Wikipedia:Copyright problems
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This page is for listing and discussing possible copyright problems involving text on Wikipedia, including pages suspected to be copyright violations. Listings typically remain for at least five days before review and closure by a copyright problems clerk or administrator. During this time, interested contributors are invited to offer feedback about the problem at the relevant talk page, propose revisions to the material, or request copyright permission. After the listing period, a copyright problems clerk or administrator will review the listing and take further action if necessary.
Pages listed for copyright review appear in the bottom section of the page. The top includes information for people who have copyright concerns about pages or images, and for community volunteers who'd like to help resolve concerns.
To add a new listing, please go to today's section. Instructions for dealing with copyright concerns can be found at Instructions for dealing with text-based copyright concerns.
Handling previously published text on Wikipedia
Under the United States law that governs Wikipedia, copyright is automatically assumed as soon as any content (text or other media) is created in a physical form. An author does not need to apply for or claim copyright, for a copyright to exist.
Only one of the following allows works to be reused in Wikimedia projects:
A) Explicit Statement. An explicit statement (by the author, or by the holder of the rights to the work) that the material is either:
- in the public domain,
- licensed with the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY-SA), or
- otherwise compatible with CC-BY-SA.
B) Public Domain. If the work is inherently in the public domain, due to its age, source or lack of originality; or
C) Fair Use. United States law allows for fair use of copyrighted content, and (within limits) Wikipedia does as well. Under guidelines for non-free content, brief selections of copyrighted text may be used, but only if clearly marked and with full attribution.
Even if a source is public domain or compatibly licensed, material should be properly attributed in accordance with Wikipedia:Plagiarism in respect of local customs and attribution requirements of compatible licenses. If the terms of the compatible license are not met, use of the content can constitute a violation of copyright even if the license is compatible.
Repeated copyright violations
Contributors who repeatedly post copyrighted text or images may be subject to contributor copyright investigations, to ensure the removal from the project of all copyright infringement. Contributors who repeatedly post copyrighted material after appropriate warnings will be blocked from editing, to protect the project; see 17 United States Code § 512.
Backwards copying: when Wikipedia had (or may have had) it first
In some instances, it is clear that two pieces of text (one on Wikipedia, and one elsewhere) are copies of each other, but not clear which piece is the original and which is the copy. "Compliant" sites that copy Wikipedia text note that they have done so, but not all of our re-users are compliant.
If you've found such a case, you might first check the discussion page to see if a note has been added to the top of the talk page to allay people's concerns. If not, you can look for clues. Do other pages in the other website copy other Wikipedia articles? Did the content show up on Wikipedia all in one piece, placed by a single editor? If you don't see good evidence that Wikipedia had it first, it's a good idea to bring it up for investigation. You might follow the Instructions for listing below or tag the article {{copy-paste|url=possible source}}
so that others can evaluate.
If you confirm definitely that the content was on Wikipedia first, please consider adding {{backwardscopy}} to the article's talk page with an explanation of how you know. If you see an article somewhere else which was copied from Wikipedia without attribution, you might visit the CC-BY-SA compliance page or Wikipedia:Mirrors and forks. There are well-documented cases of plagiarism from Wikipedia by external publications.
Instructions for dealing with text-based copyright concerns
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Blatant infringement
Pages exhibiting blatant copyright infringements may be speedily deleted if:
- Content was copied from a source which does not have a license compatible with Wikipedia, and was not copied from a mirror source.
- The page can neither be restored to a previous revision without infringing content, nor would the page be viable if the infringing content were removed.
- There is no credible assertion of public domain, fair use, or a free license.
To nominate an article for speedy deletion for copyright concerns, add one of these to the page:
{{db-copyvio|url=insert URL of source here}}
{{db-copyvio|describe non-web source here}}
Both of these templates will generate a notice that you should give the contributor of the content. This is important to help ensure that they do not continue to add copyrighted content to Wikipedia. An administrator will examine the article and decide whether to delete it or not. You should not blank the page in this instance.
Suspected or complicated infringement
If infringement is not blatant or the speedy deletion criteria do not apply:
- Remove or rewrite the infringing text avoiding copyright violations or revert the page to before the text was added.
