reply
Note: Think we need to check image uploads as well, as 3 pictures initially at
Abby Hutchinson Patton do not have exact sources for verification. --
MrLinkinPark333 (
talk) 15:20, 5 February 2022 (UTC)reply
Found unattributed PD copying from Woman's Who's who of America (1914) at
Nancy A. Leatherwood. While it links to a republished version, the 1914 copy has the same text, so the link can be swapped and add PD-notice. --
MrLinkinPark333 (
talk) 02:04, 23 October 2022 (UTC)reply
NCaroline G. Thummel (1 edit): N Lengthy quotations from a book published in 1914 to which attribution is given.
Cwmhiraeth (
talk) 10:28, 17 April 2018 (UTC)reply
Text is attributed. However, pictures are not cited to a correct source. Leaving this edit unchecked until picture source is found. --
MrLinkinPark333 (
talk) 02:37, 27 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Added PD-notice. There's a bit of unreferenced content, so I'm not fully checking it off yet. --
MrLinkinPark333 (
talk) 20:56, 31 October 2021 (UTC)reply
Not fully checked. Replaced source with PD version and added notice to fix unattributed PD copying. --
MrLinkinPark333 (
talk) 02:26, 5 March 2023 (UTC)reply
David B. Henderson (1 edit): Y Add PD notice for unattributed copy. Not checking off as I can't find the added photo in the source. --
MrLinkinPark333 (
talk) 04:48, 24 February 2023 (UTC)reply
This page has been removed from search engines' indexes.
Contributor copyright investigation
This
CCI cleanup subpage has been opened because concerns of multiple point infringement have been substantiated and further steps are necessary to address the serious risk of
copyright violation from the listed contributor. Listings are not intended to imply a presumption of bad faith on the part of any contributor, as copyright laws vary widely around the world and many contributors who violate
Wikipedia's copyrights policy do so inadvertently through not understanding it or the United States' laws that govern it.
If you are here because of a note on an article's talk page explaining removal of text, please do not restore any removed text without first ensuring that the text does not duplicate, closely paraphrase or plagiarize from a previously published source. You are welcome to use sourced facts that may have been removed to create new content in your own words or to incorporate brief quotations of copyrighted material in accordance with
the non-free content policy and guideline.
Instructions
All contributors with no history of copyright problems are welcome to contribute to clean up. Contributors who are the subject of a contributor copyright investigation are among contributors with a history of copyright problems and so are not welcome to directly evaluate their own or others' copyright violations in CCIs. They are welcome to assist with rewriting any problems identified.
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. Contributors who are the subject of a contributor copyright investigation are among contributors who have been shown to have a history of extensive copyright violation and so all of the below listed contributions may be removed indiscriminately. 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.
If the contributor has added creative content, either evaluate it carefully for copyright concerns or remove it.
Evaluating for copyright concerns may include checking the listed sources, spot-checking using google, google books and other search engines and looking for major differences in writing style. The background may give some indication of the kinds of copyright concerns that have been previously detected. For older text, mirrors of Wikipedia content may make determining which came first difficult. It may be helpful to look for significant changes to the text after it was entered. Searching for the earlier form of text can help eliminate later mirrors. If you cannot determine which came first, text should be removed presumptively, since there is an established history of copying with the editor in question.
If you remove text presumptively, place {{
subst:CCI|name=Contributor name}} on the article's talk page.
If you specifically locate infringement and remove it (or revert to a previous clean version), place {{
subst:cclean}} on the article's talk page. The url parameter may be optionally used to indicate source.
If there is insufficient creative content on the page for it to survive the removal of the text or it is impossible to extricate from subsequent improvements, replace it with {{
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.
To tag an article created by the contributor for presumptive deletion, place {{subst:copyvio|url=see talk}} on the article's face and {{
subst:CCId|name=Contributor name}} 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.
