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the user subject to the CCI

[2]. Due to CCI not attended properly all the valid contributions at page Husayn are deleted. The site [3] contain only certain part of material whereas most of the content of article Husayn provided with valid citations were deleted.

As example there is no details available about transfer of head of Imam Husayn at [4], but the details about Ashkelon historical proof etcetera are removed. please reopen the case to delete only copy righted materials. Md iet (talk) 16:14, 16 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

This request concerns [5] this removal of copyrighted material. Even if it weren't a copyvio, the content was likely presumptively removed. Why not replace it by writing about the topic in your own words?
This is not a CCI request, so no Declined. MER-C 10:24, 18 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Nubenruben

Regiorgio

Cheers, gnu57 14:48, 6 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Not enough diffs to open a full CCI but here's the edits. Wizardman 15:16, 14 December 2019 (UTC) [reply]

2020

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Luenw

GizzyCatBella

  1. [6] is a copy of http://www.encysol.pl/wiki/Stanis%C5%82aw_Michalkiewicz (flagged by User:Gbear605, this is an addition to an existing article, not a new article)
  2. [7] is a copy of https://pl.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=%C5%81azar_Bierienzon&oldid=48795985
  3. [8] is a copy of https://pl.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Lew_Szwarcman&oldid=47314353
  4. [9] is a copy of https://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Jakow_Gercberg&oldid=941897967
  5. [10] is a copy of https://pl.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Jakub_Lejkin&oldid=56002760
  6. [11] is a copy of https://pl.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Izrael_Kana%C5%82&oldid=52436236
  7. [12] is a copy of the top of https://pl.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Witold_Jedlicki&oldid=54537576

There are many edits to go through, I just looked at new articles. Semper honestus (talk) 19:10, 2 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Nearly indisputable sock, ill-intended filing - see link for more details [13] - GizzyCatBella🍁 22:28, 4 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
GizzyCatBella, That appears to be true, but is also besides the point; this at least shows that you haven't been attributing translations per our guidelines of translations (please do so in the future using {{translated page|pl|ARTICLENAME}}. I'm not sure about the first one, since comparing the translated text to the translated original shows low overlap, so if opened this would be a more attribution focused CCI, which are luckily pretty easy and won't result in mass deletions.
And if Semper is a sock of Icewhiz, this is pretty goddamn disappointing. You know I work around here, don't you, so you thought you could exploit our previous friendship and get this opened? To think I gave you two barnstars and thought you would become an admin before me. You've changed in the worst possible ways. Moneytrees🏝️Talk🌴Help out at CCI! 22:54, 4 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks Moneytrees, will do. - GizzyCatBella🍁 06:59, 5 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

GizzyCatBella, I'm going to file this away without prejudice; this doesn't appear to be a serious issue, you said you'll attribute tl's, and I don't really want to entertain Icewhiz. An actual user can file a good faith request at a later point in time if this is still an issue. Moneytrees🏝️Talk🌴Help out at CCI! 19:43, 16 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Iamjoelivingstone

As this editor has numerous edits Benjamin Clementine, it's not a short and simple one for me to examine every one of their edits. Thnaks! :) --MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 03:05, 6 September 2020 (UTC) MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 03:05, 6 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Bradock.MJ

If there's not enough evidence to open a CCI, please let me know. Thanks! --MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 00:36, 26 September 2020 (UTC) MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 00:36, 26 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I think you have them all. To be sure, I'll go over them below. MER-C 10:06, 26 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

2021

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Atnissel

  1. Lots of copyvio at Mauro Cappelletti from NYU
  2. Small copyvio at James Crawford (jurist) from Matrix Law.
  3. Another small copyvio at Michael Barton Akehurst is from the foreword of a 2002 book at Google Books.
  4. Foundational edit to Ari Harow has copyvio from the Jerusalem Post - I noitced the health issues/job offers part as the copyvio.

