Wikipedia talk:Contributor copyright investigations/Darius Dhlomo

Presumptive removal?

Should any prose that smells of copyvio be presumptively removed? I have already found one definite and three possibles in a fairly small sample size and I think that with the potential scale of the problem presumptive removal would speed things up a little bit. Boissière (talk) 21:56, 4 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, they should be presumptively removed. With the massive scale of this one there's really no other way to handle it, particularly since all of the articles currently listed are the ones they actually created. VernoWhitney (talk) 23:25, 4 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Can we look at Darius's edits by size of the edit instead? As I stated in the opening, the shorter articles (below 2.5KB creation size) he's created are practically a green light for original work. From a legal perspective, no one will bother contesting a couple of sentences describing basic, key information on a subject. Also, I would guess that the copyright problems will lie solely in biographies and not the likes of X at Games...etc. Sillyfolkboy (talk) (edits)^{Join WikiProject Athletics!} 00:47, 5 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I got it in my head that it would be easier to split out created articles from the other articles they've edited but not created, which is why it ended up like this. I'm running it through my bot right now so tomorrow I should be able to update the pages with created articles sorted by edit size and then other edited articles also sorted by edit size. VernoWhitney (talk) 03:11, 5 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Need help?

I just saw this report on ANI and thought I'd see if you'd like some help. I've never gotten involved here so I'm unsure as to how this works, procedurally-speaking. Should I claim an article in the list somehow? I'm guessing the x graphics means no copyright issues found. What happens if I do find something plagiarized? How does it get tagged, and is there somewhere else that would be reported? Sorry for so many questions, but I want to make sure I'm going about it properly before I jump right in, so I don't end up creating even more work for someone. — e. ripley\^talk 04:36, 5 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]