Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2022 December 18

18 December 2022

 * Maltese patrol boat P71 ([ history] · [ last edit] · rewrite) from  and . Appears to be copy-pasting directly from the first source and close paraphrasing from the second source. Needs cleanup. —  Red-tailed hawk (nest) 07:37, 18 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Pictogram voting keep.svg Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 22:38, 28 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Draft:Nicolas Pascarel ([ history] · [ last edit] · rewrite) from https://web.archive.org/web/20180901025143/https://thepassenger.photography/aboutus.php https://web.archive.org/web/20160623084757/http://www.pascarelphoto.com/biography/. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 11:11, 18 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Pictogram voting delete.svg Article deleted due to copyright concerns. MER-C 17:14, 26 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Also deleted User:Mp15414/sandbox. MER-C 17:14, 26 December 2022 (UTC)
 * C. Dundas Slater ([ history] · [ last edit] · rewrite)
 * Pictogram voting delete.svg Article deleted due to copyright concerns. MER-C 17:16, 26 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Renée Haynes ([ history] · [ last edit] · rewrite)
 * Pictogram voting delete.svg Article deleted due to copyright concerns. MER-C 17:17, 26 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Garrett G. Fagan ([ history] · [ last edit] · rewrite)
 * Pictogram voting keep.svg Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement.  Wizardman  23:30, 22 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Presumptive deletion per Contributor copyright investigations/Anglo Pyramidologist. MER-C 18:08, 18 December 2022 (UTC)


 * Philip Pearlstein - I believe https://davidbarnettgallery.com/artist/philip-pearlstein may be plagiarizing Wikipedia going back to circa 2019, or vice versa. - Indefensible (talk) 19:56, 18 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Here is another but with significantly less overlap http://www.bettycuninghamgallery.com/exhibitions/philip-pearlstein6. This source is apparently the subject's official representative. - Indefensible (talk) 20:02, 18 December 2022 (UTC)
 * @Indefensible: I'm not seeing anything that looks definitively older than the 2009 addition in the article; the oldest archive I can find is to 2015. Sennecaster  ( Chat ) 06:02, 17 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the update. Does that suggest Wikipedia is being plagiarized rather than plagiarizing an external source? How does Wiki handle such cases? - Indefensible (talk) 17:05, 17 February 2023 (UTC)
 * ,, a part of the initial version of the page was copied from here or some similar source. The images in that page are credited to the Robert Miller Gallery, and it's my guess that the rest of the text was probably taken from webpages of that gallery, but I can't get links such as this to show me anything but white space. I'd also surmise that various other galleries may later have been given the same press handout, so they and we both have copies from a common (and unidentified) source. That doesn't really help much in deciding how to resolve the problem, of course. Am I right in thinking that the suspected copyvio has never been blanked in the page? It'd be good to knock this one off and clear this day. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 21:54, 17 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Think you are probably right. I only noticed this after the subject died while reviewing the article for ITN/RD, so it has probably been infringing from when the article was created and slipped through review ever since. Potentially the subject or their agent had it done for publicity, but we do not know that or have any disclaimer/statement giving free use. - Indefensible (talk) 00:02, 18 February 2023 (UTC)
 * @Indefensible, Justlettersandnumbers: I think I might just remove the remaining content from the newyorkartworld source and otherwise leave it be. I can't find anything that this could be sourced to and that the present revision is definitely a copy from. Sennecaster  ( Chat ) 00:43, 16 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Thank you, {u|Sennecaster}}, I think that's probably the best we can do at this point. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 10:03, 16 March 2023 (UTC) Ping fail, . Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 12:01, 17 March 2023 (UTC)
 * (outdent) Cleaned the source notated and considering this resolved. Wizardman  16:44, 18 March 2023 (UTC)
 * @Wizardman, is the article lead on Wikipedia being word-for-word the same (except changing the "is" to "was") as the source above not a problem? "Philip Pearlstein is an influential American painter best known for Modernist Realism nudes. Cited by critics as the preeminent figure painter of the 1960s to 2000s, he led a revival in realist art." Further down the article, "During the 1950s Pearlstein exhibited abstract expressionist landscape paintings. Around 1958 he began to attend weekly figure drawing sessions at the studio of Mercedes Matter. In 1961 Pearlstein began to make paintings of nude couples based upon his drawings, and in 1962 he began painting directly from the model in a less painterly and more realistic style." is again duplicated on Wikipedia and the source, as is "In an article published in Arts Magazine in April, 1963, Sidney Tillim wrote that "[Pearlstein] has not only regained the figure for painting; he has put it behind the plane and in deep space without recourse to nostalgia (history) or fashion (new images of man) ... He paints the nude not as a symbol of beauty and pure form but as a human fact—implicitly imperfect"." - Indefensible (talk) 04:51, 24 August 2023 (UTC)


 * Pat Capponi ([ history] · [ last edit] · rewrite) from https://amho.ca/wp-content/uploads/Best-Practices-in-Peer-Support-Final-Report-2017.pdf. —  Red-tailed hawk (nest) 22:00, 18 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Pictogram voting keep.svg Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. MER-C 08:43, 13 January 2023 (UTC)