Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2015 April 1

Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)

 * Robert Riddell ([ history] · [ last edit] · rewrite) from http://digital.nls.uk/robert-burns/manuscripts/glenriddell.html http://scholarcommons.sc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1015&context=rbsc_pubs CCI:20140127/Johnbibby. MER-C 12:53, 1 April 2015 (UTC)


 * Pictogram voting keep.svg Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 00:38, 26 April 2015 (UTC)


 * Gordon Bridson ([ history] · [ last edit] · rewrite) from http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/5b41/bridson-gordon.  Schwede 66  17:56, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
 * From teara.govt.nz;
 * "Under the terms of the Creative Commons licence described below, you may re-use most text and some images for non-commercial purposes as long as you credit the website."
 * Is there a way to pull this off? Zeke Essiestudy (talk) 04:45, 13 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Are you asking if it is OK to use that content, ? That licence is not compatible here, so basically, no. If the site wants to change its licence, or release the content of that page under a licence compatible with ours, then it could be used. It's almost certainly simpler to rewrite the page. If you do so, please be careful not to copy over any compromised content from the previous version (as that rather defeats the object). Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 10:23, 13 April 2015 (UTC)
 * ....mmm....alright. Are the infobox, references, external links, and categories still allowed to be retained? Zeke Essiestudy (talk) 17:37, 13 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Yes, absolutely; as is any running text that you are quite certain is not copied. It's just important not to contaminate the new page by inadvertently transferring tainted text from the old version. Regards, Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 20:30, 13 April 2015 (UTC)
 * I actually removed seemingly the only two copied sentences from the page. Is it allowed to be restored now?... Zeke Essiestudy (talk) 00:14, 14 April 2015 (UTC)


 * Pictogram voting keep.svg Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 00:42, 26 April 2015 (UTC)


 * Sreemangal Upazila ([ history] · [ last edit] · rewrite) from http://www.banglapedia.org/HT/S_0601.htm. It also appears there's content from http://self.gutenberg.org/articles/Sreemangal maybe. Since that's CC-By-SA 3.0, the copyvio could be fixed with proper attribution but then there's still a plagiarism issue. There may be many of these in related articles. See Teahouse/Questions.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 23:58, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Hey, Fuhghettaboutit. That second source is almost always copied from Wikipedia without attribution. Their footer suggests that they think all they have to do is namecheck the WMF and they're done, which is total BS, of course. :/ I'm told they've ignored contacts attempting to correct them. Banglapedia is an ongoing problem, I'm afraid. We've done (or maybe even are still doing) a CCI because copying from it is so widespread, and it just keeps coming back. Unless we can get somebody to create a bot to compare, I really don't know what to do about it. :( Anyway, this one is cleaned. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 19:51, 26 April 2015 (UTC)
 * There are only so many hours in a day. Another way of saying, we would need 20, 50, 100? more times as many looking and abating copyvios to actually address the real scope we are confronted with across the pedia. I do try when I stumble across a nest of them while doing other things but it's so time consuming!--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 02:12, 27 April 2015 (UTC)