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Article creator copypasting from their own (?) source

I've just declined this Draft:Metaverse Economy at AfD, for reasons other than copyright. However, I also noticed that the text appears pretty much verbatim in one of the cited sources, here. Looking at the creating editor's username, and the name of one of the authors of that external source, they appear to be the same person (although I don't know this for sure, of course). The website in question, Medium.com, states in their terms that the authors retain rights to their content, so using the material in this draft probably doesn't violate Medium's rights, but that of course doesn't mean it doesn't violate someone's rights. What should I do? Thanks, -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 11:33, 12 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I would list it here. If they own the copyright to the material then they should be providing evidence of that (WP:IOWN). Simply having the same username as the content author doesn't prove anything, anybody can create an account with any username. Hut 8.5 12:14, 12 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Okay thanks @Hut 8.5, will do. DoubleGrazing (talk) 12:34, 12 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

CSDing articles at AfD

If an article at AfD is eligible for G12, should it be CSD'd? The AfD that prompted the question is here: [1]. Specific circumstances that might be worth considering: the article has been up for more than a decade, so another week hardly makes a difference; source has GNU license (so, free, but not compatible with WP); deletion discussion started less than 24 hours ago and is already getting out of hand. -- asilvering (talk) 02:01, 16 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I have tagged articles at AfD with G12 before. Some other options are to send the article here to WP:CP (where the copyright holder could potentially verify that they want to release the content under a compatible license), or to stubify the article. One advantage of letting the AfD play out is that if the consensus is to delete, that would enable G4 as an option to delete future re-creations, whereas if it was G12'd now, a re-created article would have to be sent to AfD again. DanCherek (talk) 02:09, 16 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

National Digital Library Program

This appears to be verbatim from [[2]]. Is LOC public domain and so just a cite solves this?Slywriter (talk) 17:02, 17 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Roadster (bicycle)

Could somebody take a look at Roadster (bicycle) There appears to be extensive copying from https://www.sheldonbrown.com/english-3.html, which goes back to at least 2009 and will require an expert to sort through and figure out what's ours and what's theirs. See earwig report. -- RoySmith (talk) 12:47, 8 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

RoySmith, Don't think complicated at all since this is from 2000 [3] and predates wikipedia article while looking substantially similar to current version of website.Slywriter (talk) 15:59, 8 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Movement Strategy Implementation Grant for the creation of an all-purpose file tool

Hello! I'll be developing an all-purpose file tool that includes the feature to detect potential copyright-violating images that also appear on the Internet. I thought it would be a good idea to request a Movement Strategy Implementation Grant from the Wikimedia Foundation. You can find more information about the scope of the tool and the grant on m:Grants:Project/MSIG/EpicPupper/Fortuna. Feel free to leave comments, questions, suggestions, or ideas on the grant talk page, and endorsements or offers to translate or localize the tool in the relevant sections. Thanks! 🐶 EpicPupper ^{(he/him | talk)} 09:23, 5 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

EU countries - copyright on court rulings/laws/etc.

Anyone with knowledgeable input on the copyright status of EU legislative and judicial documents would be greatly appreciated at Talk:Reverse Discrimination (EU Law)#Copyright status of the quotes? VernoWhitney (talk) 15:51, 19 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Knowledge of Mechinagar Munciplity of People's representative

Right information of people 's representative (जनप्रतिनिधि) in Munciplity system Anup Rajbanshi (talk) 05:04, 22 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]