Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2015 April 20

Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)

 * Trusted Storage specification ([ history] · [ last edit] · rewrite) from TexasAndroid (talk) 13:07, 20 April 2015 (UTC)
 * The author has said to me via private email that the text is in the public domain. But the Google cache link shows that it was first published on a copyrighted page.  I'm far from a copyright expert, so I really don't know how to help the author sort this out.  Particularly since the site of original publication is a more general site, and most likely not under the control of the original author, making the normal ways of him/her proving the public domain status of the text more problematic. - TexasAndroid (talk) 15:54, 22 April 2015 (UTC)
 * I had some discussion with the author on User talk:ISO-Convener. Apparently, he says, the site that published the text did so prematurely and without authorization, as well as claiming copyright where there should be none. You can follow the discussion but short version: I told him how to go about proving ownership and how to then license the content, and tried to impress upon him the deliberate approach we must take with copyright. He expresses a lack of interest in following the DCM procedure and apparently will do nothing until TexasAndroid personally releases the page. I think the resolution is to delete and selectively restore only the revs up to and including 601796710. It will be a very incomplete and outdated stub, but I suspect an unpublished standard-in-development is not a RS anyway, copyright or no. Crow  Caw  21:29, 2 May 2015 (UTC)
 * I had a quick look at this last night, . IMO, to be kept in Wikipedia that content would have be completely rewritten and cited to independent reliable sources, and I don't think either of those is going to happen. I'd do exactly what you suggest ... except that I'd just Twinkle-restore that stub version, and request revdeletion of all the subsequent ones., would you agree? Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 21:46, 2 May 2015 (UTC)
 * That works too, but then you've got all those Revdelly lines showing up . Either/or though! Crow  Caw  21:50, 2 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Pictogram voting keep.svg Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Revdelete request added for admin attention. I've gone ahead and done this. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 22:37, 2 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Sounds reasonable. I'll not do the revdel myself, in order to have a different pair of admin eyes on the situation.  - TexasAndroid (talk) 15:19, 4 May 2015 (UTC)


 * Kiran Ahluwalia ([ history] · [ last edit] · rewrite) from . WordSeventeen (talk) 10:19, 20 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Suggest delete and restore up to and including version 655852576  (last edit before large copyvio), or restore to that version and revdel all versions in between.  Crow  Caw  21:41, 2 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Pictogram voting keep.svg Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Revdelete request added for admin attention. Did as suggested by . Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 22:03, 2 May 2015 (UTC)