Wikipedia:Copyright problems
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This page is for listing and discussing possible copyright problems involving text on Wikipedia. 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, rewrite infringing content, or request copyright permission.
Listed pages appear in the bottom section of the page. For additional guidance, see below.
To add a new listing, go to today's section.
How to list an article
Copyright problems handles articles where the copyright status is disputed or complex cases of infringement. You should list an article if one of the following applies:
- All revisions of an article have copyright violations (copyvio), and speedy deletion does not apply.
- The removal of copyrighted content has been contested.
- Removal or reversion is complicated or involves a majority of the article.
- You cannot determine whether the text originated from the source or Wikipedia. Do not blank the article in this case.
- The article is eligible for presumptive deletion.
- Other complex situations not listed here or in the section below.
If the article needs to be listed,
What not to list here
- Blatant infringement. Articles that are entirely copyvio can be handled through speedy deletion if it meets the criteria. You should not blank or list the article here if you tag for G12.
- Non-extensive obvious copyvio. If the copied content is not extensive, you can remove, rewrite, or revert the page to before the text was added. You should place
{{Copyvio-revdel|url=copied source|start=diff of copyvio insertion|end=diff before copyvio removal}}
on the article afterwards and warn the contributor of the material to the problem, unless advised not to. The template {{Uw-copyright}} may be used for this purpose. - Requests for revision deletion. These should be handled by placing
{{Copyvio-revdel|url=copied source|start=diff of copyvio insertion|end=diff before copyvio removal}}
on the article. - Files. For files that are clear copyright violations, follow the procedure for speedy deletion; otherwise list at Files for Discussion. If the file is on the Commons, they can be handled through Commons speedy deletion or Deletion requests.
- Individual editors. Contributors who repeatedly post copyrighted text or files after appropriate warnings will be blocked from editing to protect the project; see 17 United States Code § 512. If one contributor verifiably inserts multiple copyright violations and systematic review is needed, please file a request at Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations.
- Copyright violations without a source. If you cannot find a source of where something could be copied from, do not list the article here. The content may be removed for other reasons, like being unreferenced or violating our biographies of living persons policy.
What text can be reused?
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. One of the following must be present to reuse the content on Wikipedia:
- Explicit statement by the author, stating that the work is either in the public domain or compatibly licensed
- Public domain due to age, source, or lack of originality
- Fair use under our guidelines for non-free content, where the text used is brief and clearly marked with full attribution
If none of the above are present, the text cannot be reused.
Even when the text can be reused, it must be attributed or it will be considered as plagiarism.
Responding to listed articles
Any contributor is welcome to help investigate articles listed for copyright concerns and remove {{copy-paste}} or {{close paraphrasing}} tags when the problem is addressed or disproven. Only administrators, copyright clerks, and VRT agents should remove {{copyvio}} tags and resolve listings.
Copyright problems is run by volunteers and it usually takes a few days before listings are first investigated.
You can assist in the following ways:
- Providing information on the copyright status of the article
- Obtaining or verifying claims of permission
- Rewriting or removing infringing content (without removing {{copyvio}}.
Providing information on copyright statuses
Not every article listed here is a copyright violation. The content may be on Wikipedia first, public domain, compatibly licensed, or below the threshold of originality. Editors can provide information about licensing or public domain status under listings here or on the talk page of the article. A link or a clear explanation is very helpful when a clerk or administrator evaluates the article.
Obtaining/verifying permission
Sometimes material was placed on Wikipedia with the permission of the copyright owner. The owner may be willing to give permission and proper license. Any contributor can write to the owner of copyright and check whether they gave or will give permission. See Wikipedia:Example requests for permission. If a compatible license is placed online at the point of original publication, please provide a link to that under the listing.
More details about the permissions process can be seen below and at Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials.
Rewriting or removing content
If an article verifiably has copyvio, the content must be removed or rewritten entirely. If the article is blanked, the rewrite takes place at Talk:PAGENAME/Temp so that the new material can be copied over the old. The listing will link to the specific temporary page. You can directly rewrite on articles tagged for {{close paraphrasing}} or {{copy-paste}}, and remove the tags when the rewrite is complete.
