Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/Archive/Declined 2009-2013

2009-2010
 Cladu1u
 * Reported by Orange Mike
 * has been wholesale uploading pictures of European footballers, particularly Romanians, from copyrighted sites, with no rationale Orange Mike   &#x007C;   Talk  02:42, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
 * All images already deleted, so there's nothing we can do (unless you want us to look at text too, but I see no evidence of text infringement). Had a look on Commons, found only one deleted upload. Block him if he uploads copyvios again. MER-C 04:02, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
 * All images already deleted, so there's nothing we can do (unless you want us to look at text too, but I see no evidence of text infringement). Had a look on Commons, found only one deleted upload. Block him if he uploads copyvios again. MER-C 04:02, 17 November 2009 (UTC)

 0XQ
 * Reported by Pcap ping
 * He created multiple articles consisting mainly of paragraph-long quotations from the same book, Oragenitalism. E.g. Bowling-Hold_(sexual_technique), (now a redirect), Traité_didactique_de_la_Plume, Playing_the_harmonica_(sexual_technique) (prodded as "howto" -- not sure I agree with the reason, I think it's mostly copyvio), Trip_around_the_world_(sexual_technique) (was speedied by User:Deon, but for the wrong reason, so declined), etc. I don't have time to take part in rewriting such articles, so I'm just reporting it here. Pcap  ping  09:38, 31 December 2009 (UTC)
 * This is a recent issue that does not require a full CCI. However, I have blanked the relevant articles pending rewrite, failing which they will probably be deleted. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 22:22, 2 January 2010 (UTC)
 * This is a recent issue that does not require a full CCI. However, I have blanked the relevant articles pending rewrite, failing which they will probably be deleted. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 22:22, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

 Blackknight12
 * Reported by Cordless Larry (talk)
 * Having noticed File:British Sri Lankans born ic Sri Lanka.png, I tagged the article for speedy deletion as a clear copyright violation. Heading to the image uploader's user talk page to notify them, I discovered a long list of copyright violation warnings going back a significant length of time. I am therefore requesting that this behaviour be investigated. Cordless Larry (talk) 22:38, 27 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Having noticed File:British Sri Lankans born ic Sri Lanka.png, I tagged the article for speedy deletion as a clear copyright violation. Heading to the image uploader's user talk page to notify them, I discovered a long list of copyright violation warnings going back a significant length of time. I am therefore requesting that this behaviour be investigated. Cordless Larry (talk) 22:38, 27 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Above file deleted. I have blocked the user for two weeks while this is investigated. NW ( Talk ) 22:51, 27 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Most of this user's uploads have already been tagged for various forms of deletion -- I'll come back later to see whether the remaining stuff warrants an image investigation. This user is also a former text infringer. These prior contribs (before June last year) don't appear to have been investigated systematically, in particular because Pandukabhaya of Sri Lanka is a copy from . MER-C 04:30, 1 January 2010 (UTC)
 * We made an effort, anyway. :) It's at WikiProject Copyright Cleanup/Blackknight12. That one was checked, but the infringement was overlooked because it was added by a different contributor. :/ . I've spoken to that one about copyvio issues before, too: User talk:Svm1 63. I'll take a quick look at recent history to see if we need a CCI on him. Sigh. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 16:27, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

Taking out the ones that aren't tagged for deletion or valid fair use we have 12 remaining images of concern:
 * File:Sinhalese of India, Mumbai, India, 1897.jpg
 * File:Elara’s bell and cow.jpg
 * File:Ehelepola, Molligoda and Kapuvatta with D'Oyly.jpg
 * File:Kandyan Convention Signatories.jpg
 * File:Kandyan Convention.jpg
 * File:Sri Lankan Provinces and districts.PNG
 * File:SL-Army-OR9 Warrant Officer Class I.PNG
 * File:SL-Army-OR8 Warrant Officer Class II.PNG
 * File:SL-Army-OR7 Staff Sergeant.PNG
 * File:SL-Army-OR5n6 Sergeant.PNG
 * File:SL-Army-OR4 Corporal.PNG
 * File:SL-Army-OR3 Lance Corporal.PNG

six of which are probably similar to File:SL-Navy-OR9 Admiral.PNG and the others plausible. I'm not sure whether this warrants a full investigation. Would like a second opinion, though. MER-C 03:17, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
 * I've asked User:Dcoetzee to have a look, and he indicates he will. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 20:11, 19 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Sorry for the delay! My review:
 * File:Sinhalese of India, Mumbai, India, 1897.jpg - PD, would be either PD-art or PD-old-100 on Commons.
 * File:Elara’s bell and cow.jpg - PD-Art, surface is sufficiently flat and work goes back to 12th century or so.
 * File:Ehelepola, Molligoda and Kapuvatta with D'Oyly.jpg - Probably PD-Art, appears to be taken from a book describing describing history of a few centuries ago.
 * File:Kandyan Convention Signatories.jpg - PD, dates to 1815.
 * File:Kandyan Convention.jpg - PD, dates to 1815.
 * File:Sri Lankan Provinces and districts.PNG - Source is unclear - I doubt he actually drew it from scratch - but it's indistinguishable from a map constructed from public domain sources like the CIA World Factbook, so it's fine.
 * File:SL-Army-OR9 Warrant Officer Class I.PNG, File:SL-Army-OR8 Warrant Officer Class II.PNG, File:SL-Army-OR7 Staff Sergeant.PNG, File:SL-Army-OR5n6 Sergeant.PNG, File:SL-Army-OR4 Corporal.PNG, File:SL-Army-OR3 Lance Corporal.PNG - Not free, but has a non-free media use rationale (albeit not a very good one). Comparable images are used under fair use, and I think that's reasonable given the low res and the irreplacability.
 * I would admonish them about including better, more detailed image descriptions and rationales. Some just have a URL or an unsourced date, and the rationales make only the vague claim that "There is no equivalent of same or greater quality." But the images should probably stick around regardless. Dcoetzee 00:00, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Awesome. We're done here. Thanks. MER-C 02:22, 21 January 2010 (UTC)

 209.89.240.125
 * Reported by Supertouch (talk)
 * At the moment, this user has only seven edits three of which are clearly cut-and-pasted from a website:
 * Ahmad ibn Hanbal from http://www.islamicawakening.com/viewarticle.php?articleID=1193&
 * Hanbali from http://www.islamicawakening.com/viewarticle.php?articleID=1193&
 * As it says on the top of this page, CCI is a "process intended to identify users who have repeatedly introduced copyright violations into many articles, typically over a long period of time, and to systematically remove this infringing material." A CCI is not needed for a user/IP with only seven edits.  The left orium  15:05, 22 March 2010 (UTC)
 * per above MER-C 09:45, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
 * per above MER-C 09:45, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

 Andyjsmith
 * Reported by Chazella (talk)
 * User posted a link to an illegal downloading site encouraging others to download BBC copyrighted material (without saying it was illegal). The link infected my computer with malware. Due to the severity of the virus attack, this user should be investigated as soon as possible. The link has been flagged at Articles_for_deletion/Spaceduck. Chazella (talk) 22:17, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Declined pending evidence. Please read the directions above, particularly where it says, "As a rule of thumb, at least five instances of clear copyvios (copy/pasting of unlicensed third party material; clear derivative works) should be required to file a case." If you believe administrator intervention is required here, you can take up at WP:ANI, but this is not a WP:CCI. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 22:26, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Declined pending evidence. Please read the directions above, particularly where it says, "As a rule of thumb, at least five instances of clear copyvios (copy/pasting of unlicensed third party material; clear derivative works) should be required to file a case." If you believe administrator intervention is required here, you can take up at WP:ANI, but this is not a WP:CCI. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 22:26, 27 May 2010 (UTC)

 JJavie
 * Reported by  Snotty Wong   spill the beans
 * While patrolling new pages, I ran across an article that Jjavie recently created, Cupp v. Murphy. It looks quite suspicious as a copy/paste, but I cannot find any source on the internet from which it was copied.  The article is quite long and detailed (for a new article), mostly un-wikified, completely unreferenced, and it was created over the course of only about an hour and a half.  A quick look at this user's contributions shows that they have created four other similar articles in the same pattern: all fairly detailed new articles created in a very short amount of time.  I can't help but think that this user is copying this material from a source that is not accessible on the internet, but I have absolutely no proof.  Can someone else take a look at this and see if I'm just being paranoid?  I haven't notified the user of this request for an investigation, because if this request is unfounded, I'd rather it be speedily closed than risk discouraging them from creating what are otherwise pretty good articles.  If an investigation is opened, please ensure that Jjavie has been notified.  Thanks.   Snotty Wong   spill the beans 21:47, 2 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Just at a quick run through, at least some of their material is PD as Supreme Court releases. Compare Colorado v. Bannister to a PD source and Maryland v. Buie to its PD source. I haven't looked through all of their contributions, but while there is missing attribution for the PD sources, I haven't seen any copyright violations for the part that's not PD. VernoWhitney (talk) 22:06, 2 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Just at a quick run through, at least some of their material is PD as Supreme Court releases. Compare Colorado v. Bannister to a PD source and Maryland v. Buie to its PD source. I haven't looked through all of their contributions, but while there is missing attribution for the PD sources, I haven't seen any copyright violations for the part that's not PD. VernoWhitney (talk) 22:06, 2 July 2010 (UTC)

The five articles created by this user (representing the user's entire contributions) are:
 * Colorado v. Bannister -- as above
 * Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Brady -- likely PD
 * Cupp v. Murphy
 * Search and Seizure Law in Pennsylvania
 * Maryland v. Buie -- as above

I don't see a need for an investigation here. MER-C 02:27, 4 July 2010 (UTC)


 * Fair enough, I'll withdraw my request for an investigation. Thanks.    Snotty Wong   spout 17:42, 7 July 2010 (UTC)

 Agradman
 * Reported by VernoWhitney (talk)
 * History of creating articles from copied material (now at 27 CorenSearchBot notices), much of the older content is PD, but the recent contributions are tending problematic. Recent examples include Jury fees tagged close paraphrase, Femme couverte which I would have been blanked had it not already been redirected, Information and belief (was blanked, since cleaned), and more articles which CSBot missed including Praeter legem (was blanked, since cleaned) and Intergovernmental immunity VernoWhitney (talk) 02:43, 3 August 2010 (UTC) VernoWhitney (talk) 02:43, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
 * This is user:Agradman. I am taking a Wikibreak for a few weeks due to professional commitments, but I just visited my user page, saw a notice from VernoWhitney (VW) regarding this thread, and am taking up VW's invitation to explain my recent articles.  I won't be monitoring this conversation, so I hope someone will email me if, at any point, you would like me to read or contribute to whatever ensues.
 * My response essentially boils down to this: Although I have good-faith doubts about whether my paraphrases were Copyvios, I apologize for being sloppy.  If you determine that I have, in fact, crossed the copyvio line, then please indicate those articles to me; in a few weeks or months, when I return from my wikibreak, I will assist in expunging the Copyvios from the articles in question (perhaps by asking an administrator to show me the histories of deleted articles), and I will avoid similar practices in the future.  Fortunately, not many of my articles were contaminated; my sloppiness was a recent thing.
 * First, I understand how my behaviors were suspicious. After VW directly contacted me regarding two articles that struck VW as close paraphrases, I have made more articles in the same vein.
 * I did so because I did not feel that I was committing any copyvio. I always tried to dilute these paraphrases as far as possible so that, to my eye, they weren't "close."  In many but not all cases, I also included my source in the article.  To use VW's own phrase, these articles are "tending problematic"; although I either infringed or I didn't, in this case it certainly is a close call.
 * Second: to save your investigation a headache, you will be happy to know that there really isn't any risk of infection in articles I wrote prior to Exception_in_deed. According to Soxred93's tools, I have written 979 articles to date.  Sometime around article #925-ish, I suddenly got it into my head that I wanted to attain 1,000 by the end of the summer.  The sloppiness began at that point; Exception in deed was the first article I wrote as part of this rushed stretch.  As to the articles prior to that, I have made almost exclusive use of Congressional Research Service Reports or other public domain texts as my sources.  Note, in particular, that the articles appearing on my Soxred93 list between Equivalence_(trade) and Aarhus_Protocol_on_Persistent_Organic_Pollutants represent almost all the articles employing the CRS template.
 * Third, as to my intentions: I appreciate VW's pointing out that most of the 27 CorenSearchBot notices were false positives, based on PD content.  I have a long history of honoring copyright here; I have drawn so heavily on public domain sources precisely because I respect the need to keep copyright infringement off of Wikipedia.  However, does not excuse sloppiness in the here and now, and I would like to apologize: to VernoWhitney, for putting you to the trouble of this investigation; as well as to the whole WP community, insofar as (in your determination) I have in fact violated copyvio.
 * Finally, going forward: If you determine that I have, in fact, crossed the copyvio line, then please indicate those articles to me; in a few weeks or months, when I return from my wikibreak, I will assist in expunging the Copyvios from the articles in question (perhaps by asking an administrator to show me the histories of deleted articles).  And before I create new articles again, I will return to this thread, learn from your conclusions (as to whether I have in fact done copyvio), and take your conclusions to heart.  Thanks.  user:Agradman, editing for tonight as 75.4.17.253 (talk) 07:34, 4 August 2010 (UTC).
 * Finally, going forward: If you determine that I have, in fact, crossed the copyvio line, then please indicate those articles to me; in a few weeks or months, when I return from my wikibreak, I will assist in expunging the Copyvios from the articles in question (perhaps by asking an administrator to show me the histories of deleted articles).  And before I create new articles again, I will return to this thread, learn from your conclusions (as to whether I have in fact done copyvio), and take your conclusions to heart.  Thanks.  user:Agradman, editing for tonight as 75.4.17.253 (talk) 07:34, 4 August 2010 (UTC).