- The infringing text will remain in the page history, and it may be tagged for {{copyvio-revdel}}. Administrators hold discretion on the appropriateness of revision deletion for each case. Please note the reason for removal in the edit summary and at the article's talk page (you may wish to use {{subst:cclean}}). Please identify and alert the contributor of the material to the problem, unless advised not to. The template {{Uw-copyright}} may be used for this purpose.
- However, if all revisions have copyright problems, the removal of the copyright problem is contested, reversion/removal is otherwise complicated, or the article is eligible for presumptive deletion:
- Replace the text with one of the following:
{{subst:copyvio|url=insert URL here}}
{{subst:copyvio|identify non-web source here}}
- Go to today's section and add:
{{subst:article-cv|PageName}}
from [insert URL or identify non-web source here] ~~~~
- to the bottom of the list. Put the page's name in place of "PageName". If you do not have a URL, enter a description of the source. (This text can be copied from the top of the template after substituting it and the page name and url will be filled for you.) If there is not already a page for the day, as yours would be the first listing, please add a header to the top of the page using the page for another date as an example.
- Advise the contributor of the listing at their talk page. The template on the now blanked page supplies a notice you may use for that purpose.
Instructions for special cases
- Probable copyvios without a known source: If you suspect that a page contains a copyright violation, but you cannot find a source for the violation (so you can't be sure that it's a violation), do not list it here. Instead, place {{cv-unsure|~~~|2=FULL_URL}} on the page's talk page, but replace FULL_URL with the full URL of the page version that you believe contains a violation. (To determine the URL, click on "Permanent link" in the toolbox area, and copy the URL.)
- One contributor has verifiably introduced copyright problems into multiple pages or files and assistance is needed in further review: See Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations.
Instructions for handling image copyright concerns
Image copyright concerns are not handled on this board. For images that are clear copyright violations, follow the procedure for speedy deletion; otherwise list at Files for Discussion. To request assistance with contributors who have infringed copyright in multiple articles or files, see Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations.
Responding to articles listed for copyright investigation
Any contributor is welcome to help investigate articles listed for copyright concerns, although only administrators, copyright problems board clerks, and VRT (formerly OTRS) agents should remove {{copyvio}} tags and mark listings resolved.
Assistance might include supplying evidence of non-infringement (or, conversely, of infringement) or obtaining and verifying permission of license. You might also help by rewriting problematic articles or removing infringing text (without removing {{copyvio}}).
Supplying evidence of non-infringement
Articles listed here are suspect of copyright concern, but not every article contains infringement. The content may be on Wikipedia first, in the public domain, compatibly licensed, or falls below threshold of originality for copyright. Sometimes, the person who placed it here is the copyright owner of freely-licensed material and this simply needs to be verified.
Information can be provided to prove compatible licensing or public domain status under the listing of the article on the copyright problems board or on the talk page of the article. A link or a clear explanation can be very helpful when a clerk or administrator evaluates the matter. As listings are not immediately addressed on the board, it may take a few days after you make your note before a response is provided.
If the article is tagged for {{copyvio}}, you should allow an administrator or copyright problems clerk to remove the tag. If the article is tagged for {{copy-paste}} or {{close paraphrasing}}, you may remove the tag from the article when the problem is addressed (or disproven), but please do not close the listing on the copyright problems board itself.
Obtaining/verifying permission
Sometimes material was placed on Wikipedia with the permission of the copyright owner. Sometimes copyright owners are willing to give permission (and proper license!) even if it was not.
Any contributor can write to the owner of copyright and check whether they gave or will give permission (or maybe they in fact posted it here!). See Wikipedia:Example requests for permission. In either case, unless a statement authorizing the material under compatible license is placed online at the point of original publication, permission will need to be confirmed through e-mail to the Wikimedia Foundation. See Wikipedia:Confirmation of permission. If a compatible license is placed online at the point of original publication, please provide a link to that under the listing for the article on the copyright problems board or on the talk page of the article.
Please note that it may take a few days for letters to clear once they are sent. Do not worry if the content is deleted prematurely; it can be restored at any point usable permission is logged.
