Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2010 May 15

15 May 2010
SCV for 2010-05-15 [ Edit]

Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)

 * Upington ([ history] · [ last edit]) The sentence beginning with "Upington is a holiday destination with all the amenities required for the many tourists (...)" originating in this diff (april 2009) can be found at this website, where it is marked with "© ERA South Africa (Pty) Ltd. All rights reserved". Other sentences seem to have the same problem. Teofilo talk  08:09, 15 May 2010 (UTC)
 * My gut tells me that this could be reverse infringement, but I can't prove it. None of the clues I look for are there. Accordingly, I see no choice but to treat it as a potential problem in accordance with WP:C pending some feedback from the contributor. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 14:29, 28 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Note other complicating factors: text duplicated at . In spite of the origin date of 27 June 2009 on the page, this is a cited source in the article, which makes reverse infringement unlikely., on the other hand, clearly predates, although I don't know when duplicated text (eg "by 1868, the Korana marauders had made life so intolerable that the colonial government was forced to create a special magisterial district.") entered. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 14:37, 28 May 2010 (UTC)


 * Ox-bow, school of art and artist residency (history &middot; last edit) from Fæ (talk) 22:48, 15 May 2010 (UTC)