 * Thank you very much for your frankness. Are you by any chance able to identify a date where you believe the concerns may begin? Article #925 on the list is at this moment After acquired property clause, which was created in June 2009. I suspect from what you say that this is not the turning point. The program we use to list contributions does permit date parameters, so this could be very helpful. If a spotcheck of content from prior to that date discloses no problems, we may be able to substantially narrow down the check. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 12:43, 5 August 2010 (UTC)


 * The page created list is ordered in reverse, so we would be looking at articles 1-58, and Exception in deed was created on 27 July 2010, so that would narrow it down a great deal. VernoWhitney (talk) 16:43, 5 August 2010 (UTC)


 * Yes, I was unclear; what I meant is, I am referring to all articles appearing above "exception in deed" on the list.
 * I have attempted to save you some time by going through this articles and "triaging" them for copyvio. Please see User:Agradman/sandbox.
 * Thanks, user:Agradman editing as 167.10.240.1 (talk) 17:58, 5 August 2010 (UTC)

Update: Of the 11 articles that I have identified as potentially copyvio, seven have now been marked as remedied (on User:Agradman/sandbox). Thanks. user:Agradman editing as 160.39.220.21 (talk) 18:37, 9 August 2010 (UTC).
 * Update: Of the 11 articles that I have identified as potentially copyvio, all 11 are now marked as remedied.  (on User:Agradman/sandbox).
 * I hope this leads to the closing/non-opening of this investigation.
 * VernoWhitney and Moonriddengirl: Thanks for assuming good faith and giving me the opportunity to demonstrate it.  I won't be creating new articles for a while ... but when I do, I will now know how not to violate PARAPHRASE.
 * Thanks. user:Agradman, editing as 128.59.179.241 (talk) 06:20, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
 * I had a look at this... I think we can call this resolved. MER-C 07:35, 13 August 2010 (UTC)

 User:Johnadonovan
 * Reported by Sf5xeplus (talk)
 * Articles created by editor Royal Dutch Shell market manipulation, Royal Dutch Shell environmental issues , Royal Dutch Shell safety concerns All contain extensive (~50%) of the text copied from copyrighted sources, and placed in quotations, and referenced. The articles still have the same problem in their current (8 Aug 2010) versions. Effectively the article have been written by quotation, with the user generated content acting as glue between the copied text. The quoted text is not necessary in most cases. It is not a fair use example of quotation use. Sf5xeplus (talk) 16:34, 8 August 2010 (UTC)
 * I'm sorry that this one has languished so long. The problem is, really, that it's a bit out of scope for us. I agree with you that this is a concern, but not really the kind of thing this board was created to handle. Since this contributor has contributed to only 24 articles in the entirety of his career on Wikipedia, though, it should be a simple matter to sort (if not to resolve). I'll move this matter to WT:CP and address it from there. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 12:23, 22 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Update: Due to various WP:COI issues with the articles the editor has done, someone else has out one up for Articles for deletion/Royal Dutch Shell safety concerns is a proposed deletion, and likely(?) that other may also be proposed if that is deleted. That only leaves other articles such as Sakhalin II on which the editor has been editing. Its probably worth not making any effort soon on the articles until the deletion process has gone through its steps.Sf5xeplus (talk) 15:51, 22 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Update: Due to various WP:COI issues with the articles the editor has done, someone else has out one up for Articles for deletion/Royal Dutch Shell safety concerns is a proposed deletion, and likely(?) that other may also be proposed if that is deleted. That only leaves other articles such as Sakhalin II on which the editor has been editing. Its probably worth not making any effort soon on the articles until the deletion process has gone through its steps.Sf5xeplus (talk) 15:51, 22 August 2010 (UTC)

 Sam004
 * Reported by VernoWhitney (talk)
 * Copyvio added to Forest Hills Golf Club, William B. Langford, H. J. Whigham, Victor F. Lawson and the original version of Joseph Melville See per . VernoWhitney (talk) 14:42, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Copyvio added to Forest Hills Golf Club, William B. Langford, H. J. Whigham, Victor F. Lawson and the original version of Joseph Melville See per . VernoWhitney (talk) 14:42, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

Bleh, might as well paste the contribution survey here:


 * H. J. Whigham: (2 edits, 2 major, +1429) per nom
 * Midlothian Country Club: A bit close, revised. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 13:34, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Sigrid Valdis: (2 edits, 2 major, +1107) removed MER-C 04:36, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Victor F. Lawson: (5 edits, 5 major, +1046) per nom
 * Aurora Country Club: (2 edits, 2 major, +915) Cleaned. VernoWhitney (talk) 22:59, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Downers Grove train wreck (1947): (4 edits, 4 major, +746) Cleaned. VernoWhitney (talk) 23:00, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Forest Hills Golf Club: (2 edits, 2 major, +566) per nom
 * Joseph Melville See: (4 edits, 4 major, +543) Unattributed intrawiki copying - added attribution in edit summary. VernoWhitney (talk) 23:06, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Get Back: (1 edits, 1 major, +533) already removed MER-C 13:15, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Dick Nugent: Article created by contributor follows closely in order, but very bare bones. I think it's okay. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 16:55, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
 * ETECSA: Removed. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 16:52, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Windstream Communications: Cleaned. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 16:50, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Pep Boys: (1 edits, 1 major, +191)  No source found, but removed as unsourced. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 16:46, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
 * The Doors: (1 edits, 1 major, +158)  I didn't find a source, so I didn't remove, but it looks pretty hinky to me. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 16:23, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
 * The End (The Doors song): Seems to be clear. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 16:21, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
 * James Foulis: (1 edits, 1 major, +111) MER-C 13:13, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Chicago Golf Club: (1 edits, 1 major, +104) MER-C 13:13, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Green Lake, Wisconsin: No source I found, and minimal even if there is one. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 15:52, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

I think we can avoid opening a full investigation here. MER-C 13:13, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Sounds good. The one I've just opened is heartbreaking enough as it is. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 13:18, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Note to myself or others: Copyrighted content is also present on their userpage. VernoWhitney (talk) 13:39, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

 PeterRoyce
 * Reported by Jsayre64   (talk)
 * The editor has already been blocked for copyright infringement. (S)he has uploaded 544 images, and some of them have already been tagged and deleted. Most information can be obtained at his/her talk page and at a little discussion here. Jsayre64   (talk)  23:16, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
 * According to the upload logs, every single file they've uploaded here and at commons has already been deleted. Are there some other accounts that are related? Is there something else I'm missing? VernoWhitney (talk) 23:35, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
 * That number comes from them claiming "I can upload all 544 photos", not that they've actually uploaded that many. VernoWhitney (talk) 23:55, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Really, they've all been deleted? Well I do recall that the discussion I read at User talk:Noq was maybe a week old. Noq and User:HJ_Mitchell may have some other information about this case. I'll alert them of there being an investigation. Jsayre64   (talk)  01:16, 6 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Yup, admins have deleted all the images (s)he's uploaded. At this point, I'm not sure if copyright is really an issue with this editor anymore. I can't find anything else that's disturbing. What do you think would be best to do now? Jsayre64   (talk)  21:40, 6 October 2010 (UTC)
 * They're indef-blocked and all of their images deleted, so that's all for this request - if they come back with a different account and start with more copyvios we can open a new one if we need to. VernoWhitney (talk) 21:54, 6 October 2010 (UTC)
 * They're indef-blocked and all of their images deleted, so that's all for this request - if they come back with a different account and start with more copyvios we can open a new one if we need to. VernoWhitney (talk) 21:54, 6 October 2010 (UTC)

 Kunnskap LeadSongDog come howl!  02:10, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Reported by LeadSongDog come howl!
 * User's recent contribs have added content from Snopes, Mythbusters, and other urban legends websites to articles
 * see contribs at Fireplace, Snowflake and Psycho (film) for examples
 * see contribs at Fireplace, Snowflake and Psycho (film) for examples
 * All of the user's contributions have been reverted except for two: and . MER-C 04:51, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Thank you. Even one of those two appears to be a copyvio, though the original is not presently available.LeadSongDog come howl!  20:23, 20 October 2010 (UTC)


 * The article Microbeads appears to be clear. He has not edited anything else since the 20th. I would suggest we archive this one unless it becomes necessary in the future. Hopefully, since the contributor has been caught early and clearly warned, it won't develop into a major problem but will be swiftly handled if there are recurrences! --Moonriddengirl (talk) 13:06, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
 * per above. MER-C 09:15, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

 Aldeeanehh
 * Reported by Magog the Ogre (talk)
 * I gave the user a final warning specifically for imagevios, then discovered another message on his/her page for this vio in text. I haven't blocked as it's been 9 days since this last edit. Magog the Ogre (talk) 20:57, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
 * I gave the user a final warning specifically for imagevios, then discovered another message on his/her page for this vio in text. I haven't blocked as it's been 9 days since this last edit. Magog the Ogre (talk) 20:57, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

This is the entire contents of the contribution survey. MER-C 02:07, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
 * List of Justin Bieber songs: (8 edits, 8 major, +7799)  Magog the Ogre (talk) 02:34, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
 * List of Songs by Justin Bieber: (1 edits, 1 major, +1434)  Magog the Ogre (talk) 02:34, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Only Girl (In the World): (2 edits, 2 major, +914)  cleaned Magog the Ogre (talk) 02:34, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Loud (Rihanna album): (2 edits, 2 major, +760)  cleaned Magog the Ogre (talk) 02:34, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Love the Way You Lie: (4 edits, 4 major, +755)  cleaned Magog the Ogre (talk) 02:34, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Miley Cyrus: (3 edits, 3 major, +747)  Magog the Ogre (talk) 02:34, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Rihanna: (1 edits, 1 major, +337) MER-C 02:07, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Loving You No More: (1 edits, 1 major, +234) MER-C 02:07, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
 * List of Rihanna songs: (3 edits, 3 major, +204) MER-C 02:07, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
 * What's My Name? (Rihanna song): (1 edits, 1 major, +203)  Magog the Ogre (talk) 02:34, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
 * David Guetta: (1 edits, 1 major, +128)  Magog the Ogre (talk) 02:34, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
 * 2010 Teen Choice Awards: (1 edits, 1 major, +121) MER-C 02:07, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Just Stand Up!: (1 edits, 1 major, +104) MER-C 02:07, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

 Icasite
 * Reported by Dougweller (talk)
 * Imperialist competitive algorithm is a newly created article by a new user. A quick search turns up a large number of copyvios (interestingly enough, writers of journal articles in this field appear to be guilty of the same). Thus is the (or a) source of "modeled by picking some (usually one) of one of the colonies of the weakest empire and making a competition among all empires to possess these (this) colonies." and " The total power of an empire depends on both the power of the imperialist country and the power of its colonies." and almost all of the section on pseudocode. Another source is,  A search on "starts with an initial population. Each individual of the population is called a country" and other excerpts turns up this article  although you can only see it with a google search as the snippets show it but you can't read the article itself. Dougweller (talk) 07:03, 25 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Imperialist competitive algorithm is a newly created article by a new user. A quick search turns up a large number of copyvios (interestingly enough, writers of journal articles in this field appear to be guilty of the same). Thus is the (or a) source of "modeled by picking some (usually one) of one of the colonies of the weakest empire and making a competition among all empires to possess these (this) colonies." and " The total power of an empire depends on both the power of the imperialist country and the power of its colonies." and almost all of the section on pseudocode. Another source is,  A search on "starts with an initial population. Each individual of the population is called a country" and other excerpts turns up this article  although you can only see it with a google search as the snippets show it but you can't read the article itself. Dougweller (talk) 07:03, 25 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Icasite: I modified the article Imperialist competitive algorithm to address the mentioned comments and also provided an explanation of some issues in my talk page ((talk)) and also sent an email to Dougweller
 * The problem is that there is quite a bit of text copied directly from other sources, referenced or not. Dougweller (talk) 20:48, 25 November 2010 (UTC)
 * I am not a CCI clerk, but this clearly does not belong on wp:CCI as it only involves a single article. I suggest taking this to wp:CP and follow instructions there. Yoenit (talk) 20:57, 25 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Listed on WP:CP and . MER-C 04:36, 26 November 2010 (UTC)

 Mymcheung
 * Reported by Hairhorn (talk)
 * User's only contributions are a long list of dicdef entries, usually as new articles. More than two dozen have been deleted for copyright violation, almost entirely content copied out of architecture and construction books. There are remaining entries that I can't find copyvio sources for, but given that this user copies out of books, I wouldn't expect to find everything online. No response on user's talk page, they've already been given a short block, but a mass blanking of remaining posts may be needed. Hairhorn (talk) 01:48, 12 November 2010 (UTC)
 * All contributions by this user have been redirected or reverted except for the ones in userspace. MER-C 04:45, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
 * That was already the case when I filed this request; copyvio in userspace is still copyvio, no? Hairhorn (talk) 18:30, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
 * The userpages of concern are User:Mymcheung/Resilient flooring, User:Mymcheung/Grade MW, User:Mymcheung/Dressed lumber, User:Mymcheung/High-early-strength cement, User:Mymcheung/Fiber saturation point, User:Mymcheung/Mortise-and-tenon joint.
 * The userpages of concern are User:Mymcheung/Resilient flooring, User:Mymcheung/Grade MW, User:Mymcheung/Dressed lumber, User:Mymcheung/High-early-strength cement, User:Mymcheung/Fiber saturation point, User:Mymcheung/Mortise-and-tenon joint.