Rewriting content
Any contributor may rewrite articles that are or seem to be copyight problems to exclude duplicated or closely paraphrased text. When articles or sections of articles are blanked as copyright problems, rewriting is done on a temporary page at Talk:PAGENAME/Temp so that the new material can be copied over the old. (The template blanking the article will link to the specific temporary page.)
Please do not copy over the version of the article that is a copyright problem as your base. All copied content, or material derived from it, should be removed first. Other content from the article can be used, if there is no reason to believe that it may be a copyright issue as well. It is often a good idea – and essential when the content is copied from an inaccessible source such as a book – to locate the point where the material entered the article and eliminate all text added by that contributor. This will help avoid inadvertently continuing the copyright issues in your rewrite. If you use any text at all from the earlier version of the article, please leave a note on the listing to alert the administrator or clerk who review the rewrite. The history of the old article will then have to be retained. (If the original turns out to be non-infringing, the two versions of the article can be merged.)
Rewrites can be done directly in articles that have been tagged for {{close paraphrasing}} and {{copy-paste}}, with those tags removed after the rewrite is complete.
Please review Wikipedia:Copy-paste and the linked guidelines and policies within it if necessary to review Wikipedia's practices for handling non-free text. Reviewing Wikipedia:Plagiarism is also helpful, particularly where content is compatibly licensed or public domain. Repairing these issues can sometimes be as simple as supplying proper attribution.
Copyright owners who submitted their own work to Wikipedia (or people editing on their behalf)
If you submitted work to Wikipedia which you had previously published and your submission was marked as a potential infringement of copyright, then stating on the article's talk page that you are the copyright holder of the work (or acting as his or her agent), while not likely to prevent deletion, helps. To completely resolve copyright concerns, it is sufficient to either:
- Link to a note permitting reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY-SA) and the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) (unversioned, with no invariant sections, front-cover texts, or back-cover texts) at the site of the original publication; or
- Send an email from an address associated with the original publication to [email protected] or a postal message to the Wikimedia Foundation, ideally using the email template at WP:CONSENT.
See also Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials.
Please note that it may take a bit of time for letters and e-mails to clear once they are sent. Do not worry if the content is deleted prematurely; it can be restored at any point usable permission is logged. Your e-mail will receive a response whether the permission is usable or not. If you have not received a response to your letter within two weeks, it is a good idea to follow up.
One other factor you should consider, however, is that content that has been previously published elsewhere may not meet Wikipedia's specific guidelines and policies. If you are not familiar with these policies and guidelines, please review especially the core policies that govern the project. This may help prepare you to deal with any other issues with the text that may arise.
Should you choose to rewrite the content rather than release it under the requisite license, please see above.
Clerks and patrolling administrators
Copyright clerks
For a more complete description of clerks and their duties, as well as a list of active clerks, please see Wikipedia:Copyright problems/Clerks.
Copyright clerks are experienced editors on Wikipedia who are familiar with copyright and non-free content policies and its enforcement. They are trusted to evaluate and close listings and request administrative actions when necessary. Clerks are periodically reviewed by other clerks and patrolling administrators.
Copyright problems board administrators
For a more complete description of administrators on Wikipedia, please see Wikipedia:Administrators.
Any administrator may work the copyright problems board. Working the copyright problems board may involve evaluating listings personally or using tools as necessary to complete closures by clerks. Clerks have been evaluated in their work, and their recommendations may be implemented without double-checking, although any administrator is welcome to review recommendations and discuss them with the clerks in question.
Closing listings
Pages can be processed at any time by anyone, but are not formally closed until a clerk or administrator verifies that all problems are resolved. Pages listed for presumptive deletion stay open for a minimum of 7 days before being processed. VRT agents may close listings at any times.
For advice for resolving listings, see:
- Wikipedia:Copyright problems/Advice for admins (VRT agents, see section there)
- Wikipedia:Copyright problems/Clerks#Advice for clerks
The templates collected at Template:CPC may be useful for administrators, clerks and VRT agents noting resolution.
