Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2013 December 11

11 December 2013
SCV for 2013-12-11 [ Edit]

Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)

 * Greenland's Grand Canyon ([ history] · [ last edit] · rewrite) includes content copied from, and possibly other sources. - Ypnypn (talk) 03:34, 11 December 2013 (UTC)


 * [[Image:Pictogram voting support.svg|20px]] No copyright concern. Material PD or appropriately licensed for use. Hi, User:Ypnypn. NASA is public domain, so that source is okay from a copyright standpoint. Not an issue for us to deal with here. :) Just for future use, though, please be sure to use the templates required when listing content here, as this gives the community an opportunity to address issues prior to admin closure. The instructions are at CP. Thanks! --Moonriddengirl (talk) 02:16, 1 January 2014 (UTC)


 * Tennessee Celeste Claflin ([ history] · [ last edit] · rewrite) from "Notorious Victoria: The Life of Victoria Woodhull, Uncensored" - hopefully someone with more experience can help or at least comment on whether I did the right thing. The article before [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tennessee_Celeste_Claflin&oldid=578620630] I reverted was full of quotes (generally cited but it seems way excessive). There are not only specific quotes but also a lot of inline quotes. In fact if you look at the older version when the material was first introduced [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tennessee_Celeste_Claflin&diff=467400656&oldid=447027906] it seems all quotes were inline so I guess people have tried to improve it. But there are still so many inline quotes. And it looks like over half the article could be copying from another source primarily I think Notorious Victoria. Worse than that, I wonder if in the attempted cleanup, people not recognised the problem have removed the quotation marks without substanially rewriting the content, in other words, we're still closely paraphrasing the other source, it's just not clear we are. And I'm not even sure why it was necessary to copy a lot of the stuff rather than rewording it e.g. "The two once-inseparable sisters had been estranged for years" (I confirmed this was in the source) or the entire voting section. So I don't see what else to do but to revert to the version before these additions as considering the shear amount of stuff which seems to be simple copying likely means trying to reuse anything will waste more time. The book was published in 1998 so I presume it's not in the public domain or otherwise under a suitable licence. Incidentally, looking at the talk page, I think the contributor/s who added the problematic material were doing it as part of an assignment. Nil Einne (talk) 18:30, 11 December 2013 (UTC)


 * Pictogram voting keep.svg Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Thank you. You made the right call, User:Nil Einne. That looked like a pretty big problem. :/  --Moonriddengirl (talk) 02:18, 1 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Although the primary contributor User:Blizzardbaby seems to have mostly edited this article, since it came from a university or school assignment I probably should investigate other articles a bit more although I dread what I may find. Nil Einne (talk) 06:07, 1 January 2014 (UTC)