 | This article or sectionmay have beencopied and pasted from another location,possibly in violation ofWikipedia's copyright policy. Please review the source andremedy this by editing this article to remove any non-free copyrighted content and attributing free content correctly, or flagging the content for deletion. Please be sure that the supposed source of the copyright violation is not itself aWikipedia mirror.(April 2025) |
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This template will add tagged articles toCategory:Copied and pasted articles and sections. If you have strong reason to believe that the source material is copyrighted, please instead follow the procedure atWikipedia:Copyright problems.
To place this template, simply add{{Copypaste}} to the top of the suspect article or section. You may optionally include 3 arguments – one showing the date the tag was added, a second specifying whether it is an entire article or just a section that is suspect, and a third linking to the url you believe contains the original text.
For example:
{{Copypaste|section|url=https://example.org|date=April 2025}} produces: | This sectionmay have beencopied and pasted from another location,possibly in violation ofWikipedia's copyright policy. Please reviewhttps://example.org (Copyvios) andremedy this by editing this article to remove any non-free copyrighted content and attributing free content correctly, or flagging the content for deletion. Please be sure that the supposed source of the copyright violation is not itself aWikipedia mirror.(April 2025) |
|date=: the date the tag was added|url=: the URL believed to contain the original text|1= (or an empty parameter): text to replace the word "article", usually "section"{{Plagiarized}}TemplateData for Copypaste
Use this template to indicate that an article may be substantially copied and pasted from another location, possibly in violation of Wikipedia's copyright policy.
| Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month and year | date | Month and year of tagging; e.g., 'January 2013', but not 'jan13'
| String | suggested |
| URL | url | The URL believed to contain the original text
| String | suggested |
| Type (e.g., section) | 1 | Text to replace the word "article", usually "section"
| String | optional |