Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2015 November 18

Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)

 * Battle of the Corinth Canal ([ history] · [ last edit] · rewrite) Content is directly copied from the 4 sources given as references (see history). I don't think it is quite a G12 though.  Crow  Caw  23:38, 18 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Pictogram voting delete.svg Copyright concerns remain. Article deleted or tagged for speedy deletion., as far as I can see this is a made-up topic; I'm not sure that it isn't a hoax. Here's what I wrote on the talk page (which I trust will soon be gone): "This appears to be a made-up topic. 'Battle of the Corinth Canal' gets exactly one hit on Gbooks, while 'Battle of Corinth Canal' gets exactly 0 hits. Scholar gives identical results. The references in the article are (or were, before the copyvio was removed) to a chat forum, two gaming sites, and a random unattributed page." As always, I admire and applaud your efforts to save what can be saved; I don't think this one falls into that category, though. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 18:05, 22 January 2016 (UTC)
 * It is a real thing, though may not be known by this name. The Axis called it "Operation Hannibal", which we sort of mention at List of Axis operational codenames in the European Theatre, though the link is to a 1945 operation of the same name. Searching on Operation Hannibal 1941 returns much. That said, the copyvio is so pervasive that perhaps WP:TNT is the only solution at this time. Crow  Caw  22:10, 22 January 2016 (UTC)
 * , please do feel free to remove the speedy deletion tag if you think it should be saved. Stub-and-revdelete will solve the copyvio problem just as well. I looked at Operation Hannibal, since that was mentioned on one of the gaming sites used as a source there, and found that it was something quite different; I didn't notice the date discrepancy. Your call! Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 22:25, 22 January 2016 (UTC)