User:Vary/copvio

List of probably plagiarized film-related bios

18:08, May 11, 2006 (hist) (diff) André De Toth

Another one to look into: Alexander Brullov

Suspicious, action taken

 * 1) Harry Horner
 * 2) Michael Relph
 * 3) Anne Bauchens
 * 4) William Kellner
 * 5) Jim Morahan
 * 6) Edward Carrere rewrote, didn't delete
 * 7) Tom Barry (screenwriter) nanostub, reworked text
 * 8) Victor Baravalle rewrote
 * 9) Brian Easdale removed additions
 * 10) Fay Babcock rewrote, left old revisions in place
 * 11) Jean Simmons removed copyvio, didn't delete from history
 * 12) Ellen Corby removed but didn't delete from history
 * 13) Irma von Cube no match online, but rewrote anyway
 * 14) John O. Aalberg even if it's not plagiarized, it reads like a love letter.  Rewrote, left history intact.
 * 15) Rodney Ackland rewrote, left history intact
 * 16) Vittorio de Sica reverted, left history intact
 * 17) Robert Rossen reverted, left history intact
 * 18) Jerome Cady rewrote, didn't delete old revisions
 * 19) Carol Reed text added in this diff is a match of this page, including a few words that were removed soon after the content was posted, in this diff. Archive.org doesn't know how long it's been there, but it's very unlikely that the other page copied from us, possible they're both copied from the same source.  Removed text, didn't delete.

Suspicious, no action taken yet

 * 1) John Ireland (actor) matches yahoo bio - again, need to check where their content comes from
 * 2) Gile Steele  no match
 * 3) Arthur Hilton - no match online, but lots of unwikified text dumped at once. Short edit history
 * 4) Lennie Hayton same deal, but history is slightly longer
 * 5) Alfred Junge Obviously copyvio, but not from allmovie (their bio is totally different).  Where is he getting these things?
 * 6) Wilfred Shingleton
 * 7) Robert Parrish
 * 8) Robert Bassler
 * 9) George White (film editor)
 * 10) Oscar Homolka Heavily edited since addition, most of the possibly plagiarized text is gone already.
 * 11) Johnny Green No action taken yet.
 * 12) Irving Allen
 * 13) Fred Zinnemann
 * 14) Borden Chase Contributed text is exact match, including mispellings that were quicly corrected here, for the Yahoo movies bio.  Either ours was copied from there or they were both submitted by the same person.  Will have to find out how y! gets their content and see if RJ ever responds to queries on his talk page
 * 15) Al Alleborn no matches, leaving alone for now.
 * 16) Winton Hoch no match, leaving for now
 * 17) George Amy matches imdb bio
 * 18) Arthur Lawson (designer) no match, leaving for now
 * 19) Roland Anderson no match
 * 20) Roger K. Furse no match
 * 21) William O. Wallace no match
 * 22) Dorothy Jeakins first revision matches bio on hollywood.com, including intro, which was changed withing two days. Don't know where they get their content, possible same contributor submitted both articles?
 * 23) Barbara Karinska no match
 * 24) Reginald Mills no match online
 * 25) Joseph McMillan Johnson

May be okay

 * 1) William Bowers
 * 2) Edward Anhalt
 * 3) Edna Anhalt
 * 4) Lesser Samuels
 * 5) Vittorio Nino Novarese
 * 6) Clem Beauchamp
 * 7) Kay Nelson tone
 * 8) Scott Beal tone issues
 * 9) William Travilla tone - 'slew', 'cutting his teeth', 'hugely successful'.
 * 10) Leah Rhodes wording could be more encyclopedic, though
 * 11) Jack Martin Smith again, seems to be gleaned from IMDB bio
 * 12) William Travilla
 * 13) Leah Rhodes
 * 14) Jack Martin Smith
 * 15) John Meehan very basic, largely rewritten ssince
 * 16) Lyle Reifsnider
 * 17) Charles Schoenbaum
 * 18) Ivan Jandl re-added text added by User:68.80.232.7 (talk· contribs) and removed as POV. Had since been re-removed.
 * 19) Ary Barroso Removed an uncited addition, but otherwise looks okay.
 * 20) Achmed Abdullah nanostub that doesn't have the same feel as the definite copyvios below.  Expanded dramatically since.
 * 21) Frank Sullivan (film editing) very short and straightforward, none of the 'valentine' language from many of the others. Probably safe.
 * 22) Ramey Idriess again, short and to the point, no flowery language, format doesn't match the others
 * 23) George Tibbles short and simple, no matches online
 * 24) Lionel Banks . No biographical info online, looks like he may have just worked from Banks's IMDB credit list.

Definite Copyvio - Fixed

 * 1) Marjorie Best Rewrote, deleted copyvio revisions
 * 2) James Basevi rewrote, deleted revisions containing copyvio
 * 3) Charles Barton new stub, deleted old revisions
 * 4) Sam Zimbalist new stub, deleted old revisions
 * 5) S. Sylvan Simon new stub, deleted old revisions
 * 6) George Barnes (cinematographer)    removed additions, didn't delete
 * 7) George Bancroft (actor) removed, didn't delete from history
 * 8) Douglas Morrow
 * 9) Sidney Meyers
 * 10) John L. Balderston
 * 11) Constantin Bakaleinikoff  new stub, old revisions deleted
 * 12) Joseph H. August new stub, old revisions deleted
 * 13) Robert Pirosh new stub, deleted old revisions
 * 14) Ethel Waters removed, didn't delete old revisions
 * 15) Mischa Auer removed, didn't delete old revisions
 * 16) Robert M. Haas currently deleted w/copyvio template
 * 17) Harry Beaumont new article, old revisions deleted
 * 18) Dan Dailey deleted all revisions since addition of copyvio
 * 19) Harmon Jones currently replaced w/copyvio template
 * 20) Ruth Orkin deleted all revisions since addition of copyvio
 * 21) Tom Tully  deleted all revisions since addition of copyvio
 * 22) Cecil Kellaway deleted all revisions since addition of copyvio
 * 23) Josef Myrow - wrote a stub and deleted revisions containing copyvio
 * 24) John Paxton - only one line was copyvio, removed
 * 25) Robert Strauss (actor) - rewrote a stub and deleted revisions containing copyvio
 * 26) Frank Partos new stub, deleted old revisions
 * 27) Jack Cummings rewrote, deleted old revisions
 * 28) Sara Allgood reverted to last copyvio-free version, deleted revisions containing copyvio
 * 29) Hein Heckroth  new stub, deleted old revisions
 * 30) Sol C. Siegel  new stub, deleted old revisions
 * 31) Sergio Amidei new stub, deleted old revisions
 * 32) Del Andrews new stub, deleted old revisions
 * 33) Dean Jagger Additions made in this diff are clearly copied from the IMDB bio - definitely not the other way around. Removing copyvio without deleting any revisions because the diffs are of interest to the overall case.
 * 34) Arthur E. Arling new stub, deleted old revisions
 * 35) Jean Arthur removed, didn't delete old revisions
 * 36) Irving Asher new stub, deleted old revisions
 * 37) Christian Nyby removed copyvio and deleted revisions containing it