As this is a small case, a full CCI isn't needed. I thought I should put this up to show this user reached 5 copyvios. Also, it's concerning that while most of these copyvios were from 2009-2010, the Nirvana Apartments copyvio is from 2017. Thanks! MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 03:15, 22 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Danielsavol

Redeye2934

Antojpr

Br Ibrahim john

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Statement by Br Ibrahim john:user: Mugsalot has been engaged in an edit war in the page List of Maphrians. All I have done is only to make the article in conformity with the related article Maphrian. I have collected content and sources from this related article. However, it is being constantly reverted back and removed and the claims of Syriac Orthodox Church, which cannot be traced back in history and is fully against views of various historians, are being restored as if that is the only opinion. The user is not trying to accommodate my edits even though they were sourced. Now there is a copy right accusation. The user has accused me of copy pasting content in this particular article, I leave that to investigation, but that is not the reason why the user has been reverting all my edits each and every now and then. The user is editing the page and restoring content with a partisan policy.
Comment: @Br Ibrahim john: we are not here for content disputes. Claims of edit warring have no effect on CCI case openings. This is concrning your editing itself and violations of the Wikipedia copyright policy. As I see it, you do not understand the copyright policy and a CCI seems necessary since your other edits have a chance of being problematic. I am not a clerk or admin. Sennecaster (What now?) 16:13, 26 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • I actually ended up looking through all of this user's edits for further violations. I didn't find any and the ones I did find had already been dealt with, so no Declined for now. I will drop a warning for copyright and then archive this request. Moneytrees🏝️Talk/CCI guide 01:14, 5 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Resnjari

