Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2022 July 26

26 July 2022

 * Free Territory of Freedomland ([ history] · [ last edit] · rewrite) from https://web.archive.org/web/20120326092617/http://www.colonia.asia/index.htm. The article contains a refn footnote that says "Editorial note: The portion of the article text here beginning with the words 'and invited' includes heavy paraphrasing from a page headed Kingdom of Colonia St John  on the  colonia.asia website. That website, as of May 2022, is defunct with a successor website planned at coloniastjohn.com." I have no first-hand knowledge of this issue, but having such a note embedded into the text of an article does not seem like an appropriate resolution of the alleged problem. Either the footnote should be removed or the problem should be corrected. The footnote was added by Wtmitchell on 4 May 2022. —&#8288;&#8202;&#8288;BarrelProof (talk) 16:34, 26 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Wtmitchell here -- I actually didn't remember having made this edit until after I confirmed it. I now do vaguely recall dithering over what to do and leaving that note in hopes that the issue would be resolved by some regular editor of that page when the promised replacement for the sourced website appears. I was probably not thinking of this as a possible copyright issue (perhaps thinking that the paraphrasing was sufficient to avoid that) and of this not being a verifiability issue (since, apparently, the removed source did provide support and citation of a source providing support does not guarantee that the source will be easy to access for confirmation of that support). I probably left that note in hopes that another editor would, on seeing it, find the promised replacement source when it appeared (I see that it has not yet appeared), reconfirm support there, and update the article appropriately. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 19:44, 26 July 2022 (UTC)
 * I have not actually checked the text to see whether I think it is a copyvio myself. I just saw the note and brought it here as a way to resolve the note. I thought it didn't seem like a good idea to retain a note in the article that appears to red-flag a potential copyvio. —&#8288;&#8202;&#8288;BarrelProof (talk) 21:30, 26 July 2022 (UTC)


 * BarrelProof + Wtmitchell; this 2010 archive is the earliest archive of the website, and a further inspection of the source code points to a September 2009 creation of the website. The enwiki page was created in 2008 and this is not reverse copied. This IP was actually the one to add the copyvio. In this case sure, the footnote may be inappropriate, but almost everything besides compliance with copyright policy is out of scope of this board.
 * Pictogram voting keep.svg Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement.  Sennecaster  ( Chat ) 04:05, 18 August 2022 (UTC)
 * also, @BarrelProof, as a reminder, you must notify whomever added the content or created the article when you list things at Copyright problems, which can be done with the template provided with the copyvio template instructions.  Sennecaster  ( Chat ) 04:09, 18 August 2022 (UTC)