User:Retired username/list


 * This page is inactive, but preserved as it was a successful group effort that should be remembered

These were all articles identified as plagiarism. The copyvios have been removed, when it was public domain the source has now been attributed. An ongoing effort is being made to screen other contributions by the editors who uploaded the plagiarism.

Plagiarism appears to have been in the other direction

 * 1) Francis Cunningham Per Geni, was copied from us (as the Wikipedia article is older than the website in question).
 * 2) Georges Bizet - I have removed the copyvio text, but it seems to have been inserted a long time ago and I am having trouble seeing where This article was copied from us by the other site.  I replaced the text, and dropped a note on the talk page explaining how I established that, if anyone's curious.
 * 3) John Macoun - Other site uses Wikipedia's text with attribution (it shows Last-Modified: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 12:04:42 GMT so the attribution was added after Brandt looked at it; this is confirmed by Google's current cache copy, with a last-crawled date of 14 Sep 2006)
 * 4) William Coddington - It looks to me like the other site plagiarized from here
 * 5) Henryk Sienkiewicz - Plagiarism was in the other direction.
 * 6) Joseph Pitton de Tournefort - Added by  on 0:20, 23 November 2003. As pointed out by, text was based on 1911 Britannica, and copied by the external site which then put its own copyright notice on it. I'm contacting them to see if I can clear things up. (2006-11-06: Attribution added by remote page. It was not there in on 2006-10-19, according to Google's cache copy.)

Public domain texts

 * 1) Charles Wheatstone-established as public domain material
 * 2) John Rutledge-delt with (established as public domain}
 * 3) Albert Bassermann public domain
 * 4) Mary Church Terrell - PD usgovt. PlaWatch 16:28, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
 * 5) Charles Young - PD usgovt. PlaWatch 16:28, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
 * 6) John Reresby - Public domain, source added.
 * 7) Arthur Otway - Public domain material
 * 8) William M. Meredith - Public domain

