Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/LuckyLouie

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Background
 LuckyLouie
 * Reported by Marcus   Qwertyus
 * infringes this. In this diff, the bit about "substituting the word 'Illuminati' for 'Jews'," infringes . The paragraph about this foundation is mostly identical to . The entirety of the death section of  infringes . Several files have been uploaded with false claims of ownership.  Marcus   Qwertyus   02:21, 7 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Files uploaded are typically scans of WWII era illustrations from United States Military/Signal Corps radio manuals, mistakenly filed under a GDFL or CC license. They should have been filed as 'Works by the US Government'. Can fix that.
 * Pick and shovel file does has elements of clip art that I modified in Photoshop and posted to another Wikipedian's user page in appreciation of their help ("Hard Worker Award"). This can be deleted if desired.
 * Regarding the William Cooper article, because of frequent edit warring by IPs over content, extremely close paraphrasing and/or use of a few actual words and short phrases from sources was necessary in one instance. In retrospect, it probably should have been in quotes.
 * Similar situation at Gordon Novel, but with a single purpose account revert-warring over exact phrasing of content.
 * Regarding the Paul Orfalea article, sorry that one sentence was identical to the source, I can certainly fix that.
 * I don't believe any of the above was an intentional misuse of copyrighted material or that it is representative of a pattern of large-scale systematic copyright violations. Regards - LuckyLouie (talk) 14:47, 7 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Sorry, but lifting an entire paragraphs is just lazy. I'm sure the extent of the damage is much more far reaching than what I had time to uncover. Marcus   Qwertyus   20:42, 7 June 2012 (UTC)
 * BC-342 copies from at least. Accepted. MER-C 11:46, 10 June 2012 (UTC)
 * OK, I've copyedited that article. I'm happy to pitch in, work through the list, and help remediate any other such problems. - LuckyLouie (talk) 16:24, 16 June 2012 (UTC)
 * How far back do your copyvios go? Marcus   Qwertyus   00:48, 17 June 2012 (UTC)
 * I wasn't aware I'd committed any copyvios until this CCI was opened. I'm not familiar with the process here at CCI, but would you like me to help work through the articles in the contribution survey, check for close paraphrases, and remove or remediate any problem text? - LuckyLouie (talk) 01:47, 17 June 2012 (UTC)
 * I'd like to add that it's pretty embarrassing for me to discover that I'd been so focused on verifiability and keeping my contributions extremely close to reliable sources that I didn't ever learn how to properly paraphrase, and sometimes paraphrased too closely or retained entire sentences from sourced material that (to me at the time) appeared to be noncreative expressions of an idea that would not be copyrightable. Intentional plagiarism? No. I would never do anything to intentionally harm the project. And this CCI has been helpful for me to understand why WP is necessarily held to a very high standard of copyright compliance, so I'll take special care to see my future contributions are strictly within policy. Marcus, I'm certain you have the best interests of Wikipedia in mind, but I'd be more comfortable having this investigation being handled by one of the other volunteers here at CCI who are a bit less invested in portraying my contributions as intentional policy violations. - LuckyLouie (talk) 02:26, 19 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Sure. Bear in mind there are ~90000 other articles vying for our attention, so it may take a long time (potentially years). MER-C 09:34, 19 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Understood. I'm committed to go through the list and clean up, and welcome any critique of the deletes or copyedits I've done so far to resolve any copyvio issues. - LuckyLouie (talk) 17:37, 22 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Understood. I'm committed to go through the list and clean up, and welcome any critique of the deletes or copyedits I've done so far to resolve any copyvio issues. - LuckyLouie (talk) 17:37, 22 June 2012 (UTC)

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