Wikipedia:Copyright problems/Without online source

Suspected copyright infringements without online source

These need a thorough check for online sources, and if none are found, a check for offline sources.

Listed by User:Denni on VfD: The articles Sardinian (horse), Salerno (horse), Pleven (horse), and Russian Trotter were all posted within seven minutes of one another. They show remarkable consistency in format, almost as if they had been taken from a book on horses. A Google search for copyvio does not turn up any hits, which shows only that if these are copyvios, they are not from web resources. - Mike Rosoft 17:47, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- The uploader claims he reworded (in his own words) the text from a book. He didn't answer a follow-up question about which books. I'm very suspicious, but without evidence of a copyvio, I think we have to give him the benefit of the doubt. – Quadell ^{(talk) (bounties)} 18:19, 17 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  - If we don't know which book, then that may be legal, but is certainly plagiaristic and should really be enough to feel encouraged to delete in any case since having such pages makes Wikipedia a worse encyclopedia than not having it. Mozzerati 20:51, 18 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Jacobo Arenas - This article appears to be a direct copy & paste of some (offline?) source(s), though I don't know for sure what would be the specific URL/source employed in the process.Juancarlos2004 2 July 2005 00:56 (UTC)

Additionally, the user responsible for this suspected copyvio is also behind a proven copyvio in the Manuel Marulanda article.Juancarlos2004 2 July 2005 00:55 (UTC)

Pentecostal Assemblies of the World - article was created fully formed (check the second edit on the history). Looks suspiciously like something you'd find in a leaflet or a web page. Google couldn't find the original. See also Wikipedia:Votes for undeletion#Pentecostal Assemblies of the World. --cesarb 5 July 2005 16:06 (UTC)

Mary Wollstonecraft (Marriage section) "cribbed" (the original editor's characterization) from an episode of Simon Schama's History of Britain. See Wollstonecraft's Talk page for more details. (This item has also been discussed below in July 9th New Listings.) -Cate8 04:36, July 15, 2005 (UTC)

Donald Neilson - I haven't tagged it because I'm unsure, but it looks just a bit too polished: nothing online, but it has a crime magazine flavour to it. Tearlach 02:29, 26 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Pletal - At least the dosage information looks like it came directly from the drug manufacturer. --cesarb 00:42, 29 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Majeed Amjad — Strange first-person tone, created fully formed, sole author (FactFinder (talk · contribs)) has history of copyvios (check his user talk page). Could not find online sources on google. --cesarb 17:54, 6 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Ty Pennington - the second half of the article must be a copyvio (it sounds like a Sears ad), but I can't find from where. RADICALBENDER★ 23:41, August 21, 2005 (UTC)
- I believe it was based off this, but it looks like almost all of it has been put into the new author's own words, although a few word strings are the same. -- Kjkolb 12:26, 13 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Geographical Fugue (no URL). The author died in 1964, so this work is almost certainly still under copyright. Andy Mabbett 13:52, 17 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Control of Legionella -- Source unknown, but copied from either a text book or essay. (Not all text is relevant to subject either) Stamford spiney 14:27, 30 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
- Don't know what to do with this. -Splash 19:51, 13 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Moro Crater massacre says that it was copied from a book, though it may be out of copyright. There was an online source which was taken down because of copyright problems. Even if it is not copyrighted, I'm not sure that the content is appropriate for Wikipedia (the event itself is). Perhaps it belongs in one of the other wikimedia projects. -- Kjkolb 05:43, 24 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Winslow Hall (from September 8 2005 listings).
- Talk: page claims likely to be offline source -Splash^talk 04:31, 25 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Battle of Tunis (history · last edit) This content appears to be taken from a test, or from a book passage made into a test because there are blank lines where names should be. -- Kjkolb 12:26, 13 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Roman infantry tactics,strategy and battle formations (history · last edit) Appears to be a scan of a book, based on style and typos ("common and powerfula pf heavy infantry", etc.) --A D Monroe III 00:36, 18 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
- Please go to the page and read the talk section. It is written by someone in the Wikipedia, who does not speak english so well but who is an expert on this stuff.--Msoos 08:20, 18 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Rev George Bourne (1780-1845) is very suspicious. It is an extremely long article created in a single post and is completely unlinked. There are lots of quotations, but it's not always clear if a person is being quoted or if the poster is attributing the text to someone else. -- Kjkolb 11:37, 19 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
The Sign and the Seal (history · last edit) seems to be an opinion piece by Gil Kezwer, but searching on Google yields nothing (see talk:The Sign and the Seal for more information). Wikiacc (talk) 20:16, 21 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not sure about these, but they're awfully suspect. Ahmad ibn Tulun (history · last edit) and Mosque of Amr (history · last edit). Both by the same author. Both had "By A.I MAKKI" at the top of the article. I was unable to locate online sources for either of these articles, but searching for "By A.I MAKKI" returns a ton of hits, such as [1] and [2], suggesting that the legitimate author is a writer somewhere, and that these works are copied. I didn't place the copyvio notice on the pages since I can't find a source, but if anyone else is able to come up with anything, feel free to add the notice. —Brim
Asteroid M. All this user's other articles were direct lifts from other sites (listed in Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2005_November_16), but he hasn't given a source for this one. No reason to think it's not another lift from somewhere though. - SoM 14:04, 16 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Kindred (poem) (history · last edit) Presumably the title poem from Ruth Bidgood's poetry book of that name. --Carnildo 20:35, 11 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Atchuvely - created in one edit by User:Surbit100 who has no other edits (and didn't reply to my question about the text's source). Has "By Phillip Jeganathan" at its top. - Mike Rosoft 23:54, 18 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Athletic pubalgia (history · last edit) from [printed source given in article]. FreplySpang (talk) 21:49, 1 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

