Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20171021

Instructions
All contributors with no history of copyright problems are welcome to contribute to clean up. Contributors who are the subject of a contributor copyright investigation are among contributors with a history of copyright problems and so are not welcome to directly evaluate their own or others' copyright violations in CCIs. They are welcome to assist with rewriting any problems identified.

If contributors have been shown to have a history of extensive copyright violation, it may be assumed without further evidence that all of their major contributions are copyright violations, and they may be removed indiscriminately in accordance with Copyright violations. Contributors who are the subject of a contributor copyright investigation are among contributors who have been shown to have a history of extensive copyright violation and so all of the below listed contributions may be removed indiscriminately. However, to avoid collateral damage, efforts should be made when possible to verify infringement before removal.

When every section is completed, please alter the listing for this CCI at CCI to include the tag "completed=yes". This will alert a clerk that the listing needs to be archived.

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 * Examine the article or the diffs linked below.
 * If the contributor has added creative content, either evaluate it carefully for copyright concerns or remove it.
 * Evaluating for copyright concerns may include checking the listed sources, spot-checking using google, google books and other search engines and looking for major differences in writing style. The background may give some indication of the kinds of copyright concerns that have been previously detected. For older text, mirrors of Wikipedia content may make determining which came first difficult. It may be helpful to look for significant changes to the text after it was entered. Searching for the earlier form of text can help eliminate later mirrors. If you cannot determine which came first, text should be removed presumptively, since there is an established history of copying with the editor in question.
 * If you remove text presumptively, place   on the article's talk page.
 * If you specifically locate infringement and remove it (or revert to a previous clean version), place   on the article's talk page. The url parameter may be optionally used to indicate source.
 * If there is insufficient creative content on the page for it to survive the removal of the text or it is impossible to extricate from subsequent improvements, replace it with, linking to the investigation subpage in the url parameter. List the article as instructed at the copyright problems board, but you do not need to notify the contributor. Your note on the CCI investigation page serves that purpose.
 * To tag an article created by the contributor for presumptive deletion, place  on the article's face and   on the article's talk page. List the article as instructed at the copyright problems board, but you do not need to notify the contributor.


 * After examining an article:
 * replace the diffs after the colon on the listing with indication of whether a problem was found (add y) or not (add n). If the article is blanked and may be deleted, please indicate as much after the y. The ? template may be used for articles where you were unable to determine whether or not a violation occurred, but are prepared to remove the article from consideration – either because the material is no longer present in the article, or it is adequately paraphrased so as to no longer be a violation (please specify which).
 * Follow with your username and the time to indicate to others that the article has been evaluated and appropriately addressed. This is automatically generated by four tildes ( ~ )


 * If a section is complete, consider collapsing it by placing collapse top and collapse bottom beneath the section header and after the final listing.

Background
 Helenrp
 * Check requested by –CaroleHenson (talk)
 * This user has been creating stub / start articles using biographies from the online version (example) of Dictionary of Welsh Biography. At best, there are close paraphrasing issues, but in many cases there are clear copyvio issues in the articles created by the user. The user was blocked indefinitely on May 4, 2016 for copyright violations diff. At the request of a Wikimedian in Residence at the National Library of Wales, the user was unblocked six days later. I came across this user after working on an article in the Special:NewPagesFeed and then finding that there was an ongoing issue now.
 * This user has been creating stub / start articles using biographies from the online version (example) of Dictionary of Welsh Biography. At best, there are close paraphrasing issues, but in many cases there are clear copyvio issues in the articles created by the user. The user was blocked indefinitely on May 4, 2016 for copyright violations diff. At the request of a Wikimedian in Residence at the National Library of Wales, the user was unblocked six days later. I came across this user after working on an article in the Special:NewPagesFeed and then finding that there was an ongoing issue now.

The user has created 258 articles as of this date. The most recent identification of articles with copyright issues are:


 * John Davies (composer and stone-mason) - was nominated for CSD based upon WP:G12, but someone worked on the article
 * John Davies (Unitarian minister and schoolmaster) - was nominated for CSD based upon WP:G12, but someone worked on the article
 * Owen Humphrey Davies - has been nominated for CSD based upon WP:G12
 * Owen Picton Davies (journalist) - the article that I worked on and had previous versions hidden after paraphrasing.
 * Owen Davies (Baptist minister) - report, needs to either be deleted or paraphrased
 * Oliver Davies (harpist) - report, although a very short stub, there was no attempt to change the order of the words or paraphrase. Since it's so short though, it's an easy fix.
 * Moses Davies - report - not a great job paraphrasing, three copyvio phrases in author's voice (e.g., "to substitute women for men in the singing of treble parts.")
 * Morris Davies - report - not a great job paraphrasing. Words in the same order, except mixing up names of four towns he worked as a carpenter.

The user was reminded about copyright issues on June 22, 2017 diff, but continued to create articles without properly paraphrasing content.

Users that have tried to encourage / warn the user to write articles without copyright violations include, beginning on August 18, 2015 diff. It does not appear that this user is respecting copyright law or warnings.–CaroleHenson (talk) 16:01, 4 August 2017 (UTC) –CaroleHenson (talk) 16:01, 4 August 2017 (UTC)


 * As an FYI, I have started this list to start to work some of the 258 articles.–CaroleHenson (talk) 16:23, 4 August 2017 (UTC)


 * I worked about 45 or so of the articles, but it has become a bit overwhelming. It would be good to get someone's take about whether or not these are copyvio issues.–CaroleHenson (talk) 15:31, 13 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Accepting, definitely enough that needs to be cleaned here. Wizardman  14:36, 21 October 2017 (UTC)

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