Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Muar State Railway


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The result was KEEP. postdlf (talk) 13:30, 31 October 2011 (UTC)

Muar State Railway

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Was tagged as copyvio, but I declined because of doubts raised on the talk page about whether the alleged source is actually copying us. Nominating without prejudice for peer review of copyright concerns, etc. causa sui (talk) 16:34, 24 October 2011 (UTC)
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 * Comment. As I've been informed, the allegation was that the contents of the article was copied wholesale from this August 2009 blog post. But the Wikipedia article originally started out as a draft on my sandbox in 2008 and was posted in the mainspace somewhere in late-2008 or early-2009, before it was deleted in April 2010 due to "unambiguous copyright infringement"; an editor with privileges can check the creation date of the original article, but it doesn't matter because the draft existed far back enough that it is impossible for it to be a copyvio. - Two hundred percent (talk) 18:43, 24 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Keep. I was the original tagger but following the discussion on the article's talk page I don't think it's clear cut. Probably a reverse copyvio. andy (talk) 23:32, 24 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep - It appears the other page had the copyvio, not WP's. --Oakshade (talk) 00:28, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep. Appears to be a case of mistaken copyvio application. This has also happened to me (an article I wrote on Wikipedia about a very notable government organisation was actually posted on that organisation's website by a lazy webmaster as their official history with no attribution, following which my article was tagged as a copyvio on WP), so I sympathise with the original author. -- Necrothesp (talk) 08:46, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
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