Listings of possible copyright problems
Older than 7 days
23 August 2022
- Corrosion engineering (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://dokumen.pub/practical-power-plant-engineering-a-guide-for-early-career-engineers-9781119534983-1119534984-9781119534990-1119534992-9781119535003-111953500x-9781119534945.html. BalinKingOfMoria (talk) 00:05, 23 August 2022 (UTC)
Article cleaned, revision deletion requested. Sennecaster (Chat) 03:25, 10 September 2022 (UTC)
Revision deletion completed. Copyright problem removed from history. MER-C 12:53, 10 September 2022 (UTC)
- Owton (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/durham/vol3/pp365-376. BalinKingOfMoria (talk) 00:44, 23 August 2022 (UTC)
Article cleaned, revision deletion requested. Sennecaster (Chat) 03:25, 10 September 2022 (UTC)
Revision deletion completed. Copyright problem removed from history. MER-C 12:53, 10 September 2022 (UTC)
- Draft:Wellworthy (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.stbarbe-museum.org.uk/whats-on/online-exhibitions/wellworthy/the-history-of-wellworthy/post-war-and-the-end-of-an-era/ https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Wellworthy_Piston_Rings https://nfknowledge.org/contributions/wellworthy-piston-rings-limited-wellworthy-ltd/. Relisted from 17 August, page was not blanked, user was not notified. Two of these sources are CC-licenced, but not under a compatible licence. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 09:26, 23 August 2022 (UTC)
Article cleaned, revision deletion requested. Sennecaster (Chat) 03:25, 10 September 2022 (UTC)
Revision deletion completed. Copyright problem removed from history. MER-C 12:53, 10 September 2022 (UTC)
- National Liberty Museum (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.libertymuseum.org/about-us/ https://www.libertymuseum.org/about-us/our-story/. ManOfTheArk (talk) 17:44, 23 August 2022 (UTC)
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 20:42, 3 September 2022 (UTC)
- Articles tagged as having improper non-free content between March and November 2015
- Al-Burda (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Enterprise information security architecture (history · last edit · rewrite)
- QEM (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Norma Belleza (history · last edit · rewrite)
- The Missouri Harmony (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Santi Pietro e Paolo a Via Ostiense (history · last edit · rewrite)
- BaFa' BaFa' (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Jaipongan (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Quintet of the Americas (history · last edit · rewrite)
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Sennecaster (Chat) 04:47, 16 September 2022 (UTC)
- Tarka the Otter (film) (history · last edit · rewrite)
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Sennecaster (Chat) 04:47, 16 September 2022 (UTC)
- K. Sri Dhammananda (history · last edit · rewrite)
Article cleaned, revision deletion requested. Sennecaster (Chat) 04:47, 16 September 2022 (UTC)
Revision deletion completed. Copyright problem removed from history. MER-C 18:10, 16 September 2022 (UTC)
- John McKenna (director) (history · last edit · rewrite)
Article cleaned, revision deletion requested. Sennecaster (Chat) 00:33, 16 September 2022 (UTC)
Revision deletion completed. Copyright problem removed from history. Sennecaster (Chat) 02:27, 16 September 2022 (UTC)
- Bundle of rights (history · last edit · rewrite)
Backwardscopy. Tag placed at talk page. Sennecaster (Chat) 02:00, 13 September 2022 (UTC)
MER-C 18:56, 23 August 2022 (UTC)
2 September 2022
- 1962–63 Ashes series (history · last edit · rewrite) from With the M.C.C. in Australia 1962-63, A Critical Story of the Tour by A. G. Moyes and Tom Goodman (The Sportsmans Book Club, 1965). To a lesser extent, also My Life in Cricket by Fred Titmus and Stafford Hildred (John Blake Publishing Ltd, 2005). Please see the talk-page, where it's suggested that this may part of a wider problem. NB: a similar page, MCC tour of Australia in 1962–63, has already been speedily deleted by Primefac. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 08:32, 2 September 2022 (UTC)
- Joe Sage (history · last edit · rewrite) from Various. Presumptive, see Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20110727 14. Wizardman 23:38, 2 September 2022 (UTC)
Article deleted due to copyright concerns. MER-C 10:08, 10 September 2022 (UTC)
3 September 2022
- Articles tagged as having excessive non-free content between December 2015 and December 2016
- Great British Railway Journeys (history · last edit · rewrite)
- All at Sea (TV series) (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Kalin Iliev (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Simulation of transformer (history · last edit · rewrite)
- The Shapeshifter (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Marcel Gaumont (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Claude Grange (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Secret societies at Duke University (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Maratha Kranti Morcha (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Taking Fire (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Somalia Green Party (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Agni-II (history · last edit · rewrite)
