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Suspected copyright violations (bot reports)

SCV for 2014-10-31 Edit

  • Cleaned more egregious bits, but still over 400 DD matches. Many are place names and job titles. Part of the issue may stem from the author not realizing the copyright status of the source. The bot notice was removed stating it was adapted from a different source than the bot found, which is true, it comes from here but the main page clearly asserts copyright. CrowCaw 01:58, 7 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • I see you what you mean, Crow! The whole thing is close-paraphrased from the one source, and still reads that way despite your efforts. It's too close for my personal comfort. I think the best options here are to list it or to ping Moonriddengirl for an opinion. And in writing that, I seem to have opted for the latter. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 23:25, 7 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
This one is kind of borderline to me, Justlettersandnumbers and user:Crow. :/ I started to put the {{close paraphrase}} template on the article on the basis of content like this and the fact that the early part of the article reads like an abridgment of the source (only the copyright holder may authorize abridgments), but there are parts of it that seem fine.
Source Article
His mother, Emisiko Sambaya, was Etarwa's senior wife and the only one to have two surviving sons. His mother was his senior wife and the only that had two surviving sons.
I don't think it rises to the level of WP:CP, but the tiny amount of close language following I found only emphasizes the big problem: in closely following a single source, we are not transforming it or adding to public discourse. We are simply superseding it. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 13:01, 10 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    • Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. The whole of the page the bot flagged was copied, as a quote, in the article. That's been removed, so I think we are in the clear here (Crow?). Doesn't begin to resolve the other problems there, of course. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 23:52, 7 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Looks good, though for some reason I thought the copied material was bigger. I think for this page we're probably good, for League of Copyeditors not so much. I'll leave a suggestion or 2 for the author. Thanks JLAN! CrowCaw 00:09, 8 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)
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Hematospermia (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://www.aafp.org/afp/2009/1215/p1421.html. Peter coxhead (talk) 19:53, 31 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]