Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2015 November 9

9 November 2015
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Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)

 * How to Host a Murder ([ history] · [ last edit] · rewrite) Page history between 2009 and 2015 contains significant wholesale copying of swathes of text from the subject's publicity material and associated literature. The earliest version of the page (BEFORE the first copyvio was inserted) was on 16 May 2009. All copyvio was finally removed on 18 October 2015. In the intervening 6-year period, a number of editors, both with usernames and anonymous IP accounts, enthusiastically copied and pasted swathes of text into the article from various sources. When I started trying to identify all the copyvio, it rapidly became clear that almost the entire article beyond the lede and game titles was copyvio. Bringing this here per User:Northamerica1000's recommendation. Mabalu (talk) 12:46, 9 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Revdeled. MER-C 21:07, 18 November 2015 (UTC)


 * Emporia State University School of Business ([ history] · [ last edit] · rewrite) from https://web.archive.org/web/20130105055832/http://www.emporia.edu/business/about/history.html. Foundational copy-paste. This is the same editor as University of Kansas School of Medicine, listed by on 9 October. In discussion on his/her talk page, the user seems to suggest that other articles from a couple of years ago may also contain similar problems. I think this is going to need to be looked at. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 22:16, 9 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: . Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 23:42, 9 November 2015 (UTC)


 * Pictogram voting keep.svg Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 16:35, 29 December 2015 (UTC)


 * Thomas W. Butcher ([ history] · [ last edit] · rewrite) from http://www.emporia.edu/~findingaids/ESU001.008.html. Same editor again. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 23:21, 9 November 2015 (UTC)


 * Pictogram voting keep.svg Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 16:44, 29 December 2015 (UTC)