Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2015 November 29

Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)

 * Nazi architecture ([ history] · [ last edit] · rewrite) from 71% of this article is suspect, parts copied from Scobie, Hitler's State Architecture and other books; see Talk:Nazi architecture. MER-C 19:48, 29 November 2015 (UTC)
 * I tagged this article as problematic because I ran into several copyvios. I started removing them. Most of them were footnoted (though not necessarily accurately), but there was no way of telling how much of the preceding text had been copied verbatim without the original sources (which I only had partial access to). So I then investigated where this text had come from, and found that most of it was from two editors in 2005 (maybe socks, given the similarity in their editing style). Since their contributions were added so long ago, it seems reasonable to suppose that their text has become interwoven into the article, with later editors just creating derived text which is equally a copyvio. Also, as I deleted the copyvio text, it became harder to preserve a logical organization to the article. So I conclude that, regrettably, we'll have to start from scratch. --Macrakis (talk) 20:37, 29 November 2015 (UTC)


 * Pictogram voting keep.svg Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --MER-C 13:11, 19 January 2016 (UTC)