The article should not be copied over without first removing copyvio. Other content from the article can be used, if there is no reason to believe that it may be a copyright issue as well. If the content is copied from an inaccessible source like a book or cannot be verified, please remove all text added by the contributor. If you copy any text from the old article, please leave a note on the listing or in your edit summaries of the rewrite. Reviewing clerks or administrators will then preserve the history of the old article.
Please review Wikipedia:Copy-paste and its linked guidelines as necessary to ensure the rewrite is compliant with policy. Repairing plagiarism from permissible sources is usually 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, you must do one of the following to resolve the problem:
- Link to a note permitting reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 4.0 International 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-en@wikimedia.org or a postal message to the Wikimedia Foundation, ideally using the email template at WP:CONSENT.
See also Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials.
Emails are handled by volunteers and take time to log permission. Do not worry if the content is deleted; it will be restored if usable permission is logged. Your email 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.
Please keep in mind that content 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 our core policies. This will 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 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 clerks are experienced editors on Wikipedia, especially with copyright policies and their enforcement. On this board, they are trusted to evaluate and close listings and request administrative actions when necessary.
Copyright problems administrators
For a more complete description of administrators on Wikipedia, please see Wikipedia:Administrators.
Any administrator may work the copyright problems board. This may involve evaluating listings personally or completing evaluations by clerks. Clerks are trusted 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 can be processed at any time by anyone, but are not formally closed until a clerk or administrator verifies that all problems are resolved. Pages listed for presumptive deletion stay open for a minimum of 7 days before being processed. VRT agents may close listings at any time.
For advice for resolving listings, see:
- Wikipedia:Copyright problems/Advice for admins (VRT agents, see section there)
- Wikipedia:Copyright problems/Advice for clerks
{{CPC}} may be used to denote resolutions of listings by administrators, clerks and VRT agents.
Listings of possible copyright problems
Older than 7 days
- David Breakstone (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.jpost.com/author/david-breakstone. PrinceTortoise (he/him • poke) 03:08, 20 April 2025 (UTC)
Article deleted due to copyright concerns. Whpq (talk) 13:44, 31 May 2025 (UTC)
My recent edits to this page have been tagged for copy violation. Please note
(1) All I did was add references to the existing article text which existed prior to the last redirect (done for lack of references). Earlier edits also containing this material, going back several years, have not been so marked.
(2)The copyright date on the Tumblr post dates from 2017. Text broadly similar to both the post and the most recent text appears in this article version from January 2015. Therefore it appears the Tumblr post is a plagiarism of Wikipedia, NOT the other way around.
I have posted to the talk page of Onel5969 who tagged the page for copyvio to alert them to this but they have apparently ignored my post (continued with other edits since I posted). Romomusicfan (talk) 02:56, 20 April 2025 (UTC)
- My edits have been deleted now but older edits with the same text on are still there. Romomusicfan (talk) 10:42, 20 April 2025 (UTC)
Done All sorted out by consensus now. Romomusicfan (talk) 22:43, 20 April 2025 (UTC)
- Chief revenue officer (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.forbes.com/sites/ciocentral/2012/03/13/the-ceos-new-secret-weapon-the-chief-revenue-officer/ and possibly also the book "Revenue Management: Hard-core Tactics for Market Domination". I cannot access the book source, but the phrasing is suspicious, so I figured I'd mention it so a more experienced editor can evaluate. PrinceTortoise (he/him • poke) 04:22, 20 April 2025 (UTC)
- Operation Azm-e-Istehkam (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.satp.org/terrorist-activity/pakistan. Bringing this here rather than letting it languish in the rev del queue. NotAGenious has identified that one of the major contributors to this article had a habit of pasting in copyrighted material and then paraphrasing it. We're not sure which revisions have been affected or when the issue first popped up. Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 05:16, 20 April 2025 (UTC)
