Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2014 December 5

5 December 2014
SCV for 2014-12-05 [ Edit]

Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)

 * Sandra the Fairytale Detective ([ history] · [ last edit] · rewrite) from https://web.archive.org/web/20110920195155/http://www.animationinsider.net/article.php?articleID=2200. Archived news article. TheGGoose (talk) 00:07, 5 December 2014 (UTC)


 * Pictogram voting keep.svg Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 22:10, 30 December 2014 (UTC)


 * Millennium Tower (New York City) ([ history] · [ last edit] · rewrite) from City Realty: Millennium Tower Much of text seems to have been taken directly from realtor's website. Article was created by possible COI editor. Marchjuly (talk) 02:18, 5 December 2014 (UTC)


 * Pictogram voting keep.svg Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 22:33, 30 December 2014 (UTC)


 * David R. Brigham ([ history] · [ last edit] · rewrite) from I declined CSD G12 as no outright source was given for copyvio, however, another editor has alleged a copyvio, so I am bringing here. Safiel (talk) 03:45, 5 December 2014 (UTC)


 * Comment Found and added the source url. Appears to be borderline. Could be handled either by trimming or deleting the article, but I will leave that to an administrator's judgement. Safiel (talk) 03:57, 5 December 2014 (UTC)


 * Pictogram voting keep.svg Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Thank you for finding the source. I've stubbed it. Some of the sources it cited weren't usable anyway. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 22:54, 30 December 2014 (UTC)


 * Joseph Rodney Moss ([ history] · [ last edit] · rewrite) from http://www.law.sc.edu/memory/1994/mossjr.shtml, http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1876&dat=19850128&id=flosAAAAIBAJ&sjid=yc4EAAAAIBAJ&pg=2506,7181939. I'm concerned that this may be part of a wider problem. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 12:20, 5 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Comment I reworked the article and removed the copyvio template, which I have since been advised was out-of-process. The article is now being further improved.  Robert McClenon (talk) 00:02, 6 December 2014 (UTC)


 * Pictogram voting keep.svg Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Thank you for your work on this, User:Robert McClenon. The process exists to help avoid derivative work issues. Unfortunately, a couple of sentences from your rewrite are unusable for that reason and have been removed. It does seem the bulk of the article has been repaired, however, and, again, I do appreciate the assist. As this page demonstrates all by itself, there's quite a backlog in this area and not enough editors willing to help out. Justlettersandnumbers, do you have reason to believe still that further checks may be needed? I don't want to close this day prematurely if there's evidence of issues in other articles. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 23:09, 30 December 2014 (UTC) --Moonriddengirl (talk) 23:09, 30 December 2014 (UTC)
 * , I don't know what to think here. Apart from the fairly blatant copying in this article (and subsequent denial that there was any problem), I am concerned by edits such as this one (copy-paste from here, removed immediately), and by the talk page exchange with last year. I've done several spot checks on recent large edits without turning up anything else to worry about. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 00:33, 31 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Justlettersandnumbers, I have conducted a review and unfortunately confirmed remaining issues from NPR applications and news sources. Since many of the news sources are not visible in archive, cleanup here may be problematic - we cannot presume content is not copied where there is a history of clear copying. :( CCI now open at Contributor copyright investigations/ProfReader. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 15:49, 1 January 2015 (UTC)