Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2015 January 16

16 January 2015
SCV for 2015-01-16 [ Edit]

Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)

 * Draft:International Institute for Justice and the Rule of Law ([ history] · [ last edit] · rewrite) from http://iipdigital.usembassy.gov/st/english/texttrans/2014/06/20140618302124.html. (t) Josve05a  (c) 07:53, 16 January 2015 (UTC)


 * Pictogram voting keep.svg Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 15:11, 3 February 2015 (UTC)


 * Allen Drury ([ history] · [ last edit] · rewrite) from http://www.senate.gov/reference/reference_item/Senate_Journal.htm. Nusumareta (talk) 08:50, 16 January 2015 (UTC)
 * This is the first time I've come across this sort of article tagging, can I just rewrite the copyvio section and remove the tag? Editors do this all the time and it seems weird that and admin has to proof it if someone else has done the legwork. &mdash; TAnthonyTalk 17:11, 19 January 2015 (UTC)
 * I've boldly rewritten the offending section and removed the tag, which should make it easy for an Admin or clerk to check this off the list. Thanks.&mdash; TAnthonyTalk 17:51, 19 January 2015 (UTC)
 * [[Image:Pictogram voting support.svg|20px]] No copyright concern. Material PD or appropriately licensed for use. Hello, TAnthony. :) Generally, rewrites for this content is supplied in a temporary subpage, as the template itself directs. I myself regard it as a perfectly valid application of WP:IAR when an editor who is not involved in the copyright problem removes or replaces the content, as the tag is by no means mandatory. It does become a problem when people remove the tag to restore the copyvio or, as frequently happens, create closely paraphrased replacement text. In this case, though, as the neutral admin working this board today, I think that neither the blanking nor the rewrite were necessary for copyright reasons. As Public domain notes, works created by agencies of the US federal government are generally public domain. IANAL, but it is my believe that, as with other federal agency websites, the US Senate website is free for use (they hint at this here, although somewhat coyly), as long as copying is properly noted by the processes described at Plagiarism - basically, just with specific notation of copying. :) That said, rewriting is also okay, for pretty much any reason, as long as it conforms to policy. :)  --Moonriddengirl (talk) 14:45, 3 February 2015 (UTC) --Moonriddengirl (talk) 14:45, 3 February 2015 (UTC)
 * [[Image:Pictogram voting support.svg|20px]] No copyright concern. Material PD or appropriately licensed for use. Hello, TAnthony. :) Generally, rewrites for this content is supplied in a temporary subpage, as the template itself directs. I myself regard it as a perfectly valid application of WP:IAR when an editor who is not involved in the copyright problem removes or replaces the content, as the tag is by no means mandatory. It does become a problem when people remove the tag to restore the copyvio or, as frequently happens, create closely paraphrased replacement text. In this case, though, as the neutral admin working this board today, I think that neither the blanking nor the rewrite were necessary for copyright reasons. As Public domain notes, works created by agencies of the US federal government are generally public domain. IANAL, but it is my believe that, as with other federal agency websites, the US Senate website is free for use (they hint at this here, although somewhat coyly), as long as copying is properly noted by the processes described at Plagiarism - basically, just with specific notation of copying. :) That said, rewriting is also okay, for pretty much any reason, as long as it conforms to policy. :)  --Moonriddengirl (talk) 14:45, 3 February 2015 (UTC) --Moonriddengirl (talk) 14:45, 3 February 2015 (UTC)


 * Leon Dexter Batchelor ([ history] · [ last edit] · rewrite) from http://texts.cdlib.org/view?docId=hb3r29n8f4&doc.view=entire_text. Nusumareta (talk) 09:54, 16 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Robert Willard Hodgson ([ history] · [ last edit] · rewrite) from http://websites.lib.ucr.edu/agnic/webber/Vol2/vol2dedication.htm. Nusumareta (talk) 10:31, 16 January 2015 (UTC)


 * Pictogram voting keep.svg Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Found copying in other sections as well. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 14:50, 3 February 2015 (UTC)


 * Walter Reuther (taxonomist) ([ history] · [ last edit] · rewrite) from http://cnas.ucr.edu/news_old/2011-01-10.html. Nusumareta (talk) 10:40, 16 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Tracy L. Kahn ([ history] · [ last edit] · rewrite) from http://www.fiatlux.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/display.cgi?id=452. Nusumareta (talk) 10:47, 16 January 2015 (UTC)


 * Pictogram voting keep.svg Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 14:54, 3 February 2015 (UTC)


 * Robert Soost ([ history] · [ last edit] · rewrite) from http://newsroom.ucr.edu/2042. Nusumareta (talk) 10:53, 16 January 2015 (UTC)


 * Pictogram voting keep.svg Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 14:55, 3 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Note. This and the four above it are all by the same editor as Pixie mandarin, listed on 20 December 2014. I've now for this user. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 14:14, 16 January 2015 (UTC)


 * Latent autoimmune diabetes of adults ([ history] · [ last edit] · rewrite) from http://www.isletsofhope.com/diabetes/symptoms/latent_autoimmune_diabetes_lada_1.html by apparent coi editor LeadSongDog come howl!  20:01, 16 January 2015 (UTC)


 * Pictogram voting keep.svg Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 15:07, 3 February 2015 (UTC)