- https://xtools.wmcloud.org/topedits/en.wikipedia.org/M%20Waleed/0/Operation%20Azm-e-Istehkam might be a good starting point NotAGenious (talk) 07:44, 20 April 2025 (UTC)
- Feast of All Saints of Russia (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.pravoslavie.ru/2367.html. Translated from Russian from source on original Russian-language page, but with only minor rephrasing. Likely more of the article is like this but it's hard to tell as it's been translated and the rest of the article doesn't keep the citation numbers that were left in in the paragraph highlighted. Thedoglover12 (talk) 13:59, 20 April 2025 (UTC)
- Nneka Mobisson (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://techherng.com/tag/mdoc/. The education section is identical to text in the attached URL, with only one word changed ("earned"-> "completed"). The attached URL website says it was copyrighted 2023. Per web archive link[1] you can see the text was definitely present by 5 April 2024. I wasn't sure if this qualified for speedy G12 because there is one sentence remaining if you remove the copyright section. Zzz plant (talk) 16:03, 20 April 2025 (UTC)
- @Zzz plant: no article has ever existed with that title. MER-C 11:02, 26 April 2025 (UTC)
- @MER-C: sorry it was actually Draft:Nneka Mobisson, and was speedily deleted via G12. Apologies, this has been resolved Zzz plant (talk) 23:24, 27 April 2025 (UTC)
- @Zzz plant: no article has ever existed with that title. MER-C 11:02, 26 April 2025 (UTC)
- Veracruz (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.houstonculture.org/mexico/veracruz.html, https://www.britannica.com/place/Veracruz-state-Mexico, and https://doi.org/10.1353%2Fjda.2014.0033. Most prominent in the "history" section, but scattered throughout the article. The very technical section about night light data is also entirely pulled from the Journal of Developing Areas article I believe. Not sure whose edits are responsible. Spookyaki (talk) 16:40, 20 April 2025 (UTC)
Done Removed/reworked all copyvio material that I could find myself. Spookyaki (talk) 16:47, 21 April 2025 (UTC)
- Manshead CE Academy (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.facebook.com/bedspolice/posts/1121072743400272. Stickymatch 13:32, 3 May 2025 (UTC)
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Sennecaster (Chat) 19:50, 23 August 2025 (UTC)
- Oswald Mosley (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://escholarship.org/content/qt99w0p17j/qt99w0p17j.pdf?t=ppzxy7. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 14:48, 3 May 2025 (UTC)
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 18:18, 17 May 2025 (UTC)
- 2012 Dual Universal Suffrage (Hong Kong) (history · last edit · rewrite) Earwig is really unhappy about stuff pulled from https://www.legco.gov.hk/yr06-07/english/panels/ca/papers/ca0716-gppr200707-e.pdf. This is my first time listing stuff here; @Moneytrees and Sennecaster: how badly did I mess up this listing? Thanks :) HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 21:11, 3 May 2025 (UTC)
- Other than adding the "Subst:copyvio" template, no issues @HouseBlaster : ))) Moneytrees🏝️(Talk) 00:57, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
- @Dbeef has forwarded this to some zhwiki folks experienced in copyright since this is getting messy Sennecaster (Chat) 21:23, 5 October 2025 (UTC)
- Buddhism in the Netherlands (history · last edit · rewrite) from Janssen, R. H. C., "Buddhism in the Netherlands: History and Present Status", in: Buddhism into the Year 2.000. International Conference Proceedings (First International Conference 'Buddhism into the Year 2000', hosted by the Dhammakaaya Foundation, Bangkok (Thailand), February 8, 1990), Bangkok: Dhammakaya Foundation 1995, pp. 151–156.
The entirety of Buddhism in the Netherlands seems to be paraphrased from Janssen's paper, even the structure is the same. How much of the article needs to be amended so that it's no longer a copyvio? There is a lot of information in the article that seems to only be traced back to Janssen's paper. Would this all need to be removed or would citing Janssen's paper in multiple locations suffice? Katiedevi (talk) 20:37, 8 June 2025 (UTC)
- Visa Gold Art Award (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://christchurchartgallery.org.nz/media/uploads/2010_07/Bulletin_113.pdf. Grutness...wha? 06:25, 18 June 2025 (UTC)
- Cleaned and requested revdel. MCE89 (talk) 07:07, 9 October 2025 (UTC)