Ends. MER-C 10:34, 3 September 2022 (UTC)
6 September 2022
- Emily Stowe (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/emily-stowe originalmesstalk 04:10, 6 September 2022 (UTC)
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. MER-C 17:39, 13 September 2022 (UTC)
- West Essex Trail (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://web.archive.org/web/20071017034614/http://essex-countynj.org/p/index.php?section=parks/sites/weste. Checker's only 50/50, and this has been here long enough that it could be a content fork. Listing for independent review. TomStar81 (Talk) 06:16, 6 September 2022 (UTC)
Articles with talk pages in Category:Suspected copyright infringements without a source from 2004 and 2005:
- Pentecostal Assemblies of the World (history · last edit · rewrite)
Issue resolved. Rewritten entirely at some point, all vio gone. Sennecaster (Chat) 04:05, 16 September 2022 (UTC)
- Roman Catholic Diocese of Bathurst in Canada (history · last edit · rewrite)
- I've presumptively rewritten the history section based upon the Catholic Encyclopedia from 1908 (a public domain source), though I was unable to find a copyright violation. There was an incompletely attributed merge that I resolved as well. — Red-tailed�?hawk�?(nest) 05:04, 16 September 2022 (UTC)
- Supersolid (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Peak Wilderness Sanctuary (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Stephens Island (New Zealand) (history · last edit · rewrite)
- Plot of the rue Saint-Nicaise (history · last edit · rewrite)
* Pppery * it has begun... 19:05, 6 September 2022 (UTC)
8 September 2022
- Digia (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.kauppalehti.fi/uutiset/digia-jakautumassa-kahdeksi-porssiyhtioksi/8a2c8ed7-d2e5-3454-a98d-7d69e8838ddb. Earwig shows that the Finnish Wikipedia version of this article contains (at minimum) a verbatim 17-word unattributed quote from a non-free source. This content was oviously translated from the Finnish Wikipedia into the English Wikipedia, so the copyright violation carries into this derivative work. There's also no attribution directly given to FiWiki, which is required under the CC-BY-SA license. I'm listing this here rather than using copyvio-revdel because this is translation-vio and the source being copied from is paywalled. Since I can only get the very beginning of it, there may be more, but I'm unable to tell. — Red-tailed�?hawk�?(nest) 13:12, 8 September 2022 (UTC)
- The sentence referenced is originally from Digia's 28.8.2015 press-release and was also used word-to-word in Digia's yearly report. [1]. Ie. it was not something that originated from Kauppalehti and it was from a source that was meant to be quoted. Technically this doesn't change the copyright situation at least in Finnish Wikipedia the press releases are considered copyrighted material if there is no license information, but it is not the worst crime in the world either. -- Zache (talk) 17:31, 8 September 2022 (UTC)
- Thank you for rephrasing the Finnish version. I'm still going to leave this here for a clerk to check through, especially given that verbatim copying from press release material is going to be a problem unless that material is freely licensed. — Red-tailed�?hawk�?(nest) 22:17, 12 September 2022 (UTC)
- The sentence referenced is originally from Digia's 28.8.2015 press-release and was also used word-to-word in Digia's yearly report. [1]. Ie. it was not something that originated from Kauppalehti and it was from a source that was meant to be quoted. Technically this doesn't change the copyright situation at least in Finnish Wikipedia the press releases are considered copyrighted material if there is no license information, but it is not the worst crime in the world either. -- Zache (talk) 17:31, 8 September 2022 (UTC)
- George J. Seabury (history · last edit · rewrite) from <https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofamer16amer/page/528/mode/2up>. The source is not in the public domain (originally published 1929 and I was able to find its copyright renewal). — Red-tailed�?hawk�?(nest) 17:31, 8 September 2022 (UTC)
- Foundational close paraphrase, should be deleted. Can be undeleted in 2025. Sennecaster (Chat) 16:34, 13 September 2022 (UTC)
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. MER-C 18:07, 16 September 2022 (UTC)
- Leverett Candee (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofamer03ilamer/page/468/mode/2up. Close paraphrasing. Same copyrighted source as above. — Red-tailed�?hawk�?(nest) 22:34, 8 September 2022 (UTC)
- Foundational close paraphrase, should be deleted. Can be undeleted in 2025. Sennecaster (Chat) 03:51, 16 September 2022 (UTC)
Article deleted due to copyright concerns. MER-C 18:07, 16 September 2022 (UTC)
New listings
New listings are not added directly to this page but are instead on daily reports. To add a new listing, please go to today's section. Instructions for adding new listings can be found at Instructions for listing text-based copyright concerns. Editors may resolve issues within listings by removing the copyrighted content or rewriting content on the temporary pages at any time, save for presumptive deletion. See the section on responding for more information.
