Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2012 February 14

14 February 2012
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Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)

 * Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/The Last Skeptik ([ history] · [ last edit]) from A great deal of this is a copy and paste from . Darkness Shines (talk) 00:54, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Speedily deleted as G12. Reaper Eternal (talk) 13:46, 14 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/GoMo ([ history] · [ last edit]) from Direct copy and paste from . Darkness Shines (talk) 03:23, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Speedily deleted as G12. Reaper Eternal (talk) 13:46, 14 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Masonic Lodges of North Carolina - The vast majority of the article seems to be a copy/paste from the primary source here, but I've also been advised of a "telephone book" exemption of sorts in the discussion.Tyrenon (talk) 12:42, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
 * In this diff the editor who added the problematic content states that he will request permission for it to be released so that it can be used freely in Wikipedia. --He to Hecuba (talk) 20:03, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Deleted (see Articles for deletion/Masonic Lodges of North Carolina) predominantly due to copyright issues. --He to Hecuba (talk) 10:32, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Chinese university ranking (Netbig) - There is some debate among copyright lawyers that university rankings are subject to copyright protection. This is based off of the fact that courts have recognized that although facts are not protectable, prices, value, and other statistics that are a result of complex formulations can indeed be protected by copyright law. This is worth looking into, and I just wanted to flag this potential problem here. JR00576 (talk) 21:15, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Pictogram voting keep.svg Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. In accordance with the Wikimedia Foundation attorney's advice, we cannot reproduce significant portions of list unless the method of creation is strictly noncreative. See User:Moonriddengirl/Copyright in lists. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 00:19, 26 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Fish Elsewhere ([ history] · [ last edit]) from http://www.fishelsewhere.eu/a138x957.  Ron h jones (Talk) 23:02, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
 * OPUS Archives and Research Center ([ history] · [ last edit]) from www.opusarchives.org/ and many subpages - there was an very old OTRS pending on the talk - nothing ever received at OTRS....  Ron h jones (Talk) 23:03, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Ticking time bomb scenario ([ history] · [ last edit]) with no source given. Copy paste. DpmukBOT (talk) 00:01, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Pictogram voting keep.svg Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Quote used untransformatively; removed. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 00:23, 26 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Tony Elumelu Foundation ([ history] · [ last edit]) from http://www.tonyelumelufoundation.org/page/who-we-are. Copy paste. DpmukBOT (talk) 00:01, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Pictogram voting keep.svg Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 01:57, 26 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Vampire Diary ([ history] · [ last edit]) with no source given. Copy paste. DpmukBOT (talk) 00:01, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Pictogram voting keep.svg Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Well it wasn't a copypaste of the claimed source (as that was facebook and it clearly said they had taken from us), but some of it was copypasted and led to a whole lot more copypasting from the same website. Contributor may well be connected to the site in question but hasn't contributed in a long time.  Cleaned them all and dropped the user a note. --Dpmuk (talk) 01:35, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

Items from User:DpmukBOT/Backlog:
 * User:Boulderlimos ([ history] · [ last edit]) with no source given. DpmukBOT (talk) 06:29, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Pictogram voting support.svg Article deleted. Article has been deleted for a reason other than copyright concerns.  --He to Hecuba (talk) 12:39, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Pictogram voting support.svg Article deleted. Article has been deleted for a reason other than copyright concerns.  --He to Hecuba (talk) 12:39, 15 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Choudhury Mahmood Hasan ([ history] · [ last edit]) from http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:nofIN8lmz_gJ:www.pharmadu.net/web/%3Fq%3Dnode/143+choudhury+mahmud+hasan&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk. DpmukBOT (talk) 06:29, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Coming Out Spiritually ([ history] · [ last edit]) with no source given. DpmukBOT (talk) 06:29, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Pictogram voting keep.svg Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 01:34, 26 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Diagnostic Medical Sonography ([ history] · [ last edit]) from http://medicine.utah.edu/radiology/technologist/Careers/Sonographer.htm. DpmukBOT (talk) 06:29, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Pictogram voting keep.svg Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 01:31, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

End. MER-C 11:56, 15 February 2012 (UTC)