Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2025 January 6

6 January 2025

• City Heights, San Diego (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.cityheightstowncouncil.org/city-heights-history.html. Kire1975 (talk) 00:13, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

I gotta be honest, whoever put this here did so a long time ago. I'm having trouble finding the original contributor of the material whose talk page I'm supposed to add that template to. Any ideas? Kire1975 (talk) 00:18, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

@Kire1975: This is backwardscopy; the City Heights Town Council website copied from Wikipedia without attribution. – dudhhr ^talk_contribs^she_her 16:58, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

How do you know? Kire1975 (talk) 17:58, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

I'm no expert, but this previous version of the page from back in 2017 literally has the reference note numbers of the page at that point in time copied over as well, i.e. "In the 1880s, Entrepreneurs Abraham Klauber and Samuel Steiner purchased over 240 acres (0.97 km2) of unincorporated land that sat 400 feet (120 m) above sea level northeast of Balboa Park in hopes of developing the area. Together they named it “City Heights” or the “Steiner, Klauber, Choate and Castle Addition” after the original developers of the property.[3]" compared with this old revision that contains identical text but uses actual references. The current version doesn't do that, which would make copying by the website less obvious. - Purplewowies (talk) 20:22, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

I see. That proves it. You're right. Thank you. Kire1975 (talk) 23:24, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

• StuGo (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://titmouse.net/work/stugo/. Purplewowies (talk) 06:06, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

  It's possible the text was originally copied from https://www.aol.com/entertainment/disney-unveils-animated-series-annecy-153539048.html rather than Titmouse (though Titmouse is the production company). The AOL article was probably more or less repeating a press release like this one: https://www.dgepress.com/disneybrandedtelevision/pressrelease/disney-branded-television-and-disney-emea-original-productions-celebrate-next-100-years-of-disney-animated-storytelling-at-annecy-international-animation-film-festival/. The text has existed virtually unchanged since the first revision of the article. - Purplewowies (talk) 06:11, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

  Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Sennecaster (Chat) 07:05, 12 January 2025 (UTC)

  @Sennecaster: Out of curiosity, is there a reason the rewrite draft wasn't used? And/or does said subpage need to be deleted now as a matter of cleaning up? (Asking because I'm mostly wondering if using the rewrite text could be problematic (i.e. it also has a copyvio issue and/or needs to be deleted) or if it's fine.) - Purplewowies (talk) 08:23, 12 January 2025 (UTC)

  I missed the rewrite is all. You can merge it in with editor attribution (mention that User:ĦáżbřøFäñ1998 contributed in your E/S) and I or another admin deletes the rewrite as cleanup or I can delete it as unused. Either works. Sennecaster (Chat) 19:45, 12 January 2025 (UTC)

  Looks like ĦáżbřøFäñ1998 copied it over without attribution already (I did a dummy edit just now purely to save a summary with attribution). Can be safely deleted, then. - Purplewowies (talk) 04:06, 13 January 2025 (UTC)

• Draft:European Magnetism Association (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://magnetism.eu/85-ema.htm. Diannaa (talk) 20:40, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

  Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Diannaa (talk) 02:54, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

• Royal and Hashemite Order of the Pearl (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://sultanateofsulu.ecseachamber.org/the-order-of-the-pearl/index-1.htm. Icodeswift (talk) 21:51, 14 January 2025 (UTC)

  Issue resolved. content attributed, I did not identify anything else as copyvio. Sennecaster (Chat) 02:58, 19 January 2025 (UTC)