 * A CCI is a systematic investigation of live contributions for copyright problems so that they can be removed. As the contributor's mainspace edits have already been reverted, I don't see a need for a CCI here. Can someone please make these userpages disappear? MER-C 05:33, 25 November 2010 (UTC)
 * All userspace pages deleted as confirmed or presumptive copyvio. VernoWhitney (talk) 16:36, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

<div class="boilerplate metadata" style="background:#dee; border:1px solid #00c; margin:0.5em; padding:0.5em;; padding: 0.1em;"> Tarekmech
 * Reported by Magog the Ogre (talk)
 * many previous imagevios: ; the rest include images that sure don't look self-taken. Magog the Ogre (talk) 21:58, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
 * See also Possibly unfree files/2010 November 9. MER-C 05:02, 11 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Looks like all of them are now deleted. Wizardman  19:01, 11 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Looks like all of them are now deleted. Wizardman  19:01, 11 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Resolved without need to open a full investigation. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 14:10, 17 December 2010 (UTC)

<div class="boilerplate metadata" style="background:#dee; border:1px solid #00c; margin:0.5em; padding:0.5em;; padding: 0.1em;"> Onefoory
 * Reported by Dre.comandante (talk)
 * Uploaded many copyrighted images, for example File:Markus_Haris.jpg might be taken from here Dre.comandante (talk) 22:28, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
 * I've deleted that image and one other as copyvio where I could identify the source, but that's all I've got so far. Are you able to provide sources for more of their images? VernoWhitney (talk) 01:42, 15 December 2010 (UTC)
 * I checked several more, all of which were copyvios. I deleted all of this user's uploads and left a warning on their talk page. Not sure if it's worth checking for copy-pasting text... if not, nothing more to see here! Calliopejen1 (talk) 03:02, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks. The others sure looked hinky but I couldn't track down the sources to confirm. They haven't contributed any prose so that's all for this one. VernoWhitney (talk) 14:26, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks. The others sure looked hinky but I couldn't track down the sources to confirm. They haven't contributed any prose so that's all for this one. VernoWhitney (talk) 14:26, 22 December 2010 (UTC)

2011
<div class="boilerplate metadata" style="background:#dee; border:1px solid #00c; margin:0.5em; padding:0.5em;; padding: 0.1em;"> Crustybum
 * Reported by :| TelCo  NaSp  Ve :|
 * Lots of stuff that he created has been G12'ed, as seen from his talk page (e.g. The Brummies Begining and Brummies Begining) yet he continues to c&p from the brummies website. Graham Warren, copied from this same bio, and Zdeněk Kudrna copied from this, are amongst the worst affected. :| TelCo  NaSp  Ve :|  08:29, 25 January 2011 (UTC)
 * I cleaned out the rest of this user's mainspace edits. Nothing to investigate => . MER-C 10:32, 25 January 2011 (UTC)
 * I cleaned out the rest of this user's mainspace edits. Nothing to investigate => . MER-C 10:32, 25 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Shouldn't those be RD1'ed? :| TelCo  NaSp  Ve :|  06:18, 26 January 2011 (UTC)
 * You're free to nominate. Normally I don't bother unless there is a chance the content will be restored. MER-C 04:27, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

<div class="boilerplate metadata" style="background:#dee; border:1px solid #00c; margin:0.5em; padding:0.5em;; padding: 0.1em;"> DrMicro
 * Reported by Plainriverofcopyvios (talk)
 * Of the articles written by this user most are copied from a few (although primarily one for certain groups) educational websites and from primary scientific literature rather than well-established secondary sources. No, they didn't originate on Wikipedia. Please stop taking and not crediting the work of others. Plainriverofcopyvios (talk) 17:38, 27 February 2011 (UTC)
 * I intend to decline this request as it contains no evidence and was made by a single purpose account and will do so in a few days if nobody objects. MER-C 04:23, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
 * I intend to decline this request as it contains no evidence and was made by a single purpose account and will do so in a few days if nobody objects. MER-C 04:23, 2 March 2011 (UTC)

<div class="boilerplate metadata" style="background:#dee; border:1px solid #00c; margin:0.5em; padding:0.5em;; padding: 0.1em;"> Ruigeroeland
 * Reported by Qwyrxian (talk)
 * I spotted one Ruigeroland's newest articles,Cosmopterix facunda while looking at Huggling "All New pages" tab. The phrasing on the description section was very odd, especially the very last line, which seemed to be wording out of a set of field notes. The link provided didn't adequately retrieve the pdf, but through searching, I founn The genera Cosmopterix Hübner and Pebobs Hodges in the New World with special attention to the Neotropical fauna (Lepidoptera: Cosmopterigidae), by J.C. Foster.  While this journal article is a collection of many older works, dating as far back as 1825, many of them are newer (the Facunda section is from 1978, for instance) and the journal article itself is from 2010. As far as I understand, that means all of it obtains a 2010 copyright date, and thus anything copied out of this article is a copyright violation.  At best, we would have to look at the dates of each individual entry if somehow the copyright remains split by original publication date.  I started going through Ruigeroland's history, and tagged 3 of the article for G12 Speedy deletion, but then took a deeper look, and see literally hundreds (just a quick glance seems to indicate xyr 500 most recent articles may potentially have the same problem), so I stopped tagging and came here.  This is my first time filing a CCI, so apologies if I totally flubbed an understanding of copyright, or if some aspect of this is not correctly completed. Qwyrxian (talk) 13:44, 18 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Ruigeroland has pointed out to me that, according to the hosting website, this article is CC-BY-SA licensed (this is not stated on the article itself). As such, while this is still plagiarism, it's not a copyright violation; this request can be closed.
 * Ruigeroland has pointed out to me that, according to the hosting website, this article is CC-BY-SA licensed (this is not stated on the article itself). As such, while this is still plagiarism, it's not a copyright violation; this request can be closed.

<div class="boilerplate metadata" style="background:#dee; border:1px solid #00c; margin:0.5em; padding:0.5em;; padding: 0.1em;"> Freiza667
 * Reported by A p 3 rson  ‽
 * Multiple warnings on uploading copyrighted images.
 * Multiple warnings on uploading copyrighted images.

All copyright violations have been deleted, and the uploads are stale. Report to ANI for a block if user continues. <b style="color:green;">MacMed</b><sup style="color:red;">talk <sub style="color:black;">stalk 22:09, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

<div class="boilerplate metadata" style="background:#dee; border:1px solid #00c; margin:0.5em; padding:0.5em;; padding: 0.1em;"> Huo Xin
 * Reported by TexasAndroid (talk)
 * Long term contributor to martial arts articles. At least two articles CSD G12 deleted over that time.  1 and 2.  Another deleted article, Bak sing, was deleted via PROD for notability issues.  but a search shows that much of it's original content likely came from here. Two other articles that this user has created are listed at the copyvio page.  Cai Li Fo and Jeong Yim. The sourcing can be tricky, and I am a novice at copyvio research.  But I think that all of this user's major contributions need scrutiny at this point. - TexasAndroid (talk) 14:03, 12 April 2011 (UTC) TexasAndroid (talk) 14:03, 12 April 2011 (UTC)
 * I have received a fairly lengthy response to all this on my talk page. - TexasAndroid (talk) 18:50, 12 April 2011 (UTC)
 * It looks like kungfucertificate.com is a backwards copyright violation. The links in, say,, are to /wiki/PageName and are broken. MER-C 02:43, 13 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Huo Xin has requested that I assist in investigating this matter. I have helped edit the Cai Li Fo article in the past on minor issues, but have no particular attachment to the article, its subject, or Huo Xin. I have four points to make: (1) The Wikipedia article's version from 12 November 2009 was already substantially similar to the version from 11 April 2011; (2) The contending kungfucertificate.com article is marked "copyright 2011," which suggests that the article there was only published this year; (3) The kungfucertificate.com article has "Bird Form Kung Fu" as its first title but the content of the article on that page does not mention that style at all; and (4) The link to Bird Form Kung Fu from the menu at kungfucertificate.com links to a mostly blank page rather than the contending page. These points indicate that the Wikipedia article has been in something close to its present form for well over a year and publicly accessible during that time, the contending article only appears to have been published in the past few months, the contending article is not internally consistent, and the contending article does not appear to be intended to be readily accessible to the public. It seems clear that, between the Wikipedia article and the contending article, and in the absence of further information so far, the Wikipedia article has a stronger claim to being the original article. Janggeom (talk) 16:43, 15 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Huo Xin has requested that I assist in investigating this matter. I have helped edit the Cai Li Fo article in the past on minor issues, but have no particular attachment to the article, its subject, or Huo Xin. I have four points to make: (1) The Wikipedia article's version from 12 November 2009 was already substantially similar to the version from 11 April 2011; (2) The contending kungfucertificate.com article is marked "copyright 2011," which suggests that the article there was only published this year; (3) The kungfucertificate.com article has "Bird Form Kung Fu" as its first title but the content of the article on that page does not mention that style at all; and (4) The link to Bird Form Kung Fu from the menu at kungfucertificate.com links to a mostly blank page rather than the contending page. These points indicate that the Wikipedia article has been in something close to its present form for well over a year and publicly accessible during that time, the contending article only appears to have been published in the past few months, the contending article is not internally consistent, and the contending article does not appear to be intended to be readily accessible to the public. It seems clear that, between the Wikipedia article and the contending article, and in the absence of further information so far, the Wikipedia article has a stronger claim to being the original article. Janggeom (talk) 16:43, 15 April 2011 (UTC)


 * This can likely be closed/rejected/withdrawn at this point. Of the five possible violations I originally found, two have been officially declared reverse violations by an independent admin.  A third from the deleted history was based on one of the same "reverse violation" sites.  And a 4th, the most recent, was explained by the author as an inadvertent violation.  The last was a G12 deletion from a couple of years back.  And I'm now thinking that one likely needs to be re-examined as well.  So at this point we have only one definite violation, the inadvertent one, and one that I've not even looked into deeply.  Even if I wanted to press forward with this, which I do not, it no longer has anywhere near the needed violations to be based upon. - TexasAndroid (talk) 19:19, 21 April 2011 (UTC)
 * MER-C 02:37, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

<div class="boilerplate metadata" style="background:#dee; border:1px solid #00c; margin:0.5em; padding:0.5em;; padding: 0.1em;"> Quaker56
 * Reported by Lagrange613 (talk)
 * I thought I'd bring this to the experts on batches of copypaste cases in case some special handling is called for. A look at the user's contribs shows the user has only edited Quaker Valley School District and several schools in that district. The user's contributions often involve adding multiple paragraphs at a time, many of which appear to be copied and pasted from district materials that may be subject to copyright. I've marked apparent copyright violations on the district's page (user's contrib), Edgeworth Elementary School (user created), Osborne Elementary School (user's contrib), and Quaker Valley Middle School (user's contrib). The Middle School one is tricky; elements from both the sources in the copypaste tags are woven together throughout the article. And this is just what I found from a cursory googling; there may be additional sources I missed. Lagrange613 (talk) 03:12, 26 June 2011 (UTC)
 * I thought I'd bring this to the experts on batches of copypaste cases in case some special handling is called for. A look at the user's contribs shows the user has only edited Quaker Valley School District and several schools in that district. The user's contributions often involve adding multiple paragraphs at a time, many of which appear to be copied and pasted from district materials that may be subject to copyright. I've marked apparent copyright violations on the district's page (user's contrib), Edgeworth Elementary School (user created), Osborne Elementary School (user's contrib), and Quaker Valley Middle School (user's contrib). The Middle School one is tricky; elements from both the sources in the copypaste tags are woven together throughout the article. And this is just what I found from a cursory googling; there may be additional sources I missed. Lagrange613 (talk) 03:12, 26 June 2011 (UTC)


 * Edgeworth Elementary School and Osborne Elementary School sent to Copyright problems.
 * Quaker Valley School District and Quaker Valley Middle School reverted.
 * All dealt with. . MER-C 06:32, 2 July 2011 (UTC)

<div class="boilerplate metadata" style="background:#dee; border:1px solid #00c; margin:0.5em; padding:0.5em;; padding: 0.1em;"> Kehz99
 * Reported by  Ron h jones (Talk)
 * User has uploaded a total of 35 images. Of these I found 10 of them to be blatent copyvios. Images were uploaded in 2009, and user is inactive. All images were uploaded with I (Kehz99 (talk)) created this work entirely by myself. I raised the issue at Media_copyright_questions, and it was suggested to raise it here. All orphaned images from this user have been added to Possibly unfree files/2011 July 12 by User:Quadell, we just need to address the images that are in usage.  Ron h jones (Talk) 21:14, 12 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Being used doesn't grant immunity from listing at PUF; they have been added to the nomination you linked above. MER-C 03:19, 13 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Everything dealt with. . MER-C 06:35, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Everything dealt with. . MER-C 06:35, 27 July 2011 (UTC)

