Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2009 June 28

28 June 2009

 * Concurrent relation ([ history] · [ last edit]) from http://books.google.com/books?id=_8TyhSqHUiEC&pg=PA502&lpg=PA502&dq=%22Concurrent+Relation%22&source=bl&ots=bmFf3fDvJh&sig=9j30NiuiLl9iNhRaGPok1gP7qeU&hl=en&ei=4UxESpaaJpWcMdX7lKsC&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 03:25, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Tagger has withdrawn tag. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 13:19, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
 * SHX fonts ([ history] · [ last edit]) from docs.autodesk.com 5ko (talk) 17:06, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Biosciences and Tower Building ([ history] · [ last edit]) from http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/about/photosviews/uniestate/index.html. Tagishsimon (talk) 17:30, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Rohtak ([ history] · [ last edit]) from . This is a tricky one, as text is also lifted from, but I'm unclear about the latter site's copyright status.  Any help would be great.  WordyGirl90 (talk) 20:09, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Unless the external site indicates that it is public domain (explicitly or implicitly, as if it identifies a source that is PD by age or not governed by copyright, such as US government works) or otherwise free for use, it is presumed to be copyrighted. The question becomes whether we had it first or they did. I tried a wayback search on the site, but it garnered no results. This is inconclusive. If wayback confirms they came first, it solves the question. If it doesn't, we seek additional clues. My next step is to look for idiosyncratic text and determine when this first entered the article. If the text that is in the external site appeared all at once—and subsequent edits have been away from rather than towards the suspected source—we have strong indicators of a copy-paste. If it appeared incrementally and subsequent edits have brought it closer to the suspected source, we have strong indicators that they are copying us. In this case, I looked for the word "khokhrakot." This term entered our article on 7 January 2008. You can search this manually, but "WikiBlame" is also helpful. Currently, you can access that search engine by looking at the history of the article. The second "external tool" is a "Revision history search." It showed up in one single dump right here. The fact that it was placed by an IP editor isn't encouraging. :/ If it were a registered contributor, I would look at his or her history for other contributions to help determine if copyright infringement is more or less likely. In this case, I think you did the right thing in removing the text. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 12:24, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Sorry I hadn't seen this before today - I'm not terribly active at times. Thanks for spending so much time on this!  The first website I mentioned came up on Google as some sort of email.  Turns out the text taken from that was added all at once along with other copyrighted material from other sources.  I removed it.  Also found one sentence taken from the second source that I assumed as copyrighted, per your advice.  Funny thing is that what's left in the article doesn't include copyvio as far as I can tell, but it was added in one fell swoop with the other copyvio stuff.  Maybe the source isn't on the web anymore.  Thanks again! WordyGirl90 (talk) 19:00, 10 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Barbara A. Perry ([ history] · [ last edit]) from . Nomination completed by DumbBOT (talk) 23:10, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
 * OTRS clearance. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 19:35, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Bill Squires ([ history] · [ last edit]) from . Nomination completed by DumbBOT (talk) 23:10, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Seems to have been all cleaned. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 19:33, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Bridgham Family ([ history] · [ last edit]) from . Nomination completed by DumbBOT (talk) 23:10, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Burned(novel) ([ history] · [ last edit]) from . Nomination completed by DumbBOT (talk) 23:10, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Kabhi Na Kabhi ([ history] · [ last edit]) from . Nomination completed by DumbBOT (talk) 23:10, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Manhattan group ([ history] · [ last edit]) from . Nomination completed by DumbBOT (talk) 23:10, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Richard Perry ([ history] · [ last edit]) from . Nomination completed by DumbBOT (talk) 23:10, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Unverified. Rewrote. And it all keeps piling up! Off to put out more fires. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 18:15, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
 * UTARPA ([ history] · [ last edit]) from . Nomination completed by DumbBOT (talk) 23:10, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Allen B. Morse ([ history] · [ last edit]) from http://www.micourthistory.org/bios.php?id=39. &oelig; &trade; 23:53, 28 June 2009 (UTC)