10 September 2022
- C. O. Simpkins Sr. (history · last edit · rewrite) from Various. Presumptive, see Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20110727 14. Wizardman 01:32, 10 September 2022 (UTC)
- Kyle Kacal (history · last edit · rewrite) from Various. Presumptive, see Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20110727 14. Wizardman 01:51, 10 September 2022 (UTC)
- Mary Johnson Harris (history · last edit · rewrite) from Various. Presumptive, see Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20110727 14. Wizardman 02:41, 10 September 2022 (UTC)
- Rick Galindo (history · last edit · rewrite) from WP:PDEL from Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20110727 14 and related IP socks. Sennecaster (Chat) 03:53, 10 September 2022 (UTC)
- Sam Jones (Louisiana politician) (history · last edit · rewrite) WP:PDEL from Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20110727 14 and suspected IP socks. Sennecaster (Chat) 04:05, 10 September 2022 (UTC)
- Robert T. Garrity Jr. (history · last edit · rewrite) from Presumptive deletion from Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20110727 14. Sennecaster (Chat) 04:10, 10 September 2022 (UTC)
- National Orchid Garden (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://web.archive.org/web/20141009060101/http://www.nparks.gov.sg/cms/index.php?option=com_visitorsguide&task=parks&id=24&Itemid=73. Darylgolden(talk) Ping when replying 10:21, 10 September 2022 (UTC)
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Signed,The4lines |||| (Talk) (Contributions) 15:52, 11 September 2022 (UTC)
- Deborah Hay (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://dhdcblog.blogspot.com/p/deborah-hay-was-born-in-brooklyn.html and https://www.numeridanse.tv/en/dance-videotheque/deborah-hay-solo. — Diannaa (talk) 13:43, 10 September 2022 (UTC)
- List of Sanrio characters (history · last edit · rewrite) from sanrio.co.jp and sanrio.com, list of fictional characters with many longstanding copypaste violations of character bios from official sources. I have gone through and removed what I could identify, but possibly older material from sanrio.com that is no longer easily accessible through archive.org remains. diff of removed material Siawase (talk) 14:35, 10 September 2022 (UTC)
11 September 2022
- Les Eaves (history · last edit · rewrite) from Various. Presumptive, see Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20110727 14. Wizardman 01:37, 11 September 2022 (UTC)
- Allen Kerr (politician) (history · last edit · rewrite) from Various. Presumptive, see Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20110727 14. Wizardman 01:45, 11 September 2022 (UTC)
- Julie Mayberry (history · last edit · rewrite) from Various. Presumptive, see Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20110727 14. Wizardman 01:58, 11 September 2022 (UTC)
- List of Filipino billionaires by net worth (history · last edit · rewrite) from rankings determined by criteria or methods unique to Forbes, and not on the basis of generally available data. I'd removed the infringing content, but was reverted. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 14:30, 11 September 2022 (UTC)
- Mary Claire Engstrom (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.ncpedia.org/engstrom-mary-claire. — Diannaa (talk) 15:47, 11 September 2022 (UTC)
- Sreejesh Nair (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.edubilla.com/award/national-film-awards/sreejesh-nair/116.68.100.51 (talk) 16:09, 11 September 2022 (UTC)
- The website edubilla has copied the article from Wikipedia and not vice versa. 116.68.85.194 (talk) 02:00, 12 September 2022 (UTC)
- W. W. Hicks (history · last edit · rewrite) from Presumptive deletion, see Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20110727 14. Signed,The4lines |||| (Talk) (Contributions) 16:23, 11 September 2022 (UTC)
- Nelda Speaks (history · last edit · rewrite) from . Presumptive deletion from Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20110727 14 Signed,The4lines |||| (Talk) (Contributions) 16:37, 11 September 2022 (UTC)
- James M. Collins (history · last edit · rewrite) from . See Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20110727 52% Billy Hathorn authorship. Scorpions13256 (talk) 17:41, 11 September 2022 (UTC)