<div class="boilerplate metadata" style="background:#dee; border:1px solid #00c; margin:0.5em; padding:0.5em;; padding: 0.1em;"> Winston789
 * Reported by Jezhotwells (talk)
 * a large number of photographs of women's shoes apparently copied from various shopping websites. Can be seen in user contributions. Jezhotwells (talk) 23:11, 21 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Possibly unfree files/2011 September 23 MER-C 07:55, 23 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Images deleted; as moot. MER-C 01:58, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Images deleted; as moot. MER-C 01:58, 8 October 2011 (UTC)

<div class="boilerplate metadata" style="background:#dee; border:1px solid #00c; margin:0.5em; padding:0.5em;; padding: 0.1em;"> Mwhite148
 * Reported by TheGrappler (talk)
 * Large number of copyvio uploads; conveniently on display at User:Mwhite148/Gallery. User:Magog the Ogre deleted one of them as a result of this PUF discussion but there is a comment by an IP at the very end of the discussion that correctly identifies that a whole set of images Mwhite148 claimed he had "got from a friend who abandoned them", are actually taken from an academic website that claims copyright over them. The whole bunch need to go. Obviously this raises questions about other image uploads the user may have made.TheGrappler (talk) 19:04, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
 * I will comply with the deletion of these images. Mwhite148 19:20, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
 * The images are not hosted on the English Wikipedia. File a deletion request on Commons. MER-C 10:24, 9 June 2011 (UTC)
 * commons:Commons:Deletion requests/UK Election Maps by Mwhite148. MER-C 05:08, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
 * commons:Commons:Deletion requests/UK Election Maps by Mwhite148. MER-C 05:08, 12 October 2011 (UTC)

<div class="boilerplate metadata" style="background:#dee; border:1px solid #00c; margin:0.5em; padding:0.5em;; padding: 0.1em;"> Rosiestep
 * Reported by  HurricaneFan 25 
 * At Wikipedia talk:Did you know, User:SandyGeorgia raised issues including palagarism. The given link reveals additional paraphrasing/copyvio issues. Note that user in question is an admin.  HurricaneFan 25  17:22, 4 November 2011 (UTC)
 * MER-C 02:09, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
 * MER-C 02:09, 29 November 2011 (UTC)

<div class="boilerplate metadata" style="background:#dee; border:1px solid #00c; margin:0.5em; padding:0.5em;; padding: 0.1em;"> Jacobisq
 * Reported by voidxor (talk)
 * User frequently contributes snippets of prose to articles surrounded by single quotes and followed by the reference from which it was copied. The edit summary of choice when doing this is simply "add". Innumerable psychology-related articles seem to be affected. Examples include Fixation (psychology), Psychological repression, and Lacanian movement. User prefers offline references, which I am unable to check. However, the few URL references he uses reveal a pattern of behavior. &mdash;voidxor (talk &#124; contrib) 07:45, 30 September 2011 (UTC)
 * User:Jacobisq uses snippets from a huge number of different sources and i cant see that it breaches Quotations. Whether or not paraphrasing should be used instead is more of a stylistic issue. --Penbat (talk) 10:38, 30 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Surrounding it with quotation marks doesn't mean you're not plagiarizing! I see some violations of Quotations: "A reader should not have to follow a footnote to learn whose words a quote is," and "Intersperse quotations with original prose that comments on those quotations instead of constructing articles out of quotations with little or no original prose," and "Extensive quotation of copyrighted text is prohibited." Please see WP:QUOTEFARM too. As a footnote, I've seen how closely you work with Jacobisq on psychology articles, Penbat. I mean no offense to you, but I seriously doubt your ability to stay neutral in this discussion. &mdash;voidxor (talk &#124; contrib) 07:44, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
 * While this is not traditional CCI territory, I do agree that review is needed. See User:Jacobisq/Article list and User talk:Jacobisq. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 14:16, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
 * While this is not traditional CCI territory, I do agree that review is needed. See User:Jacobisq/Article list and User talk:Jacobisq. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 14:16, 4 December 2011 (UTC)

2012
<div class="boilerplate metadata" style="background:#dee; border:1px solid #00c; margin:0.5em; padding:0.5em;; padding: 0.1em;"> JCAla
 * Reported by Osiris (talk)
 * I originally posted the below on WP:AN, but moved to here. Apologies if it's not in the right format.
 * I originally posted the below on WP:AN, but moved to here. Apologies if it's not in the right format.

This user's contributions need to be reviewed. A quick glance over his or her recent additions to the article space reveal extensive copy-pasting/close paraphrasing from non-free online publications (primarily news websites). This came to my attention yesterday, when some content was copied into the article Taliban on the Simple English Wikipedia. It was an obvious copy-paste from this project's version of the article, but I Googled a sentence of it to make sure. The search confirmed that, but also showed an article from TIME.com on which the sentence appeared almost word-for-word: A quick study of the rest of the section revealed more identical phrasing. I traced the content back to by JCAla from a few days ago. I did a quick run-through of suspect-looking sentences within other sections of the same article and found more- one of several:
 * Officials from relief agencies say, many women were taken to Pakistan where they were sold to brothels or kept as virtual slaves inside homes.
 * The report by the United Nations quotes eyewitnesses in many villages describing Arab fighters carrying long knives used for slitting throats and skinning people.

I went over other articles JCAla had recently edited and found the same problem:

On Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan:

On National Front of Afghanistan:

I thought about bringing this up user-to-user, but I'm not very active on this project and the problem seems like it might be extensive. Osiris (talk) 06:27, 30 January 2012 (UTC)

Yes, you should indeed have brought it up with me, since there is nothing extensive to find. Made adjustments to the sentence.(1) (2) Since it was just a listing of people, I thought there to be no problem. People are free to check the whole article, which was started by me and has no other editor, for copyright. Everything cited is attributed. In this diff cited by Osiris above I was just moving already existent content to a new subsection. See the article's talk page on cross-border attacks and this diff for evidence. But, nevertheless, I will look at the content and improve it to comply with policy. Although I certainly attributed everything to the Time Magazine, I was too careless in how I wrote that. I apologize and have corrected and rephrased everything to comply with policy. The section that has the sentence "quotes eyewitnesses in many villages describing Arab fighters carrying long knives used for slitting throats and skinning people" quoted by Osiris above. The sentence was just missing the "". The rest of the sentences quoted in this regard do have quotation marks. Checked and improved the whole section for copyright issues.
 * National Front of Afghanistan
 * Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan
 * Taliban
 * Taliban

Feel free to check the other additions I recently made to the Taliban article for copyright: Also feel free to check other recent addition of content by me for copyright:
 * Taliban: Targeted killings
 * Taliban civilian casualties
 * Taliban: Kunduz Airlift
 * Northern Alliance Reformation
 * Pakistan mujahideen
 * Hindus during Taliban rule

tbc JCAla (talk) 08:33, 30 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the quick response to this, JCAla. In regards to quotations, that's something you need to be careful with - extensive quoting of copyrighted text is prohibited, and the expert from the BBC added here is likely to be counted as an infringement. Just from a sampling of your recent contributions, I believe this may be an extensive issue, and a formal review will help resolve that. Although I appreciate your attempts to look into the matter yourself. Some more examples:

On Amrullah Saleh:

On War in Afghanistan (2001–present):

Osiris (talk) 09:59, 30 January 2012 (UTC)

As you can see in the diff, the sentence was already there before I edited.
 * Ahmad Shah Massoud

This was in the Afghan news (Afghanistan has no copyright agreement with the United States, btw, that is why Afghan images on wikicommons i. e. are legal to use): "Mr Saleh warned that if the Afghan government does not bring necessary reforms, the year 2014 will be a year of challenges rather than opportunities. Meanwhile, Mr Saleh also stresses on fundamental reforms in Afghanistan Independent Electoral Commission."
 * Amrullah Saleh

I used it in the following way: "Amrullah Saleh founded the Basej-e Milli (National Movement) also known as Afghanistan Green Trend which has successfully established itself in Afghanistan. In December 2011, Saleh warned that if the Afghan government did not bring necessary reforms, the year 2014 - when international troops plan on having finalized their exit strategy - would be a year of challenges rather than opportunities. Saleh especially emphasized the need for fundamental reforms in Afghanistan's Independent Electoral Commission."

If that is not okay, I will change it.

I also see some problems here. As these are highly political issues I kept very close to the sources - too close in this case. Have rewritten it to comply with policy.
 * War in Afghanistan (2001-present)

tbc JCAla (talk) 10:23, 30 January 2012 (UTC)


 * I apologise, I can see that Ahmad Shah Massoud edit was not you- removed. Osiris (talk) 11:29, 30 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Although you should have tried to contact me first instead of simply making this report, I thank you for raising my awareness on this issue which I did not have on my mind prominently enough. JCAla (talk) 12:18, 30 January 2012 (UTC)

JCAla has agreed to audit his contributions for excessive quotation and close paraphrase problems. As such this is resolved. MER-C 09:51, 4 February 2012 (UTC)

<div class="boilerplate metadata" style="background:#dee; border:1px solid #00c; margin:0.5em; padding:0.5em;; padding: 0.1em;"> Royalmcqueen
 * Reported by George Ho (talk)
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Katie_Snyder&curid=9552117&action=history, for example. George Ho (talk) 04:02, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
 * I see Christopher Hughes II and possibly James Stenbeck; do you have any more evidence? MER-C 01:37, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
 * No response => . MER-C 03:19, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
 * No response => . MER-C 03:19, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

<div class="boilerplate metadata" style="background:#dee; border:1px solid #00c; margin:0.5em; padding:0.5em;; padding: 0.1em;"> Pcgame
 * Reported by Someoneanother
 * This editor's history consists of creating articles on Big Fish Games' hidden object video games. In each case the article contains at least some of Big Fish Games' advertising blurb as part of the article. For instance their first creation looked like this, compare to this, the copyrighted text was removed in this instance. They followed up with this, compare to this blurb on 'Wholovegames', which was a link included in the article. In both these cases the link to 'Wholovegames' was removed, on the first article this was replaced by a link directly to Big Fish Games - http://www.bigfishgames.com/download-games/16259/ghost-towns-the-cats-of-ulthar-ce/index.html?channel=affiliates&identifier=af5dc3355635 < Note the 'affiliates&identifier=af5dc3355635' part of the address. The user was asked whether they had a conflict of interest on February 21, but later removed the post without responding to the poster, User:Rehevkor on either of their talk pages. On the 23rd they created this with both copyvio and a link containing that affiliate code, on the 25th they created this in the same manner, on the 26th there was this, more of the same. I'm not sure if this user is related to 'Wholovegames', but they switched from including links to that site to including direct links to Big Fish with the affiliate code once the Wholovegames links were removed. Despite improving their article writing (somewhat) they have continued to post copyrighted material and links which suggest they are trying to generate income from either direct sales or through affiliate links. Someoneanother 21:45, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
 * I cleared out the remaining dodgy plot summaries and left the usual copyright warning. Please report the spam problems elsewhere. MER-C 03:33, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
 * I cleared out the remaining dodgy plot summaries and left the usual copyright warning. Please report the spam problems elsewhere. MER-C 03:33, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

<div class="boilerplate metadata" style="background:#dee; border:1px solid #00c; margin:0.5em; padding:0.5em;; padding: 0.1em;"> Dealko4
 * Reported by Beland (talk)
 * Looks like Judicial system of the People's Republic of China was copied from Chinese government sources and needs to be fixed, Legislative system of the People's Republic of China was similarly copied in the past. I am unfamiliar with Chinese government copyright law, there was some conversation on Talk:Legislative system of the People's Republic of China. -- Beland (talk) 13:17, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Looks like Judicial system of the People's Republic of China was copied from Chinese government sources and needs to be fixed, Legislative system of the People's Republic of China was similarly copied in the past. I am unfamiliar with Chinese government copyright law, there was some conversation on Talk:Legislative system of the People's Republic of China. -- Beland (talk) 13:17, 21 February 2012 (UTC)

This can be handled without a CCI: MER-C 07:46, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
 * N Judicial system of the People's Republic of China: removed/sent to CP MER-C 03:14, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Law enforcement in the People's Republic of China: unattributed PD MER-C 03:31, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Elections in the People's Republic of China: PD MER-C 03:31, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Government of the People's Republic of China: unattributed PD MER-C 03:31, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Topography of China: but mostly obliterated MER-C 06:29, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Tourism in China: blanked MER-C 11:29, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Chinese encyclopedia: removed MER-C 06:23, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
 * N Legislative system of the People's Republic of China: MER-C 12:59, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation: rewritten MER-C 11:18, 10 March 2012 (UTC)

<div class="boilerplate metadata" style="background:#dee; border:1px solid #00c; margin:0.5em; padding:0.5em;; padding: 0.1em;"> Northiran
 * Reported by Singularity42 (talk)
 * I have gone through over 50% of the user's created articles, and have discovered that they are virtually all copyright violations. I haven't had time to go through every article created by this user, but there is a clear pattern here.  Also, given the large number of contributions this user has made to existing articles, I am concerned that copyrighted materials may have been added to other articles. Singularity42 (talk) 19:00, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
 * I have gone through over 50% of the user's created articles, and have discovered that they are virtually all copyright violations. I haven't had time to go through every article created by this user, but there is a clear pattern here.  Also, given the large number of contributions this user has made to existing articles, I am concerned that copyrighted materials may have been added to other articles. Singularity42 (talk) 19:00, 19 February 2012 (UTC)

