This page is for listing and discussing possible copyright problems involving text on Wikipedia, including pages suspected to be copyright violations. Listings typically remain for at least five days before review and closure by a copyright problems clerk or administrator. During this time, interested contributors are invited to offer feedback about the problem at the relevant talk page, propose revisions to the material, or request copyright permission. After the listing period, a copyright problems clerk or administrator will review the listing and take further action if necessary.
Pages listed for copyright review appear in the bottom section of the page. The top includes information for people who have copyright concerns about pages or images, and for community volunteers who'd like to help resolve concerns.
To add a new listing, please go to . Instructions for dealing with copyright concerns can be found at Instructions for dealing with text-based copyright concerns.
Handling previously published text on Wikipedia
Under the United States law that governs Wikipedia, copyright is automatically assumed as soon as any content (text or other media) is created in a physical form. An author does not need to apply for or claim copyright, for a copyright to exist.
Only one of the following allows works to be reused in Wikimedia projects:
A) Explicit Statement. An explicit statement (by the author, or by the holder of the rights to the work) that the material is either:
- in the public domain,
- licensed with the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY-SA), or
- otherwise compatible with CC-BY-SA.
B) Public Domain. If the work is inherently in the public domain, due to its age, source or lack of originality; or
C) Fair Use. United States law allows for fair use of copyrighted content, and (within limits) Wikipedia does as well. Under guidelines for non-free content, brief selections of copyrighted text may be used, but only if clearly marked and with full attribution.
Even if a source is public domain or compatibly licensed, material should be properly attributed in accordance with Wikipedia:Plagiarism in respect of local customs and attribution requirements of compatible licenses. If the terms of the compatible license are not met, use of the content can constitute a violation of copyright even if the license is compatible.
Repeated copyright violations
Contributors who repeatedly post copyrighted text or images may be subject to contributor copyright investigations, to ensure the removal from the project of all copyright infringement. Contributors who repeatedly post copyrighted material after appropriate warnings will be blocked from editing, to protect the project; see 17 United States Code § 512.
Backwards copying: when Wikipedia had (or may have had) it first
In some instances, it is clear that two pieces of text (one on Wikipedia, and one elsewhere) are copies of each other, but not clear which piece is the original and which is the copy. "Compliant" sites that copy Wikipedia text note that they have done so, but not all of our re-users are compliant.
If you've found such a case, you might first check the discussion page to see if a note has been added to the top of the talk page to allay people's concerns. If not, you can look for clues. Do other pages in the other website copy other Wikipedia articles? Did the content show up on Wikipedia all in one piece, placed by a single editor? If you don't see good evidence that Wikipedia had it first, it's a good idea to bring it up for investigation. You might follow the Instructions for listing below or tag the article {{copy-paste|url=possible source}}
so that others can evaluate.
If you confirm definitely that the content was on Wikipedia first, please consider adding {{backwardscopy}} to the article's talk page with an explanation of how you know. If you see an article somewhere else which was copied from Wikipedia without attribution, you might visit the CC-BY-SA compliance page or Wikipedia:Mirrors and forks. There are well-documented cases of plagiarism from Wikipedia by external publications.
Instructions for dealing with text-based copyright concerns
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Blatant infringement
Pages exhibiting blatant copyright infringements may be speedily deleted if:
- Content was copied from a source which does not have a license compatible with Wikipedia, and was not copied from a mirror source.
- The page can neither be restored to a previous revision without infringing content, nor would the page be viable if the infringing content were removed.
- There is no credible assertion of public domain, fair use, or a free license.
To nominate an article for speedy deletion for copyright concerns, add one of these to the page:
{{db-copyvio|url=insert URL of source here}}
{{db-copyvio|describe non-web source here}}
Both of these templates will generate a notice that you should give the contributor of the content. This is important to help ensure that they do not continue to add copyrighted content to Wikipedia. An administrator will examine the article and decide whether to delete it or not. You should not blank the page in this instance.
Suspected or complicated infringement
If infringement is not blatant or the speedy deletion criteria do not apply:
- Remove or rewrite the infringing text avoiding copyright violations or revert the page to before the text was added.
