Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2011 October 11

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Folk customs of Taiwan (history · last edit) from http://taiwanpedia.culture.tw/web/content?ID=2164/.
The Wikipedia contribution is a translation of Chinese text from Taiwanpedia into English. The Taiwanpedia entry states that it is copyright by the CCA (Council for Cultural Affairs) and that all rights are reserved. Melchoir (talk) 09:02, 11 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! Google translate was enough to help me work out that translation is literal, but I'd have gotten nowhere without your thorough report! --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 19:57, 22 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Energy efficiency gap I have serious concerns about this article, but cannot find exact sources. However, it seems to have come in, in large chunks (including the original large chunk, from a new user with only this article in his/her contributions. Going through the history of the article; see diff here - the references (complete with their original numbers) are being pasted in, not in the original order, from some previous work, somewhere. Google books, scholar, web, are not finding exact phrase matches. My alarm bells are ringing and my neck-hairs are prickling - where did these (already numbered) references come from? Pesky (talk …stalk!) 10:32, 11 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I don't find a source either, so there's nothing we can really do. I've put the {{cv-unsure}} on the article talk page, since that's typically where it's placed. They do work long-term. I just blanked an article for which a source was found, three years after the CV unsure tag was placed! --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 20:02, 22 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 20:19, 22 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

If we can't verify it's PD, we can't keep it. :/ --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 20:20, 22 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Anietie isong (history · last edit) from www.afh.org.za/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=322&Itemid=148. Peter E. James (talk) 20:16, 11 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 20:52, 22 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Arnaud de Cervole : I am concerned that this article has close paraphrase issues with the corresponding entry in John Wagner's Encyclopedia of the Hundred Years War here. [1] I have placed a note on the article talkpage suggesting possible remediesMonstrelet (talk) 17:01, 11 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Can anybody else see this book? Google books has chosen not to permit me to see that page. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 20:21, 22 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- In my eyes this is too close for comfort, for example:
  - Source: Cervole raised his own company of men and undertook military operations on his own account, seizing three castles in Angoulême and, later, while serving under John II at the siege of Breteuil, another fortress in Normandy.
  - Article: Arnaud raised his own company of men and undertook military operations on his own account, seizing three castles in Angoulême and, while serving under John II for 1355 to 1356, another fortress in Normandy.
- This is one of the worst examples but I think it shows that our article is possibly a derivative work. You also have an e-mail concerning this (pointing you at where I've put screen shots of the relevant pages) as I don't fancy making the final call myself. Dpmuk (talk) 20:20, 23 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

- It appears an IP expanded the article in 2009, adding the suspect text. I cannot see the book preview but reverting back to this revision and updating appears to alleviate the similarities.--NortyNort (Holla) 16:23, 29 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Purged. Copyright problem removed from history. So done. Thanks, guys. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 23:16, 30 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]