Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2025 May 29
- Imazapyr (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://web.archive.org/web/20160423032526/http://www.toku-e.com/Upload/Products/PDS/20120517005192.pdf.
If I read the page history correctly, I'm pretty sure that document copied the first line of its only substantial paragraph (it's just a vague product description document with no references) from the original version of the wikipedia article, which may or may not have copied it directly from the EPA report (currently a broken link to Cornell's website for some godawful reason), making this an exciting circular copyright violation. To confuse matters the person who added it has the username TOKU-E EU so they may have had the rights to the material that wasn't copied, but the information isn't really suitable as a reference. The account in question appears to have registered in 2012, linked to a bunch of their new company's PDFs across a series of antibiotic and herbicide pages which were all products they carried, and hasn't been back since. I'm guessing it was done entirely to attempt to increase google search rankings. A Shortfall Of Gravitas (talk) 00:10, 30 May 2025 (UTC)