- The infringing text will remain in the page history, and it may be tagged for {{copyvio-revdel}}. Administrators hold discretion on the appropriateness of revision deletion for each case. Please note the reason for removal in the edit summary and at the article's talk page (you may wish to use {{subst:cclean}}). Please identify and alert the contributor of the material to the problem, unless advised not to. The template {{Uw-copyright}} may be used for this purpose.
- However, if all revisions have copyright problems, the removal of the copyright problem is contested, reversion/removal is otherwise complicated, or the article is eligible for presumptive deletion:
- Replace the text with one of the following:
{{subst:copyvio|url=insert URL here}}
{{subst:copyvio|identify non-web source here}}
- Go to and add:
{{subst:article-cv|PageName}}
from [insert URL or identify non-web source here] ~~~~
- to the bottom of the list. Put the page's name in place of "PageName". If you do not have a URL, enter a description of the source. (This text can be copied from the top of the template after substituting it and the page name and url will be filled for you.) If there is not already a page for the day, as yours would be the first listing, please add a header to the top of the page using the page for another date as an example.
- Advise the contributor of the listing at their talk page. The template on the now blanked page supplies a notice you may use for that purpose.
Instructions for special cases
- Probable copyvios without a known source: If you suspect that a page contains a copyright violation, but you cannot find a source for the violation (so you can't be sure that it's a violation), do not list it here. Instead, place {{cv-unsure|~~~|2=FULL_URL}} on the page's talk page, but replace FULL_URL with the full URL of the page version that you believe contains a violation. (To determine the URL, click on "Permanent link" in the toolbox area, and copy the URL.)
- One contributor has verifiably introduced copyright problems into multiple pages or files and assistance is needed in further review: See Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations.
Instructions for handling image copyright concerns
Image copyright concerns are not handled on this board. For images that are clear copyright violations, follow the procedure for speedy deletion; otherwise list at Files for Discussion. To request assistance with contributors who have infringed copyright in multiple articles or files, see Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations.
Responding to articles listed for copyright investigation
Any contributor is welcome to help investigate articles listed for copyright concerns, although only administrators, copyright problems board clerks, and VRT (formerly OTRS) agents should remove {{copyvio}} tags and mark listings resolved.
Assistance might include supplying evidence of non-infringement (or, conversely, of infringement) or obtaining and verifying permission of license. You might also help by rewriting problematic articles.
Supplying evidence of non-infringement
Articles listed here are suspect of copyright concern, but not every article contains infringement. The content may be on Wikipedia first, in the public domain, compatibly licensed, or falls below threshold of originality for copyright. Sometimes, the person who placed it here is the copyright owner of freely-licensed material and this simply needs to be verified.
Information can be provided to prove compatible licensing or public domain status under the listing of the article on the copyright problems board or on the talk page of the article. A link or a clear explanation can be very helpful when a clerk or administrator evaluates the matter. As listings are not immediately addressed on the board, it may take a few days after you make your note before a response is provided.
If the article is tagged for {{copyvio}}, you should allow an administrator or copyright problems clerk to remove the tag. If the article is tagged for {{copy-paste}} or {{close paraphrasing}}, you may remove the tag from the article when the problem is addressed (or disproven), but please do not close the listing on the copyright problems board itself.
Obtaining/verifying permission
Sometimes material was placed on Wikipedia with the permission of the copyright owner. Sometimes copyright owners are willing to give permission (and proper license!) even if it was not.
Any contributor can write to the owner of copyright and check whether they gave or will give permission (or maybe they in fact posted it here!). See Wikipedia:Example requests for permission. In either case, unless a statement authorizing the material under compatible license is placed online at the point of original publication, permission will need to be confirmed through e-mail to the Wikimedia Foundation. See Wikipedia:Confirmation of permission. If a compatible license is placed online at the point of original publication, please provide a link to that under the listing for the article on the copyright problems board or on the talk page of the article.