Editor's other contributions have been screened

 * 1) Melvin Jones - added by User:203.0.230.xxx (talk • contribs) 08:43, November 21, 2001 - Just a few edits, I don't see any other smoking guns.
 * 2) Gopabandhu Das-delt with - Inserted by  which has no other significant edits.
 * 3) Henry Nehrling- Another case like James Clark Ross, complete additional bio added onto the end of the article, rather than replacing it.  This time by User:66.177.58.218 (talk • contribs) at 18:43, August 19, 2006, also the IP's only undeleted edit.
 * 4) Hans Christian Ørsted- User:Mortenfamandersen.dk (talk • contribs) 12:54, December 22, 2005}} one other contrib, to Det Danske Spejderkorps looks suspicious, but I couldn't find a match online.
 * 5) James Clark Ross Very odd, a complete bio was copy and pasted onto the end of the article by User:144.131.12.14 (talk • contribs) on 12:02, September 5, 2006  IP's only undeleted edit, but it seemed worth pointing out because it's so strange.
 * 6) John Glover (general) restored revisions prior to addition of copyvio by User:64.145.128.108 (talk • contribs) at 15:21, October 20, 2005 - ip has no other edits
 * 7) Félix Vallotton - Inserted by which has no other major edits.  The link Brandt provides isn't even in english, and I can't find another match. The rough translation Google provides isn't even close to the highlighted text: http://www.wikipedia-watch.org/plagiarism/0517.html .  Am I missing something?
 * The text is at http://www.unil.ch/fvallotton/english/Vallottonen.htm but that page quickly skips over to a French page, I guess you'll have to disable Javascript or something to see it. It's easier to check the Wayback Machine, which reveals that the article was there already in 2000, before Wikipedia was even started: http://web.archive.org/web/20000303231552/http://www.unil.ch/fvallotton/english/Vallottonen.htm So Brandt seems to have got it right. Haukur 08:45, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
 * 1) James MacLaine - Added by  which has no other major edits.
 * 2) Julius L. Meier - added by  which has no other undeleted edits
 * 3) James Ensor - Added by  on 23:18, 28 March 2004; same user added copyvio to Al Pacino, Bruce Willis, Michael Clarke Duncan, and Steven Spielberg in 2004.  All were promptly dealt with at the time, and the user (who is no longer active) said on his talk page that he now understands the policy.
 * 4) Wilhelm Nusselt - Inserted by  a.k.a.  who has a few edits but they all seem fine.
 * 5) Jones Very - Inserted by  who has no other major edits.
 * 6) George Augustus Selwyn - Inserted by  who has no other major edits.
 * 7) William Watts Folwell added by User:Broomstick (talk· contribs), only one other problem article, Bernie Bierman, copied from HickokSports.com, removed the copyvio but didn't delete because of significant contributions from other editors in the meantime
 * 8) Lewis Tappan - Inserted by  who has no other significant edits.
 * 9) James Reddy Clendon added by User:202.37.64.1 (talk· contribs) at 00:21, November 24, 2004.  One other problem edit, to Manukau Harbour, removed.
 * 10) John Herbert Claiborne - Public domain
 * 11) Johann Zoffany - Added by  on 23:10, 25 February 2004. No other problems.
 * 12) Julio C. Tello - Added by  on 19:11, 20 September 2005. No other undeleted edits.
 * 13) Horace Pippin - Added by  on 02:23, 28 March 2006. No other edits.
 * 14) Mercy Otis Warren - Added by  on 00:42, 9 November 2005. No other edits.
 * 15) Herbert Stothart - Added by  on 23:31, 25 July 2004. No other edits.
 * 16) Leonard Woolley -  Added by  on 19:55, 3 May 2005. No other problems.
 * 17) Belle Moskowitz  - Added by  on  21:29, 2 September 2005. No other edits.
 * 18) Julia Tutwiler - Added by  on 00:51, 26 April 2005. No other problems.
 * 19) John Mercer (scientist) - Added by  on 20:02, 12 April 2006. No other outstanding problems.
 * 20) Elizabeth O'Neill Verner - Added by  on 13:50, 21 June 2006. No other edits.
 * 21) Henry Kimball Hadley - Added by  on 14:45, 4 December 2005. No other problems.
 * 22) Charles Camsell - Added by  on 01:45, 30 November 2005. No other edits.
 * 23) Zechariah Chafee - Added by 64.222.18.66 who has no other edits.
 * 24) Pierre de Fermat - Added by 69.181.163.246 whose other plagiaristic edits were quickly reverted.
 * 25) John Dubois - Added by  on 21:51, 15 May 2006. Only 2 other non-minor contributions, Google tested 2-3 sentences from each and they do not seem to be copyvios. --W.marsh 00:00, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
 * 26) Henry Williams (missionary) - Added by  on 04:00, 23 February 2006. No other edits.
 * 27) William Pepperell Montague - Added by  on 15:06, 4 September 2006. No other edits.
 * 28) Virginia Dare - Added by  on 00:55, 4 March 2003. No other edits.
 * 29) Johnny Burke - Added on 02:25, 1 October 2005 by  who has already been blocked indefinitely for copyright violations and other problems. A check of his other contributions around the same time didn't reveal anything that hasn't already been removed.
 * 30) Lewis Sperry Chafer - 13:16, 20 May 2004 by . A fairly thorough review of his other edits didn't reveal anything else.
 * 31) Jean-Pierre Duport - Added by  on 16:17, 6 June 2006. No other problems.
 * 32) Guillermo Valencia - Added by  on 13:06, 20 June 2006. No other problems.
 * 33) Charles Klein - Added by  which is an AOL IP so there's no point in further analysis.
 * 34) Clement Studebaker - Added by  on 23:06, 11 April 2006. No other major edits.
 * 35) Channing H. Cox - Added by  on 23:45, 27 June 2004. He plagiarized the same source in Alvan Fuller, Joseph B. Ely, Charles F. Hurley and Samuel W. McCall which I've now deleted.
 * 36) Hisashige Tanaka - Added by  on 07:07, 26 April 2005. Also plagiarized Myriad year clock. No other article contributions.
 * 37) Vittorio Emanuele Orlando - Added by  on 1 May 2005. User had 1 other edit, minor punctuation change, not a copyvio.
 * 38) Bruce Rogers Added by  on 13 August 2005. About 8 other edits, all minor and not copyvio.
 * 39) Olive Higgins Prouty - Added by  on 21:07, 11 July 2006. Don't see any other problems.
 * 40) Adam Lindsay Gordon - Added by  on 15:59, 25 May 2004. A quick peek didn't reveal anything - shared IP so there's not much point in screening.
 * 41) Michael Thonet - added by  on 12:21, December 21, 2004; possible that same user's edit to Honda on November 30, 2004 was copyvio, but I couldn't find the original source. Examination of other edits reveals no further copyvio, and also suggests responsible contributor. No edits since December 2005.
 * 42) Adam Sedgwick User:RJNeb2 (talk • contribs) 23:25, May 8, 2006 Partial List of articles contributed.  I've gone through most of the users early contributions - out and out plagiarism got less and less frequent as time went on.  User is still editing and is making efforts to learn to cite sources properly and fix any plagiarism problems that remain in his contribution list, and is doing some good work in film-related biographies.  Yay! -- Vary | Talk 18:26, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 43) George Arliss also by User:RJNeb2
 * 44) Albert Bassermann also by User:RJNeb2
 * 45) Harry Beaumont - Copyvio removed, added originally by, user made a lot of edits and still seems to be active. --W.marsh 15:12, 25 October 2006 (UTC) see further notes on this editor above -- Vary | Talk 18:26, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Editors with multiple problems uncovered

