Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2020 October 8

8 October 2020

 * Draft:Role of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) and their importance ([ history] · [ last edit] · rewrite) - this is a weird one. The draft seems to largely, perhaps entirely, consist of snippets from scientific papers that have been run through some kind of article spinning or machine translation process. I haven't been able to track down all of the sources but I posted a comparison of the draft against a few sources here, which makes it clear that there's some funny business going on. (The first paper linked there happens to be licensed under CC-BY-4.0, but the others do not have a compatible license). This content would not be useful for article space even if some of it is not a copyvio, since it's poorly written and fails WP:MEDRS, so I think the draft should just be deleted. Spicy (talk) 10:27, 8 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Pictogram voting delete.svg Article deleted due to copyright concerns. MER-C 09:50, 10 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Timeline_of_cardiovascular_disease ([ history] · [ last edit] · rewrite) - from Contributor_copyright_investigations/Wikisanchez, checking the first few table entries it looks like many are copy/pasted from the listed sources (checked the first several rows here). Copyvios all go back to foundational edit. No other major content contributors since. Ajpolino (talk) 15:36, 8 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Pictogram voting delete.svg Article deleted due to copyright concerns. MER-C 17:07, 16 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Timeline of plague ([ history] · [ last edit] · rewrite) - Similar to above. Some source checks showed several copy/pasted sentences in foundational edit. A few entries to the table have been added since, but nearly all of the article is suspect. Probably either delete or extensive revdel then redirect to Bubonic_plague. Ajpolino (talk) 16:35, 8 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Pictogram voting delete.svg Article deleted due to copyright concerns. MER-C 17:07, 16 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Timeline of tuberculosis ([ history] · [ last edit] · rewrite) - same as above. Spot checks here. No other major contributors. Ajpolino (talk) 17:55, 8 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Pictogram voting delete.svg Article deleted due to copyright concerns. MER-C 17:07, 16 October 2020 (UTC)