Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2012 May 17

17 May 2012
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Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)

 * Sound masking - there are assertions on the talk page that this article may have been pasted from another source. I am not sure whether, for example, 'The Acoustical Society of America' is a public domain website, or whether any material was copied from here or elsewhere. A response back to me would be appreciated. I would not want to copyedit it and mess up a possible COPVIO. --Greenmaven (talk) 02:52, 17 May 2012 (UTC)


 * Pictogram voting question.svg No source found; copy-paste tag removed and cv-unsure tag placed at article talk. I've checked several large text dumps in the history and haven't found any duplicated text that wasn't here before it was there. The double spaces might simply indicate the content was written elsewhere and pasted here by somebody less familiar with wikipedia standards. Without a confirmed source, there's not much we can do. The article has had a number of text dumps, but there's also considerable sign of natural evolution. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 16:45, 17 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your response. --Greenmaven (talk) 21:36, 17 June 2012 (UTC)
 * We now have a source:, as well as "Sound Masking Done Right", both paper and book by Dr. Robert Chanaud, the major contributor of the article's text, who owns the copyright to the book and paper. The article text is both condensed and extrapolated from the cited paper; the book appears to be an expanded version of the paper, and some of the text appears to hew more closely to the book.  Unless the book and/or paper are compatibly licensed to wikipedia, copying his own text into the article is forbidden: WP:MYTEXT.  I think we have a good case for blanking most of the article, or those portions contributed by editor bobchan2. I'd prefer an administrator handle this.Sbalfour (talk) 20:48, 4 December 2015 (UTC)


 * Deborah Lurie ([ history] · [ last edit]) from http://www.deborahlurie.com/fr_biography.cfm. This is not the first time this article has been reported for pasting the text from that URL; I have seen no evidence that permission has since been provided. — Paul A (talk) 04:47, 17 May 2012 (UTC)


 * Pictogram voting keep.svg Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --Dpmuk (talk) 18:20, 25 May 2012 (UTC)

Items from User:DpmukBOT/Backlog:
 * F.T. Island ([ history] · [ last edit]) with no source given. Close paraphrase. DpmukBOT (talk) 08:12, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Eh. Not too close, but too much emphasis on incidents that are ultimately trivial in the notability of this band. Revised. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 17:02, 17 June 2012 (UTC)


 * Fernando de la Fuente de la Fuente ([ history] · [ last edit]) with no source given. Close paraphrase. DpmukBOT (talk) 08:12, 18 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Pictogram voting keep.svg Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 17:36, 17 June 2012 (UTC)


 * Gaekwad dynasty ([ history] · [ last edit]) with no source given. Close paraphrase. DpmukBOT (talk) 08:12, 18 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Pictogram voting keep.svg Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Some time ago. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 17:59, 17 June 2012 (UTC)


 * Fernando Garibay ([ history] · [ last edit]) with no source given. Close paraphrase. DpmukBOT (talk) 08:12, 18 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Pictogram voting keep.svg Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 18:10, 17 June 2012 (UTC)


 * Emanuel Gat ([ history] · [ last edit]) with no source given. Close paraphrase. DpmukBOT (talk) 08:12, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
 * All I found are backwards copies. Removed tag and requested source if it is restored. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 18:25, 17 June 2012 (UTC)


 * Gender Justice movement (Church of Christ) ([ history] · [ last edit]) with no source given. Close paraphrase. DpmukBOT (talk) 08:12, 18 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Pictogram voting keep.svg Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 18:52, 17 June 2012 (UTC)


 * Gladney Center for Adoption ([ history] · [ last edit]) with no source given. Close paraphrase. DpmukBOT (talk) 08:12, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
 * ? Tag removed. No source identified; I don't see it. Article has been modified, so maybe whatever was triggering the tag is gone. Requested source ID if retagging. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 18:59, 17 June 2012 (UTC)


 * Gondia ([ history] · [ last edit]) with no source given. Close paraphrase. DpmukBOT (talk) 08:12, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
 * ? No source identified. Content has been modified; tag already removed. I admit it's iffy, but I don't see anything. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 19:06, 17 June 2012 (UTC)

End. MER-C 06:14, 18 May 2012 (UTC)