Please note that it may take a few days for letters to clear once they are sent. Do not worry if the content is deleted prematurely; it can be restored at any point usable permission is logged.
Rewriting content
Any contributor may rewrite articles that are or seem to be copyight problems to exclude duplicated or closely paraphrased text. When articles or sections of articles are blanked as copyright problems, this is done on a temporary page at Talk:PAGENAME/Temp so that the new material can be copied over the old. (The template blanking the article will link to the specific temporary page.)
Please do not copy over the version of the article that is a copyright problem as your base. All copied content, or material derived from it, should be removed first. Other content from the article can be used, if there is no reason to believe that it may be a copyright issue as well. It is often a good idea – and essential when the content is copied from an inaccessible source such as a book – to locate the point where the material entered the article and eliminate all text added by that contributor. This will help avoid inadvertently continuing the copyright issues in your rewrite. If you use any text at all from the earlier version of the article, please leave a note at the talk page of the article to alert the administrator or clerk who addresses the listing. The history of the old article will then have to be retained. (If the original turns out to be non-infringing, the two versions of the article can be merged.)
Rewrites can be done directly in articles that have been tagged for {{close paraphrasing}} and {{copy-paste}}, with those tags removed after the rewrite is complete.
Please review Wikipedia:Copy-paste and the linked guidelines and policies within it if necessary to review Wikipedia's practices for handling non-free text. Reviewing Wikipedia:Plagiarism is also helpful, particularly where content is compatibly licensed or public domain. Repairing these issues can sometimes be as simple as supplying proper attribution.
Copyright owners who submitted their own work to Wikipedia (or people editing on their behalf)
If you submitted work to Wikipedia which you had previously published and your submission was marked as a potential infringement of copyright, then stating on the article's talk page that you are the copyright holder of the work (or acting as his or her agent), while not likely to prevent deletion, helps. To completely resolve copyright concerns, it is sufficient to either:
- Link to a note permitting reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY-SA) and the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) (unversioned, with no invariant sections, front-cover texts, or back-cover texts) at the site of the original publication; or
- Send an email from an address associated with the original publication to permissions-commons@wikimedia.org or a postal message to the Wikimedia Foundation, ideally using the email template at WP:CONSENT.
See also Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials.
Please note that it may take a bit of time for letters and e-mails to clear once they are sent. Do not worry if the content is deleted prematurely; it can be restored at any point usable permission is logged. Your e-mail will receive a response whether the permission is usable or not. If you have not received a response to your letter within two weeks, it is a good idea to follow up.
One other factor you should consider, however, is that content that has been previously published elsewhere may not meet Wikipedia's specific guidelines and policies. If you are not familiar with these policies and guidelines, please review especially the core policies that govern the project. This may help prepare you to deal with any other issues with the text that may arise.
Should you choose to rewrite the content rather than release it under the requisite license, please see above.
Clerks and patrolling administrators
Copyright problems board clerks
For a more complete description of clerks and their duties, as well as a list of active clerks, please see Wikipedia:Copyright problems/Clerks.
Copyright problems clerks are experienced editors on Wikipedia who are familiar with copyright and non-free content policies and the handling of any infringement in regards to text. They are trusted to evaluate and close listings and request administrative actions when necessary. Clerks are periodically reviewed by other clerks and patrolling administrators.
Copyright problems board administrators
For a more complete description of administrators on Wikipedia, please see Wikipedia:Administrators.
Any administrator may work the copyright problems board. Working the copyright problems board may involve evaluating listings personally or using tools as necessary to complete closures by clerks. Clerks have been evaluated in their work, and their recommendations may be implemented without double-checking, although any administrator is welcome to review recommendations and discuss them with the clerks in question.
Closing listings
Pages generally stay listed for a minimum of 5 days before being processed by clerks and administrators. Pages listed for presumptive deletion stay open for a minimum of 7 days before being processed. VRT agents may close listings at any times.
For advice for resolving listings, see:
- Wikipedia:Copyright problems/Advice for admins (VRT agents, see section there)
- Wikipedia:Copyright problems/Clerks#Advice for clerks
The templates collected at Template:CPC may be useful for administrators, clerks and VRT agents noting resolution.