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Statement by Resnjari: Yes those are my edits from that time period. I do not recall your involvement at the time about cutting down overquotation or consulting other editors. If you have consulted with other editors or they referred me to you, it would be good to know so we can be open about things. Anyway, the quotations i added were in reference to complex articles at a time when basically i was the only editor engaged in Albania related articles and having to deal with a mountain of disruptive editing. There was a lot of trolling around from some editors (who of recent times have been topic banned from the Balkans area for nationalist or disruptive editing or using nationalistic type scholarship in articles) toward Albania related articles. Even with articles were the weblink is available (and i try to make sure about that as much as possible) there are editors and IPs who don't bother to click on the link or seek out the source and read it and then go on and do problematic edits. With quotes being there its mitigated some of that behavoir on certain articles. I can dig up and cite a lot of the toxic stuff from that time, it wont be pleasant reading regarding the diffs for those wanting to get to know the context.
For example you cite the Expulsion of the Albanians, 1877–1878. The event was a pivotal moment that kick started the modern Albanian-Serbian conflict. The overquotation in the article was done because there were many editors (some who much later were exposed to be sockpuppets) who came out wanting to delete the article [20] because it was 'slightly covered' here or there in wiki and as such the article had to go or disputing that the event hadn't really occurred when actual scholarship shows otherwise, hence the quotes. The article has managed to be stable as a result of the quotes. Even @Chlod: has been involved with reverting [21] IP disruptive editing and denialism over this event in relation to Kuršumlija.
Another cited example is the Upper Reka. Because of its complex history related to the Orthodox Albanian speaking population, care was provided especially to that population group and its identity through the content and supported via the quotes. The quotes gave confidence to translators on Serbian and Macedonian Wikipedia projects to translate the Upper Reka article in whole from the English (the way i wrote it and are now feature articles [22], [23] minus the quotes). I highly doubt that would have happened if the quotes were not there. I can go on here with the other article examples cited.
The Balkans topic area is large. There are few administrators willing to enter the fray. Even very recently multiple admins understand the problem, but solutions toward it vary (see discussion here: [24]). Quotes of that size at the time i made them were a method which i thought could keep things stable and prevent the constant ugly toxic environment that exists. I understand they are not ideal. There are other editors who have also done similar overquotation in the Balkans topic area for probably similar reasons at the time. The quotes can be removed. Its not hard. However when its done, it would be much appreciated that at the very least some administrators have these articles on their watchlist. There is no point in after removing the quotes only to have certain editors come in and then say, well i can't see it on the article page or i can't access the book, so then they remove or tamper with the page or to have to deal with endless IP disruptions or disruptive, time wasting and often farcical and toxic main article edits or threads in various talkpages. I am older now and have little tolerance for having to deal with that kind of thing than half a decade ago. Neither should other editors have to deal with that nonsense. Whether this statement is taken into consideration or not, anyway that's my 2 cents.Resnjari (talk) 07:30, 27 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
I just noticed that I was pinged here, and I'd like to say that that revert was the reason why I found these instances of overquote in the first place, since a -15,243 byte difference is unusual for two sentences of content. If it were simply a shorter citation, or a book citation even, then I would have still reverted under the pretense of removing sourced content. I'm sure that to back up two sentences, you wouldn't need to quote what I would assume to be an entire page (or at least a significant portion of it). And removal of content, even by IPs, would have been picked up already by counter-vandalism editors, or by users who've watchlisted the related pages. Chlod (say hi!) 00:24, 2 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Respectfully, looking at your edit history, your overall focus isn't Balkan topics until very recently with a few articles. Its a different ball game there than in many other parts of Wikipedia. I haven't been regularly on wiki for a while. But when i do go on the platform and check a few articles here and there, I have found instances of IPs having done edits that have not been picked up by counter-vandalism editors. I will note, some of the cited articles watchlisted (or engaged) by editors were some of the same editors who were not keen on having the content or even articles existing based on reasons as i noted in my above comment. So when an IP does a problematic edit, not everyone will revert it, and others who may revert might not be on wiki or active at the time. So problematic edits 'slide' or get missed. On citations, i said the overquotation is not ideal, but with removal of quotes at the very least and as a measure to mitigate future problematic edits, the pages being placed on the watchlists of admins involved in the Balkans topic area along with better page protections would go some way to preventing IP disruptions/vandalism and so on. There is a very recent pivot toward that (see discussion here: [25]) but i would like to know the outcome here first before any other attention could be devoted to this matter.Resnjari (talk) 08:48, 2 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Hope I'm not awkwardly late here; I just saw this. I have to back up what Resnjari is saying here -- it became customary in the Balkan topic area during the past five years to use large quotes in citations, and this was largely agreed upon multilaterally as a means of constraining source-interpretation disputes by making the sourcing accessible to all -- it was necessary to maintain sanity of the editing area. There was later a general move against this, within the past year. Large quotes usually were only placed in citations, not the actual page text, and they are increasingly being placed into comments. While its not good to accuse others of "copyright paranoia", it is true that, in general, in my experience, those who enforce copyright in the Balkan area have either done so very selectively, or otherwise (in this case typically by editors not actually familiar with the area) done in a way that is clumsy at best. I have come across people enforcing copyright on attributed material that is explicitly released to the internet as open and free use. What I have never seen, not even once, is an actual issue with copyright in the Balkan topic area. But, that said, the long quotations in citations are slowly being commented out anyways. I'd recommend a close on this thread.--Calthinus (talk) 21:16, 13 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Resnjari, Sorry for the wait, I tend to be the one who opens CCIs and I haven't really been around in full capacity recently. I am torn on what to do here, so I have come up with two best ways to deal this 1) the CCI is opened with an exclusive focus on overquotes and you help thin the quotes down. 2) you are asked to edit down the overquotes on your own time and the CCI is rejected. I think the reason for using such large quotes is perfectly reasonable and that they should be continued to be used to combat misinformation and trolls in the area. Blocking you is also out of the question as I don't think there is a serious threat of copyright violations here. However a lot of the quotes are overly long and I'm not sure everything said is relevant to what is being said in the text, so the irrelevant text should be removed... but I also know nothing about this topic area and wouldn't be 100% sure on what is and isn't relevant. So I'm at an impasse and the best thing I can think of is one of the two options above. Which option would you prefer? Moneytrees🏝️Talk/CCI guide 03:45, 27 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Moneytrees, it’s all good and thank you for the suggestions. I appreciate it. Option 2 sounds good and i will have time starting from this coming Monday to go through the articles and remove excessive quotes. As i go through them, I’ll check their editing history and talkpages to determine if some articles will need protection. I'll have a list of those that will need it. Best.Resnjari (talk) 10:49, 4 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

