Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2011 November 13

13 November 2011
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Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)

 * Conorenal syndrome ([ history] · [ last edit]) from http://omim.org/entry/266920. Nephron T|C 02:16, 13 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Pictogram voting keep.svg Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. This wasn't easy. It seems only the first part of the article is a problem. It wasn't much of a problem but enough to warrant some re-writing. Please feel free to fix anything I've cocked up in that respect. I note the creator of the article wasn't notified, but as he/she hasn't edited in years, I don't think it should matter. --Mkativerata (talk) 20:13, 25 November 2011 (UTC)


 * Rae Cummings ([ history] · [ last edit]) from http://www.soapcentral.com/oltl/whoswho/rae.php. Gh87 (talk) 04:09, 13 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Pictogram voting keep.svg Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Revdel not feasible. --Mkativerata (talk) 09:30, 25 November 2011 (UTC)


 * A.R. Pardington ([ history] · [ last edit]) from and other pages in the book. The 1900's quotes are in the US public domain today, but the surrounding text from the 2008 book appears to be closely paraphrased. Should probably be rewritten a bit more. See also comments on the creator's talk page. ASCIIn2Bme (talk) 10:49, 13 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Pictogram voting keep.svg Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --Mkativerata (talk) 19:58, 25 November 2011 (UTC)


 * Conservapedia:
 * Honolulu Record ([ history] · [ last edit]) - original revision is from http://conservapedia.com/Koji_Ariyoshi, see . I found this based on a leaked Conservapedia mailing list message: "Likewise WP's Honolulu Record article, the commie rag Obama's mentor wrote for, was cut and pasted together from two Conservapedia articles, and Corenbot did not detect it." Note that although the same user User:Nobs01 may have written it on Conservapedia (if they are User:RobSmith, which has not been confirmed), it remains unclear whether Conservapedia's copyright terms transfer copyright to the Conservapedia project or not. Conservapedia has a Wikipedia-incompatible license. Several similar articles below. Dcoetzee 03:50, 1 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Chicago Star ([ history] · [ last edit]) - original revision is from http://conservapedia.com/Chicago_Star (see ).
 * English-language press of the Communist Party USA ([ history] · [ last edit]) - original revision is from http://www.conservapedia.com/List_of_Communist_publications (see ).
 * Abraham Lincoln School ([ history] · [ last edit]) - original revision is from http://www.conservapedia.com/Abraham_Lincoln_School (see ).
 * Grigory Kheifets ([ history] · [ last edit]) - original revision is from http://www.conservapedia.com/Grigory_Kheifets (see ).
 * U.S. Peace Council ([ history] · [ last edit]) - original revision is from http://conservapedia.com/U.S._Peace_Council (see ). Dcoetzee 03:50, 1 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Hello, the Conservapedia license does not transfer copyright to Conservapedia. Copyright is retained by the author. What the license does is give Conservapedia an irrevocable license. It's not incompatible with Wikipedia, as evidenced by section 2. "By contributing information to Conservapedia, you irrevocably consent to the display, copying, reuse or editing of your information, edits and entries, with or without attribution". No restriction is placed on the author posting his content elsewhere. In addition, the spirit of copyright laws is to keep people from stealing the lawful property of others, not to bar them from using their own. Geoff Plourde (talk) 19:00, 4 November 2011 (UTC)
 * The Conservapedia license is obviously incompatible with Wikipedia, because it is revocable. It is not clear from their copyright statement whether or not contributors transfer copyright to the project or not. Additionally, it has not been yet established that User:RobSmith on Conservapedia is User:Nobs01 on Wikipedia, which would be absolutely necessary in order to retain this content. As for copyright barring people from using their own work - this happens to musicians and authors all the time, as in the case of CRC Press suing Mathworld. Dcoetzee 03:06, 5 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Our attorney has previously confirmed that the license is incompatible. While I trust that Toon verified the identity, it's unfortunate that we don't have a record. I've approached the contributor about verifying, here. If we can verify, I think we can safely retain this until and unless Conservapedia asserts that their contributors do not retain copyright to their content. If we can't, I believe we should remove the material. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 14:06, 13 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Here is the information requested. Thanks to all for their patience. nobs (talk) 23:56, 15 November 2011 (UTC)
 * [[Image:Pictogram voting support.svg|20px]] No copyright concern. Material PD or appropriately licensed for use. Verification has been forwarded to OTRS and stored at 2011111610024788. Every article now contains reference to that ticket for future use. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 11:55, 16 November 2011 (UTC)