Listings of possible copyright problems
Older than 7 days
15 July 2022
Cleared listings
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- Articles tagged as close paraphrases from April to June 2016
- Yahya bey Dukagjini (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Complex case of close paraphrasing identified at GAR, has significant usage of offline and foreign-language sources. Sennecaster (Chat) 02:55, 10 August 2022 (UTC)
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- Ref 5 was dead and redirected to "notinuse.com". I've added a working archive, which shows that the source is in English, no copyvio on that. Ref 2 was also dead, currently running through it, though I honestly don't think the person who looked at the source and wrote this knows Turkish, or maybe they rushed the article. ~StyyxTalk? 12:23, 11 August 2022 (UTC)
Viable rewrite proposed; rewrite on temp page can be used to replace problematic article. – Berrely?•?T∕C 18:00, 12 August 2022 (UTC)
- @Diannaa, I've rephrased all the content possible save the source analysis, which I see as unlikely to have been copied. Is it possible you could histmerge this into the main article (I haven't included anything past/including the notes/references section)? – Berrely?•?T∕C 18:12, 12 August 2022 (UTC)
- @Berrely: I will leave it to the regular contributors here at WP:CP to assess whether the rewrite is viable or not, due to Sennecaster's statement about offline and foreign-language sources. A history merge is not typically the way we introduce the content from the temp page. I don't know much about history merges and have never done one. — Diannaa (talk) 20:29, 12 August 2022 (UTC)
- @Diannaa LGTM: Styyx assisted with the Turkish, and all extant stuff is OK to look. How do you normally move rewrites into place, for future reference?Sennecaster (Chat) 07:09, 13 August 2022 (UTC)
- @Berrely: I will leave it to the regular contributors here at WP:CP to assess whether the rewrite is viable or not, due to Sennecaster's statement about offline and foreign-language sources. A history merge is not typically the way we introduce the content from the temp page. I don't know much about history merges and have never done one. — Diannaa (talk) 20:29, 12 August 2022 (UTC)
- @Diannaa, I've rephrased all the content possible save the source analysis, which I see as unlikely to have been copied. Is it possible you could histmerge this into the main article (I haven't included anything past/including the notes/references section)? – Berrely?•?T∕C 18:12, 12 August 2022 (UTC)
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. — Diannaa (talk) 15:37, 13 August 2022 (UTC)
- Reuben Green (history · last edit · rewrite)
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Sennecaster (Chat) 02:55, 10 August 2022 (UTC)
- Litani River Dam (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www1.american.edu/ted/ice/litani.htm
- Blanked and relisted at Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2022 July 17. MER-C 16:07, 17 July 2022 (UTC)
- NAASU Institute of Fisheries (history · last edit · rewrite)
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Sennecaster (Chat) 02:55, 10 August 2022 (UTC)
- Siberian tomato (history · last edit · rewrite)
Article cleaned; some small bits close paraphrasing that could reasonably be accidental, has been fixed now. Iazyges Consermonor Opus meum 15:11, 31 July 2022 (UTC)
- Carbon quantum dots (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Hun krabok (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://ich.culture.go.th/index.php/th/ich/236-performance/209-hun-krabok?pop=1&tmpl=component&print=1
- Relisted at Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2022 August 13 Sennecaster (Chat) 07:26, 13 August 2022 (UTC)
- Observer Publishing Company (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.observer-reporter.com/Content/about-us
- Pawnee Agency and Boarding School Historic District (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Theory of mind in animals (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Impinj (history · last edit · rewrite)
No vio found, claim cannot be validated. Tag removed from article. Removed before tagging?? Sennecaster (Chat) 21:24, 27 July 2022 (UTC)
- Todd James (history · last edit · rewrite)