TheUniversalEditor

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Blocked. This should be quick enough.... Moneytrees🏝️Talk/CCI guide 05:44, 21 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Aakhil Dhiman

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Dewalko

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  1. A cursory look at just a few passages shows that much of the aforementioned article is directly copy-pasted from other online resources. For example: After the town's defence fell, thousands of non-Serbs were expelled, thousands were transported to prison camps in Serbia, while hundreds were executed at the nearby Ovčara farm and in other places. Over 3,000 soldiers and civilians died during the siege and its aftermath, 86 of them children. Over 300 residents of Vukovar are still missing. [31] This text is copied virtually word-for-word from this article . Also: The fall of Vukovar marked the start of Croatia's war of independence from the former Yugoslavia, which claimed around 20,000 lives. The battle for the town was crucial for Croatia as it stalled Yugoslav forces long enough to give Zagreb time to arm and prepare troops. This passage is copied almost directly from this article.
  2. The Croatian parliament voted on November 2019 to adopt a law declaring Vukovar Remembrance Day on November 18 a national, non-working holiday – a day dedicated to “all victims of the Homeland (1990s) War”. [32] Copied almost word-for-word from a passage in this article
  3. France was the first foreign state to establish diplomatic relations with the United States. France is the only US ally that is a nuclear power, a member of the United Nations (UN) Security Council, and a founding member of the European Union (EU) and NATO. It is also the only US ally to operate the same type of catapult aircraft carrier as the US Navy, or to track objects in low-Earth orbit. [33] This is copied almost word-for-word from this article . Part of the same edit: In the political sphere, Germany stands at the center of European Union affairs and plays a key leadership role as a member of the G-7, G-20, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the Organization on Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). The United States recognizes that the security and prosperity of the United States and Germany significantly depend on each other. This is lifted directly from this U.S. State Department "fact sheet" .
  4. The European Union and United States enjoy close ties. Shared roots and values form a bond between the Western democracies on both sides of the Atlantic... [34] This passage is copied almost exactly from this source, only the source references North America, not the U.S.
  5. The Montenegrin ship Jadran sails alongside the guided missile cruiser USS Anzio as the ship departs Tivat port. [35] This caption very closely mirrors text from this stock photo site . Amanuensis Balkanicus (talk) 17:04, 18 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    User:Justlettersandnumbers blocked them on the 20th for copyright violations. Contribution spotcheck:
    1. Remembrance Day (Croatia) Relevant CP listing here.
    2. Battle of Vukovar from [36] revdelled
    3. Foreign relations of the United States from [37] and [38], now revdelled. Also has unattrib copying from PD and CC sources.
    4. Croatia from [39]. The offending text is was edited out earlier and I have requested revdel.
    Most of this user's contributions are images, tables, and other various gnomery, at least from my spotchecking. Sennecaster (Chat) 18:02, 27 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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JKLlamera

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Here are the diffs:

For AtorniYormeJKLlamera:[40], [41], [42], [43], [44]

For JKLlamera: [45], [46], [47], [48], [49], [50]

Thank you and more power. NewManila2000 (talk) 05:31, 10 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

{The files have now been deleted and the user has been given a final warning, look like there's nothing more to do for now. no Declined Moneytrees🎄Talk/CCI guide 18:09, 20 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Kwamikagami