 * 1) Henry H. Blood-delt with - Added on 11 September 2005 by  - he also plagiarized from the same source in writing Charles R. Mabey, John Christopher Cutler, Heber Manning Wells, William Spry, Herbert B. Maw, George Dewey Clyde, Calvin L. Rampton and Scott M. Matheson which I've now deleted. All were taken from the Utah History Encyclopedia. Haukur 19:58, 24 October 2006 (UTC) Also Charlie Wyse from another source, now deleted by me. Haukur 11:03, 25 October 2006 (UTC) I bet edits like this are copyvios as well, but it's much harder to check with offline sources. Haukur 11:16, 25 October 2006 (UTC) Also plagiarized in a large edit to Hunter MacKenzie Austin as recently as September - I think I'll go ahead with a block now. Haukur 19:53, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
 * 2) Benjamin Waterhouse Inserted by  on 25 March 2006. He also inserted Peter of Pappacarbone which I've now deleted. There are probably more.
 * 3) Nels H. Smith - Inserted by 138.88.161.238 who added Jim Geringer, Jack R. Gage, Clifford Joy Rogers, Arthur G. Crane, Leslie A. Miller, Frank Emerson, Frank L. Houx, DeForest Richards, William A. Richards, John Eugene Osborne and Amos W. Barber on the same day. Those probably all need to be deleted, I'm working on it. The user was clearly working in good faith but the source he used is not in the public domain. Haukur 16:19, 25 October 2006 (UTC) Done. Many were actually cleaned up last year by User:MarkGallagher, well done! Haukur 22:00, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
 * 4) Frank E. Lucas - Part of the Wyoming series above.
 * 5) Alonzo M. Clark - Part of the Wyoming series.
 * 6) Ernest Malinowski - Inserted by  on 20 July 2005.
 * 7) Adam Asnyk - Added by  on 13:45, 29 August 2005
 * 8) Józef Wybicki - Added by  on 19:57, 8 June 2005
 * 9) August Zaleski - Added by  on 05:42, 21 July 2005.
 * 10) Cuno Amiet - Added by  on 23:57, 3 August 2004.
 * 11) Édouard Vuillard - Added by  on 21:54, 4 August 2004. Aecis has been notified and identified more. Haukur 16:23, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
 * 12) James H. Price - Inserted by  on 23 January 2006. User cited the source he copied so was obviously working in good faith. He made a similar mistake at William Jay Gaynor (now deleted by me) and there are likely other instances. Haukur 08:26, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
 * 13) Richard Willstätter - Inserted by  on 21 November 2004. Olivier is not to blame, he was misled by his source, http://www.nobel-winners.com, which says that all its text is available under the GFDL but is actually just a collection of articles plagiarized from Britannica. Olivier also inserted Gerd Binnig, Heinrich_Rohrer, Johannes Georg Bednorz, Karl Alexander Müller, Frédéric Mistral and Roger Martin du Gard. All of those copyvios persisted until today when I deleted them. I fear there may be others. Haukur 09:25, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
 * 14) Alois Jirásek - Added by  on 17:31, 17 May 2006. Also added copyvios at František Čelakovský and Mikoláš Aleš which I've now deleted. Some other edits look suspicious but I can't confirm that they are problematic.
 * 15) Pete Hill - Added by  on 17:21, 3 March 2006. Also recent copyvios to Tributary state and Alfred Bestall. Edits the same articles as User:Rossp who had previously been blocked for copyright violations and also had copyvio edits to Alfred Bestall. I've cleaned up those copyvios and blocked both the IP and the username. Haukur 19:40, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
 * 16) Octaviano Ambrosio Larrazolo Added by  on 03:16, 8 April 2005. Also added plagiarized text to Holm O. Bursum which I've now deleted. There are probably others.
 * 17) Clifford Whittingham Beers - Added by  22:58, 23 December 2005. Also created Leta Hollingworth using plagirised text from several sources. Sambit Bal and Lugbara were also copyvios, but were stubbed long ago.