No vio found, claim cannot be validated. Tag removed from article. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 14:25, 8 August 2022 (UTC)
- Nokia E65 (history · last edit · rewrite)
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Sennecaster (Chat) 02:55, 10 August 2022 (UTC)
Ends. MER-C 18:28, 15 July 2022 (UTC)
26 July 2022
- Free Territory of Freedomland (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://web.archive.org/web/20120326092617/http://www.colonia.asia/index.htm. The article contains a {{refn}} footnote that says "Editorial note: The portion of the article text here beginning with the words 'and invited' includes heavy paraphrasing from a page headed Kingdom of Colonia St John<ref name="Secretariat"/> on the colonia.asia website. That website, as of May 2022, is defunct with a successor website planned at coloniastjohn.com." I have no first-hand knowledge of this issue, but having such a note embedded into the text of an article does not seem like an appropriate resolution of the alleged problem. Either the footnote should be removed or the problem should be corrected. The footnote was added by Wtmitchell on 4 May 2022. —? ?BarrelProof (talk) 16:34, 26 July 2022 (UTC)
- Wtmitchell here -- I actually didn't remember having made this edit until after I confirmed it. I now do vaguely recall dithering over what to do and leaving that note in hopes that the issue would be resolved by some regular editor of that page when the promised replacement for the sourced website appears. I was probably not thinking of this as a possible copyright issue (perhaps thinking that the paraphrasing was sufficient to avoid that) and of this not being a verifiability issue (since, apparently, the removed source did provide support and citation of a source providing support does not guarantee that the source will be easy to access for confirmation of that support). I probably left that note in hopes that another editor would, on seeing it, find the promised replacement source when it appeared (I see that it has not yet appeared), reconfirm support there, and update the article appropriately. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 19:44, 26 July 2022 (UTC)
- I have not actually checked the text to see whether I think it is a copyvio myself. I just saw the note and brought it here as a way to resolve the note. I thought it didn't seem like a good idea to retain a note in the article that appears to red-flag a potential copyvio. —? ?BarrelProof (talk) 21:30, 26 July 2022 (UTC)
- Wtmitchell here -- I actually didn't remember having made this edit until after I confirmed it. I now do vaguely recall dithering over what to do and leaving that note in hopes that the issue would be resolved by some regular editor of that page when the promised replacement for the sourced website appears. I was probably not thinking of this as a possible copyright issue (perhaps thinking that the paraphrasing was sufficient to avoid that) and of this not being a verifiability issue (since, apparently, the removed source did provide support and citation of a source providing support does not guarantee that the source will be easy to access for confirmation of that support). I probably left that note in hopes that another editor would, on seeing it, find the promised replacement source when it appeared (I see that it has not yet appeared), reconfirm support there, and update the article appropriately. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 19:44, 26 July 2022 (UTC)
27 July 2022
- Nicholas Evans (artist) (history · last edit · rewrite) - reviewed at Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20220720. Appears to be foundational copyvio with extensive close paraphrasing of [1] - see [2]. The original creation also cited a BBC radio source, which I can't access to check for copyvio. Spicy (talk) 04:50, 27 July 2022 (UTC)
Article deleted due to copyright concerns. MER-C 18:49, 4 August 2022 (UTC)
- Mike Danahay (history · last edit · rewrite) from Presumptive deletion over concerns at Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20110727 14. Sennecaster (Chat) 21:34, 27 July 2022 (UTC)
Article deleted due to copyright concerns. MER-C 18:49, 4 August 2022 (UTC)
- Articles tagged as close paraphrases from July and August 2016
- Absolute income hypothesis (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Hatay Province (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.culturalsurvival.org/ourpublications/csq/article/for-reasons-out-our-hands-a-community-identifies-causes-language-shift