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  • Kwamikagami (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
  • Check requested by Skyerise (talk)
  • copying a pronunciation table from a book into a table in Enochian. I've tagged the article for revdel after reverting the additions. It shows an 85% match. User claims it is not a copyvio, which it clearly is. User retaliated by removing all my changes made today, with no real justification except that he thinks the copyvio complaint is made in "bad faith." Just calling it as I see it. Skyerise (talk) 06:05, 17 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • added - user claims table is not copyrightable because it is "a list of facts" - but the table is actually the expression of the author's theories about a language, the list is not of incontrovertible facts, but rather the creative output of a linguist. It's not just a list of phone numbers, and other theorists theorize different pronunciation guides. If it were a 'simple list of facts', there would be no variants and no disagreements. But that's not the case here. As a linguist myself, I wouldn't want my work transferred wholesale, even if paraphrased, into Wikipedia... Skyerise (talk) 06:16, 17 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
This appears to be a bad-faith claim. Skyerise is apparently upset I didn't accept 100% of their edits to the article, even though I accepted most as improvements (including several places where they fixed my errors). To get around 3RR (for POV-pushing a magician over a linguist as a RS for linguistic analysis), they claimed they were reverting copy-vio, which they stated makes them except. There's no way they believe, after 12 yrs editing WP, that copying factual info from a table is copy-vio. Anyway, rather than trying to keep track of where we were in the edit war, I reverted to the last stable version of the article. — kwami (talk) 06:15, 17 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
See ^^^this^^^ is a bad faith claim. The two issues have nothing to do with one another. A copyvio is a copyvio, and Wikipedia can get in legal hot water for it. It's a linguist's creative output, and user's claims of exemption from copyright are weak and ill-informed, and they don't even know it. Skyerise (talk) 06:19, 17 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • no Declined No copyright concern at the article, no proof of copyright abuse, and I've scrawled Kwamikagami's talk page for anything and found only notices of filespace copyright concerns, with them being resolved via deletion or providing information by this point. There is nothing to do. I have also spotchecked at least 20 different articles and have found nothing that is a copyright violation. @Skyerise: do not come to CCI without proof of repeated violations of copyright; we require at minimum five diffs with sources of copying to consider opening cases. Sennecaster (Chat) 01:52, 18 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Reset by peer

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  • Reset by peer (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
  • Check requested by gnu57
  • Unfortunately I think there's a problem with incompatible licensing. The Susan's Place Transgender Wiki (now located at https://www.susans.org/wiki/ ) uses a GFDL license. The Susan's Place editors copied articles from here to there, then extensively modified and expanded them. In 2010 Reset by peer imported text from the Susan's Place wiki back to Wikipedia; however, by that time we had switched to dual-licensing, and could no longer accept material licensed solely under the GFDL.

Here are some diffs:

Green tickY blanked Sennecaster (Chat) 05:10, 5 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Green tickY Removed. Sennecaster (Chat) 05:10, 5 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Mikeburke4

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The user is aware that they're inserting images with false information but continues to do so anyway and the most recent edit came immediately after the user's block at Commons ended. Adeletron 3030 (talk • edits) 15:04, 4 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I'm declining this one. The image is already gone on commons and the user doesn't have any other major edits aside from one in 2016. Wizardman 15:11, 9 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipooba

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Blocked. The survey isn't too big, so I'll just paste it in here. MoneytreesTalk🏝️CCI guide 02:34, 25 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Moneytrees: Can you expand this to include the images from Commons per above? There's also files with own work claims but no identification of when/where published. Thanks! --MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 05:24, 25 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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KatiMedi

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Since KatiMedi copied over all the work of "User:Grand Duke Arthur" from royalpedia to here and is solely editing in the same exact topic area as User:Arthur Brum and his many socks, I have blocked the account. All but one of these pages were previously deleted after deletion discussions. I have deleted or tagged these pages on the basis of copyright concerns, recreations of deleted articles and creations by a sock puppet of a banned or blocked user. DrKay (talk) 06:33, 30 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I'm going to decline this one, since it's already been handled by DrKay. Thank you for bringing it to our attention. VernoWhitney (talk) 15:40, 3 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Marium (ILAE-WiR)

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"The vulnerability gene for IGE (BFNC, JME) is found in the chromosomal areas 20q13 (EBN1), 8q24 (EBN2), and 6p21 (EJM1)."

compared to the source sentence in the abstract of:

"Susceptibility genes for two syndromes of idiopathic generalized epilepsies, the benign familial neonatal convulsions and juvenile myoclonic epilepsy, have been assigned to the chromosomal regions 20q13 (EBN1), 8q24 (EBN2) and 6p21 (EJM1)."

Identical words bolded for emphasis, and the sentence structure mirrors as well; even closer given the use of words vs. abbreviations. Contributor more recently has been trying to paraphrase instead of straight copying, so some may be good, but as the contributions are still pretty much sentence by sentence it's almost impossible to adequately summarize. This is a small number of articles, but very consistent. Contributor currently blocked for this.