- History of Delhi (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.academia.edu/11317196/Awadh_School_of_painting_Miniature_a_new_genre_of_expression#loswp-work-container, that article dated January 2015. Some content was copy-pasted in April 2015, some in November 2018; there may be further problems too. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 11:21, 18 June 2025 (UTC)
- Cheong Yoke Choy (history · last edit · rewrite) from [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7]. I've removed content copied from these six sources and have done my best to clean the page, but I strongly suspect there's still plenty of copyvio here that I've missed. Would appreciate if someone could take a second look. MCE89 (talk) 10:44, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
- @MCE89@WP:CP I have rewritten sections where issues have been flagged and have also had a look at the entire article to edit bits where potentially they may be issues. Please let me know if there is anything else I need to do in order for the article to be restored. Many thanks. NaKaTaTuNa (talk) 01:35, 8 July 2025 (UTC)
- Internet Governance Forum (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://igf.wgig.org/igf/Summary.Final.07.11.2006.htm (Archived 2025-06-24 at the Wayback Machine). There's a whole lot of other stuff - click-to-unhide "conference summaries" - on the same page that looks similar, but it's not clear so far how much is copy/pasted. Boud (talk) 12:30, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
- This specific edit dates back to 20 June 2013. It largely consists of selecting key sentences. The IGF Secretariat asserts standard (Berne convention) copyright 2005-2007, and that's not 70 years ago. Boud (talk) 12:35, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
- The same edit includes a wording error
that 10 years a similar
("ago" is missing) copied verbatim from the source. Boud (talk) 12:54, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
- The same edit includes a wording error
- Second specific copyvio on this article: Internet Governance Forum (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://unctad.org/system/files/non-official-document/a68d65_bn_IGF.pdf (Archived 2025-06-24 at the Wayback Machine. The copyvio edit of 04:00, 18 June 2013 has a slightly edited copyvio
Youth representation and activity was also sited to be a notable achievement
of the original sentenceYouth delegate representation and activity was also sited to be a notable achievement of this year's IGF
that includes the original error "sited" for "cited". Boud (talk) 13:08, 24 June 2025 (UTC) - Depending on how much work copyvio clerks are willing to do, I would tend to revdel the whole section from IGF I to IGF X, inclusive, and put the sources on the talk page for anyone willing to write encyclopedic summaries of the first ten IGF meetings. Trying to separate copy/pastes from original text could be quite a bit of work. So not quite WP:TNT, more like mini-TNT. Boud (talk) 13:08, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
- UN copyright rules at Commons may help decide whether IGF materials are PD or not. Boud (talk) 19:40, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
- The content in question should be deleted as unsourced WP:NOTDIR-violating cruft even if it isn't a copyvio. * Pppery * it has begun... 20:53, 25 June 2025 (UTC)
- This specific edit dates back to 20 June 2013. It largely consists of selecting key sentences. The IGF Secretariat asserts standard (Berne convention) copyright 2005-2007, and that's not 70 years ago. Boud (talk) 12:35, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
- Draft:Amon Temple (Siwa) (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.recuperando.com/en/classic-antiques/13764-zeus-ammone-barracco-museum-rome-terracotta. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 12:55, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
No copyright concern. Material is PD, license compatible, or ineligible for copyright protection. The editor now tells me that the content was copied/translated from the Wikipedia page at fr:Temple d'Amon (Siwa). — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 20:01, 26 June 2025 (UTC)
- Energy community (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://emissions-euets.com/internal-electricity-market-glossary/2095-energy-community https://brexitlegal.ie/energy-market/. Foundational. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 09:53, 17 July 2025 (UTC)
No copyright concern. Material is PD, license compatible, or ineligible for copyright protection. MER-C 18:45, 30 July 2025 (UTC)