12 September 2022
- Leighton Schubert (history · last edit · rewrite) from Various. Presumptive, see Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20110727 14. Wizardman 00:14, 12 September 2022 (UTC)
- Mary Bentley (politician) (history · last edit · rewrite) from Various. Presumptive, see Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20110727 14. About 60% of the article, so at least won't require full deletion. Wizardman 00:20, 12 September 2022 (UTC)
- Larry Deen (history · last edit · rewrite) from Various. Presumptive, see Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20110727 14. Wizardman 00:42, 12 September 2022 (UTC)
13 September 2022
- James Garvey (politician) (history · last edit · rewrite) from Various. Presumptive, see Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20110727 14. Wizardman 00:08, 13 September 2022 (UTC)
- Dorothy Garrett Smith (history · last edit · rewrite) from Various. Presumptive, see Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20110727 14. Wizardman 00:50, 13 September 2022 (UTC)
- Don Jones (Louisiana politician) (history · last edit · rewrite) from Various. Presumptive, see Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20110727 14. Wizardman 01:05, 13 September 2022 (UTC)
- Twelve-step program (history · last edit · rewrite) from <https://www.aa.org/sites/default/files/2021-11/en_bigbook_chapt5.pdf>. The first book in which this may have been published was in 1939, and there have been various versions of the Big Book that have been granted copyright registration. I can't 100% figure out if this text was published as-is in the original version (which I lack) or if the copyright has been renewed, but if these occurred then this would be a copyvio. Alcoholics Anonymous claims copyright over its current text and it doesn't appear to release it under a free license, so the only way this isn't a copyvio is if the the steps were originally published in a document for which copyright has expired. — Red-tailed�?hawk�?(nest) 02:50, 13 September 2022 (UTC)
- Epigraphy (history · last edit · rewrite) from a book (Latin Epigraphy, A. E. Gordon (1983)). Details at Talk:Epigraphy. Mathglot (talk) 04:07, 13 September 2022 (UTC)
- 2021 in Vatican City (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-city/news/2021-01/vatican-museums-reopening-february-barbara-jatta.html https://www.reuters.com/article/vatican-australia-idINKBN29C1PV https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/246311/cardinal-parolin-brings-message-of-peace-and-reconciliation-to-cameroon https://www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-city/news/2021-10/pope-francis-india-prime-minister-modi-meeting.html https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/politics/switzerland-marks-centenary-of-diplomatic-relations-with-holy-see/47093520 https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2021-03/pope-on-paraguay-may-dialogue-prevail-over-violence.html https://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=49877. There's been some subsequent copy-editing, but the problem is not resolved. A discussion on the talk-page suggests that this may be part of a wider problem – the user claims to have copied the infringing content from "Current Events", and to have done the same before for other pages. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 14:18, 13 September 2022 (UTC)
- Rewritten the article from scratch, the only other article that I've copied straight from the portal was 2021 in Vanuatu which I have now attributed, this seems to be an issue stemming from User:JoeNMLC's edits to the current events portal which may need looking into. Thief-River-Faller (talk) 15:16, 13 September 2022 (UTC)
- Concordat of 1801 (history · last edit · rewrite) from <https://www.jbjv.com/Commentaire-du-Concordat-de-1801.html>. This is a part of Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/Manannan51. The source directly cited is a link to google translate, and some of the phrasing (such as discussion of social cohesion) appears to be very similar to what the source currently translates to via google translate. This makes me suspect that some of the wording may be machine translation from the cited source, which would be a copyvio as that the original source was published in 2007. A clerk with advanced French proficiency is requested. — Red-tailed�?hawk�?(nest) 17:43, 13 September 2022 (UTC)
