Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2008 July 8/Articles

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ORPHEUS: Organisation for PhD Education in Biomedicine and Health Sciences in the European System (history · last edit) from [1], [2], possibly other pages were dumped in making this one. NanohaA'sYuri^{Talk, My master} 20:48, 8 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Nytro Game Engine (history · last edit) from [3]. Clearly copied, but permission is asserted on the talk page. SCZenz (talk) 18:01, 8 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Hearts of Fencing (history · last edit) from [4]. Silver Edge (talk) 03:05, 8 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

InFamous (history · last edit) from Game Informer Magazine July 2008 Issue. (Section) Jack Zhang (talk) 03:32, 8 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Gaza beach blast (2006) (history · last edit) from [5]. Question relating to quotes in sources and copyright, applicability of WP:COPYVIO. Dicussion here, comments appreciated. pedrito - talk - 08.07.2008 09:10
Ελευθερούπολη (history · last edit) from [6]. Andreas ^(T) 13:46, 8 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Battle of Graignes (history · last edit) - User:Dalta Complies with a number of things in that guys guide to identifying copyright violation.
Dobroslavtsi Air Base (history · last edit) from [7]. Needs checking by a Bulgarian speaker, but appears to be a virtual word-for-word translation (which, as far as I'm aware, makes it a copyvio) of this article which was listed as a reference. OpenToppedBus - Talk to the driver 15:39, 8 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Pteridomania (history · last edit) from [8]. Came to artcle through report at Wikipedia:Suspected copyright violations. Original 52.6% of the article comes from direct quotes from Peter Boyd's page, while much of the rest is paraphrased from the same site. I attempted to correct this excessive use of quote material by removing it, but creating author feels it is justified and does not agree that it is a copyright violation. After he reverted the removal a third time, decided it was best to just report it and let others chime in. Last revert he claimed to shorten the quotes[9] but they still make up a significant portion of the article. -- [[::User:Collectonian|Collectonian]] ([[::User talk:Collectonian|talk]] · [[::Special:Contributions/Collectonian|contribs]]) 21:14, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

Speedy remove copyright tag - The article version in question is here (Revision as of 17:32, 8 July 2008). The 17:32 revision contained three quotes. The first quote (beginning with "Your daughters") was from 1855 and unlikely to be copyrighted anywhere. The percentage of potential copyright problem material was about 21% (= 1,464 characters/6,897 characters). The second quote (beginning with "The Victorians") and the third quote (beginning with "Ferns could be") was from peterboyd.com (Peter Boyd's personal website) and likely not a Wikipedia reliable source. I think using Boyd's web summary of his own writing raises Wikipedia reliable source issues. Information from the second and third quote should have been sourced directly to one of Boyd's many publications, including BOYD, P.D.A. 1993(a). Pteridomania - the Victorian passion for ferns. Antique Collecting 28, 6, 9-12. As I see it, the first quote wasn't copyrighted material, the information from the second and third quote very likely could have been sourced to one of Boyd's many publications, paraphrasing didn't contribute to any copyright problem, an experienced editor was working on the article, and the editor was in the process of addressing the raised copyright issues (not merely reverting). Tagging the article as having copyright problems seems overreactive. If there was a need, the article could have been protected and the discussion continued on the article talk page. In any event, the copyright tag should be removed and the matter handled differently. GregManninLB (talk) 23:52, 8 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy remove copyright tag per above. - House of Scandal (talk) 02:53, 9 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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