Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2009 May 11

11 May 2009

Plastination (history · last edit) from http://meduni02.edis.at/plast/plmeth.html. —Chris Capoccia ^T⁄_C 03:38, 11 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Y Revised. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 12:25, 19 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Business process management (history · last edit) from http://www.bptrends.com/publicationfiles/advisor2008003251.pdf. I'm not clear of the Copyright status of this and whether the wikipedia author or the BPTrends author is the original source. In any case this is a near to direct replaication of content and needs to be checked. Usrnme h8er (talk · contribs) 14:13, 11 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Y Selectively deleted. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 13:02, 19 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Andrea Doria class cruiser (history · last edit) from Miller, (D.), The Illustrated Directory of Warships, from 1860 to the present day. London, 2004, Salamander Books, pp. 16-17. Kameraad Pjotr (talk) 19:05, 3 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Contributor not notified. Relisting and remedying. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 14:47, 11 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  - Y Contributor was notified and has actively edited, but has not responded to these concerns. Material accordingly removed. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 13:06, 19 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Rainer Werner Fassbinder (history · last edit) from Movies of the 80s by Jürgen Müller and Herbert Klemens, "R. W. Fassbinder: Dark Angel" in Bright Lights Film Journal, Fassbinder's Germany by Thomas Elsaesser, and probably many others. Even though I have already reverted it to the version before the rewrite that introduced this wholesale plagiarism, the editor who put all this copyvio in the article in the first place has restored "his" work twice already and purports to believe that the wholesale copying of text will be okay if only "some citations" are added. 65.78.13.238 (talk) 22:49, 11 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Y Cleaned and already addressed by an admin. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 13:35, 19 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Kenneth klein (history · last edit) from [1]. Nomination completed by DumbBOT (talk) 23:16, 11 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Renewable energy in Hong Kong (history · last edit) from [2]. Nomination completed by DumbBOT (talk) 23:16, 11 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Self Mutilators Anonymous (history · last edit) from [3]. Nomination completed by DumbBOT (talk) 23:16, 11 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Mark Attebery (history · last edit) from [4]. Nomination completed by DumbBOT (talk) 23:16, 11 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Irra K (history · last edit) from [5]. Nomination completed by DumbBOT (talk) 23:16, 11 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Y Already cleaned. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 13:35, 19 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Alex Sharpe (history · last edit) from [6]. Nomination completed by DumbBOT (talk) 23:16, 11 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Plantibody (history · last edit) from [7]. Nomination completed by DumbBOT (talk) 23:16, 11 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Y Cleaned. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 13:40, 19 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
User:EarwigBot II/Template/doc (history · last edit) (url not detected). Nomination completed by DumbBOT (talk) 23:16, 11 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Mark Attebery (history · last edit) (url not detected). Nomination completed by DumbBOT (talk) 23:16, 11 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Hafiz-ul-milan Hafiz Muhammad Siddique Of Bhar Chandi (history · last edit) (url not detected). Nomination completed by DumbBOT (talk) 23:16, 11 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Duplication confirmed. No assertion of permission or pd. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 13:50, 19 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Federally Administered Tribal Areas (history · last edit) paragraphs from Olaf Caroe's 1958 book "The Pathans 550 B C A D 1957 (1958)" (details, streamed text available for free download here). I'm not clear of the Copyright status of the 1958 book (it is marked copyright Olaf Caroe and archive.org's terms of use states "is granted for scholarship and research purposes only." and "In particular, you certify that your use of any part of the Archive's Collections will be noncommercial and will be limited to noninfringing or fair use under copyright law." I feel the quotes used go beyond fair-use (and of course it is plagiarism too). The problem was suspected back in 2007 but I guess no one spotted the original source until now. It's mainly in the history sections where extensive unattributed copy and paste is evident. There also appears to be copy and paste from another source (ie not the 1958 book) but I have not looked for its source. Frankly I do not know the best or approved way to cleanup (the copy and paste text has already appeared in mirrors). 84user (talk) 00:34, 12 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- I found a large known copyvio (mixed with other copy-paste, source as yet unknown) took place on 13:17, March 21, 2007 with this edit by this user. 84user (talk) 01:05, 12 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  - Additional infringements detected. (Even footnotes from other sources were duplicated.) I've deleted back to last presumed clean and painstakingly edited in each non-infringing contribution I found. There's nothing we can do about mirrors, except hope that eventually they catch up. You did a great job researching this. Thank you so much. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 15:43, 19 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]