- Žiga Hirschler (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://mic.hr/products/two-song-cycles
- Ralph Benjamin Pratt (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/people/pratt_rb.shtml
- Universal Systems Language (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.htius.com/Articles/r12ham.pdf
- Fire with Fire (1986 film) (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.allmovie.com/movie/v17404
- International Commission for Alpine Rescue (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Law Council of Australia (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.lawcouncil.asn.au/lawcouncil/index.php/about-the-law-council-of-australia/our-role
- Scarlett Raven (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Synthetic monitoring (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Articles tagged as copy/pastes from November 2016
Ends. MER-C 19:11, 27 July 2022 (UTC)
1 August 2022
- James O'Neill (actor, born 1847) (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.nytimes.com/1986/04/27/theater/o-neill-s-father-shaped-his-son-s-vision.html. — Ⓜ️hawk10 (talk) 01:52, 1 August 2022 (UTC)
- Nicholas J. Clayton (history · last edit · rewrite) from <Clayton, Nicholas Joseph (1839–1916)>, <Old Red: Pioneering Medical Education in Texas>. Book vio is extensive, and the TSHA source is also widely copied from. The individual's definitely notable, and he seems really important, but I think this needs a near 100% rewrite or a reversion to this rudimentary version. I'll leave that to admin discretion. — Ⓜ️hawk10 (talk) 02:47, 1 August 2022 (UTC)
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. MER-C 18:52, 9 August 2022 (UTC)
- Rögnvald Kali Kolsson (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://doi-org.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/49351. Like the two above this, see Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/Manannan51. — Ⓜ️hawk10 (talk) 04:10, 1 August 2022 (UTC)
- Articles tagged as close paraphrases from September to November 2016
- Global Counterterrorism Forum (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.thegctf.org/Working-Groups/Structure
- New Orleans Pride (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://gayprideneworleans.com/
- A Place in Time (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Wallyball (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Seyi Adebanjo (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.twn.org/catalog/makers/makerbio.aspx?rec=1455
- Thibaut Garcia (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.thibautgarcia-guitarist.com/en/biography/
- Lloyd A. Karmeier (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.illinoiscourts.gov/SupremeCourt/Justices/Bio_Karmeier.asp
- RLI Corp. (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Gayle Chong Kwan (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Mick Cronin (footballer) (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Forced convection in porous media (history · last edit · rewrite)
- King Memorial Chapel (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Battle of Móng Cái (history · last edit · rewrite)
Ends. MER-C 18:55, 1 August 2022 (UTC)
4 August 2022
Pricelessjosy?(talk?· contribs) has copy and pasted content into several articles that may need to be revdel'd:
- Stella Maris College, Port Harcourt (diff) is copied from the source.
Purged. Copyright problem removed from history. MER-C 18:45, 12 August 2022 (UTC)
- Software deployment (diff) is copied from the source.
Purged. Copyright problem removed from history. MER-C 18:45, 12 August 2022 (UTC)
- Lulua River (diff) is copied from the source.
Purged. Copyright problem removed from history. MER-C 18:45, 12 August 2022 (UTC)
- Internet in Croatia (diff) is copied from the source.
Purged. Copyright problem removed from history. MER-C 18:45, 12 August 2022 (UTC)
- Transport Neutral Encapsulation Format (diff) is copied from the source.
Purged. Copyright problem removed from history. MER-C 18:45, 12 August 2022 (UTC)
- InterPlanetary File System (diff) is copied from the source.
Purged. Copyright problem removed from history. MER-C 18:45, 12 August 2022 (UTC)
- Grid view (diff) is copied from the source.