Convulsion and Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy have already been cleaned. VernoWhitney (talk) 12:23, 28 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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@MER-C: Now that you've gone and posted this, I realized I forgot to mention that there are lots of smaller size edits than we'd normal concern ourselves with, which I don't know if it's worth getting into for broader cleanup or not. This +118 for example, is almost exactly the source. VernoWhitney (talk) 19:16, 29 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Depends on whether they add up to something material and the cleaning strategy. I'd just blanket revert all this editor's contributions. MER-C 18:10, 30 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Since they've returned to editing after their week block (without new copyvio so far) without comment regarding their previous contributions, I'm going to follow your advice here and mass remove. VernoWhitney (talk) 17:23, 13 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Turkupt13

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  • Turkupt13 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
  • Check requested by Singularity42 (talk)
  • This user has been creating a lot of new articles since the beginning of May 2022 and up to and including today's date, and to a lesser extent adding info to existing pages. Of the new pages, 11 have deleted (or tagged for deletion) as close-paraphrase copyright violations from travel guides (including one nominated for AfD under WP:PDEL but later identified as another close-paraphrase. Three articles have been moved to draft space. There are approximately 3-4 remaining articles in main space. Many of the sources are not in English making it difficult to analyze the remaining articles and drafts. The user has repeatedly indicated on their talk page today they have permission to use this work, but no it seems unlikely that commercial travel guides would use a Creative Commons License. User remains active, and given the large number of copyright violations so far, some additional assistance is required from more experienced editors in this area to review the remaining contributions. Singularity42 (talk) 15:43, 6 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    Please tell me how I can provide you or the community with a response letter from permissions@wikimedia.org ?
    I can quote the response from the moderator who accepted my request:
    "Thank you for your permission to use media file(s) on Wikimedia Commons.
    For us to process your contribution(s), we need to know the specific name or URL of the page(s) on Wikimedia Commons to which you have uploaded them, or the user name used to upload.
    If you have not yet uploaded, please continue to upload the file(s) and let us know when done. When you reach the second page of Upload Wizard, you should select "This file is not my own work" (even if it is your own work) and put {{#invoke:Protection banner|main}} in the Source field to mark the file as awaiting processing.
    If the file(s) were deleted, please do not attempt to re-upload them; they will be automatically restored by an administrator upon successful confirmation of permission.
    Yours sincerely,
    Alfred Neumann"
    Before publishing the article, I insert the above transcription, but for some reason it does not appear in the English version of Wikipedia. In addition to the English Wikipedia, I also uploaded the Russian version. And in the Russian version everything goes with this transcription and the downloaded article comes out as follows:
    "A letter was sent to the VRTS system with permission to publish the contents of this page under a free license.
    To the uploader:
    Please specify the URL of this page in your letter to the VRTS system to facilitate its search (for more information, see VP:WELCOME).
    etc..." Turkupt13 (talk) 11:02, 7 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    @Turkupt13: You have obviously been told the wrong information. {{#invoke:Protection banner|main}} has absolutely nothing to do with marking a page as "awaiting processing". That module is for displaying the protection level of pages on wikipedia, and has no affiliation with copyright. I suggest you ask the VRTS again, informing them they have provided you with wrong information. Aidan9382 (talk) 13:51, 7 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    As a follow-up note: Please stop adding {{#invoke:Protection banner|main}} to pages. This causes them to appear in the Wikipedia pages with incorrect protection templates category as this usage of it is incorrect. Thanks. Aidan9382 (talk) 13:55, 7 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Ticket:2022052510001544 looks like it covers this. I haven't read it over fully yet (and so it hasn't been processed), but it looks good at a quick glance. VernoWhitney (talk) 20:26, 14 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    VernoWhitney, I've been through it, but I do not have access to deleted articles. If this user has copied from any of the 55 articles that have been released under a compatible license by Turkistan Tourism Centre, I don't see any problem with that. ─ The Aafī (talk) 16:33, 18 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    C.Fred I just see you've deleted Ancient city of Kultobe for copyright violation from turkistantravel website. Could you please restore it per what we have received in the ticket indicated above. Underground cave "Akmechet", Appak Ishan Architectural Complex, Domalak Ana Mausoleum, Mausoleum of Gaukhar Ana, Mausoleum of Rabiga Sultan Begim, Sacred Rocks Adam And Eve (Turkestan region), Mausoleum of Baidibek Bi, Ismail Ata Mausoleum and Sangyl Bi Mausoleum should all be restored as well. The text of these articles has been released under CC BY SA 3.0 and it is a compatible license with Wikipedia. The permission should be recorded on the talk pages. But in case any of these isn't notable, that can be straight away taken through AfD. Regards, ─ The Aafī (talk) 20:42, 19 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    Since I'm working on the VRTS ticket stated above, I've requested Liz to have a look at the deleted articles. Regards, ─ The Aafī (talk) 06:25, 24 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    Most of these articles have been restored in to draftspace and I believe the copyright check should be declined based on the VRT permissions. The contributor should however be warned that they should add content only if it is discussed in multiple reliable sources. ─ The Aafī (talk) 12:42, 25 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Turkupt13

