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This page is for listing and discussingpossible copyright problems involvingtext on Wikipedia. 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, rewrite infringing content, orrequest copyright permission.
Listed pages appear in the bottom section of the page. For additional guidance, seebelow.
To add a new listing, go totoday's section.
Copyright problems handles articles where the copyright status is disputed or complex cases of infringement. You should list an article if one of the following applies:
If the article needs to be listed,
{{subst:copyvio|url=insert URL here}}{{subst:copyvio|identify non-web source here}}{{subst:Copyvio/bottom}} below the last infringing text.Put the page's name in place of"PageName". If you do not have a URL, enter a description of the source. A pre-filled version can be copied from the top of the copyvio template after substituting it. If yours is the first listing of the day, please add a header to the top of the page, using the page for another date as an example.
{{subst:article-cv|PageName}}from [insert URL or identify non-web source here] ~~~~
{{Copyvio-revdel|url=copied source|start=diff of copyvio insertion|end=diff before copyvio removal}} on the article afterwards and warn the contributor of the material to the problem, unlessadvised not to. The template{{Uw-copyright}} may be used for this purpose.{{Copyvio-revdel|url=copied source|start=diff of copyvio insertion|end=diff before copyvio removal}} on the article.Under the United States law that governs Wikipedia,copyright is automatically assumed as soon as any content (text or other media) is created in aphysical form. An author does not need to apply for or claim copyright, for a copyright to exist. One of the following must be present to reuse the content on Wikipedia:
If none of the above are present,the text cannot be reused.
Even when the textcan be reused, it must be attributed or it will be considered asplagiarism.
Any contributor is welcome to help investigate articles listed for copyright concerns, although only administrators, copyright clerks, andVRT agents should remove{{copyvio}} tags and resolve listings. Copyright problems is run by volunteers and it usually takes a few days before listings are first investigated.
You can assist in the following ways:
Not every article listed here has copyright infringement. The content may beon Wikipedia first, public domain, compatibly licensed, or below thethreshold of originality. Editors can provide information about licensing or public domain status under listings here or on the talk page of the article. A link or a clear explanation is very helpful when a clerk or administrator evaluates the article. It may take a few days 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 here.
Sometimes material was placed on Wikipedia with the permission of the copyright owner. The owner may be willing to give permission and proper license. 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!). SeeWikipedia:Example requests for permission. If a compatible license is placed online at the point of original publication, please provide a link to that under the listing.
More details about the permissions process can be seenbelow and atWikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials.
If an article verifiably has copyvio, it is best to remove the content. However, any contributor may rewrite removed text. If the article is blanked, the rewrite takes place atTalk:PAGENAME/Temp so that the new material can be copied over the old. The listing will link to the specific temporary page. You can directly rewrite on articles tagged for{{close paraphrasing}} or{{copy-paste}}, and remove the tags when the rewrite is complete.
The article should not be copied over without first removing copied content. Other content from the article can be used, if there is no reason to believe that it may be a copyright issue as well. If the content is copied from an inaccessible source like a book or cannot be verified, pleaseremove all text added by the contributor.If you copy any text from the old article, please leave a note on the listing or in your edit summaries of the rewrite. Reviewing clerks or administrators will then preserve the history of the old article.
Please reviewWikipedia:Copy-paste and its linked guidelines as necessary to ensure the rewrite is compliant with policy. Repairingcompatible copying issues is usually as simple as supplying proper attribution.
If you submitted work to Wikipedia which you had previously published and your submission was marked as a potential infringement of copyright, you must do one of the following to resolve the problem:
See alsoWikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials.
Letters and emails may take some time 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 email 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.
Please keep in mind that content previously published elsewheremay not meet Wikipedia's specific guidelines and policies. If you are not familiar with these policies and guidelines, please review especiallythe 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 seeabove.
For a more complete description of clerks and their duties, as well as a list of active clerks, please seeWikipedia:Copyright problems/Clerks.
Copyright clerks are experienced editors on Wikipedia, especially with copyright policies and their enforcement. On this board, they are trusted to evaluate and close listings and request administrative actions when necessary. Clerks are periodically reviewed by other clerks and patrolling administrators.
For a more complete description of administrators on Wikipedia, please seeWikipedia:Administrators.
Any administrator may work the copyright problems board. This may involve evaluating listings personally or completing evaluations by clerks. Clerks are trusted 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.
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 of7 days before being processed. VRT agents may close listings at any time.
For advice for resolving listings, see:
{{CPC}} may be used to denote resolutions of listings by administrators, clerks and VRT agents.