- Maquis of Fizi (history · last edit · rewrite) Got the book FIZI 1967-1986: Le maquis de Kabila to expand the article, but a lot of it seems like a translation copyright problem. The Economy section is a word for word translation of p.30–31, and the Background section is very similar to p.38–39, just with a few words removed, changed, or switched around. Same with the The beginnings of the rebellion section with p.40, 43. Wowzers122 (talk) 19:09, 17 July 2025 (UTC)
- @Wowzers122 I'm having toruble sourcing everything down on Google Books because I'm guessing at the original wording. I also cannot reasonably get this book through ILL and would need a large portion of the book it seems. Do you still have this book and can you confirm that more than what you have noted is closely paraphrased or straight up translation copyvio? Sennecaster (Chat) 20:10, 9 October 2025 (UTC)
- Beyond what I've already put in the template, most of the first paragraph of the Decline and collapse section seems to be closely paraphrased. The rest is fine. Wowzers122 (talk) 09:29, 10 October 2025 (UTC)
- @Wowzers122 I'm having toruble sourcing everything down on Google Books because I'm guessing at the original wording. I also cannot reasonably get this book through ILL and would need a large portion of the book it seems. Do you still have this book and can you confirm that more than what you have noted is closely paraphrased or straight up translation copyvio? Sennecaster (Chat) 20:10, 9 October 2025 (UTC)
- Southport F.C. (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.southportcentral.co.uk/club-history/. DangerousEagles (talk) 05:18, 22 July 2025 (UTC)
- Subject to Change (EP) (history · last edit · rewrite) from www.allmusic.com/album/subject-to-change-mw0000839146, https://web.archive.org/web/20141217021327/https://files.nyu.edu/cch223/public/usa/albums/faith_subjecttochange.html, https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/217028/faith-and-void-reissues-empty-the-vaults/, https://web.archive.org/web/20111217171337/http://drownedinsound.com/releases/16529/reviews/4143647, https://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/43787/Faith-Void-Split/. Sputnik Music review lost to link rot and never archived but given the info it's attached to it's highly likely to me that this is also copyvio KDNX-Wyatt (talk) 21:49, 22 July 2025 (UTC)
- Roman Katsman (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://web.archive.org/web/20170202000401/http://www.academicstudiespress.com/browse-catalog/nostalgia-for-a-foreign-land?rq=katsman. – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:04, 26 July 2025 (UTC)
- Park of Friendship, New Belgrade appears to, from a non-Serbian speaker's persepctive, to be an unattributed translation of it's Serbian equivilent. The paragraph lengths seem to match up, the primary contributor to the English article only ever editted this article, all in quick succession, and primarily used the Serbian Wikipedia.
I 1. Don't know if this is a translation and 2. Don't know if the author only translated what they added or what others before them added, but this is something to perhaps look into. I can do stuff! (talk) 20:36, 26 July 2025 (UTC)
Issue resolved. Attributed. The4lines |||| (talk) 15:27, 24 August 2025 (UTC)
- MNAT1 (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://omim.org/entry/602659. 174.138.212.166 (talk) 01:52, 29 July 2025 (UTC)
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. MER-C 16:44, 12 August 2025 (UTC)
- National symbols of Malta (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://web.archive.org/web/20250715212216/https://www.gov.mt/en/About%20Malta/Pages/Flags-Symbols-and-their-use.aspx. Government text appears to be copyrighted in Malta. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 18:47, 29 July 2025 (UTC)
- Livron-sur-Drôme (history · last edit · rewrite) - tagged as "AProbable WP:PLAGIARISM. This is a machine translation of An article on the "Discover Livron-sur-Drôme" webpage with no indication that permission for its use was obtained". * Pppery * it has begun... 20:02, 29 July 2025 (UTC)
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. The4lines |||| (talk) 22:46, 29 September 2025 (UTC)
- Moore Hall, County Mayo (history · last edit · rewrite) from [8]. Part of the Comhar CCI. Heavy copying in initial revision, structural close paraphrasing remains. REAL_MOUSE_IRL talk 11:44, 13 August 2025 (UTC)
- Frederick Douglass Memorial Park (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/2682.pdf. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 13:03, 13 August 2025 (UTC)
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 21:25, 26 August 2025 (UTC)
- A5114 road (history · last edit · rewrite) from [9], wasn't listed. Tenshi! (Talk page) 20:09, 17 August 2025 (UTC)
Article cleaned, revision deletion requested. The4lines |||| (talk) 05:07, 24 August 2025 (UTC)
