Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/Commons sibi

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

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

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

Text

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


 * After examining an article:
 * replace the diffs after the colon on the listing with indication of whether problem was found (add y) or not (add n). If the article is blanked and may be deleted, please indicate as much after the y.
 * Follow with your username and the time to indicate to others that the article has been evaluated and appropriately addressed. This is automatically generated by four tildes ( ~ )


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

Images

 * Examine the images below. For free images:
 * Does the image look non-free? Is it likely the uploader is the copyright holder?
 * Is the image properly licensed and sourced? Be aware of images that say "this image is licensed under X" without specifying who created it.
 * Do a reverse image search using Google Images. Check the license of the source page. Compare the last modified time with the (Commons) upload time.
 * Do a Google image search for phrases that describe the image's contents.
 * See Guide to image deletion on dealing with cases of possible image copyright infringement. There is no need to open a possibly unfree files listing. Administrators may delete images from multiple point infringers presumptively in accordance with Copyright violations. Evaluators who are not administrators may section images into a "deletion requested" section for administrator attention.


 * For non-free images, determine whether each image meets our non-free content criteria.
 * Note that Commons does not accept non-free content.
 * Annotate the listing with the action taken, e.g. if the image was tagged no source write "no source"; if the fair use claim is deemed ok you can write "OK fair use".

Background
 Commons sibi
 * Check requested by Diannaa (talk)
 * The case came to my attention as there is a thread at ANI. User is not currently blocked. I have notified him of this report. -- Diannaa (talk) 23:01, 20 May 2014 (UTC)
 * The case came to my attention as there is a thread at ANI. User is not currently blocked. I have notified him of this report. -- Diannaa (talk) 23:01, 20 May 2014 (UTC)


 * copied from here
 * copied from http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/restoring-legitimacy-to-pils/article5970631.ece here]
 * copied from here
 * copied from here
 * copied from here. Diannaa (talk) 23:01, 20 May 2014 (UTC)

The precise discussion about PIB is being held under the "License and copyright for Indian government documents ". and http://pib.nic.in/newsite/terms.aspx#copyright
 * I would request that the following be referred to before going into the case

I strongly feel that I have not made copyright violation as mentioned in the terms of reference by the PIB. And more over I have almost acknowledged every edit I have made to PIB's page from where the URL points to. --Commons sibi (talk) 01:24, 21 May 2014 (UTC)

If my aim was to copy-paste or violate copyright restrictions, I would have easily done it from any site. But, PIB is government site which provides data not given by most of news papers or book references. --Commons sibi (talk) 07:28, 21 May 2014 (UTC)
 * I don't think your intention was to violate copyright, though I think you violated it nonetheless. The PIB Terms of Use do give transferable permission to reproduce original content, but restrict such reproduction to "accurate" copies.  This is incompatible with Wikipedia's CC-BY-SA licence, which allows material to be modified.  This problem was already pointed out in the Commons discussion you linked to.  Note that I agree that PIB is a valuable source, and there is no problem with you continuing to use it, provided that it's used as source of information which you cast in your own words, not as a source of text which is reproduced verbatim or with superficial modifications. —Psychonaut (talk) 08:44, 21 May 2014 (UTC)
 * That doesn't explain your copying from The Hindu pointed out above. MER-C 10:46, 21 May 2014 (UTC)
 * I've just removed almost all of the content from Shyamali Gupta as it was copied from multiple press sources, documented in edit summaries in history. None of them were government sites. (Nor were they all cited.) --Moonriddengirl (talk) 10:56, 21 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Indefinitely blocked pending some indication that he understands and will comply with copyright policies, after I verified that news sources were copied on multiple occasions after a block warning on 27 February. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 11:55, 21 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Though my primary source was PIB, upon seeing it in PIB , I verify them . Some times to add to contents I see news sources . This in no way defends the mistake which I have did .Though my intentions were no were near vandalism , but yes they were near plagarism which might hurt wikipedia .I am extremely sorry that around 186 articles have to be cleaned up .:( I will make sure that in future not even a single paraphrasing or copying as-it-is happens .Sorry community .--Commons sibi (talk) 17:30, 23 May 2014 (UTC)

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