This is rather trivial and can be handled without a CCI: MER-C 01:37, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Amol: presumptive removal MER-C 03:13, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
 * N Malek Bahman Castle: (1 edits, 1 major, +2509) 
 * N Tower Tomb Sayyed Se Ton: (1 edits, 1 major, +2077) 
 * N Payambar Azam Arena: MER-C 03:57, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Safavid art: already removed MER-C 05:20, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
 * N Abul Abbas Ghasab Amoli: (1 edits, 1 major, +903) 
 * N Felezi Bridge (Amol): (1 edits, 1 major, +853) 
 * N Heshtel Tower: (1 edits, 1 major, +696) 
 * N History museum of Amol: (1 edits, 1 major, +567) 
 * Naser al-Din Shah Qajar: presumptive removal MER-C 05:20, 1 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Actually, it turns out Northiran was a sock of User:پارسا آملی. Other socks include User:Mazandiran and User:Amardian.  I have found more, similar copyright violations with these other accounts. Singularity42 (talk) 17:38, 20 February 2012 (UTC)

User:پارسا آملی:
 * Amol: presumptive removal MER-C 03:13, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
 * N Sharmita vox: (2 edits, 2 major, +2902) 
 * N Mohammad Taqi Danesh Pajouh: presumptive blanking MER-C 05:20, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
 * N Taleb Amoli: (1 edits, 1 major, +1441) 
 * N Davazdah Cheshmeh: (1 edits, 1 major, +1143) 
 * N Lar Dam Lake: (1 edits, 1 major, +1048) 
 * Alchemy and chemistry in medieval Islam: presumptive removal MER-C 10:49, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Islamic philosophy:  Wizardman  15:57, 13 March 2012 (UTC)

User:Mazandiran has major edits only on Amol. Amardian has no major edits. MER-C 02:05, 21 February 2012 (UTC)

<div class="boilerplate metadata" style="background:#dee; border:1px solid #00c; margin:0.5em; padding:0.5em;; padding: 0.1em;"> JaeTee
 * Reported by George Ho (talk)
 * See and other contribution logs. George Ho (talk) 23:23, 31 March 2012 (UTC)
 * for lack of evidence. MER-C 03:10, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
 * for lack of evidence. MER-C 03:10, 4 April 2012 (UTC)

<div class="boilerplate metadata" style="background:#dee; border:1px solid #00c; margin:0.5em; padding:0.5em;; padding: 0.1em;"> Ricco Baroni
 * Reported by TreyGeek (talk)
 * User has been warned multiple times about copy/pasting material from other websites into Wikipedia articles. The user has on a number of occasions committed copyright violations in this manner including one again this week.  To my knowledge all instances of the copyvios have been cleaned up when I went through the user's edit history early this month.  There may not be a need for a cleanup.  I raised the situation at WP:ANI after the last time and the only response was to come here, so here I am after this latest instance. TreyGeek (talk) 14:44, 19 April 2012 (UTC)
 * I have checked the edits since this request was made, and there are no additional copyvios. If the problem persists, please contact a friendly administrator (i.e. those that work at Copyright problems). I will take your word that you have cleaned up after this user. MER-C 06:39, 9 May 2012 (UTC)
 * I have checked the edits since this request was made, and there are no additional copyvios. If the problem persists, please contact a friendly administrator (i.e. those that work at Copyright problems). I will take your word that you have cleaned up after this user. MER-C 06:39, 9 May 2012 (UTC)

<div class="boilerplate metadata" style="background:#dee; border:1px solid #00c; margin:0.5em; padding:0.5em;; padding: 0.1em;"> Niemti
 * Reported by Orange Mike  &#x007C;  Talk
 * has uploaded a number of non-free images, arguing that they are necessary to understand the movie version of comic or video-game characters, despite this not meeting the rationale requirements Orange Mike  &#x007C;  Talk  16:54, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
 * has uploaded a number of non-free images, arguing that they are necessary to understand the movie version of comic or video-game characters, despite this not meeting the rationale requirements Orange Mike  &#x007C;  Talk  16:54, 16 May 2012 (UTC)

I'm pretty sure they're actually "meeting the rationale requirements". And I didn't upload any other film poster for this purpose, only screenshots that were released in promotional materials and are widely used, and have critical commentary on the subject even in their very captions (and also in the article body). This "a number" is just 2, by the way - I deleted another myself, because there was a free image at the Commons that even fit the article better (replaced at Claire Redfield). --Niemti (talk) 10:30, 18 May 2012 (UTC)

I'll also add I'm only learning how to do it. Why didn't you come with it to me to discuss it/teach me, instead of coming here? --Niemti (talk) 10:32, 18 May 2012 (UTC)

I also only now realized it was posted here 2 days ago and was about this (single) film poster, which got deleted (twice). So no, I don't upload any more film posters for such a purpose (I wasn't even aware I can't, but now I know), and the few files for the characters' film appearance that I did upload are now being used directly for critical commentary/discussion by reliable sources. I hope it means that's all about it. --Niemti (talk) 10:51, 18 May 2012 (UTC)
 * There isn't the usual image deletion spam on this user's talk page. Furthermore, the nominator took action against only one of this user's uploads. Insufficient evidence => . MER-C 11:19, 18 May 2012 (UTC)

<div class="boilerplate metadata" style="background:#dee; border:1px solid #00c; margin:0.5em; padding:0.5em;; padding: 0.1em;"> Penyulap
 * Reported by IRWolfie- (talk)
 * Careless copying and pasting between articles. Article paste with no indication of where it came from. I google a piece of the text at random on google and got this document, dated 2006-2007, several years before the article creation, which appears to continue an exact copy of some of the text: During the cordial Sino-Soviet relations of the 1950s, the USSR engaged in a cooperative technology transfer program with the PRC under which they taught Chinese students and provided the fledgling program with a sample R-2 rocket. on page 9. It is probable that much of the rest of the text is a copyright violation of an unattributed article split. This edit [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_unmanned_spaceflights_to_the_International_Space_Station&diff=prev&oldid=489741000 is clearly copied from . some of this edit  is from Russian_Orbital_Segment, and added by the editor himself here: . I expect more of this can be seen by a thorough looking through the diffs. The user acknowledges they made mistakes: User_talk:Penyulap. IRWolfie- (talk) 22:22, 25 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Guilty as charged you honor, just trying to get the shit back into the horse now. should take a (six) week(s) at least .(approx) Penyulap  ☏  22:35, 25 Jun 2012 (UTC)
 * That's a fair summary of the pattern, unaware of copywithin, I've been summarizing from one article into another, there aren't a lot of articles that I have created luckily. Core Cabin module and Science cabin module would be the same as chinese space station I expect. Penyulap  ☏  22:51, 25 Jun 2012 (UTC)
 * Nope, those two are just me yapping on, nothing else. Penyulap  ☏  23:00, 25 Jun 2012 (UTC)
 * -- see . MER-C 02:54, 29 June 2012 (UTC)
 * -- see . MER-C 02:54, 29 June 2012 (UTC)

<div class="boilerplate metadata" style="background:#dee; border:1px solid #00c; margin:0.5em; padding:0.5em;; padding: 0.1em;"> Devata1
 * Reported by William Thweatt TalkContribs
 * These edits to Cambodia were copy and pasted verbatim from Kyoto Review
 * After a revert with a mention of possible copyright violations in the edit summary here, the editor reinserted the copy/paste material.
 * After a warning was placed on talk page, Devata1 made these edits which are copy and pasted directly from bookrags.com to the Hun Sen article. The Bookrags.com site clearly has the following notice below the text: "Hun Sen from Encyclopedia of World Biography. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved."
 * I realize there aren't the minimum of five instances recommended in the reporting guidelines, but I believe the continued copyright violations after being warned of WP's policy requires more eyes and possible admin action. William Thweatt TalkContribs 06:00, 28 July 2012 (UTC)
 * (addendum) This editor is continuing to insert chunks of copy and pasted text despite numerous warnings. These edits were copied from this GolobalSecurity.org page (which also clearly says "Copyright © 2000-2012 GlobalSecurity.org All rights reserved.")
 * These edits were reverted by another editor as "copyvio of http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iyjsY0uD5AGoHrp3EMoFmH9y9mlQ and various blogs". --William Thweatt TalkContribs 17:16, 28 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Everything reverted => . MER-C 10:06, 31 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Everything reverted => . MER-C 10:06, 31 July 2012 (UTC)

<div class="boilerplate metadata" style="background:#dee; border:1px solid #00c; margin:0.5em; padding:0.5em;; padding: 0.1em;"> KAVEBEAR
 * Reported by Viriditas (talk)
 * I've waited since March 2009 to open this case because I thought the user would change their ways, but this has not happened. This user has been active since February 2008.  I first raised the problem of copy-pasting and close paraphrasing in October 2008.  Recently, I've noticed that the problem has not stopped, as I just had to revert an edit they made from October 2011 to Niihau.  I contacted the user and explained the problem again, but they still did not show any sign of understanding the issue and reverted my removal. For me, this was the last straw.  Including the massive number of contributions this user has made to already existing articles (18,426 live edits to 3,621 unique pages) the user has created at least 255 articles that need to be checked for copy-pasting/copyright/close paraphrasing violations.  Starting at the bottom of the list, the article Kalanimoku already shows problems at a quick glance.  For only one example from that article, the content, "baptized a Roman Catholic in 1819 aboard...in the presence of Kuhina Nui (Premier) Kaʻahumanu and King Kamehameha II. The scene was painted by ship's artist Jacques Arago (1790—1855)...who wrote and illustrated accounts of the Hawaiian Islands during the French expedition" is copied from this website and the source in the current article is completely different.  I do not think this is an example of backwards copyvio, as this problem is found throughout the user's contributions; we're talking hundreds, possibly thousands of problematic edits.  For another example, the article Moses_Kekūāiwa has content copied liberally, word for word, from this website, but the offending edits were made by an IP, which I am fairly certain belongs to the user, who edited as an IP before they registered their account in Feb. 2008.  Content in Kukona was copied from this website.  The link goes to a version of the site from 2003 to show that it is not backwards copyvio.  Content in Kalapanakuioiomoa was copied liberally from a book by David Malo without quotes or inline attribution. Now, I don't want to see this user blocked, as I think they can be an asset to Wikipedia, but I do want them to stop what they are doing and go back and fix all of their old edits.  I've asked them to do this, and they show no interest and no recognition of the problem.  Please help, this problem has become too large for me to deal with alone. User notified. Viriditas (talk) 10:14, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
 * List them all and delete them then; I didn't revert your edit, I added sources to your removal.--KAVEBEAR (talk) 11:08, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
 * You reverted my edit (which showed no sign of understanding the problem, namely close paraphrasing) and added sources to the revert, which left the problem intact. Look at Haho, for example.  You copied content directly from this website.  You need to go back and rewrite the content in your own words.  Your reply here shows that you still don't understand the problem, and if you are going to continue to copy entire words, phrases, and sentences without indicating quotes or attribution, it doesn't matter if you add a source at the end of the paragraph, it is still considered plagiarism.  What bothers me the most here, is that you think it is the responsibility of other people to fix this problem. Please reply with, "I understand the problem, I won't do it again, and I will work with CCI to fix the problem with my past edits." Viriditas (talk) 11:24, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
 * A majority of all the articles on wikipeda are close paraphrasing or junk with the few exception of legitly good articles. I was adding this when edit conflict occurred... "I have no time in the world to address my many copyright problems that I created prior to 2010; I was in middle school then what did you expect. Just move them to my userspace and delete them and their links. I will create them again in the near future with better sourcing."--KAVEBEAR (talk) 11:29, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Here is a list of all articles I created. List which ones and I will delete them.
 * Well, in my opinion, that answer is completely unacceptable, but then again I'm not working on the CCI project. What you think about the quality of other articles has no bearing on the articles you edited, which is what we are discussing.  You need to stop what you are doing and focus only on fixing these problems.  Everything else you are doing can wait. Viriditas (talk) 11:37, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Again I will fix it in the future. If removing my violations from the face of wikipedia is not enough, I seriously don't know what to do. You can't force me against my will to take on this project. I have school and my life to worry about. I am sorry.--KAVEBEAR (talk) 11:41, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
 * That is not what I'm saying. School and your life come first, obviously.  I'm saying, that if you are going to do anything on Wikipedia, please make fixing these problems your priority, here.  Also, please acknowledge the problem and offer to work with the CCI to fix it. That's all I'm saying.  I'm not asking you do anything more than that. Viriditas (talk) 11:46, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
 * That is not what I'm saying. School and your life come first, obviously.  I'm saying, that if you are going to do anything on Wikipedia, please make fixing these problems your priority, here.  Also, please acknowledge the problem and offer to work with the CCI to fix it. That's all I'm saying.  I'm not asking you do anything more than that. Viriditas (talk) 11:46, 17 May 2012 (UTC)


