Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2017 February 18

18 February 2017

 * Diamond model ([ history] · [ last edit] · rewrite) from foundational: Bruce Traill, Eamonn Pitts (1998). Competitiveness in the Food Industry, page 18; subsequent: Dong-Sung Cho, Hwy-Chang Moon (2000). From Adam Smith to Michael Porter: Evolution of Competitiveness Theory, pages 113–117. Grochim again, but also another massive copy-paste from a book, by a different editor. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 10:36, 18 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Deleted -- nothing there to salvage. There happened to be another article on the same topic (National Diamond), which does not have the same problematic contributors, so I moved it to Diamond model on top of the deleted article. Calliopejen1 (talk) 01:09, 24 May 2017 (UTC)


 * Ralphie the Buffalo ([ history] · [ last edit] · rewrite) from http://www.cubuffs.com/sports/2016/6/28/ralphie-history.aspx and other pages on that site. Sitush (talk) 11:41, 18 February 2017 (UTC)
 * The "copied from" page is from 2016. The article was written in 2007. Disclaimer: I heavily wrote the article and pushed for GA. MECU ≈ talk 22:34, 21 February 2017 (UTC)
 * It seems the edit by 11:38, February 15, 2017‎ Johngraves2 perhaps injected most of the 2016 page listed here. Reverting to before that edit may resolve this issue. Also, one of Sitush's edit summary on the page indicated a dislike for these articles. I propose he or she avoid these then. I only mention to show a bias in perhaps wanting the page blanked.  MECU ≈ talk 18:14, 22 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Seems like a simple case of WP:BACKWARDSCOPY Abel (talk) 22:26, 24 February 2017 (UTC)


 * Pictogram voting keep.svg Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. This isn't a backwards copy case - three edits over the last year or so have inserted large amounts of material copied from that site, which definitely didn't originate from Wikipedia (you can see from the edit summaries that it was copied). I've reverted to the prior revision and revdeled the intervening revisions. There might still be one or two issues with close paraphrasing in places but the remaining text looks OK to me and wasn't added by these people. -- Hut 8.5  22:27, 28 February 2017 (UTC)
 * I was looking at this earlier, . I think the problems go right back. Apart from by  and  in 2016, there's also  by  in 2007 and  by  in 2005. Sources? Who knows, but things like this (dated 23 August 2003), this (22 October 2004) and this (archived 9 June 2003) show that this stuff most definitely did not come from our article. I'm really not sure how much rescuable content there is in the page. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 23:23, 28 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Further to the above: Earwig result for the colorado.rivals page, which seems to be an assemblage of this cubuffs page (archived 4 June 2003) and the five pages linked from it. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 00:02, 1 March 2017 (UTC)
 * I'll have a more in depth look at this later but I'm doubtful that this is a case of massive copyvio - we might well be looking at cases of reverse copyvio (without the benefit of archived links it's hard to be sure with material of this age) and MECU doesn't strike me as a very likely plagiarist.  Hut 8.5  07:51, 1 March 2017 (UTC)
 * I've deleted a few more passages including the material flagged up by the Earwig comparison. I don't think the issues here warrant deletion of the remaining content - if there is much more infringement then I think it must have come from some other source.  Hut 8.5  21:56, 1 March 2017 (UTC)

(posting this without having looked at the most recent changes) As so often in such cases, I'll be nothing but pleased to be shown that I'm wrong here,. But the evidence seems to say I'm not. Archived sources:
 * Ralphie the Buffalo, archived 4 June 2003
 * Pre-Ralphie, 9 June 2003
 * Ralphie I, 9 June 2003
 * Ralphie II, 9 June 2003
 * Ralphie III, 9 June 2003
 * Ralphie IV, 8 August 2003. Those pages, with slight changes, together make up
 * this one, dated 22 October 2004. There's also a different
 * Ralphie I, dated 23 August 2003

All date from before the creation of the article. Content from at least some is present in the article (Earwig percentage for the colorado.rivals page is 74%). The content could not have come from our article; it must therefore be a copyright violation. Example: Please note that the exact string "It took the cowboy and four students to keep the calf under control on the sidelines, a 7-0 win over the University of Denver on Thanksgiving Day" also appears in source #2 above. WikiBlame result for: "the cowboy and four students".

WikiBlame result for: "trained and housed both Ralphie II and III". Thoughts? Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 22:03, 1 March 2017 (UTC)
 * I suggest you take a look at the recent changes - I've deleted both of those passages.  Hut 8.5  22:08, 1 March 2017 (UTC)


 * National Capital Area Council ([ history] · [ last edit] · rewrite) Was finding and adding citations to the article National Capital Area Council and found out that the entire Amangamek-Wipit_Lodge_.23470_-_Order_of_the_Arrow section is a wholesale copy and paste from Lodge Operating Procedures version 02/20/2012 page 2-1.90% Copyvio Detector
 * I should be able to take some time later this week to rewrite the section in question. — Jkudlick &#x2693; t &#x2693; c &#x2693; s 06:23, 26 February 2017 (UTC)
 * It has already been rewritten. Abel (talk) 14:27, 26 February 2017 (UTC)
 * With the rewrite only a day younger than the copyright violation report of the blatantly obvious plagiarism, can we just mark this as v and move on? Abel (talk) 01:57, 28 February 2017 (UTC)
 * I've moved the rewrite to the main article replacing the copyvio, the rewrite isn't a copyvio AFAICT. The copyvio was added in this edit in 2009, I don't think it's worth doing a revdel. No further action needed.  Hut 8.5  22:19, 2 March 2017 (UTC)