Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2011 March 31

31 March 2011
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Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)

 * Rotation_around_a_fixed_axis ([ history] · [ last edit]) from and, and maybe other books.  The copyvio was done in May, 2007 by user:Rsfontenot in this edit  to Rotational motion.  [Note, the date of the Serway book is 2008,  but I don't think that means it was copied from Wikipedia; I think 2008 is just the earliest edition of this textbook that Google books has.  The other plagiarized source definitely predates Wikipedia.]  The Rotational motion page was merged to Rotation_around_a_fixed_axis by me, long ago.  At the time, I did not detect a copyvio.

There are some other big copyvios on Rotation_around_a_fixed_axis from the same editor, who has since been blocked for unrelated misbehavior. For example, this edit overlaps with this snippet from Google books. Given time, I could rewrite them all out of existence, but I have other demands on my time, and it might take me a while to do that, so I thought I would report this here. Cardamon (talk) 05:33, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Thank you for bringing up your concerns. You're almost certainly correct, since the book you link is the 8th edition. I see that you have been addressing the concerns since making this note here, but I'm afraid that such incremental changes can frequently create derivative works, and I'm afraid that's a bit of what's going on here. :/ We still have the same structure as the source--some of the same examples and the same order of arguments--strung together with remaining bits of the information. And I can't see one of the books at all. It may be best to blank out and rewrite those portions entirely in your own words, if you feel up to it. I'll ask another admin to take a look. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 19:03, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
 * As the second opinion, I agree with Moonriddengirl. I think everything that they contributed needs to be completely removed/reverted back to whatever it said before they touched it and then rewritten from scratch. I got a few different snippets of the older book to pull up (e.g. this) to come up and Rotation around a fixed axis still follows it almost entirely verbatim. VernoWhitney (talk) 19:15, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Just for emphasis, I do mean everything they contributed to the article, not just the single edit mentioned above. Compare for example the bottom part of this edit of theirs a few days later to this source and this edit added most of the same material to the current article. VernoWhitney (talk) 19:45, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
 * I agree that I did not yet succeed in eliminating the copyvio. (I was thinking about two more passes through the material would do it.) I would like to note that the equations and the arguments are pretty standard from one textbook to another, with the main difference between textbooks being the level they are written at. (The examples tend to be individual.) Still, maybe it would be safest to simply delete everything that editor contributed to either of those pages, including diagrams. Either way, I won't be up for any much rewriting until after April 18. Cardamon (talk) 20:27, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
 * I've deleted everything in that chunk of text except some of the equations (which were generic), the section titles (which also were generic and, as far as I can see, weren't copied), and the reference. Hopefully that got all of it.  I'll mention this on the Physics Wikiproject.  Cardamon (talk) 00:55, 10 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much. :) I'm glad that you'll be able to help with cleanup there; I'm afraid that article would be quite beyond me! --Moonriddengirl (talk) 18:36, 10 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Alison McAtee ([ history] · [ last edit]) from http://www.bloomingtonthemovie.com/cast.htm. :| TelCo  NaSp  Ve :|  07:02, 31 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Pictogram voting keep.svg Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 20:01, 9 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Archery Association of India ([ history] · [ last edit]) from either http://www.indianarchery.info/htdocs/calendar.htm or http://wn.com/Archery_Association_of_India based on Google search, but formatting is clearly taken from another website. :| TelCo  NaSp  Ve :|  09:59, 31 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Pictogram voting keep.svg Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 20:04, 9 April 2011 (UTC)


 * King's Stairs Gardens ([ history] · [ last edit]) from http://www.saveksg.com/index.php?p=1_3_The-Gardens. Deor (talk) 12:37, 31 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Pictogram voting keep.svg Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 20:13, 9 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Raise My Kids ([ history] · [ last edit]) from http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/410965/634165 by Special:Contributions/Originalsinner, blocked for multiple copyvios back in 2006. DanielPenfield (talk) 12:52, 31 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Pictogram voting keep.svg Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 20:54, 9 April 2011 (UTC)


 * William D. Clark ([ history] · [ last edit]) from http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTABOUTUS/EXTARCHIVES/0,,contentMDK:20270997~menuPK:542609~pagePK:36726~piPK:437378~theSitePK:29506~isCURL:Y,00.html AND http://www.odi.org.uk/resources/download/3579.pdf. Tzu Zha Men (talk) 22:39, 31 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Pictogram voting keep.svg Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 00:29, 11 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Reverend James B. Simpson ([ history] · [ last edit]) Copied and pasted. VWBot (talk) 00:23, 1 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Not sure if the whole article is copied, but every sentence cited to (ref 18 at the moment) appears to be copied, just intermixed with the rest of the text. VernoWhitney (talk) 18:47, 10 April 2011 (UTC)


 * [[Image:Out of date clock icon.svg|20px]] User was not notified, relisting under today's entry. Thanks. Given that, I've blanked the article and notified the contributor. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 00:36, 11 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Sangtemla ([ history] · [ last edit]) Copied and pasted. VWBot (talk) 00:23, 1 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Richard Dedekind ([ history] · [ last edit]) Close paraphrase of http://www.archive.org/stream/MenOfMathematics/TXT/00000255.txt. VWBot (talk) 00:23, 1 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Pictogram voting keep.svg Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. I only found trace amounts, but I confirmed that the source is still copyrighted. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 00:51, 11 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Michael Ferns ([ history] · [ last edit]) Close paraphrase of http://www.michaelfernsfilms.com/biography.php. VWBot (talk) 00:23, 1 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Pictogram voting keep.svg Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Some of this was rewritten; some was not. I reverted. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 00:58, 11 April 2011 (UTC)


 * John T. Olson ([ history] · [ last edit]) Close paraphrase. VWBot (talk) 00:23, 1 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Pictogram voting keep.svg Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 01:06, 11 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Linghong Kong ([ history] · [ last edit]) Copied and pasted. Relisting. VWBot (talk) 00:23, 1 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Timeline of events leading to the American Civil War ([ history] · [ last edit]) from Wagner, Margaret E., Gary W. Gallagher, and Paul Finkelman. The Library of Congress Civil War Desk Reference. (2009) ISBN 978-1-4391-4884-6, page 59 google books. I've found two instances of plagiarism so far which I detailed on the talk page, and I assisted the editor to fix the first instance but there's apparently more. Let me know if you need more information. Kirk (talk) 20:30, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
 * This is still being worked on in temporary space. I don't really know what to do with this, since I can't see the sources. Do we let the rewrite wrap up and then move it into article space, hoping for the best? Try to find somebody who has the books to review it? Any thoughts appreciated. :/ --Moonriddengirl (talk) 18:41, 24 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Temp space was edited as recently as May 5th. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 15:32, 8 May 2011 (UTC)
 * No reason to keep this day hanging open for this listing merely. I'm moving it to Copyright problems/Older consolidated. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 16:00, 8 May 2011 (UTC)
 * The two editors who have worked on this article most recently have reviewed the entries and checked them against the citations; and added additional citations and a few entries. We believe there should now be no objection to restoration of this article. Donner60 (talk) 23:20, 31 May 2011 (UTC)