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Psdubow

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Bicontinental

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Wongyanleigrace

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Gallom

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Manfered123

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Excreaxy

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I have flagged my copyright concerns on the user's Talk page. The user appears new to Wikipedia so may be unaware that copying images from the web may breach copyright. Paul W (talk) 13:09, 11 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

All images on Commons tagged as no permission. Closing as no action needed. MER-C 18:44, 15 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Marium (ILAE-WiR)

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Looked at their contributions made after the closure of the previous request. Quality seems to decrease and the extent of violations increase as time passes. CandyScythe (talk) 05:07, 26 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Indeffed. MER-C 16:19, 26 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
No further edits than those mentioned above. Will leave up so the unknowns get addressed. MER-C 18:44, 26 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Wikisearcher09

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Oatco There is obviously not enough edits to open a CCI here so I'm just going to list their edits and check them real quick. The4lines |||| (Talk) (Contributions) 06:13, 20 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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DantheWikipedian

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User has begun socking: Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/DantheWikipedian. No unreverted contributions to report, fortunately. MER-C 18:55, 29 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]


Victuallers

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  • Victuallers (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
  • Check requested by Fram (talk)
  • I recently saw a copyright violation (very close paraphrasing) by Victuallers while checking the New Pages feed, and draftified it to give them a chance to correct it. They reposted it multiple times to the mainspace and didn't give any indication of actually caring about this. See the "June 2023" section and Draft:Margaret Forrester (2) for the copyright issues. Many of the pages they create start out as an awkward jumble of sentences, but as the main source (ODNB) is usually paywalled, I can't check them for copyrvio / plagiarism. Their latest creation, Jane Burdett, again has close paraphrasing issues though, which leads me to believe that this is probably the case in many of their initial creations and likely in some of the end results as well.
  • Article: "shw was the only daughter of Elizabeth and William Francis of Foremark. Her mother's father was William Francis and she came from the Derbyshire village of Ticknall. of Foremark, near Repton, Derbyshire, and his wife, Elizabeth, daughter of William Francis of Ticknall. " (sic)
  • Source: "was the only daughter and heir of William Francis of Foremark, near Repton, Derbyshire, and his wife, Elizabeth, daughter of William Francis of Ticknall. "