 * Bangladesh Academy of Sciences ([ history] · [ last edit]) from http://www.banglapedia.org/httpdocs/HT/B_0143.HTM. Moonriddengirl (talk) 14:53, 13 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Contributor was not notified; relisted from Copyright problems/2011 November 1. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 14:53, 13 November 2011 (UTC)


 * Bermingham Castles of Ireland ([ history] · [ last edit]) from Birmingham to Bermingham, Douglas P. Bermingham. See talk page of article. Relisted from Copyright problems/2011 November 1. Moonriddengirl (talk) 15:00, 13 November 2011 (UTC)
 * [[Image:Pictogram voting support.svg|20px]] No copyright concern. Seems from the talk page that this one's resolved. --Mkativerata (talk) 05:04, 20 November 2011 (UTC)


 * Babe Ruth League ([ history] · [ last edit]) from http://hometeamsonline.com/teams/default.asp?u=HADLEYCALRIPKEN&t=c&s=baseball&p=about.  Nolelover   Talk · Contribs  21:18, 13 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Prior revisions of Sean Montgomery ([ history] · [ last edit]) from http://www.soapcentral.com/amc/whoswho/sean.php. --Gh87 (talk) 21:28, 13 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Pictogram voting keep.svg Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Another admin reviewed this last time round and didn't use revdel. I agree. There appear to have been clean substantive contributions to the article between the revisions concerned. Attribution would be lost if they were to be deleted. --Mkativerata (talk) 19:40, 23 November 2011 (UTC)


 * Sedo ([ history] · [ last edit]) from at least http://www.sedo.it/links/showlinks.php3?tracked=1&partnerid=32580&language=e&Id=2800. Massive influx of content includes copied sentences from the identified source (search for phrases such as "Sedo began planning in 2003" and "Expansion continued in 2008"). VernoWhitney (talk) 22:44, 13 November 2011 (UTC)
 * [[Image:Pictogram voting keep.svg|20px]] OTRS Ticket received, article now licensed and compatible with CC-BY-SA. Permission seems to have been received and OTRS seems to have given this the tick. I checked two or three uses of non-Sedo sources and they seem to be clean. --Mkativerata (talk) 19:46, 23 November 2011 (UTC)


 * Lala Jaswantrai Churamani ([ history] · [ last edit]) from . GeorgeLouis (talk) 22:46, 13 November 2011 (UTC) Everything is from one source, far beyond fair use. GeorgeLouis (talk) 22:50, 13 November 2011 (UTC)
 * It's hard to know whether the book is only being used for the quotes in the article (of which there are too many) or the article's text as a whole, and if the latter, whether it's a copyright violation. The book seems to be completely offline. What is making me suspicious, and causing me to think we should stubbify the whole article is that it was created by an account that has never done anything else and got from 0 to 17kb in half an hour. Thoughts? --Mkativerata (talk) 18:53, 27 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Stubbified. --Mkativerata (talk) 20:01, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Glidden (paints) ([ history] · [ last edit]) from http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/The-Glidden-Company-Company-History.html. The "Soy Products Division" section isn't from that source but I strongly suspect it's a copyright infrigement from somewhere else. From the Richard Arthur Norton CCI. Hut 8.5 23:48, 13 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Author has now written a copyvio-free version at Talk:Glidden (paints)/temp. However it's a one sentence stub that wouldn't pass A7. Hut 8.5 22:47, 18 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Pictogram voting keep.svg Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Deleted and clean draft added to article space by CCI subject. --Mkativerata (talk) 18:49, 27 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Pictogram voting keep.svg Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Deleted and clean draft added to article space by CCI subject. --Mkativerata (talk) 18:49, 27 November 2011 (UTC)