Only one problem found so far

 * 1) Alain LeRoy Locke added by User:Perl (talk • contribs) 00:06, March 11, 2004 - Perl has a huge number of contributions. I checked some of his article creations from around the same time and they did not appear to violate copyright (though some copied text from public domain sources). I've posted to his talk page asking for help in identifying old boo-boos.
 * 2) Martin Grove Brumbaugh-delt with - Inserted by User:Biruitorul on 11 May 2006.  Biruitorul is an active contributor with no other history of copyvio problems, so it's possible the contribution is valid.  I've dropped a note on the user's talk page to see if s/he can shed any light.
 * 3) Elwood Haynes - Inserted on 8 April 2005 by  who has lots and lots of bad image uploads. A cursory search didn't reveal any other articles started by him/her but there may well be some.
 * 4) Charles Manly- Revisions prior to addition of copyvio restored - added by 24.162.252.135 (talk • contribs • [ page moves ] • block user • [ block log ]) at 00:51, January 24, 2006
 * 5) Nicolaas Witsen added by User:ISasha on October 12.  User has several DYK notices on his/her talk page, and so has probably been contributing new articles regularly.  I've dropped a note on the talk page, so I'll see if I get a response. -- Vary | Talk 02:01, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
 * 6) Sol White - Inserted by  who has a bunch of contributions. A cursory check didn't reveal anything else.
 * 7) Vilhelm Hammershøi - Inserted by  on 23 March 2005. Checking some of his other edits I don't see any other clear instances of plagiarism (but see Metamorphosis of Narcissus which is a borderline copyvio from Tate and should be reworded). Haukur 11:10, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
 * 8) Ludwig Binswanger - Inserted by  in 2003. He started many other articles around the same time but those I checked didn't seem to be plagiarized. I also checked the source he was using in the Binswanger instance and trying a few samples I didn't find any more problems. Haukur 12:54, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
 * 9) Charles_W._Leng - Added on 16:03, 22 June 2005 by . A quick check doesn't reveal anything else suspicious.
 * 10) Philip William Otterbein - Added by  on 21:21, 4 October 2005. User has no memory of incident but says he was copying a lot of text around at the time while incorporating public domain sources into Wikipedia. A check shows that this is true and also doesn't reveal any other problems.
 * 11) States Rights Gist - added by  on 22:01, July 10 2006; user has apologized and created a fresh version. Other contribs have yet to be analyzed.
 * 12) Text added to Quantum mind by . Some of that text was later found on another website. Other contributions not analyzed.