Note how the part "of Foremark, near Repton, Derbyshire, and his wife, Elizabeth, daughter of William Francis of Ticknall." is an exact copy, but due to the cut-and-paste attempts to avoid longer copyvio results in an incomprehensible mess. Please, if you have access to ODNB and their other sources, check their article creations (from the start) against the sources, and make it clear that they should never use this method to create articles. Fram (talk) 14:43, 29 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for this. If anyone decides to follow this suggestion then I'd be pleased to help them. I'm very happy to help nearly anyone on this project. I am sorry that some of the evidence has now disappearred but it was clearly noted as a work in progress and things do change minute by minute. If you find this is all "an incomprehensible mess" then I could get one of the other editors to explain. Victuallers (talk) 15:02, 29 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
"A work in progress" is not an excuse to first post copyright violations only to get rid of them (hopefully) afterwards. "Temporary" copyvio is equally forbidden as permanent ones. An admin should know this. But if you don't see that the complete sentence "Her mother's father was William Francis and she came from the Derbyshire village of Ticknall. of Foremark, near Repton, Derbyshire, and his wife, Elizabeth, daughter of William Francis of Ticknall." is an incomprehensible mess, then perhaps copyvio isn't the only issue though. Fram (talk) 15:13, 29 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • See e.g. also Christine Nkulikiyinka, which was a barely acknowledged machine translation from de:Christine Nkulikiyinka (edit summary "new stub based on refs given, de:wiki version and wikidata - a work in progress", no talk page indication of origin of large parts of the text, typical machine translation issues like changing the original "und Jeanne d’Arc Mujawamariya" to "and Joan of Arc Mujawamariya" as if a first name should be translated here.) Fram (talk) 15:27, 29 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Just noting I’ve seen this. @Fram, would you happen to have access to the ODNB through The Wikipedia Library? Moneytrees🏝️(Talk) 15:52, 29 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for pointing that out Moneytrees. I think that the proposer of this is hoping that someone else will complete this investigation (given the wide ranging examples they have discovered). The ODNB is not behind a paywall to editors in good standing. I'm willing to help any editor who wants to have a look at this, if they think its a good use of their time. Victuallers (talk) 22:56, 29 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
What "the proposer" is hoping for is that you will change your approach to editing, stop writing articles by copying text into your editor and then start rehuffling / minimally rewriting it, and instead read the sources and then write a summary completely in your own words. What the proposer also hoeps is that if you copy text from other articles, you give proper attribution. What the proposer hopes as well is that if you translate articles, you give proper attribution and stop using machine translations. Finally, what the OP hopes for is that you would rectify the issues (e.g. with attribution), indicate which of your articles may have similar problems, and actually help here instead of just doing some vague handwaving. But the most important of all of these is that we get some indication that you really understand the issues with these edits, and that you will stop doing these things in the future. Fram (talk) 08:25, 30 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Hard to tell what is worse though, the copyright violations when you copy or paraphrase the sources, or the results when you do try to write it in your own words. Turning the source "In May 1779 a caravan from Suez to Cairo was attacked; some merchants died, others were imprisoned. In July Baldwin became a hostage or 'prisoner at large' to secure their release. In November he escaped and reached Izmir." into "One of his caravans had been attacked in 1779 and he had left the resulting problems when he arrived in Izmir." is changing a logical narrative into something weird. Fram (talk) 14:41, 5 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I'm declining this at this time. I haven't found anything further after spot-checking a few other articles so it looks like the copyright issues are thankfully the exception rather than the rule here. That being said, I do hope Victuallers will take what's said to heart and make sure that copyright issues aren't added under the guise of a WIP to begin with as that still counts as being a problem, and I'm hoping that more aren't found down the road which would result in an opening. Wizardman 22:03, 6 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

DanThatMan1899

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A more systematic check of contrib history may be needed. — 2406:3003:2077:1E60:66FC:6E56:8B75:6C10 (talk) 09:40, 4 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
The pattern of close paraphrasing continues at Johnny Russell (footballer):

Russell’s parents decided to turn their passions outward. With both of them becoming a banker, before his mother became a full-time caretaker for Johnny and his three younger siblings. His father still chose to keep helping people optimize their money.

compare with source text:

Both of Russell’s parents turned their passions outward. Each became a banker, before his mother became a full-time caretaker for Johnny and his three younger siblings. His father remained, specializing in helping people optimize their money and finding a way out of debt.

In case the cv-revdel of previous examples is an impediment here, I'm leaving this latest example intact. —2406:3003:2077:1E60:42AB:CB22:7D24:17A8 (talk) 14:05, 9 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Indeffed. MER-C 10:30, 14 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]


A. J. Adamson

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