After examining an article:
replace the diffs after the colon on the listing with indication of whether a problem was found (add {{
y}}) or not (add {{
n}}). If the article is blanked and may be deleted, please indicate as much after the {{
y}}. The {{
?}} template may be used for articles where you were unable to determine whether or not a violation occurred, but are prepared to remove the article from consideration – either because the material is no longer present in the article, or it is adequately paraphrased so as to no longer be a violation (please specify which).
Follow with your username and the time to indicate to others that the article has been evaluated and appropriately addressed. This is automatically generated by four tildes (~~~~)
If a section is complete, consider collapsing it by placing {{
collapse top}} and {{
collapse bottom}} beneath the section header and after the final listing.
Images
Examine the images below. For free images:
Does the image look non-free? Is it likely the uploader is the copyright holder?
Is the image properly licensed and sourced? Be aware of images that say "this image is licensed under X" without specifying who created it.
Do a reverse image search using
Google Images. Check the license of the source page. Compare the last modified time with the (Commons) upload time.
Do a Google image search for phrases that describe the image's contents.
Note that Commons does not accept non-free content.
Annotate the listing with the action taken, e.g. if the image was tagged no source write "no source"; if the fair use claim is deemed ok you can write "OK fair use".
Editor was blocked in July 2017 (indef) for copyvios, unblocked a few days later, but now again blocked indef for coyvios by me as she either doesn't understand copyright vs. public domain, or doesn't care. New copyvios were found in
Allanah Harper,
Hugh Armigel Wade,
Valerie Violet French,
Emily Woodruff (philantropist). Also copyvio pictures on Commons.
Fram (
talk) 15:29, 31 January 2018 (UTC)reply
Note that there are at least three types of problems (plus some incorrect uploads at Commons, which is out of scope here): text copied which is tagged by her as "public domain" but isn't; text copied where the source is not tagged as public domain (rarer, mainly in older articles); and text translated from another language wikipedia article (e.g. German) without any indication of this fact.
Fram (
talk) 14:57, 20 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Note: Any sources from The Washington Sketch Book might require PD-Notice as there's unattributed PD copying. However, PD-Notice is only required if there's any copying. Also, the book has a supplement section, so the content might be from there such as the edit at
Thomas Brackett Reed. Any source tagged PD-notice needs to be confirmed it's PD.
United States and
United Kingdom copyright lengths are ones that need to be consulted. For example: The Book Of Beauty (1933) is not PD in the United States or United Kingdom per
Commons. Wikipedia requires the source to be PD in the United States in order to allow PD copying. --
MrLinkinPark333 (
talk) 01:47, 1 November 2021 (UTC)reply
Note: Think we need to check image uploads as well, as 3 pictures initially at
Abby Hutchinson Patton do not have exact sources for verification. --
MrLinkinPark333 (
talk) 15:20, 5 February 2022 (UTC)reply
Found unattributed PD copying from Woman's Who's who of America (1914) at
Nancy A. Leatherwood. While it links to a republished version, the 1914 copy has the same text, so the link can be swapped and add PD-notice. --
MrLinkinPark333 (
talk) 02:04, 23 October 2022 (UTC)reply
NCaroline G. Thummel (1 edit): N Lengthy quotations from a book published in 1914 to which attribution is given.
Cwmhiraeth (
talk) 10:28, 17 April 2018 (UTC)reply
Text is attributed. However, pictures are not cited to a correct source. Leaving this edit unchecked until picture source is found. --
MrLinkinPark333 (
talk) 02:37, 27 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Added PD-notice. There's a bit of unreferenced content, so I'm not fully checking it off yet. --
MrLinkinPark333 (
talk) 20:56, 31 October 2021 (UTC)reply
Not fully checked. Replaced source with PD version and added notice to fix unattributed PD copying. --
MrLinkinPark333 (
talk) 02:26, 5 March 2023 (UTC)reply
David B. Henderson (1 edit): Y Add PD notice for unattributed copy. Not checking off as I can't find the added photo in the source. --
MrLinkinPark333 (
talk) 04:48, 24 February 2023 (UTC)reply