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Contributor copyright investigation

This CCI cleanup subpage has been opened because concerns of multiple point infringement have been substantiated and further steps are necessary to address the serious risk of copyright violation from the listed contributor. Listings are not intended to imply a presumption of bad faith on the part of any contributor, as copyright laws vary widely around the world and many contributors who violate Wikipedia's copyrights policy do so inadvertently through not understanding it or the United States' laws that govern it.

If you are here because of a note on an article's talk page explaining removal of text, please do not restore any removed text without first ensuring that the text does not duplicate, closely paraphrase or plagiarize from a previously published source. You are welcome to use sourced facts that may have been removed to create new content in your own words or to incorporate brief quotations of copyrighted material in accordance with the non-free content policy and guideline.

Instructions

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All contributors with no history of copyright problems are welcome to contribute to clean up. Contributors who are the subject of a contributor copyright investigation are among contributors with a history of copyright problems and so are not welcome to contribute to clean up of their own or others' copyright violations.

If contributors have been shown to have a history of extensive copyright violation, it may be assumed without further evidence that all of their major contributions are copyright violations, and they may be removed indiscriminately in accordance with Wikipedia:Copyright violations. Contributors who are the subject of a contributor copyright investigation are among contributors who have been shown to have a history of extensive copyright violation and so all of the below listed contributions may be removed indiscriminately. However, to avoid collateral damage, efforts should be made when possible to verify infringement before removal.

When every section is completed, please alter the listing for this CCI at Wikipedia:CCI#Open_investigations to include the tag "completed=yes". This will alert a clerk that the listing needs to be archived.

  • {{CCI-open|Contributor name|Day Month Year|completed=yes}}

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  • Examine the article or the diffs linked below.
  • If the contributor has added creative content, either evaluate it carefully for copyright concerns or remove it.
  • Evaluating for copyright concerns may include checking the listed sources, spot-checking using google, google books and other search engines and looking for major differences in writing style. The background may give some indication of the kinds of copyright concerns that have been previously detected. For older text, mirrors of Wikipedia content may make determining which came first difficult. It may be helpful to look for significant changes to the text after it was entered. Searching for the earlier form of text can help eliminate later mirrors. If you cannot determine which came first, text should be removed presumptively, since there is an established history of copying with the editor in question.
  • If you remove text presumptively, place {{subst:CCI|name=Tobyc75}} on the article's talk page.
  • If you specifically locate infringement and remove it (or revert to a previous clean version), place {{subst:cclean}} on the article's talk page. The url parameter may be optionally used to indicate source.
  • If there is insufficient creative content on the page for it to survive the removal of the text or it is impossible to extricate from subsequent improvements, replace it with {{subst:copyvio}}, linking to the investigation subpage in the url parameter. List the article as instructed at the copyright problems board, but you do not need to notify the contributor. Your note on the CCI investigation page serves that purpose.
  • To tag an article created by the contributor for presumptive deletion, place {{subst:copyvio|url=see talk}} on the article's face and {{subst:CCId|name=Contributor name}} on the article's talk page. List the article as instructed at the copyright problems board, but you do not need to notify the contributor.
  • After examining an article:
  • replace the diffs after the colon on the listing with indication of whether problem was found (add {{y}}) or not (add {{n}}). If the article is blanked and may be deleted, please indicate as much after the {{y}}.
  • Follow with your username and the time to indicate to others that the article has been evaluated and appropriately addressed. This is automatically generated by four tildes (~~~~)
  • If a section is complete, consider collapsing it by placing {{collapse top}} and {{collapse bottom}} beneath the section header and after the final listing.

Background

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 Tobyc75

Although most of this users edits seem fine and are to things like infoboxes, they still have 28,000 edits and going through them may be a painful but necessary task. Liamdavies (talk) 14:56, 10 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Not really sure how I'm supposed to prove a negative here. When I'm editing I'm looking at the sources as I'm writing, just as I imagine most editors do. I don't plan on directly copying the source, but I'm sure that sometimes the author has a nice way of saying it and I pull bits and phrases out of the source. I'm not sure what the paraphrase complaint is all about. I always try to paraphrase the original source to avoid this kind of stuff. I thought I and other editors had cleared out all the issues from List of World Heritage Sites, but maybe some got missed.Tobyc75 (talk) 18:27, 10 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
From my point of view this isn't about proving guilt or innocence, it's simply about identifying if there is a problem and how to rectify that problem. Copyright is a huge issue for wiki and close paraphrasing is where the wording isn't different enough (rearranged sentences, omitting words and using synonyms doesn't necessarily change a sentence enough) and can still pose a legal/copyright problem for wiki. An original author that you're citing may have a nice way of putting something, but these unfortunately, are their words (and therefore their intellectual property), and covered by copyright, and you may only add your own words. I'm truly sorry for this, and don't assume any bad faith, I don't believe you wanted to incorporate incompatible material, but if it has been introduced both that material and the edit history must be removed from wiki. May I suggest you read Wikipedia:Copyright violations and Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing for a clearer idea of what the problems may be. Yet again I apologise for this and hope we may sort it out quickly. Liamdavies (talk) 13:54, 11 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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