- Curly Top (film) (history · last edit · rewrite) from Presumptive deletion from Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/ItsLassieTime & socks inc. Sennecaster (Chat) 20:58, 13 September 2022 (UTC)
14 September 2022
- Flying A Productions (history · last edit · rewrite) from Various. Presumptive, see Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20110727 14. Wizardman 02:25, 14 September 2022 (UTC)
- David Heitmeier (history · last edit · rewrite) from Various. Presumptive, see Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20110727 14. Wizardman 02:36, 14 September 2022 (UTC)
- Orphan Boy mine (history · last edit · rewrite) from Various. Presumptive, see Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20110727 14. Wizardman 02:40, 14 September 2022 (UTC)
15 September 2022
- Jerry "Bo" Coleman (history · last edit · rewrite) from Various. Presumptive, see Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20110727 14. Wizardman 01:45, 15 September 2022 (UTC)
- Cheryl Johnson (history · last edit · rewrite) from Various. Presumptive, see Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20110727 14. Wizardman 02:01, 15 September 2022 (UTC)
- Israel "Bo" Curtis (history · last edit · rewrite) from Various. Presumptive, see Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20110727 14. Wizardman 02:32, 15 September 2022 (UTC)
- Terry Brown (Louisiana politician) (history · last edit · rewrite) from Various. Presumptive deletion of Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20110727 14. undefined Sennecaster (Chat) 03:21, 15 September 2022 (UTC)
- Women in rodeo (history · last edit · rewrite) from Presumptive, from Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/ItsLassieTime. undefined Sennecaster (Chat) 03:41, 15 September 2022 (UTC)
16 September 2022
- Patrick Williams (Louisiana politician) (history · last edit · rewrite) from Various. Presumptive, see Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20110727 14. Wizardman 01:59, 16 September 2022 (UTC)
- Ruth McClendon (history · last edit · rewrite) from Various. Presumptive, see Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20110727 14. Includes presumptive copyvio IP edits likely by Hathorn as well. Wizardman 02:03, 16 September 2022 (UTC)
- Richard Stalder (history · last edit · rewrite) from Various. Presumptive, see Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20110727 14. Includes presumptive copyvio IP edits likely by Hathorn as well. Wizardman 02:12, 16 September 2022 (UTC)
- Mr. McGregor (history · last edit · rewrite) from . Presumptive, 67% authorship by ILT sock Susanne2009NYC. �?PMC�? (talk) 16:02, 16 September 2022 (UTC)
17 September 2022
- American Cowboy Culture Association (history · last edit · rewrite) from . Presumptive, see Wikipedia:Contributor_copyright_investigations/20110727_14. 90% Hathorship. �?PMC�? (talk) 01:47, 17 September 2022 (UTC)
- Cline Paden (history · last edit · rewrite) from . Presumptive, see Wikipedia:Contributor_copyright_investigations/20110727_14. 87% Hathorship. �?PMC�? (talk) 01:50, 17 September 2022 (UTC)
- John J. Hoover (history · last edit · rewrite) from Various. Presumptive, see Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20110727 14. Wizardman 02:10, 17 September 2022 (UTC)
- James Sturch (history · last edit · rewrite) from Various. Presumptive, see Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20110727 14. Mix of Hathorn copyvio and ip garbage which may or may not be hathorn copyvio. Wizardman 02:18, 17 September 2022 (UTC)
- James T. McCalman (history · last edit · rewrite) from Various. Presumptive, see Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20110727 14. Wizardman 02:29, 17 September 2022 (UTC)
Wikipedia's current date is 17 September 2022. Put new article listings in Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2022 September 17. Files should be handled by speedy deletion or Wikipedia:Files for discussion.