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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.
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.
If the contributor has added creative content, either evaluate it carefully for copyright concerns or remove it. (In this case, first check for indication or red flags that the content was merged or split from another article, in which case providing attribution under
Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia is sufficient.)
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 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}}.
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
TinEye. 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".
The bulk of the issue here seems to be mergers and splits without attribution. Many of these will be easy to resolve, as they were performed in response to merge requests. Some of them are less clear. At the time this contributor began doing mergers, attribution requirements were not clearly documented. They can be resolved by following the procedures at
Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia.
There is additionally, however, a problem with content copied from external sites. On 23 June 2012, the contributor pasted content from
[1] into the speedily-deleted
Eureqa, following which investigation has disclosed additional copying. Sometimes the contributed has cited the source of his copying, but not always - as with
this unattributed paste from
the official site. The contributor has also copied plot descriptions from other sources. --
Moonriddengirl(talk) 12:37, 23 June 2012 (UTC)reply
Spira (Final Fantasy): Y One fully attributed merge (although without link and with mistitling of source article) and one that did not name the article; attribution provided. --
Moonriddengirl(talk) 13:56, 23 June 2012 (UTC)reply
Halo (series): (5 edits, 5 major, +11923) Y First was unattributed but no longer there. Second was revert.
MrLinkinPark333 (
talk) 01:30, 6 September 2023 (UTC)reply
Toasted sandwich: (1 edits, 1 major, +1055) Y unattributed but it's already gone after a later merge. --
MrLinkinPark333 (
talk) 20:08, 9 November 2021 (UTC)reply
Hoenn: (1 edits, 1 major, +1049) Y unattributed but was already gone before redirected. --
MrLinkinPark333 (
talk) 00:05, 8 September 2021 (UTC)reply
The Icarus Factor: (1 edits, 1 major, +982) edit did attribute article, but I fully attributed it anyways. --
MrLinkinPark333 (
talk) 19:46, 6 January 2022 (UTC)reply
NOfermod (band): Y Article was unattributed split from
Ofermod and original was subsequently deleted. Moved the band article to the undisambigged name and history merged. --
Moonriddengirl(talk) 14:11, 23 June 2012 (UTC)reply
Skip Bertman: (1 edits, 1 major, +833) N improperly-documented merge compounded by the merge target being moved over the redirect, thus deleting the history of the page that was merged. I have unfucked this and everything should now be kosher. ♠
PMC♠
(talk) 21:50, 18 October 2021 (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.
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.
If the contributor has added creative content, either evaluate it carefully for copyright concerns or remove it. (In this case, first check for indication or red flags that the content was merged or split from another article, in which case providing attribution under
Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia is sufficient.)
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 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}}.
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
TinEye. 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".
The bulk of the issue here seems to be mergers and splits without attribution. Many of these will be easy to resolve, as they were performed in response to merge requests. Some of them are less clear. At the time this contributor began doing mergers, attribution requirements were not clearly documented. They can be resolved by following the procedures at
Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia.
There is additionally, however, a problem with content copied from external sites. On 23 June 2012, the contributor pasted content from
[1] into the speedily-deleted
Eureqa, following which investigation has disclosed additional copying. Sometimes the contributed has cited the source of his copying, but not always - as with
this unattributed paste from
the official site. The contributor has also copied plot descriptions from other sources. --
Moonriddengirl(talk) 12:37, 23 June 2012 (UTC)reply
Spira (Final Fantasy): Y One fully attributed merge (although without link and with mistitling of source article) and one that did not name the article; attribution provided. --
Moonriddengirl(talk) 13:56, 23 June 2012 (UTC)reply
Halo (series): (5 edits, 5 major, +11923) Y First was unattributed but no longer there. Second was revert.
MrLinkinPark333 (
talk) 01:30, 6 September 2023 (UTC)reply
Toasted sandwich: (1 edits, 1 major, +1055) Y unattributed but it's already gone after a later merge. --
MrLinkinPark333 (
talk) 20:08, 9 November 2021 (UTC)reply
Hoenn: (1 edits, 1 major, +1049) Y unattributed but was already gone before redirected. --
MrLinkinPark333 (
talk) 00:05, 8 September 2021 (UTC)reply
The Icarus Factor: (1 edits, 1 major, +982) edit did attribute article, but I fully attributed it anyways. --
MrLinkinPark333 (
talk) 19:46, 6 January 2022 (UTC)reply
NOfermod (band): Y Article was unattributed split from
Ofermod and original was subsequently deleted. Moved the band article to the undisambigged name and history merged. --
Moonriddengirl(talk) 14:11, 23 June 2012 (UTC)reply
Skip Bertman: (1 edits, 1 major, +833) N improperly-documented merge compounded by the merge target being moved over the redirect, thus deleting the history of the page that was merged. I have unfucked this and everything should now be kosher. ♠
PMC♠
(talk) 21:50, 18 October 2021 (UTC)reply