Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2017 September 27

27 September 2017

 * Before starting to expand Mite, I put it through the Earwig copyvio detector and got worrying results. How can I tell whether the article is copying the websites concerned or vice-versa? Cwmhiraeth (talk) 09:01, 27 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Re: the Flickr match, our article text appears to predate the Flickr upload, so we're good there. Re: the .gr match, the site looks dodgy which immediately set off alarm bells for a likely backwards copy. If you look in the history of the article, you can see that the en.wiki text evolved to the text of that website -- this diff and the subsequent diff (and possibly other diffs as well).  So we're good there. The PRweb match is just a spam link at the bottom of the article (which I just removed) so we're good there too. In short, you can go ahead and expand the article without worrying about the potential copyright violations identified by the Earwig copyvio detector. Calliopejen1 (talk) 23:07, 3 October 2017 (UTC)


 * Thank you. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 12:37, 5 October 2017 (UTC)