Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2014 November 15

15 November 2014
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Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)

 * Teatro o Bando ([ history] · [ last edit] · rewrite) from http://www.obando.pt/pt/english-version/o-bando/ (various English-langauge pages). It could be a back-copy; the article was created by on 4th July 2013 and archive.org's earliest capture is from 23rd November 2013 . I can't find a copyright notice or symbol on the website, and there's no statement that the text originated on Wikipedia, so i've templated it and posted here. Thanks for your time. Cheers, Baffle gab1978 (talk) 06:56, 15 November 2014 (UTC)


 * Pictogram voting support.svg Backwardscopy. Tag and explanation placed at talk page. Thank you very much, User:Baffle gab1978, for both noting your concerns with the article and explaining your misgivings about the origin. You're quite right to suspect backwards copying here. I've explaining the reasons I conclude it is on the talk page. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 12:27, 10 December 2014 (UTC) --Moonriddengirl (talk) 12:30, 10 December 2014 (UTC)


 * This one is more of a question for someone that's experienced with copyright issues for content on Wikipedia. Savage Pellucidar is a section of an article that explains that the copyright for a particular work was renewed in the USA but has expired in Australia and that a public domain copy of the work is available on Project Gutenberg Australia. Is this considered an attempt to circumvent Copyvio link or is it an accepted practice? In skimming through Special:WhatLinksHere/Project Gutenberg Australia it appears this was done on a number of articles such as Land of Terror, Back to the Stone Age, Tros of Samothrace, etc. There is an earlier/similar thread at Wikipedia talk:Copyright problems/Archive 15 where it appeared that we would have a Copyvio link issue. --Marc Kupper&#124;talk 09:08, 15 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Nina Allan ([ history] · [ last edit] · rewrite) from http://www.ninaallan.co.uk/?page_id=20. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 14:47, 15 November 2014 (UTC)
 * There was a complaint at the Tea House from the author, who is upset about the deletion notice. I checked and it seems that only the very first version of this article was a copyvio. After a warning, it was fixed almost immediately. Is it possible to delete only the first 2 versions from the history, while leaving all of the rewritten material intact? Thanks. – Margin1522 (talk) 07:06, 22 November 2014 (UTC)
 * , thanks for your comments there. The article is listed here to be looked at and dealt with, not to be deleted. I've explained on the talk page my reasons for not nominating it for speedy deletion, despite the blatant wholesale copy-pasting in the initial version. As I've also written on the talk page, a Duplicate Detector report shows that much of the text is (to be charitable) close-paraphrased from the source. Changing "I" to "she", for example, while leaving the rest of a sentence unchanged ("... was born in Whitechapel, London and grew up in the Midlands and West Sussex") does not constitute writing in your own words. So I'm afraid I don't agree that the article was fixed. I'm concerned that the editor shows little understanding of why any of this is a problem. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 23:42, 22 November 2014 (UTC)
 * , thanks for the reply. Looking at the report, once you subtract fiction titles, names of awards, names of magazines, and so on, it looks like only a few phrases that still echo the original text. The most noticeable is the one you pointed to, "born in Whitechapel, London and grew up in the Midlands and West Sussex". This occurs at least a dozen times at various places on the Internet. I don't know what we can do about this, if it is all that the author has chosen to reveal about where she grew up. Perhaps we could be more scrupulous and put it in quotes with a cite. Also the phrase "set in an alternate and near future version of southeast england", which struck me when I read it and could be rewritten. Anyway, thanks, I will pass this the editor to see if there is anything else he thinks he can address. – Margin1522 (talk) 22:16, 23 November 2014 (UTC)
 * OTRS received, see Special:Diff/636734704.    FDMS   4    09:48, 5 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Erm … I am a bit confused now (where's the copyvio?), which is why I will let someone else (ping User:Justlettersandnumbers and User: Margin1522) restore a version of the article. The following content has been released via OTRS:


 * It differs significantly from the last version; Mrs Allan would "greatly prefer it" if it was used.    FDMS   4    10:35, 7 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks, . The copyvio was this copy-paste from here; most but not all of it has been subsequently over-written, but it has never been removed from the page. I'll do that now. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 18:56, 8 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Pictogram voting keep.svg Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. I found a number of other small bits of random copying from the sources which I find somewhat worrying. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 23:57, 9 December 2014 (UTC)


 * Solvatten ([ history] · [ last edit] · rewrite) from http://www.solvatten.se/learn/learn-more/ and http://www.solvatten.se/learn/work/. Re-listing from Copyright problems/2014 October 19, as the editor was not notified. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 21:46, 15 November 2014 (UTC)