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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.
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".
At the article on the
Statute of Anne, I discovered wholesale copyright violations from some of the book-based sources (something I only found because I'm writing a replacement article and own the books). Similarly, Moonriddengirl has discovered
problems with
Copyright law of the United Kingdom and
copyright.
Ironholds (
talk) 12:21, 18 October 2011 (UTC)reply
Porto Alegre: N There was a lot of copyvio in the article, but none of it was in the section added by this user.
Wizardman 00:19, 2 October 2022 (UTC)reply
Abortion: (1 edits, 1 major, +1359) Y but no longer exists in this article, or in any daughter articles as far as I can tell
Calliopejen1 (
talk) 03:47, 19 October 2011 (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.
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".
At the article on the
Statute of Anne, I discovered wholesale copyright violations from some of the book-based sources (something I only found because I'm writing a replacement article and own the books). Similarly, Moonriddengirl has discovered
problems with
Copyright law of the United Kingdom and
copyright.
Ironholds (
talk) 12:21, 18 October 2011 (UTC)reply
Porto Alegre: N There was a lot of copyvio in the article, but none of it was in the section added by this user.
Wizardman 00:19, 2 October 2022 (UTC)reply
Abortion: (1 edits, 1 major, +1359) Y but no longer exists in this article, or in any daughter articles as far as I can tell
Calliopejen1 (
talk) 03:47, 19 October 2011 (UTC)reply