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Not revdeled, too small.MER-C19:21, 25 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement.Cremastratalk20:17, 15 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement.Whpq (talk)02:41, 7 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
No copyright concern. Material is PD, license compatible, or ineligible for copyright protection.MER-C15:14, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]This takes the backlog to below five years.MER-C18:56, 8 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement.MER-C15:52, 27 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement.MER-C17:03, 23 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Article deleted due to copyright concerns.MER-C18:50, 7 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement.MER-C10:46, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]Pilar College(history ·last edit ·rewrite) fromhttps://www.facebook.com/groups/47628024129/about.Aristorkle (talk)13:12, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement.MER-C10:30, 8 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]Article deleted due to copyright concerns.Whpq (talk)13:44, 31 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]My recent edits to this page have been tagged for copy violation. Please note
(1) All I did was add references to the existing article text which existed prior to the last redirect (done for lack of references). Earlier edits also containing this material, going back several years, have not been so marked.
(2)The copyright date on the Tumblr post dates from 2017. Text broadly similar to both the post and the most recent text appears inthis article version from January 2015. Therefore it appears the Tumblr post is a plagiarism of Wikipedia, NOT the other way around.
I have posted to the talk page ofOnel5969 who tagged the page for copyvio to alert them to this but they have apparently ignored my post (continued with other edits since I posted).Romomusicfan (talk)02:56, 20 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Done All sorted out by consensus now.Romomusicfan (talk)22:43, 20 April 2025 (UTC)[reply] Done Removed/reworked all copyvio material that I could find myself.Spookyaki (talk)16:47, 21 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. —Diannaa 🍁 (talk)18:18, 17 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]Article deleted due to copyright concerns.Moneytrees🏝️(Talk)01:34, 28 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]The original edit that added this reference and most of the section text was a straight copy-pastehttps://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dimethyl_terephthalate&diff=prev&oldid=649923786 ; it's been modified very slightly since then but still has lots of identical text. Although the original page is apparently dead I suspect it still qualifies as copyrighted material (I didn't investigate whether the link was dead due to the whole site being down or because the company decided to switch to some new blogging software and break all their links as most companies seem massively fond of doing every 6 months.) Either way it shouldn't matter.A Shortfall Of Gravitas (talk)01:54, 16 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Article deleted due to copyright concerns.MER-C18:21, 6 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]Article deleted due to copyright concerns.MER-C10:21, 23 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]Article deleted due to copyright concerns.MER-C19:02, 25 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]If I read the page history correctly, I'm pretty surethat document copied the first line of its only substantial paragraph (it's just a vague product description document with no references) from the original version of the wikipedia article, which may or may not have copied it directly from the EPA report (currently a broken link to Cornell's website for some godawful reason), making this an exciting circular copyright violation. To confuse matters the person who added it has the username TOKU-E EU so they may have had the rights to the material that wasn't copied, but the information isn't really suitable as a reference. The account in question appears to have registered in 2012, linked to a bunch of their new company's PDFs across a series of antibiotic and herbicide pages which were all products they carried, and hasn't been back since. I'm guessing it was done entirely to attempt to increase google search rankings.A Shortfall Of Gravitas (talk)00:10, 30 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The entirety ofBuddhism in the Netherlands seems to be paraphrased from Janssen's paper, even the structure is the same. How much of the article needs to be amended so that it's no longer a copyvio? There is a lot of information in the article that seems to only be traced back to Janssen's paper. Would this all need to be removed or would citing Janssen's paper in multiple locations suffice?Katiedevi (talk)20:37, 8 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
that 10 years a similar("ago" is missing) copied verbatim from the source.Boud (talk)12:54, 24 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Youth representation and activity was also sited to be a notable achievementof the original sentence
Youth delegate representation and activity was also sited to be a notable achievement of this year's IGFthat includes the original error "sited" for "cited".Boud (talk)13:08, 24 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
No copyright concern. Material is PD, license compatible, or ineligible for copyright protection. The editor now tells me that the content was copied/translated from the Wikipedia page atfr:Temple d'Amon (Siwa). —Diannaa 🍁 (talk)20:01, 26 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]New listings are made on daily reports transcluded on this page and are not directly added to it. To add a new listing, please go totoday's section. Instructions for adding new listings can be found atWhat to list here. Editors may resolve issues with listings at any time, save for presumptive deletion. Seethe section on responding for more information.
DinhHuy2010(talk ·contribs ·logs ·rights ·email ·sandbox ·links to user page ·global contribs)02:51, 10 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Added in 2009by an IP editor (diff). I don't think notifying that inactive editor is necessary, is it?George Ho (talk)22:35, 10 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2025 July 16
Wikipedia's current date is16 July 2025. Put new article listings inWikipedia:Copyright problems/2025 July 16. Files should be handled byspeedy deletion orWikipedia:Files for discussion.