 * Blanked User:KAVEBEAR/Kukona. However there is a lot of copying, some unattributed, from public domain sources and some of the web pages and articles copied trace back to PD sources: both Hawaiian Antiquities and An Account of the Polynesian Race are PD. There was also some copying from some ~1890 NZ newspaper articles. The nomination mentions User:KAVEBEAR/Kukona, but it is copied from "An Account of the Polynesian Race". I'm not completely convinced to open this request; please provide more evidence. MER-C 13:29, 22 May 2012 (UTC)
 * If anybody is paying attention, the above blanked page is still at WP:CP waiting for resolution. MER-C 10:32, 31 July 2012 (UTC)
 * I couldn't find any PD sources to account for the copying, so I deleted it. I'm glancing at this, and it's perplexing. This article was established with content from what seems to be a copyrighted source: . See . But this is a close paraphrase of a PD source. I glanced randomly at a few articles he created, and, like MER-C, I'm also seeing mostly clear PD taking. This is a problem under Plagiarism, but wouldn't justify a CCI. :/ Are there five clear instances of copying from non-PD sources? If so, I should think a CCI might be justified. Otherwise, we don't really have a process for identifying and attributing systematic plagiarism of PD sources. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 16:18, 9 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Evidence not forthcoming. . MER-C 10:42, 14 September 2012 (UTC)

<div class="boilerplate metadata" style="background:#dee; border:1px solid #00c; margin:0.5em; padding:0.5em;; padding: 0.1em;"> WikiUserThinking I have only checked the last 10 articles edited by the user (listed above), but the pattern is clear. Some of his/her edits have been reverted (e.g., I reverted the two most recent before realizing this was part of a larger pattern), but most are still there. Unfortunately I do not have the time to go through everything, but the user has relatively few edits. 212.10.78.56 (talk) 04:26, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Reported by 212.10.78.56 (talk)
 * Each edit appears to be copy-and-paste from provided source, examples:
 * Cebu change is a copy-and-paste from
 * Philippine Eagle change is copy-and-paste from
 * Uniqlo change is copy-and-paste from (this relatively basic info is probably ok, though somewhat malplaced in the wiki article) and  (far larger sections where not ok to just copy it).
 * Novak Djokovic change is copy-and-paste from.
 * ASICS change is copy-and-paste from.
 * Athletic DNA change is copy-and-paste from.
 * Sergio Tacchini change is copy-and-paste from and  (you have to click on the "year-wheele" to get each story - all have been copied into the wiki article).
 * Tecnifibre change is copy-and-paste from.
 * Vice Ganda change is copy-and-paste from (except for the first sentence; this is a somewhat unusual case, since he copied it from another wiki article -- I'm not sure if that discounts it as a copyright violation, but at the very least it is WP:CIRCULAR)
 * KZ Tandingan change is copy-and-paste from.
 * KZ Tandingan change is copy-and-paste from.
 * Note: Despite being warned three times about the copyright issue on his/her talk page (1: Loch Ness Monster, 2: Philippine Eagle, 3: CCI Notice), user:WikiUserThinking is continuing along the exact same pattern. The user has edited 7 different articles since the above notice was filed; all are copy-and-paste from external sources. 212.10.66.165 (talk) 22:26, 19 October 2012 (UTC)
 * ✅ Thank you so much for finding this so quickly. He has been blocked for 48 hours. If you can, please come by my talk page and let me know if he resumes copy-pasting after that expires. I'll try to keep an eye on him, but I'm traveling at the moment. I have reviewed his edits back to the beginning and almost all of them were copyright issues. Almost all of them have been removed and rev deleted. If I had more time, I would archive this as complete, but will do so in a few days (please, self, remember!) unless somebody gets to it before me. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 00:14, 20 October 2012 (UTC)

<div class="boilerplate metadata" style="background:#dee; border:1px solid #00c; margin:0.5em; padding:0.5em;; padding: 0.1em;"> Pk041
 * Reported by <span style="font-family: 'Candara', sans-serif; font-weight: bold; text-shadow: #AAAAFF 0.2em 0.2em 0.1em; class: texhtml"> kashmiri
 * long history of copyright violations (incl. many warnings), also - and especially - on Wikipedia Commons . Scores of uploads, mostly of photos with copyvio issues, some duplicates/triplicates. Several warnings did not influence the user's behaviour in the slightest way, and user continues to use Wikipedia/Wikimedia as his personal file storage. <span style="font-family: 'Candara', sans-serif; font-weight: bold; text-shadow: #AAAAFF 0.2em 0.2em 0.1em; class: texhtml"> kashmiri 05:23, 23 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Images are all hosted on Commons, which we cannot do anything about. You can argue for their deletion at Commons:Deletion requests. MER-C 11:03, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Images are all hosted on Commons, which we cannot do anything about. You can argue for their deletion at Commons:Deletion requests. MER-C 11:03, 25 October 2012 (UTC)

<div class="boilerplate metadata" style="background:#dee; border:1px solid #00c; margin:0.5em; padding:0.5em;; padding: 0.1em;"> Danish Expert
 * Reported by TDL (talk)
 * I've found several cases of copyvios in this editors recent history:
 * Danish Expert: "To complete ratification at the political level, the adopted law however still requires the signature of the known eurosceptic president Václav Klaus, who appears to be delaying the ratification, although his office so far made no public statement on his intention to assent."
 * Source: "The adopted law still requires the signature of the known eurosceptic president Vaclav Klaus, who appears to be delaying the ratification although his office made no public statement on his intention to conclude the internal ratification process."
 * Source: "The adopted law still requires the signature of the known eurosceptic president Vaclav Klaus, who appears to be delaying the ratification although his office made no public statement on his intention to conclude the internal ratification process."


 * DE: "...the state managed to exchange €3.76 billion of bonds due in September 2013 with a yield to maturity of 3.10%, in exchange for the same value of securities maturing in October 2015 with a yield to maturity of 5.12%. Before the bond exchange, the state had a total of €9.6 billion outstanding notes due in 2013..."
 * S: "The agency bought 3.76 billion euros of bonds due in September 2013 with a yield to maturity of 3.1 percent in exchange for the same value of securities maturing in October 2015 with a yield to maturity of 5.12 percent, the Lisbon-based IGCP said on Wednesday. Before Wednesday’s bond exchange, the notes due in 2013 had 9.6 billion euros outstanding."


 * DE: "On June 6, an arrest warrant was issued for Golden Dawn (XA) spokesman Ilias Kasidiaris after he attacked two female parliamentary candidates on a live talk show on ANT-1 TV. In a heated political debate, Kasidiaris threw water at SYRIZA’s Rena Dourou and then repeatedly slapped Communist Party hopeful Liana Kanelli, before the TV signal got abrupted."
 * S: "An arrest warrant has been issued for Chrysi Avgi (Golden Dawn) spokesman Ilias Kasidiaris after he attacked two female parliamentary candidates on a live talk show on ANT-1 TV. Kasidiaris threw water at SYRIZA’s Rena Dourou and then repeatedly slapped Communist Party hopeful Liana Kanelli during a political debate."


 * DE: " The first extra €0.6bn of increased savings in 2013 are likely to come from the scrapping of the Christmas, Easter and summer payments that civil servants receive ... report had showed Greeks paid about $1bn more per year for fuel than they should."
 * S: "The extra savings are likely to come from the scrapping of the Christmas, Easter and summer payments that civil servants receive. ... report indicated that Greeks paid about $1 billion more per year for fuel than they should."


 * DE: "Liberalization of so-called closed professions. Deregulation of goods, services and energy markets. Creation of a new body to manage state procurements. Merging of all health insurance providers with the National Organization for Healthcare Provision (EOPYY)."
 * S: "liberalization of so-called closed professions, the deregulation of goods, services and energy markets, the creation of a new body to manage state procurements and the '''merging of all health insurance providers with the National Organization for Healthcare Provision (EOPYY)."


 * Many of these diffs also contaion overly WP:Close paraphrasing which I believe constitute copyvios. TDL (talk) 06:33, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
 * I can see TDL managed to find 5 lines among my 5000 lines added during the past 6 months, where there indeed IMHO for 3 of them (reported example 1+3+4) perhaps could be a concern about copyright issues. Thus I have now today rephrased or added the needed quotation marks for them, in order to remove the issues. I promise to be extra carefull in the future to avoid making similar kind of mistakes. But I want to emphasize, that I recently added many new lines to Wikipedia entirely formulated with own words, and in regards of the example 1+3+4 reported by TDL they only concerned some 1-line sentences, where I admitted failed to correctly list some proper quoatation marks for the repeated words. If you invistigate the nature of the info in those 3 examples, you will find the best way to reflect this info is indeed by citing the words of the source with quotation marks, as the lines deal with some press reports about something not 100% surely set in stone, meaning their claims are best to display at Wikipedia by citing them with quotation marks, rather than reformulate their claims and possibly causing a disturbance to the exact info provided by the source. This is also why I in the reported 3 examples, also at first left so many identical words in the upload to Wikipedia (with the intend to keep my upload as neutral and accurate/true to the source as possible). My mistake was admittedly, that I forgot to use some proper quotation marks for it, but this has now been fixed. In regards of the reported example 2, it is a very factual line almost impossible to rephrase with other words, and I bet you can find several identical articles with the exact same line uploaded to the internet, and thus IMHO that specific example do not constitute a copyright violation. In regards of example 5, this IMHO does not constitute a copyright violation because of the format of the content, actually being a check list of the remaining "need to be solved" points in the ongoing negotiations between the Troika and Greek government (which is impossible to formulate otherwise, due to being listed as short factual bullet points; and not being formulated as a sentence/line). In regards of example 1, I already yesterday agreed with TDL on a reformulation of that particulair line, before he went on today to report the old previous version (that only existed few hours) as an issue here; so there is nothing left to correct on that. In regards of the remaining issues TDL reported (example 3+4), I have now today solved both Example 3 and Example 4. Best regards, Danish Expert (talk) 15:40, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
 * It's certainly helpful that you've cleaned up some of the issues that I've raised, however given that I was able to find numerous examples of copyvios in your recent edit history it's very likely that there are more that have yet to be discovered. I only stopped at 5 because that's the standard for launching a CCI.  The point of a CCI is simply to identify copyvios and clean them up, not to punish you or anything.  It will help us find other cases where you've forgotten to include quotation marks so that they can be fixed as well.
 * As for examples 2 and 5, the fact that something is factual doesn't make it OK to copy other peoples words. You need to take the facts and phrase them using your own words.  The fact that other websites may have plagiarised the content doesn't make it acceptable here.  And breaking up a sentence into a bulleted list doesn't invalidate copyright concerns, they're still someone else's words.  TDL (talk) 21:07, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
 * I still disagree with you about the need to reformulate Example 2+5. I think we need an third oppinion from an administrator to settle that question. As for example 5, I remain to have the oppinion that nobody can claim a copyright violation for me to add an identical topical list to wikipedia (with the topical words identical compared to what is reported by the article), because its just not possible to change the formulation of the topical list without changing the meaning of the topical words. So for topical lists I think it is OK they are identical, as long as we remember to source the content. As for example 2, I also still think you can not claim a copyright violation to an identically formulated "common standard technical description" as the one you highlighted your concern about. The argument goes, that all authors with an economic education would simply opt to use the same way of formulating the line, if they were asked to make the formulation. It is a pure technical description for a bond refinance market operation (where only the figures differs from case to case), and thus not something you can claim a copyright for. So I insist it is not needed to reformulate example 2. I will now wait for the administrators evaluation of example 2+5. If the administrator points out he disagree with me, I will of course accept to change it to something else. But I honestly expect he will agree with my arguments.
 * I also continue to disagree with you, that the administrator should open up a CCI for my contributions. I think it was good you pointed out Example 1+3+4 that we now have fixed, but think it is very unlikely an in depth look at all my contributions will be as fruitfull as your targetted search already was. Previously I have used citations and quotes in several cases. The fact that it accidently slipped in 3 cases, does not mean I have a habbit of doing so. I think the administrators time would be far better used, to investigate other editors contributions than the ones originating from my account. Best regards, Danish Expert (talk) 00:00, 26 October 2012 (UTC)
 * I apologise for not getting to this earlier. That said, I did some spot checking of Danish Expert's major edits (~20 diffs). I found a couple of small problems on / but also a lot of substantial contributions that appear OK. From what I've seen, it's mostly the eurozone debt articles that have potential problems. This request is borderline and I'm willing to let it slide if Danish Expert checks his previous contributions to eurozone debt crisis articles for close paraphrasing. MER-C 12:25, 19 November 2012 (UTC)
 * That sounds reasonable, though it might be helpful if you weighed in on whether copying a "common standard technical description" or a "topical list" from a source without the use of quotation marks is a copyright violation. Edits like this, made after the CCI report was filed, seems like a copyvio of  to me, but Danish Expert disagrees.  TDL (talk) 19:17, 19 November 2012 (UTC)
 * In those cases, I suggest the use of quotation marks. MER-C 12:39, 21 November 2012 (UTC)
 * In fact I already did use the "italic quotation marks" for the new "topical list", that TDL raised his concern about in the reply above, so I consider that edit to be perfect straight from the start without any need for correction. By the way, I have today now also added the same italic quotation marks to the Previous Example 5 (topical list), which TDL raised his concern about from the start. And to remove all uncertainty now also reformulated the identical "technical description" (previously reported as Example 2), where it should be noted it was only the first out of my seven lines previously being identical with the source - and now all seven lines are different. In regards of the new problem discovered by MER-C with [1]/[2], I sincerly appoligy. Clearly that was a genuine "copy mistake" on my behalf, where I forgot to reformulate the content after I had copied the lines from the source. It was a huge mistake, and I am kind of chocked that it slipped my attention back then (only excuse is that my edit back then was made "on the fly", where I first copied the lines to an open edit-window, then went on to read a lot of other webpages to check some further content issues, and when returning to save the edit had forgot not to reformulate the lines with my own words). I have immedeately solved the problem in both articles (where the paragraphs are close to being identical): / . I can guarantee to have an entirely clean record during the past month, and of course will now -as you kindly asked me to- also begin to check if I accidently have uploaded other copied lines into the "Eurozone debt articles" (although I sincerly doubt having made any additional mistakes, compared to what has already been reported here in our long discussion). :-) Best regards, Danish Expert (talk) 15:24, 24 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Forgive the intrusion, but perhaps this may help: there is no such thing as "italic quotation marks". The two single-quote marks you have used display italic text, not quotations. What WP:MOS says is "For quotations, use only quotation marks (for short quotations) or block quoting (for long ones), not italics." --Stfg (talk) 19:40, 24 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the info, and please forgive me that I accidently mixed-up the quotation mark rules. As far as I remember it is illegal at Wikipedia both to use italic text and quotation marks (unless the italic text refers to an exact title), and this accidently caused my mind to think it was okay just to pick one of the styles; but I got that wrong -sorry. I have now added the correct quotation marks instead of the italic marks for all of my citations. Best regards, Danish Expert (talk) 02:57, 25 November 2012 (UTC)
 * I request for this case to be closed, as suggested above by MER-C. I have fully collaborated and solved the found issues (that by the way only constituted a very small percentage of my total amount of contributions), and we have all moved on with other important work at Wikipedia. :-) Danish Expert (talk) 15:11, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
 * ✅ MER-C 12:48, 23 December 2012 (UTC)