Revision deletion completed. MER-C 18:42, 21 September 2025 (UTC)
- Beth A. Cunningham (history · last edit · rewrite) from ?, wasn't listed. Tenshi! (Talk page) 20:09, 17 August 2025 (UTC)
- Not seeing any copyvio or paraphrasing. Tenshi! (Talk page) 21:15, 26 September 2025 (UTC)
- Christian Voice (United States) (history · last edit · rewrite) from [10], wasn't listed. Tenshi! (Talk page) 20:09, 17 August 2025 (UTC)
- Cleaned and requested revdel. MCE89 (talk) 07:17, 8 October 2025 (UTC)
- Cliff Sarde (history · last edit · rewrite) from [11], wasn't listed. Tenshi! (Talk page) 20:09, 17 August 2025 (UTC)
- While the article did have some content copied and pasted from the URL provided, it was uncopyrightable trivia. Removed anyways because it couldn't be supported by reliable sources. The4lines |||| (talk) 05:07, 24 August 2025 (UTC)
- Gabriela Basterra (history · last edit · rewrite) from [12], wasn't listed. Tenshi! (Talk page) 20:09, 17 August 2025 (UTC)
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Sennecaster (Chat) 14:25, 25 September 2025 (UTC)
- Gorki Águila (history · last edit · rewrite) from [13], wasn't listed. Tenshi! (Talk page) 20:09, 17 August 2025 (UTC)
- Houdini (miniseries) (history · last edit · rewrite) from [14], wasn't listed. Tenshi! (Talk page) 20:09, 17 August 2025 (UTC)
- Removed the word for word copyvio, goes back to creation of article in 2014 however so revdel might be excessive. Tenshi! (Talk page) 14:21, 23 August 2025 (UTC)
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Sennecaster (Chat) 14:41, 25 September 2025 (UTC)
- J. B. Geoghegan (history · last edit · rewrite) from [15], wasn't listed. Tenshi! (Talk page) 20:09, 17 August 2025 (UTC)
- Lalit Kishore Chaturvedi (history · last edit · rewrite) from [16], wasn't listed. Tenshi! (Talk page) 20:09, 17 August 2025 (UTC)
- Removed copypaste, requested revdel. Tenshi! (Talk page) 14:21, 23 August 2025 (UTC)
Revision deletion completed. KylieTastic (talk) 17:47, 23 August 2025 (UTC)
- Los Alamitos, California (history · last edit · rewrite) from [17], wasn't listed. Tenshi! (Talk page) 20:09, 17 August 2025 (UTC)
- Looks to be them copying us without attribution. Tenshi! (Talk page) 14:21, 23 August 2025 (UTC)
- I removed the copyvio template, I'm certain they copied from us. The4lines |||| (talk) 20:12, 2 October 2025 (UTC)
- Looks to be them copying us without attribution. Tenshi! (Talk page) 14:21, 23 August 2025 (UTC)
- Manuel Rocha (history · last edit · rewrite) from [18], wasn't listed. Tenshi! (Talk page) 20:09, 17 August 2025 (UTC)
- Removed copypaste, requested revdel. Tenshi! (Talk page) 14:21, 23 August 2025 (UTC)
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Sennecaster (Chat) 14:37, 25 September 2025 (UTC)
- Mimi Kodheli (history · last edit · rewrite) from [19], wasn't listed. Tenshi! (Talk page) 20:09, 17 August 2025 (UTC)
- The source only dates back to 2025 on IA, so it seems more likely to be backwards copy. The content in question was added in this edit in 2014 and seems to have been an unattributed translation of this revision of her page on the Albanian Wikipedia. Have repaired attribution. MCE89 (talk) 07:49, 8 October 2025 (UTC)
- Silsden A.F.C. (history · last edit · rewrite) from [20], wasn't listed. Tenshi! (Talk page) 20:09, 17 August 2025 (UTC)
- Restored previous history section, requested revdel. Tenshi! (Talk page) 14:21, 23 August 2025 (UTC)
- United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (history · last edit · rewrite) from [21], wasn't listed. Tenshi! (Talk page) 20:09, 17 August 2025 (UTC)
- Source given is 404. Tenshi! (Talk page) 14:21, 23 August 2025 (UTC)
- Removed pretty much word-for-word copyvio from archived version. Requested revdel. Tenshi! (Talk page) 22:20, 6 October 2025 (UTC)
- Wolfgang Beltracchi (history · last edit · rewrite) from [22], wasn't listed. Tenshi! (Talk page) 20:09, 17 August 2025 (UTC)
- Canons Park (history · last edit · rewrite) I already found copyvio on the page, I'm worried that the unsourced content may be copyvio aswell. The4lines |||| (talk) 23:49, 21 August 2025 (UTC)
- Tofig Bayram (history · last edit · rewrite). This article is a direct translation of the Azerbaijani Wikipedia article, which mostly just repeats the exact wording of the sources that it cites, in a way that violates copyright. This means that the whole "Life" section and the first paragraph of the "Activity" section here are exact translations of the Azerbaijani Wikipedia page which has taken them word for word from this page. Then the final paragraph of the "Activity" section is largely taken from pp. 15-16 of this document, and the "Work" section is largely taken from p. 4 of that same document. Given that the modus operandi of the Azerbaijani article is clearly verbal repetition of sources, I expect that the small amount of remaining material may violate copyright too, just that I can't spot it. In any case, if all the sections indicated above are removed, there is no longer a feasible article, so I would recommend deleting the article entirely. Dionysodorus (talk) 18:12, 9 September 2025 (UTC)
