Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2010 December 16

16 December 2010
SCV for 2010-12-16 [ Edit]

Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)

 * Ruth Farwell ([ history] · [ last edit]) Copied and pasted. VWBot (talk) 00:21, 17 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Pictogram voting keep.svg Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 14:49, 26 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Cheyenne (1955 TV series) ([ history] · [ last edit]) from http://books.google.com/books?id=CFXgj7a55agC&lpg=PA499&ots=3kCkMC2nVx&pg=PA499#v=onepage&q&f=false. CCI. Copyvio entered here; not all of it from this source but I haven't found another yet. There are other edits to the article by different socks but they're minimal. VernoWhitney (talk) 22:05, 16 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Pictogram voting keep.svg Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 14:24, 26 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Reginald de Braose ([ history] · [ last edit]) from http://web.archive.org/web/20030825060721/http://freespace.virgin.net/doug.thompson/BraoseWeb/Reginald.htm. VernoWhitney (talk) 22:48, 16 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Pictogram voting keep.svg OTRS Ticket received, article now licensed and compatible with CC-BY-SA. VernoWhitney (talk) 23:31, 16 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Bruche Park ([ history] · [ last edit]) from http://www.bruchepark.co.uk/. Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License • Gene93k (talk) 19:02, 16 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Robert Wechsler ([ history] · [ last edit]) substantially similar to http://www.palindrome.de/particles.htm. Whpq (talk) 14:59, 16 December 2010 (UTC)


 * 2010 Summer Youth Olympics ([ history] · [ last edit]) Close paraphrase. VWBot (talk) 00:21, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
 * I'm letting this one relist. I didn't see anything blatant, the section has been edited, and the admin who tagged it is on vacation. He may be in best position to assess if his concerns are alleviated. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 14:25, 30 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Ben Howard (aviator) ([ history] · [ last edit]) from --Bluezy (talk) 19:34, 16 December 2010 (UTC)
 * This one's got me second guessing myself. It's a .gov website, and should be PD since there is no indiction that it is not. According to the CENDI FAQ on "Frequently Asked Questions About Copyright", "Copyrighted works that are not owned by the Government should be included on government web sites only with permission of the copyright owner and should include an appropriate copyright notice." BUT material by Commissions is not automatically PD, and not all of the commissioners are federal employees. I have no idea if the author of this is a federal employee or not. It's foundational. I'd like additional feedback. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 18:48, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Consolidated pending further feedback. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 14:25, 30 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Roger Guillemette wrote the essay cited in the article. In 1995, Roger Guillemette was a New England free-lance writer on space issues. In 1998, he was a consultant to the Air Force. in 2004, he was an independent military space analyst. This link notes that he wrote an essay for the U.S. Centennial of Flight Commission in 2003, implying a work for hire relationship. In 2005, Guillemette was a correspondent for the Cape Canaveral bureau of Space.com. In 2008, he was a military historian. By Jan 2001, he was an aerospace journalist who has covered military and intelligence space projects since the 1990s.. In sum, Guillemette probably gave the copyright to the federal agency (work for hire), but unless evidence of it can be found, I don't think we can say it is material from the federal gov. -- Uzma Gamal (talk) 15:00, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much for supplying so much more information about the author of this piece! I agree with your conclusion; lacking verification that he surrendered copyright, we have to operate on the presumption that he may have been one of those commissioned authors permitted to retain copyright of his content. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 16:00, 20 February 2011 (UTC)


 * Glücksgas Stadium. I'm not sure about the best way to handle this. The article in its current state is pretty clearly a machine translation from some other site that I don't seem to be able to locate. But there's also a redirect from here that looks like a much better article. (The link is to an earlier version; a bot apparently overwrote the article with the redirect.) The older article was contributed by blocked user User:ABlockedUser, who appears to have had a history of copy violations, so I don't know if that's safe to restore either.  It's a rat's nest and I'd probably make a worse mess if I tried to untangle it. So I brought it here. -- BPMullins | Talk 22:52, 16 December 2010 (UTC)
 * User:MLauba, if it is a translation, it's very probably from German. Can you take a poke about and see? --Moonriddengirl (talk) 18:52, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Consolidated pending further feedback. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 14:25, 30 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Definitely a machine translation of a Germanic language. Still poking around for sources though - a whopping 70k added in one go looks like an import from another wiki. None of the WMFs though. MLauba (Talk) 13:01, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
 * I'm tagging it CV unsure and removing it from the consolidated queue. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 13:21, 21 March 2011 (UTC)