Talk:Execution of Majidreza Rahnavard

Re: the "Did You Know?" Nomination and Copyright Violation
Hi - I can't reply directly to the thread, so I figured I would leave a comment here; I hope this helps.

I read over the allegations that the article was copied from Goftar News. I am the one who initially wrote the article (and I have written the majority of the text within the article) - and I can attest that I have never heard of Goftar News before today. I checked Goftar News for myself, and I found the following article - (As a warning, before you click the link, the article has large, graphic images of Majidreza Rahnavard's execution and his dead body at the very top, with zero warning. You may find them very disturbing; you may wish to cover the screen and scroll past them, as the text is below them.) http://goftarnews.com/who-were-the-executioners-of-majidreza-rahnavard-in-mashhad/

The information included at the beginning of their article is a direct copy of text I wrote myself. I wrote the text first; this is definitely a case of WP:MIRROR.

I don't know if this is enough confirmation, but I finished writing this article at around 4:00 AM (in my time zone, EST) on the morning of Majidreza Rahnavard's execution, and I spent the day making tweaks to the wording and the intro - while their article, which copied this article's text, was published at 1:20 AM EST the next morning. I don't know exactly how to prove this, but if it helps, this was the state of the intro at 12:03 AM on December 13, at least an hour before they published their article: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Execution_of_Majidreza_Rahnavard&diff=1127114929&oldid=1127111677 - and this text is identical to theirs. Their text seems to have been copied directly from an earlier edit of the article, one that was finalized early in the morning of December 13, 2022.

I really do hope this helps. Sorry for the confusion. Afddiary (talk) 16:33, 20 December 2022 (UTC)

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