- Hello Dionysodorus. I wonder what is a big issue here. I took information from these references and I included all references. So, why this is a copyright problem? Moreover, I translated the documents from Azerbaijani to English, so saying repetition is a bit odd. When i am doing translation, I am supposed to say exact words or meaning from original language, not adding new facts. Translation and original content always should be similar. I kindly ask you to delete this copyright problem, since it is not correct. Thanks in advance. Tofiq di Montini (talk) 17:04, 27 September 2025 (UTC)
- Tofiq di Montini: When writing on Wikipedia, you are required to combine different sources and rephrase everything in your own words: it's absolutely not allowed to write articles that repeat someone else's phrasing. If you translate someone else's copyrighted material onto Wikipedia, this is a copyright violation and is not allowed. For the relevant Wikipedia policies, see for instance WP:C-P, WP:OWNWORDS, WP:COPYRIGHT, and WP:NONENGPLAG. Dionysodorus (talk) 17:28, 27 September 2025 (UTC)
- Hello Dionysodorus. I wonder what is a big issue here. I took information from these references and I included all references. So, why this is a copyright problem? Moreover, I translated the documents from Azerbaijani to English, so saying repetition is a bit odd. When i am doing translation, I am supposed to say exact words or meaning from original language, not adding new facts. Translation and original content always should be similar. I kindly ask you to delete this copyright problem, since it is not correct. Thanks in advance. Tofiq di Montini (talk) 17:04, 27 September 2025 (UTC)
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- Ford Australia (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.pittwateronlinenews.com/F-100-Ford-Truck-1977---Collectors-Corner-2018.php - has been around for a while HurricaneZeta (T) (C) 20:48, 4 October 2025 (UTC)
Backwardscopy. The Pittwater site took that information from Wikipedia, not the other way around. The article is dated April 29, 2018 and the text exactly matches the Wikipedia article as of March 2018. That version of the section was added to the article in September 2016. The author did list Wikipedia as a source, but it's about two-thirds of the way down the page so it isn't readily apparent. --Sable232 (talk) 23:17, 4 October 2025 (UTC)
- State Library of South Australia (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://web.archive.org/web/20250901133239/https://sahistoryhub.history.sa.gov.au/places/institute-building/. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 12:39, 8 October 2025 (UTC)
- Being fixed by upgrading source document to CC BY-SA 4.0, but may take a week or so - see Talk:State Library of South Australia#Re: copyvio. Bahudhara (talk) 07:51, 10 October 2025 (UTC)
- Elise Wærenskjold (history · last edit · rewrite) presumptive deletion from Hauganm. Sennecaster (Chat) 17:30, 9 October 2025 (UTC)
- Hans Gerhard Stub (history · last edit · rewrite) presumptive deletion from Hauganm. Sennecaster (Chat) 17:31, 9 October 2025 (UTC)
- The Sense of Style (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/310859/the-sense-of-style-by-steven-pinker/9780143127796/excerpt. Audio Ocean (talk) 22:42, 9 October 2025 (UTC)
Article cleaned, revision deletion requested. MCE89 (talk) 16:49, 10 October 2025 (UTC)
- Zeb Soanes (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://stedscathedral.org/edmund-day-honours-24/. Only thing I'm unsure of is use policies, and given the contributor's extensive contributions to the article. Signed, Guessitsavis (she/they) Talk 12:23, 10 October 2025 (UTC)
- @Guessitsavis: On the bottom of the webpage it says "© 2019 by St Edmundsbury Cathedral, All rights reserved." The quote would be fine (provided it was attributed properly in line with WP:COPYQUOTE) if it weren't copied from their webpage, though the source seems more likely to be this page to be the source, everything else isn't okay. Removed infringing material and requested revdel. Tenshi! (Talk page) 22:26, 10 October 2025 (UTC)
- Arroz poblano (history · last edit · rewrite) presumptive deletion from Opus88888. Fails verification, source doesn't mention the subject. Sole editor. The4lines |||| (talk) 20:22, 10 October 2025 (UTC)
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