Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2011 November 11

11 November 2011

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Angie Hubbard (history · last edit) from http://www.soapcentral.com/amc/whoswho/angie.php. Gh87 (talk) 02:19, 11 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 01:43, 20 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Marwat (history · last edit) from http://www.khyber.org/pashtoplaces/lakkimarwat2.shtml. This article Marwat is a word by word plagiarism from a famous website www.khyber.org (exact source given) except the portion in which certain names of notables have been given. I had tried to point out this issue even earlier on but nobody bothered at Wikipedia. Even the person had plagiarized the same sources that have been provided at that article. All of such portion should immediately be removed as per Wikipedia Policy --Arbab Shahinshah (talk) 08:32, 11 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Purged. Copyright problem removed from history. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 02:08, 20 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Fault-tolerant messaging (history · last edit) from [1] . $Tony (talk)$ 08:56, 11 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It looks like the text was imported from a GFDL source before November 2008, which appears to mean it is acceptable for our purposes. The article's author also claims to have sent permissions to OTRS some years ago: Talk:Fault-tolerant messaging. --Mkativerata (talk) 03:58, 20 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
No copyright concern. Material PD or appropriately licensed for use. Added attribution. Thanks. :) --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 20:55, 20 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Purged. Copyright problem removed from history. --Mkativerata (talk) 04:08, 20 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

J. Edgar (history · last edit) from http://www.movieinsider.com/movies/november/2011/9/. Elizium23 (talk) 14:05, 11 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --Mkativerata (talk) 04:11, 20 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Offending content removed by another editor. Too many intervening edits to delete the revisions. --Mkativerata (talk) 04:11, 20 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Core synchronism (history · last edit) from http://nmsnt.org/about-the-school/curriculum/introduction-to-core-synchronism. —Chris Capoccia ^T⁄_C 14:43, 11 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --Mkativerata (talk) 04:17, 20 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Vera Bate Lombardi (history · last edit) from http://www.scribd.com/doc/62494723/THE-FIRST-BIOGRAPHY-OF-THE-LIFE-OF-VERA-BATE-LOMBARDI. Colonies Chris (talk) 17:22, 11 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

What a mess! The scribd source has all the hallmarks of a wikipedia mirror: it's full of wikilinks and is laid out like a wikipedia article. It is also dated February 2010, a month after our article was created. In February 2010, our article looked much like the scribd source. So I reckon scribd is a copy of us. But, where on earth does our article come from? This was the first version. It is full of unformatted footnotes, suggesting it might have been copied from another wikipedia article. But I can't find the likely origin. This provides a limited explanation: it is dated 2008 and contains some (but not all) of the same phrases, such as "indomitable combination of beauty". But our article is clearly not a direct copy from there. The fact that our article, and that source, were probably written by the same person makes it all the more messy. I have a feeling the answer might lie in the hyperlink on this page to "Vera Bate Lombardi Biography". But it's password-protected. I'm stumped. --Mkativerata (talk) 04:34, 20 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. First time this happened to me, a bureaucrat pointed out the "when in doubt" provision of WP:C. Since there's good reason to fear copying, I've rewritten the article. I've learned a lot about Vera Bate Lombardi and Coco Chanel in the process. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 23:35, 20 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

User:Sucdum/Mr. Dawda (history · last edit) from The text was lifted was from a Kenya Times article which is not online anymore. The article's summary is still found here. Addendum: I've just realized that the page User:Sucdum/House Of Dawda Group is basically identical and it should also be deleted. Pichpich (talk) 18:27, 11 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
David Vickers (history · last edit) from http://www.soapcentral.com/oltl/whoswho/davidv.php. It is the male human character, NOT the female dog! Gh87 (talk) 21:05, 11 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --Mkativerata (talk) 01:48, 21 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Still deleting revisions? --George Ho (talk) 01:52, 21 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

In this case, it's pretty much impossible to delete the revisions without also deleting records and attribution of substantial and clean contributions by others. --Mkativerata (talk) 01:53, 21 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

(←) I have added RD1 request. However, I have used the one revision ago as the end, and it would take a lot of effort to search. Reply if you can. --George Ho (talk) 02:00, 21 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The problem is we would need to wipe four years worth of revisions. While that would successfully purge the article of copyvios, it would also remove attribution for a whole range of clean contributions made during that four year period. So while we would remove one copyright problem, we would create another, because we'd no longer be giving proper attribution to our authors. That's why we can't use RD1 in cases like this. RD1 says "If redacting a revision would remove any contributor's attribution, this criterion can not be used." --Mkativerata (talk) 06:55, 21 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Shahdaei paradox (history · last edit) from multiple sources. Nominated on behalf of User:Monty845. Jezhotwells (talk) 17:07, 12 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I have removed the copy-vios found by User:Monty845, but others may remain. Jezhotwells (talk) 14:03, 13 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

All relisted under today pending outcome of AFD. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 02:11, 20 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]