Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2014 September 12

12 September 2014
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Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)

 * First Fitna - This is a long article with a large number of possible violations. Numerous paragraphs begin with "(Author) writes...", followed by a full paragraph quote. In some instances, there is no ending quotation mark, so it isn't clear whether the entire remainder of the paragraph is a quote or just a portion of it.  Numerous paragraphs begin with the name of a source with a colon, then a full paragraph that may be taken completely from the source, though it isn't clear.  There are full conversations set forth, copied directly from sources, with unclear citation. The list goes on. Someone involved in copyright rule enforcement should really take a look at this page, as I suspect vast stretches of it are lifted from other sources with inadequate citation and excessive quotation. Laszlo Panaflex (talk) 02:39, 12 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Hi, Laszlo Panaflex. I truly appreciate your flagging your concerns about this, but I don't believe there's anything we can do here. Articles listed for review here should follow the instructions at the top of the page. We're not supposed to close listings until the community has at least a week to respond, and in this case the community has not been notified of the listing or given an opportunity to address the concerns. I will sometimes take action where content is listed without following those steps, but without a specific, copyrighted source, any action here is problematic. :/ Clearly there's a ton of issues with this article, but without being able to positively verify that the quotes are copyrighted, I don't feel that I, as an admin who works in this area, would have mandate to remove them. If you can identify content copied from copyright sources and wish to relist it, please follow the instructions. Otherwise, you may wish to flag your concerns at the article's talk page. --Moonriddengirl (talk)


 * Bizlink ([ history] · [ last edit] · rewrite) from http://www.bizlinktech.com/pdf/2013_BizLink_Annual_Report_EN.pdf. Beagel (talk) 19:43, 12 September 2014 (UTC)


 * Pictogram voting keep.svg OTRS Ticket received, article now licensed and compatible with CC-BY-SA. VernoWhitney (talk) 01:53, 15 September 2014 (UTC)