2013
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 * Reported by NE2
 * I found that http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=History_of_Garrett_County,_Maryland&oldid=324024492 (first version, 2009) has text copied from http://web.archive.org/web/20030314210347/http://www.deepcreeklake.com/gchs/history/G010911D.htm (2003) and presumably elsewhere. Since I no longer edit much and don't have the desire to deal with it, and Mr. Go Hens is gone, I present you with work to do. --NE2 12:12, 24 June 2012 (UTC) NE2 12:12, 24 June 2012 (UTC)|}
 * I found that http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=History_of_Garrett_County,_Maryland&oldid=324024492 (first version, 2009) has text copied from http://web.archive.org/web/20030314210347/http://www.deepcreeklake.com/gchs/history/G010911D.htm (2003) and presumably elsewhere. Since I no longer edit much and don't have the desire to deal with it, and Mr. Go Hens is gone, I present you with work to do. --NE2 12:12, 24 June 2012 (UTC) NE2 12:12, 24 June 2012 (UTC)|}

Contribution survey:
 * N History of Garrett County, Maryland: (45 edits, 45 major, +95097) Deleted and redirected; most sources are deadlinks, and given what we've found not going to play around here.  Wizardman  12:45, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
 * N History of Deep Creek Lake, Maryland: (7 edits, 7 major, +21273) Copyvio removed back in 2011; still not sure if necessary to have own article.  Wizardman  02:54, 15 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Garrett County, Maryland: In progress, will remove diffs when done.  Wizardman  17:57, 19 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Had to remove half the article, but it's all cleaned now. Wizardman  18:13, 19 January 2013 (UTC)
 * N John Thomas Scharf: Stubbified.  Wizardman  16:05, 21 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Christopher Gist: Offline, so presumptive removal. Wizardman  05:09, 21 August 2012 (UTC)
 * N McCulloch's Path: Cleaned.  Wizardman  05:04, 1 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Oden Bowie: Cleaned.  Wizardman  02:57, 15 August 2012 (UTC)
 * ING Group: removed MER-C 09:54, 27 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Capital One: removed MER-C 02:47, 26 June 2012 (UTC)

<div class="boilerplate metadata" style="background:#dee; border:1px solid #00c; margin:0.5em; padding:0.5em;; padding: 0.1em;"> Dr.AB
 * Reported by Moonriddengirl (talk)
 * I was drawn to this user's contributions following a listing at CP. Spot-checking another article, i found and cleaned substantial copy-pasting in Dependent personality disorder (which I've cleaned). I checked what he added to Goris in 2006 and found it matches verbatim to this 2001 book. (Removed.) Going one level further, I see more pasting in Infertility (symptoms and signs; . I see that some of this content has been removed, but I haven't had (nor do I really have) time to check and see if it's all gone. :/ It seems that most of his content I've looked at so far is copied verbatim from various contributors to health.am - this content is under copyright ]. I don't know that a full CCI is needed here, but I'm parking his contrib list in the hopes that we an handle it here. At this point, I have not found a single thing he added that was not published by somebody else before he put it here. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 22:01, 13 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Dependent personality disorder: Cleaned. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 22:01, 13 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Infertility: Had migrated to Male infertility. Removed. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 11:36, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Head and neck cancer: From multiple different sources, including one print. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 12:04, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Premature ejaculation: Cleaned what hadn't already been removed or sufficiently transformed as to not infringe. —  PinkAmpers  &#38;  <sup style="color:#000;">( Je vous invite à me parler )  19:49, 27 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Internet addiction disorder: Cleaned what hadn't already been removed. —  PinkAmpers  &#38;  <sup style="color:#000;">( Je vous invite à me parler )  09:18, 29 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Vaginismus: Cleaned. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 22:01, 13 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Goris: Cleaned. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 22:01, 13 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Anal cancer: (1 edits, 1 major, +1743) Cleaned. - Bilby (talk) 07:41, 5 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Colorectal cancer: (3 edits, 3 major, +1599) Previously removed. - Bilby (talk) 12:34, 5 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Premenstrual syndrome: (3 edits, 3 major, +1451) Cleaned. - Bilby (talk) 14:11, 5 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Circadian rhythm: (2 edits, 2 major, +1345) Almost all previously removed. Cleaned up the little remaining. - Bilby (talk) 12:34, 5 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Erectile dysfunction: (3 edits, 3 major, +952) Cleaned. - Bilby (talk) 12:34, 5 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Mesalazine: (1 edits, 1 major, +905) Previously removed. - Bilby (talk) 07:52, 5 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Video game addiction: (1 edits, 1 major, +675) Previously removed. - Bilby (talk) 07:52, 5 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Cataplexy: Removed. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 11:28, 17 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Endometriosis: (3 edits, 3 major, +618) Most already removed. There was one section that couldn't be confirmed, but matched the pattern - trimmed and rewrote to clean, just in case. - Bilby (talk) 12:57, 6 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Endometriosis: (3 edits, 3 major, +618) Most already removed. There was one section that couldn't be confirmed, but matched the pattern - trimmed and rewrote to clean, just in case. - Bilby (talk) 12:57, 6 February 2013 (UTC)

<div class="boilerplate metadata" style="background:#dee; border:1px solid #00c; margin:0.5em; padding:0.5em;; padding: 0.1em;"> Caspianforsyth
 * Reported by Ebonebo (talk)
 * The Joint_Theater_Level_Simulation page content appears to have been copied directly from the http://www.rolands.com/ website and http://www.rolands.com/jtls/j_vdds/executive_overview.pdf both sources copyright by Rolands & Associates Corporation. Ebonebo (talk) 03:32, 25 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Nominator's only edit, only one article concerned. MER-C 04:07, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Nominator's only edit, only one article concerned. MER-C 04:07, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

<div class="boilerplate metadata" style="background:#dee; border:1px solid #00c; margin:0.5em; padding:0.5em;; padding: 0.1em;"> Worldbeats
 * Reported by Aunva6 (talk)
 * user talk page is a solid wall of copyvio and G12 CSD notices, along with associated waning and several possibly unfree file notices. at least one article is significantly copy-pasted from another website. looking at the edit history of the talk page, it shows copyright and csd notices since the account was created. he has been blocked for advertising, however, some copyright vios likely remain. Aunva6 (talk) 16:51, 14 March 2013 (UTC)
 * user talk page is a solid wall of copyvio and G12 CSD notices, along with associated waning and several possibly unfree file notices. at least one article is significantly copy-pasted from another website. looking at the edit history of the talk page, it shows copyright and csd notices since the account was created. he has been blocked for advertising, however, some copyright vios likely remain. Aunva6 (talk) 16:51, 14 March 2013 (UTC)


 * N A Landscape of Lies: Already cleaned  Wizardman  03:19, 30 March 2013 (UTC)
 * N Pinadd Global Media Corporation: Deleted Wizardman  03:24, 30 March 2013 (UTC)
 * N Aoife Madden: Rewritten  Wizardman  03:24, 30 March 2013 (UTC)
 * N The Raconteur: Deleted Wizardman  03:19, 30 March 2013 (UTC)
 * N Raconteur Media: Deleted Wizardman  03:19, 30 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Allan Banford: Reverted Wizardman  03:24, 30 March 2013 (UTC)


 * MER-C 12:34, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

<div class="boilerplate metadata" style="background:#dee; border:1px solid #00c; margin:0.5em; padding:0.5em;; padding: 0.1em;"> Zeniaacharya21 — Psychonaut (talk) 16:21, 16 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Reported by Psychonaut (talk)
 * I've spot-checked contributions from this user and most of them seem to consist of sentences copied and pasted from the references, or more rarely of minimally paraphrased text. Examples:
 * D Day (2013 movie) ([ history] · [ last edit] · rewrite) copied from http://www.dnaindia.com/entertainment/report_nikhil-advani-to-base-upcoming-d-day-on-1993-blasts_1770536.
 * Yomics World ([ history] · [ last edit] · rewrite) has sentences copied and pasted from http://www.hindustantimes.com/Entertainment/Bollywood/Uday-Chopra-launches-Yomics-comic-book-label/Article1-895408.aspx http://www.indianexpress.com/news/uday-chopra-launches-comic-book-label-yomics/979207 http://www.yomics.in/Comics/1/Ek-Tha-Tiger http://www.yomics.in/Comics/2/Dhoom---893.
 * Lafangey Parindey ([ history] · [ last edit] · rewrite) consists entirely of sentences copied from http://www.rediff.com/movies/review/lafangey-parindey-music-is-irresistibly-wmsical/20100721.htm http://www.hindustantimes.com/Entertainment/Music/Music-Review-Lafangey-Parindey/Article1-576525.aspx.
 * Mere Dad Ki Maruti ([ history] · [ last edit] · rewrite) closely paraphrased from http://ibnlive.in.com/news/mere-dad-ki-maruti-watch-the-trailer-of-yrfs-next-film/306874-8-159.html http://www.business-standard.com/generalnews/news/mere-dad-ki-marutis-trailer-to-releasejthj/78485/.
 * This edit to Ek Tha Tiger has sentences copied or closely paraphrased from http://zeenews.india.com/exclusive/twitter-world-goes-mashallah-over-salman-khan-ek-tha-tiger_4824.html
 * This edit to Ek Tha Tiger has sentences copied or closely paraphrased from http://zeenews.india.com/exclusive/twitter-world-goes-mashallah-over-salman-khan-ek-tha-tiger_4824.html

Pasting survey here, short enough that we shouldn't need to open a CCI:

This report covers contributions to 25 articles from timestamp 2012-09-10 07:06:10 UTC to timestamp 2013-02-14 11:49:55 UTC.


 * N Shri Radhe Maa: Deleted Wizardman  16:25, 15 May 2013 (UTC)
 * N Mashallah (song): Deleted Wizardman  16:25, 15 May 2013 (UTC)
 * N D Day (2013 movie): Cleaned  Wizardman  17:47, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Ek Tha Tiger: Reverted Wizardman  16:25, 15 May 2013 (UTC)
 * N Yomics World: Cleaned  Wizardman  17:47, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Amit Sadh: Cleaned  Wizardman  16:35, 15 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Jab Tak Hai Jaan: Reverted Wizardman  16:35, 15 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Salaam Namaste: cleaned  Wizardman  16:35, 15 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Lafangey Parindey: Cleaned  Wizardman  18:31, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Ishaqzaade: cleaned  Wizardman  16:35, 15 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Badmaash Company: cleaned  Wizardman  16:35, 15 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Mere Dad Ki Maruti: Cleaned  Wizardman  18:31, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Rocket Singh: Salesman of the Year: cleaned  Wizardman  16:18, 15 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Kabul Express: cleaned  Wizardman  16:18, 15 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Ladies vs Ricky Bahl: cleaned  Wizardman  16:18, 15 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi: cleaned  Wizardman  17:35, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Aurangzeb (film): removed MER-C 06:14, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

This report generated by Contribution Surveyor at 2013-02-18T16:05:56+00:00 in 0.04 sec.

