Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2016 May 6

Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)

 * Lars and Christina Olsen House ([ history] · [ last edit] · rewrite) parts added in this edit seem a verbatim copy from the document linked in a &lt;ref&gt; (page 6 of PDF). That is a US public office document, but I suspect such copying may be not allowed, so I report it here. --CiaPan (talk) 12:33, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Minor update: fixed a link to the old edit. --CiaPan (talk) 06:43, 10 May 2016 (UTC)
 * [[Image:Out of date clock icon.svg|20px]] User was not notified, relisting under today's entry. --Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 16:29, 17 May 2016 (UTC)


 * Reply/explanation: Ooops! Thank you for notifying me. I created the page back in 2012.  I see that my second edit left a passage copied from the National Register nomination document in the article, but it was entirely accidental editing error and the passage should simply be removed.


 * I am an experienced editor and familiar with copyright issues including the fact that most National Register nomination documents are not regarded to be in the public domain. What I can see happened is that I identified the passage as covering the most unusual fact about the house, and I copied it over temporarily to the article in progress in order for me to compose some summary of the material, which I did:  I composed the sentence "It was built by Lars Olsen. Son Otto reportedly trained boxer great Jack Dempsey at this house."  I would have meant to delete the passage from the document in that edit, so that it would never appear in any version of the article, but I apparently failed to do so.  Note that the passage starts mid-sentence and ends in the middle of another sentence.  Anyhow I must have been confident that the statement I wrote was okay and that the article was okay, and didn't review it after I hit save.  Sorry this causes work years later.


 * So, thank you for noticing the out-of-place material. It should simply be removed.  I would remove it myself but see the message "Do not restore or edit the blanked content on this page until the issue is resolved by an administrator, copyright clerk or OTRS agent."  If removing all the text is considered to be editing it, then that statement is asking me not to.  I may edit the article outside of the blanked content area to develop it a bit more, but I will leave it to you to please do resolve this by removing the entire passage.  I am sorry that this error on my part cost you time and effort to address.  Thanks again for your attention. -- do  ncr  am  21:19, 17 May 2016 (UTC)
 * I went ahead and removed the accidental copy of text, so I hope this is resolved. -- do ncr  am  04:00, 19 May 2016 (UTC)