Purged. Copyright problem removed from history. MER-C 18:45, 12 August 2022 (UTC)
I went through each edit they have made and removed anything that was copied from a source so it's no longer an outstanding issue aside from any potential revdel that may need to be made. - Aoidh (talk) 15:11, 4 August 2022 (UTC)
- All tagged. Thanks mate! Padgriffin Griffin's Nest 15:21, 4 August 2022 (UTC)
- Thanks. Now l understand, will obey the copyright policy Pricelessjosy (talk) 16:26, 4 August 2022 (UTC)
- Lisa-Maria Kellermayr (history · last edit · rewrite) from Presumptive deletion per Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/Friedjof. G5 speedy deletion declined. MER-C 19:24, 4 August 2022 (UTC)
Recently expired listings
10 August 2022
- Stephen Dwight (history · last edit · rewrite) from Presumptive deletion from Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20110727 14. Sennecaster (Chat) 05:55, 10 August 2022 (UTC)
- Articles tagged as close paraphrases from August 2015
- N. Valarmathi (history · last edit · rewrite)
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Wizardman 21:49, 14 August 2022 (UTC)
- Articles tagged as close paraphrases from December 2016
- Adrena Adrena (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Amomum ovoideum (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Havenwoods State Forest (history · last edit · rewrite)
- IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (history · last edit · rewrite)
- L'îlot de La Boisselle (history · last edit · rewrite)
- OEID (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://en.oeid.ir/site/index.php/introduction/
- Nathaniel Richards (Marvel Comics) (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Rodrigo Duterte 2016 presidential campaign (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Articles tagged as having excessive non-free content from May and September 2013
- Deafhood (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Common Bird Monitoring of India (history · last edit · rewrite)
There's no non-free images in either article - which means the concerns are about text. MER-C 18:36, 10 August 2022 (UTC)
New listings
New listings are not added directly to this page but are instead on daily reports. To add a new listing, please go to . Instructions for adding new listings can be found at Instructions for listing text-based copyright concerns. Entries may not be reviewed and are not closed for at least 5 days to give the original authors of the article time to deal with the problem. Anyone in the community may help clarify the copyright status on these. See the section on responding for more information.
12 August 2022
History of geology (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.geolsoc.org.uk/Groups-and-Networks/Specialist-Groups/History-of-Geology-Group/ https://historyofgeologygroup.co.uk/. GeoWriter (talk) 19:02, 12 August 2022 (UTC)
- Dear GeoWriter,
- Thanks for your message and vigilance.
- The material written on the HOGG and Geological Society of London websites was written by me on behalf of the History of Geology Group.
- I am the Chairperson and (Acting) Secretary of the History of Geology Group - should you wish to verify this you will find my contact email at https://www.geolsoc.org.uk/Groups-and-Networks/Specialist-Groups/History-of-Geology-Group/ and if you send me an email I will happily respond accordingly.
- The updated HOGG entry to the History of Geology Wikipedia page is approved by the HOGG Committee and as such is not a violation of copyright.
- Therefore we respectfully request that you retain the edit as updated earlier today to ensure an accurate description of the History of Geology Group (HOGG).
- Thanks Anticline (talk) 21:05, 12 August 2022 (UTC)[reply] Anticline (talk) 22:29, 12 August 2022 (UTC)
13 August 2022
- Battle of Jutland (history · last edit · rewrite) - Massive copy-pasted span of the Britannica page at [3] inserted here. Reverted, but remains in history for multiple edits. -Ljleppan (talk) 06:44, 13 August 2022 (UTC)
Purged. Copyright problem removed from history. Ymblanter has revdelled Sennecaster (Chat) 07:26, 13 August 2022 (UTC)
- Hun krabok (history · last edit · rewrite) from [4]. Foundational close paraphrase. Relisted from Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2022 July 15 Sennecaster (Chat) 07:25, 13 August 2022 (UTC)
14 August 2022
- Articles tagged as having excessive non-free content from November 2013 to February 2015
- Alexander Animalu (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Juok (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Cultural heritage of Kosovo (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Constantine Roussos (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Michael Kidner (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Institute of World Economics and Politics (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Gonen (history · last edit · rewrite)
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- KB INDELA (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Patrick Woodroffe (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Electronic program guide (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Firangi Mahal (history · last edit · rewrite)
Ends. MER-C 18:31, 14 August 2022 (UTC)
15 August 2022
- Innere Neustadt (Bern) (history · last edit · rewrite) Presumptive deletion from Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/Tobyc75 05 --Asmodea Oaktree (talk) 11:32, 15 August 2022 (UTC)
- United States Academic Decathlon topics (history · last edit · rewrite) needs to be checked from 2011–2012 to the end of the article. Some of the descriptions of topics have been copied from the organization's website and other places. Compare for example with https://www.usad.org/Curriculum/2022-2023-Curriculum.aspx, https://www.mpsaz.org/westwood/academics../academic_decathlon/history/2011-12/theme/. — Diannaa (talk) 20:36, 15 August 2022 (UTC)
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