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EllieBywater
 * Reported by 99.136.255.134 (talk)
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I'd first noticed problem edits here and initiated discussion at the user's talk page, and followed up at Chiswick Chap's talkpage ; he appears to be mentoring Ellie. I subsequently found a history of copyright violations and close paraphrasing at numerous articles. Overall the account appears to have good intentions, and has made substantial contributions, but the history is problematic, weaving scholarship with passages of copy-pasted text, and will entail a lot of mopping up. COI is certainly a motivation, as most of the edits in question derive from Cambridge University's website, where the account works. Rather than list the many diffs, I've provide links to the articles above, accompanied by links to some of the copied text (by no means a complete listing). A Google search of the larger passages added by AllieBywater will reveal the original sources. 99.136.255.134 (talk) 13:05, 24 March 2013 (UTC)
 * N Robert MacAndrew: Cleaned  Wizardman  02:56, 13 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Clive Forster Cooper: Cleaned  Wizardman  03:01, 13 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Leonard Blomefield: Cleaned  Wizardman  02:53, 13 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Cambridge University Museum of Zoology: Cleaned  Wizardman  02:38, 9 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Alfred Newton: Cleaned  Wizardman  03:18, 4 June 2013 (UTC)
 * History Workshop Journal: Cleaned  Wizardman  03:31, 4 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Hugh Edwin Strickland: Cleaned  Wizardman  03:18, 4 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Constantine Walter Benson: Cleaned  Wizardman  02:38, 9 June 2013 (UTC)
 * William John Swainson: Cleaned  Wizardman  03:18, 4 June 2013 (UTC)


 * MER-C 13:17, 24 March 2013 (UTC)

<div class="boilerplate metadata" style="background:#dee; border:1px solid #00c; margin:0.5em; padding:0.5em;; padding: 0.1em;"> Thejusgg
 * Reported by jonkerz ♠talk
 * Gunna_(film): Plot from
 * Kiccha: Plot from
 * Sye_(kannada_film): Plot from
 * Kashi_From_Village: Plot from
 * Thirupathi_(film): Plot from
 * Kaamannana_Makkalu: Plot from via
 * Meghave_Meghave: Plot from via
 * Mast_Maja_Maadi: Plot from
 * Mast_Maja_Maadi: Plot from

Copyright notices: Update: Added a notice on the user's talk page. jonkerz ♠talk 09:55, 16 June 2013 (UTC)
 * viggy.com: "copyright © 2003. www.viggy.com All rights reserved"
 * indiaglitz.com: "Copyright 2013 IndiaGlitz. All rights reserved."
 * bharatstudent.com: "© All rights reserved to BharatStudent.com"
 * wiki.gandhadagudi.com: no copyright notice jonkerz ♠talk 03:15, 14 June 2013 (UTC)
 * All cleaned, as unnecessary. MER-C 10:29, 17 June 2013 (UTC)

<div class="boilerplate metadata" style="background:#dee; border:1px solid #00c; margin:0.5em; padding:0.5em;; padding: 0.1em;"> Japinderum
 * Reported by TDL (talk)
 * I recently noticed a copyvio inserted by this user to United Nations System, which I cleaned up. While the user doesn't generate a significant amount of prose, instead focusing on maps/tables/lists/etc, I found that a significant fraction of their recent text-contributions appear to be copyvios. Within the last month or so I found:
 * I recently noticed a copyvio inserted by this user to United Nations System, which I cleaned up. While the user doesn't generate a significant amount of prose, instead focusing on maps/tables/lists/etc, I found that a significant fraction of their recent text-contributions appear to be copyvios. Within the last month or so I found:

J: "The relationship agreement between IAEA and the UN is contained in resolution of the UN General Assembly. The unique feature is that IAEA reports to the General Assembly and when appropriate to the Security Council as well as to ECOSOC on matter within ECOSOC’s competence unlike the specialized agencies which report to ECOSOC."

S: "The relationship agreement between IAEA and the UN is contained in resolution 1145 (XII) of the UN General Assembly (14 November 1957). To all intents and purposes IAEA operates like a specialized agency. The unique feature is that IAEA reports to the General Assembly and when appropriate to the Security Council as well as to ECOSOC on matter within ECOSOC’s competence. The specialized agencies report to ECOSOC."

J: [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=United_Nations_General_Assembly_resolution_67/19&diff=prev&oldid=531939994#UN "Immediately after the General Assembly vote on 29 November 2012, UN officials still opposed Palestinian efforts to independently change 'Palestine' to 'State of Palestine' in the formal name of their permanent observer mission. When they saw that the sign on the Palestinian delegation's bench in the General Assembly Hall that used to say 'Palestine' had been replaced with a sign reading 'State of Palestine', they demanded the new sign be replaced with the old one, stating that as long as Palestine is merely a non-member state, it cannot independently ask for its name to be changed on the sign on its bench.  Riyad Mansour, the head of the Palestinian UN observer mission, wrote a letter requesting the name change on 12 December 2012.  On 17 December, the UN head of official protocol, Yeocheol Yoon, replied that the request is accepted, and that henceforth the designation of 'State of Palestine' shall be used by the Secretariat in all official United Nations documents, and the title of the Palestinian mission. The designation is now on all the nameplates at the UN, and will appear in activities related to the UN, such as international conferences.]

S: "Immediately after the General Assembly vote to upgrade the Palestinians on November 29, UN officials still opposed Palestinian diplomats’ efforts to independently change “Palestine” to “State of Palestine” in the formal name of their permanent observer mission ... When they saw that the sign on the Palestinian delegation’s bench in the General Assembly Hall that used to say “Palestine” had been replaced with a sign reading “State of Palestine,” they demanded the new sign be replaced with the old one. As long as Palestine is merely a nonmember state, the officials insisted, it cannot independently ask for its name to be changed on the sign adorning its bench ... The head of the Palestinian UN mission, Riyad Mansour, requested the name change on December 12." "On Dec. 17, the U.N.'s head of official protocol ... the designation of 'State of Palestine' shall be used by the Secretariat in all official United Nations documents ... The designation is on all the nameplates at the U.N. and will appear in activities related to the U.N., such as international conferences."

J: "In 2011 the Security Council's membership committee deadlocked on the issue and had been "unable to make a unanimous recommendation to the Security Council". Its report was the result of seven weeks of meetings, detailing myriad disagreements between the council members on whether Palestine fulfills the requirements set forth in the U.N. charter for members countries."

S: "Security Council’s membership committee deadlocked on the issue .. “The committee was unable to make a unanimous recommendation to the Security Council” " "... was the result of seven weeks of meetings. It details myriad disagreements between the council members on whether Palestine fulfills the requirements set forth in the U.N. charter for members countries."

J: "The MFA of Kosovo has initiated the process of establishing diplomatic relations with all states that have recognized Republic of Kosovo, either by opening new missions, but also through accreditation of non-resident ambassadors to these countries."

S: "... the MFA has initiated the process of establishing diplomatic relations with all states that have recognized Republic of Kosovo, either by opening new missions, but also through accreditation of non-resident ambassadors to these countries."

J: "Another definition of the Eastern boundary is from Baydaratskaya Guba, on the Kara Sea, following the eastern side of the Ural mountains and then the Ural River south until the Mugodzhar Hills and then following the Emba River to the Caspian Sea; and of the Southern boundary following the Kura River from its mouth on the Caspian Sea, through the Surami Pass to the Qvirila River, following it to its mouth by Poti on the Black Sea."

S: "from Baydaratskaya Guba, on the Kara Sea, following the eastern side of the Ural mountains and then the Ural River south until the Mugodzhar Hills; following the Emba River to the Caspian Sea; following the Kura River from its mouth on the Caspian Sea, through the Surami passage to the Qvirila River; following the Qvirila River to its mouth by Poti on the Black Sea."

This user previously edited under User:Alinor, and based on edits like this:

A: "... specialized type of political organization characterized by a full-time, specialized, professional work force of tax collectors, soldiers, policemen, bureaucrats and the like that exercises supreme political authority over a defined territory with a permanent population, independent from any enduring external political control and possessing a local predominance of coercive power (always supplemented with moral and remunerative incentives as well) great enough to maintain general obedience to its laws or commands within its territorial borders."

S: "A specialized type of political organization characterized by a full-time, specialized, professional work force of tax-collectors, soldiers, policemen, bureaucrats and the like that exercises supreme political authority over a defined territory with a permanent population, independent from any enduring external political control and possessing a local predominance of coercive power (always supplemented with moral and remunerative incentives as well) great enough to maintain general obedience to its laws or commands within its territorial borders."

it seems that this issue predates the WP:CLEANSTART. For the sake of transparency, I've been involved in various content disputes with this editor. However, I think the evidence speaks for itself. TDL (talk) 23:10, 27 January 2013 (UTC)
 * I don't know if this is the place to respond, but a few things should be noted: now I can't address any issues with another user (Alnor). Regarding my edits mentioned above - these are in very contentious topics subject to constant disputes, where often editors argue over minute details of the wording (if it goes against their POV), constantly request more sourcing, accuse of OR/SYNTH, edit-war, etc., that's why in some cases the content is close to the source - edits are in articles with 1RR, ARBIA regulations for whole article ranges, etc.; some of the cases above are initial edits, that I or another editor redacted afterwards; some are quotes and thus obviously are the same as the source; some are from official documents/legal texts of the UN, governments, etc. where the point of using the source in the first place is to show specifically what the act of said institution is - without interpretations by Wikipedia editors or other 3rd parties; some are copied from another Wikipedia article where another editor has initially added those.
 * I should note that I fully support the copyright policy of Wikipedia and whatever the result of this procedure is I will be extra careful in my future edits.
 * And yes, TDL and I are engaged in "big" disputes and I find this as part of some campaign on his side utilizing the CCI system against me. I'm regret that, because previously I had a good opinion of that editor. Japinderum (talk) 07:36, 28 January 2013 (UTC)
 * I just noticed that you restored copyright violation #2 to the article, right after your promised to be careful. Please, you need to read WP:COPYVIO and take it very seriously.  Do you not understand why this edit a copyvio?
 * Also, can you clarify which of the copyvios listed above are the cases of you WP:CWW without attribution that you alluded to? Can you provide a diff of the edit where this content was first added to wikipedia?  If you're accusing someone else of adding copyrighted text to the project, we'll need to get to the bottom of that since the original source of the problem will need to be cleaned up as well.  TDL (talk) 07:05, 6 February 2013 (UTC)


 * I have spot checked Japinderum's edits and found nothing, although the nomination has some valid concerns. Japinderum, will you point out your major text contributions so I can have a look at them? MER-C 13:23, 13 February 2013 (UTC)
 * No evidence forthcoming. Stale and . MER-C 12:45, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

<div class="boilerplate metadata" style="background:#dee; border:1px solid #00c; margin:0.5em; padding:0.5em;; padding: 0.1em;"> Conductar I don't read Finnish, but the rough Google translations seem to confirm my guesses. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 10:25, 27 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Reported by Justlettersandnumbers (talk)
 * Many article creations that appear to be copy-pastes. Five that I am reasonably sure about are:
 * 1) John Lenehan from here
 * 2) Csaba Szilvay translated from here; Google translation for comparison
 * 3) Géza Szilvay from the same page
 * 4) Réka Szilvay from here
 * 5) Päivyt Meller from here; Google translation for comparison
 * 1) Päivyt Meller from here; Google translation for comparison


 * Andrea Griminelli, John Lenehan, Folke Gräsbeck, Lajos Garam, Jack Rothstein, Stockholm Sinfonietta, Linn Hendry: Presumptively deleted all. Wizardman  15:08, 13 October 2013 (UTC)
 * N Réka Szilvay: Cleaned, rewritten as stub, no remaining copyvio; copyvio-revdel template added for admin attention. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 21:55, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
 * N Helsinki Strings: Cleaned, rewritten as stub, no remaining copyvio; copyvio-revdel template added for admin attention. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 09:29, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
 * N Ari Angervo: probably translated from fi.wp; translated page added to talkpage. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 18:35, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Eri Klas:  Wizardman  15:14, 13 October 2013 (UTC)
 * N Päivyt Meller: closely paraphrased and/or translated from the sources. Blanked. —Psychonaut (talk) 12:17, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
 * No real indication of notability, so speedied as G12. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 17:25, 7 October 2013 (UTC)


 * N Géza Szilvay: Cleaned, rewritten as stub, no remaining copyvio; copyvio-revdel template added for admin attention. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 20:58, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
 * N Csaba Szilvay: Cleaned, rewritten as stub, no remaining copyvio; copyvio-revdel template added for admin attention. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 21:21, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
 * N Timo Koskinen:  Wizardman  15:14, 13 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Jorma Panula:  Wizardman  15:14, 13 October 2013 (UTC)

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MER-C 11:12, 4 October 2013 (UTC)

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 * Reported by Gigs (talk)
 * Declined an AfC of theirs for copyright reasons. Looked back through the contributions of the user and found heavy reliance on close paraphrasing that is bordering copyright infringement.  Affected articles are:
 * Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Tulsa Welding School
 * Brookline College
 * Anthem Education Group
 * Anthem Institute Gigs (talk) 21:14, 11 November 2013 (UTC)
 * User has disclosed that he was an officer for the companies involved and claims to hold copyright on the materials posted. I pointed them to the page on donating copyrighted materials and our COI guidelines. Gigs (talk) 22:43, 11 November 2013 (UTC)
 * You've listed all of this user's major edits right there. I've listed them all on Copyright problems (there's a bot that should do this, but it hasn't for the last few months). Nothing to investigate. . MER-C 13:02, 12 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Thank you. I knew this wasn't quite the right forum, but I wasn't sure where else to take a case like this to get another set of eyes on the problem.  Gigs (talk) 18:40, 12 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Thank you. I knew this wasn't quite the right forum, but I wasn't sure where else to take a case like this to get another set of eyes on the problem.  Gigs (talk) 18:40, 12 November 2013 (UTC)

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 * Reported by Stormmeteo (talk)
 * Content on Council for the Curriculum, Examinations & Assessment was copy pasted directly from http://www.ccea.org.uk/ Stormmeteo (talk) 22:52, 26 November 2013 (UTC)
 * That's the only article the IP has ever edited. We don't do sanctions here, you want WP:AIV or WP:ANI. . MER-C 06:56, 27 November 2013 (UTC)
 * That's the only article the IP has ever edited. We don't do sanctions here, you want WP:AIV or WP:ANI. . MER-C 06:56, 27 November 2013 (UTC)