MyWiki:Copyright problems/2010 January 12

12 January 2010

Pending closure

• Frances Anne Vane, Marchioness of Londonderry (history · last edit) from ODNB, The ladies of Londonderry: women and political patronage, possibly other sources. See talk. Same contributor as above. Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 17:53, 12 January 2010 (UTC)

• I'd like to leave this one open pending resolution of the ANI thread. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 13:40, 20 January 2010 (UTC)

• File:Pictogram voting delete.svg Copyright concerns remain. Article deleted, left CUP notice. --MLauba (talk) 11:55, 21 January 2010 (UTC)

• Little Mack Simmons (history · last edit) from http://www.electrofi.com/mackbio.htm. (CCI, foundational) Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 19:16, 12 January 2010 (UTC)

• File:Pictogram voting keep.svg Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --MLauba (talk) 11:55, 21 January 2010 (UTC)

• Lil' Ed Williams (history · last edit) from http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:gjfoxqu5ld0e~T1. Some rewriting, but retains some of the language & structure of original. Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 19:21, 12 January 2010 (UTC)

• Relisting, cleanup team has not yet had time to begin working on this one. MLauba (talk) 12:29, 21 January 2010 (UTC)

• The Ladybirds (history · last edit) (url not detected). Nomination completed by DumbBOT (talk) 00:17, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

• File:Pictogram voting keep.svg Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --MLauba (talk) 12:41, 21 January 2010 (UTC)

All reviewed, including SCV

Suspected copyright violations (CorenSearchBot reports)

SCV for 2010-01-12 Edit {{Wikipedia:Suspected copyright violations/2010-01-12 }}

Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)

• Sarath N. Silva (history · last edit) from here Chanaka L (talk) 03:10, 12 January 2010 (UTC)

• File:Pictogram voting keep.svg Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Tagged section predates source, absent an older text, not directly actionable. However, other portions of the article were at issue. Also has potential BLP issues - reported at WP:BLPN --MLauba (talk) 12:09, 20 January 2010 (UTC)

• Imaam al-Aajurree (history · last edit) from http://www.sahihalbukhari.com/sps/sp.cfm?subsecID=SRH04&articleID=SRH040001&articlePages=1. Supertouch (talk) 03:43, 12 January 2010 (UTC)

• File:Pictogram voting delete.svg Copyright concerns remain. Article deleted, left CUP notice. --MLauba (talk) 12:20, 20 January 2010 (UTC)

• George Cockburn (British Army officer) (see listing for Henry Curtis-Bennett, below) --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 17:33, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
• Reader Bullard (see listing for Henry Curtis-Bennett, below) --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 17:33, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
• Henry Curtis-Bennett (history · last edit) from [1]. This is the third article I have come across created by User:Craigy144 that contains material far too close to the subscription site of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB). The other two are Reader Bullard, and George Cockburn (British Army officer). The Cockburn article can and should be replaced by text from the public domain Dictionary of National Biography (DNB). Those latter two carry the template claiming their text comes from the DNB, which would be OK; but that template is misleading. I found them while trying to reference such articles created from DNB text; the Curtis-Bennett article I found by going looking for articles created by this editor in 2008. I don't know how much more there is of similar creations from the ODNB pages, which are definitely copyright. Charles Matthews (talk) 20:06, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

• I am investigating this, and have relisted to make sure it doesn't drop off the radar. I'll blank the articles as necessary pending resolution. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 13:14, 12 January 2010 (UTC)

• I asked another contributor who has access to the source to compare George Cockburn (British Army officer) and Henry Curtis-Bennett, and he agrees that the material is closely paraphrased enough to constitute a copyright infringement. Accordingly, I am blanking and will try to discern if a contributor copyright investigation is necessary. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 17:23, 12 January 2010 (UTC)

• Hylton Castle (steamship) (history · last edit) from http://books.google.com/books?id=ierz4hCNg4MC&pg=PA57&dq=The+crew+abandoned+her+into+two+life+boats+with+one+containing+nine+men+and+the+other+13&client=firefox-a&cd=3#v=onepage&q=The%20crew%20abandoned%20her%20into%20two%20life%20boats%20with%20one%20containing%20nine%20men%20and%20the%20other%2013&f=false. (Same contributor as directly above.) Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 17:40, 12 January 2010 (UTC)

• Project management office from [2] and possibly [3] though this could be the other way around. At least some of the content, if googled, directs to the referenced book though I'm not sure how much of the article is lifted straight from other sources. 209.128.29.254 (talk) 14:25, 12 January 2010 (UTC)

A very large chunk of the article was added a few days ago; several parts of it are clearly lifted directly from the book you pointed to. I'm not sure the "how to" material was even appropriate for the article. I'll leave the editor a warning, and google spot check the rest of the article. Kuru (talk) 18:40, 12 January 2010 (UTC)

May need a second opinion. My first chunk of text to verify was the "The PMO strives to standardize and introduce economies of repetition in the execution of projects" chestnut which has existed in the article since 2005. Quite a few hits come up, but most credit wikipedia as a source; many do not and some are recent published works. I could find nothing that predates the wikipedia article, so it seems like the text is not a copyvio? Here's the search: [4].

Wikimirrors are the bane of the copyright checker's existence. :) I'll take a look and see what I find. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 14:09, 20 January 2010 (UTC)

Green tickY I think you got it all. It's hard to tell, though, when even books seem to copy from Wikipedia (2008 publication clearly postdates the 2005 text.) :/ --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 14:16, 20 January 2010 (UTC)

• Joe Pullum (history · last edit) from The Blues: from Robert Johnson to Robert Cray (see [1]), possibly other sources. (CCI) Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 18:03, 12 January 2010 (UTC)

• Green tickY Already closed out by User:Frank. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 14:01, 20 January 2010 (UTC)

• Frank Chacksfield (history · last edit) from http://www.rfsoc.org.uk/fchacksfield.shtml (foundational; not related to CCI). Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 18:38, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
• Sherman Robertson (history · last edit) from http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&searchlink=SHERMAN. (CCI) Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 19:27, 12 January 2010 (UTC)

• Green tickY Already closed out by User:Frank. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 14:04, 20 January 2010 (UTC)

• Benito Juárez (municipality of Tlaxcala) (history · last edit) from [5]. Nomination completed by DumbBOT (talk) 00:17, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

• File:Pictogram voting support.svg No copyright concern. Material PD or appropriately licensed for use. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 13:30, 20 January 2010 (UTC)

• The Atlantis Revelation (history · last edit) from [6]. Nomination completed by DumbBOT (talk) 00:17, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

• File:Pictogram voting keep.svg Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 13:23, 20 January 2010 (UTC)