Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2019 January 26

26 January 2019

 * David Edelstadt ([ history] · [ last edit] · rewrite) from . The article was based on this copyvio, committed in 2005 with 78% overlap in Earwig's. I recently removed the entirety of the text, leaving nothing behind, but when I tagged as G12 to remove from the copyvio from the page history (over a decade long...), it was declined as "copyvio has been removed". Looking for a third opinion, since my impression was (1) that the copyvio needs to be expunged from the history, and (2) that when the copyvio dates back to the initial edits, the correct route is G12. czar  16:42, 26 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Pictogram voting keep.svg Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 12:08, 2 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks for bringing this up, . All that was needed here was revision-deletion to hide the offending versions of the page in the history. In general, G12 is never appropriate when there's a "clean" version in the history that could be reverted to – even if, as here, that version is unsatisfactory for other reasons. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 12:08, 2 February 2019 (UTC)