specifically, The 'Sports Hernia': A Common Cause of Groin Pain Simon Kemp, MB, BS; Mark E. Batt, MB, BChir THE PHYSICIAN AND SPORTSMEDICINE - VOL 26 - NO. 1 - JANUARY 98) FreplySpang (talk) 21:51, 1 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

this edit to Godspell. All of the anon's other contributions are copyvios (which I've reverted). I can't find an online source for this one, but I'm pretty sure it is a copyvio. I'd put it up in the no-online-source section, but the instructions say enter it here, so I'm doing that. JesseW, the juggling janitor 05:23, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

Mess Hall (history · last edit)

End of the world (philosophy) (history · last edit) from [The End of the World: The Science and Ethics of Human Extinction by John Leslie]. MSTCrow 08:29, 7 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Bikaner (princely state) (history · last edit)
- Appears text may have been taken directly from book quoted. Article was created with copyvio tag on it? .:.Jareth.:. ^babelfish 15:56, 4 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Intrinsic racism

Found. According to number of websites, all but the first sentence comes from Mirror for Humanity, Conrad P. Kottak, Boston: The McGraw-Hill Companies, 2005. 66-68 (see Google}. Tearlach 19:53, 6 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Castle of Seven Towers (history · last edit) from Travels of M. Ponqueville by Ponquvelle the traveller. Kerowyn 01:55, 31 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Top 1000 Scientists: From the Beginning of Time to 2000 AD Created by anon User_talk:202.138.112.252 who signs as JK. Some discussion re: copyright on the talk page and User_talk:Qaz#TOP_SCIENTISTS. This is just a "list of XYZ" taken directly from the book.

I don't know if it matters or not, and I don't have the book to see whether that claim is true or not, but according to those discussions, the bare list itself did not appear as such in the book but rather was extracted from the likely alphabetical series of bios on each scientist. Gene Nygaard 10:40, 8 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Please see also Wiki Books "Top 1000 Scientists from the begining of time to 2000 AD by Philip Barker".--Colin Harkness 16:54, 8 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Culture History of the San Francisco Bay and the Central Coast - obvious copy and paste, but I can't find the source online. -- Kjkolb 06:53, 2 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
CBS Morning News (history · last edit) from [3]. Mrschimpf 06:36, 21 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
John Surratt. I'm positive this is a copyvio, but cannot find an online source. See the first edit. --F a ng Aili 20:57, 16 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]