Still to be analyzed

 * 1) William D. Upshaw - Added by  on 04:59, 1 November 2005.
 * 2) Ernest Everett Just - Added by  on 05:30, 27 August 2004.
 * 3) Olive Schreiner - Added by  08:59, January 13, 2006.
 * 4) Bernhard Karlgren - Added by  on 00:15, 1 June 2005.
 * 5) Oswald Veblen added by  on 23:00, 2 December 2005
 * 6) Matteo Ricci - Added by  06:10, 11 November 2004.
 * 7) Gabriel Grovlez -  Added by  on 14:28, 1 March 2005.
 * 8) Murray Seasongood  - added by  on 17:09, 23 August 2004.
 * 9) John Struthers (biologist) - stubbed; added by  on 15:17, March 14, 2005.
 * 10) William E. Johnson - Added by  on 15:21, 10 September 2005.
 * 11) Charles Fabry - Added by  on 06:28, 2 May 2006.
 * 12) Anna Magdalena Bach - Added by  on 01:39, 2 February 2005.
 * 13) Bat Masterson - Added by  on 00:19, 10 May 2004.
 * 14) Henryk Arctowski - Added by  on 15:29, 14 December 2004.
 * 15) John Skene - Added by  on 20:27, 18 February 2006.
 * 16) Albert Thomas - Added by  on 16:08, 22 May 2004.
 * 17) Thomas Gisborne - Added by  on 18:45, 26 June 2006.
 * 18) Lorenzino de' Medici - Added by, December 2005.
 * 19) Henri Pitot - Added by  on 08:45, 23 November 2004. Already deleted; other apparent copyvios include John Ffowcs Williams, Allan D. Pierce, and possibly  (no longer on live page). Marked all edits (inc. article creations ) minor for a while. Needs a closer look.
 * 20) George Formby (Senior) - Added by  on 13:44, January 19, 2006.
 * 21) Radomir Putnik - Added by  on 21:06, 25 December 2004. some of the stuff in the original version was from britannica.Geni 17:27, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
 * 22) Arthur Foote   - added by  on  05:55, September 4, 2006.
 * 23) Hulbert Footner - Added by  on 13:24, 12 July 2006.
 * 24) F. Matthias Alexander - added by  on 05:53, August 20, 2003.
 * 25) Landon Carter - Added by  on 5 July 2006. User has under 50 total edits.
 * 26) Milton Bradley - Added by  on 00:46, 29 July 2004.
 * 27) Jupiter Hammon - Added by  on 03:27, 14 December 2004.
 * 28) Ernst Mach - Added by  7 June 2002
 * 29) Max Pechstein - Added by  on 21:14, 1 September 2005.
 * 30) Harold Brighouse - Added by  on 01:14, 30 January 2006.
 * 31) Thomas Willis -  Added by  on 03:04, 15 October 2004.
 * 32) Meredith Miles Marmaduke - Added by  on 21:35, 10 July 2005.
 * 33) Rebecca Nurse - Added by  on 06:40, 29 May 2003.
 * 34) Albert Fonó - Added by  on 20:32, 11 March 2006.
 * 35) Josef Thorak - added by  on  21:15, December 21, 2005.
 * 36) Peter Lely - Added by  on00:09, 29 February 2004.
 * 37) James Tait - Added by  on 12:30, 7 April 2005.
 * 38) Anne Bradstreet - Added by  on 17:05, 7 February 2006.

Problem editor to be identified

 * 1) Thomas Coke (Methodist)
 * 2) Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard
 * 3) Charles Robinson
 * 4) Hans Rottenhammer  dealt with
 * 5) James E. West (Scouting) -- only one section was a copyvio
 * 6) Pieter Post stubbed
 * 7) Henry Bell tagged as copyvio
 * 8) Zénobe Gramme - dealt with
 * 9) James Francis Smith
 * 10) Thomas Ashby