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Contributor copyright investigation

This CCI cleanup subpage has been opened because concerns of multiple point infringement have been substantiated and further steps are necessary to address the serious risk of copyright violation from the listed contributor. Listings are not intended to imply a presumption of bad faith on the part of any contributor, as copyright laws vary widely around the world and many contributors who violate Wikipedia's copyrights policy do so inadvertently through not understanding it or the United States' laws that govern it.

If you are here because of a note on an article's talk page explaining removal of text, please do not restore any removed text without first ensuring that the text does not duplicate, closely paraphrase or plagiarize from a previously published source. You are welcome to use sourced facts that may have been removed to create new content in your own words or to incorporate brief quotations of copyrighted material in accordance with the non-free content policy and guideline.

Instructions[edit]

All contributors with no history of copyright problems are welcome to contribute to clean up. Contributors who are the subject of a contributor copyright investigation are among contributors with a history of copyright problems and so are not welcome to directly evaluate their own or others' copyright violations in CCIs. They are welcome to assist with rewriting any problems identified.

If contributors have been shown to have a history of extensive copyright violation, it may be assumed without further evidence that all of their major contributions are copyright violations, and they may be removed indiscriminately in accordance with Wikipedia:Copyright violations. Contributors who are the subject of a contributor copyright investigation are among contributors who have been shown to have a history of extensive copyright violation and so all of the below listed contributions may be removed indiscriminately. However, to avoid collateral damage, efforts should be made when possible to verify infringement before removal.

When every section is completed, please alter the listing for this CCI at Wikipedia:CCI#Open_investigations to include the tag "completed=yes". This will alert a clerk that the listing needs to be archived.

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  • Evaluating for copyright concerns may include checking the listed sources, spot-checking using google, google books and other search engines and looking for major differences in writing style. The background may give some indication of the kinds of copyright concerns that have been previously detected. For older text, mirrors of Wikipedia content may make determining which came first difficult. It may be helpful to look for significant changes to the text after it was entered. Searching for the earlier form of text can help eliminate later mirrors. If you cannot determine which came first, text should be removed presumptively, since there is an established history of copying with the editor in question.
  • If you remove text presumptively, place ((subst:CCI|name=Contributor name)) on the article's talk page.
  • If you specifically locate infringement and remove it (or revert to a previous clean version), place ((subst:cclean)) on the article's talk page. The url parameter may be optionally used to indicate source.
  • If there is insufficient creative content on the page for it to survive the removal of the text or it is impossible to extricate from subsequent improvements, replace it with ((subst:copyvio)), linking to the investigation subpage in the url parameter. List the article as instructed at the copyright problems board, but you do not need to notify the contributor. Your note on the CCI investigation page serves that purpose.
  • To tag an article created by the contributor for presumptive deletion, place ((subst:copyvio|url=see talk)) on the article's face and ((subst:CCId|name=Contributor name)) on the article's talk page. List the article as instructed at the copyright problems board, but you do not need to notify the contributor.
  • replace the diffs after the colon on the listing with indication of whether a problem was found (add ((y))) or not (add ((n))). If the article is blanked and may be deleted, please indicate as much after the ((y)). The ((?)) template may be used for articles where you were unable to determine whether or not a violation occurred, but are prepared to remove the article from consideration – either because the material is no longer present in the article, or it is adequately paraphrased so as to no longer be a violation (please specify which).
  • Follow with your username and the time to indicate to others that the article has been evaluated and appropriately addressed. This is automatically generated by four tildes (~~~~)

Background[edit]

Doug Coldwell

Signed,  ♠Vami_IV†♠ 22:55, 12 March 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Pages for
February 2023
GAR reassessment
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@MER-C:, I'm trying to get all edits before 01/01/2011 (with minor edits included and a max diff of 200) but I'm getting a 500 error when I do so. Would you know if there's some sort of fix/workaround? Moneytrees🏝️Talk/CCI guide 03:50, 16 March 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Too many edits. I can populate this via the offline version, but that will have to wait until I'm no longer sick of CCI. MER-C 12:20, 16 March 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@MER-C This is going to need to be expanded per the current ANI discussion, sorry man. Moneytrees🏝️(Talk) 16:40, 8 September 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Done: Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20210315 02.

Contribution survey[edit]

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  • I have presumptively removed almost all of Coldwell's additions to this article. –♠Vamí_IV†♠ 21:59, 16 February 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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  • 49% Coldwellship at time of inspection. Manual inspection and excoriation advised. –♠Vamí_IV†♠ 10:21, 17 February 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  • ? Offline sources, largely unverifiable. Trimmed accordingly. XOR'easter (talk) 17:14, 1 April 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  • 36% Coldwellship at time of inspection. Manual inspection and excoriation advised. –♠Vamí_IV†♠ 10:21, 17 February 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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  • Sybil Ludington (20 edits): Green tickY copy-paste copyvio, as well as too close paraphrasing from public domain, completely rewritten, no Coldwell content remains. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 16:37, 4 February 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  • N Agricultural Museum (periodical) (4 edits): Banished to CP. –♠Vamí_IV†♠ 10:21, 17 February 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  • N Birth of public radio broadcasting (2 edits):

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  • N SweeTango (31 edits): Green tickY
    SweeTango (16 edits): Green tickY
    Moved from page 02 to evaluate together. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 15:41, 5 March 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
    See Wikipedia:Good article reassessment/SweeTango/1 Copy-paste from at least four sources, along with some PDEL to offline sources, cleaned, requested revdel. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 20:23, 4 April 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  • N Erie J. Sauder (1 edit): Red XN No copyvio; one of the sources flagged by earwig was reversecopy. — Red-tailed hawk (nest) 02:34, 9 September 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]
    Close paraphrasing, and only one independent source; PRODded. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 04:23, 2 April 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
    Unprodded, so rewritten to remove close paraphrasing, remove puffery and UNDUE, and use reliable source (provided by Red-tailed hawk via Newspapers.com). SandyGeorgia (Talk) 00:46, 5 April 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
    For my own sake, what was the source that the close paraphrasing was from? — Red-tailed hawk (nest) 02:09, 5 April 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
    Sample:
    • Source: During his retirement years, Sauder created Sauder Village ... a nineteenth-century community to educate people about the past.
      Article: During his retirement years, he created Sauder Village, a nineteenth century historical outdoor museum showing life of that time period in Ohio.
    Which by the way I forgot to remove as I was dealing with reliability, notability and failed verification! Thanks for finding the AP source! SandyGeorgia (Talk) 02:44, 5 April 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
    Yep, I totally missed that. And not a problem with the AP source. I would expect that newspapers.com is probably going to have more on him if the AP wrote an obit for him, so he may well have enough material written about him to get the article back to GA at some point. — Red-tailed hawk (nest) 03:18, 5 April 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
    Red-tailed hawk, it is concerning the extent to which DC dug up utter tripe from newspapers.com (anything written in some obscure local paper), but in this case, because it originated with AP, it was worth the effort to fix the article, so I do appreciate you finding it. As to both of us failing to (initially) fix the copy-paste, when I'm working on a DC article, I usually find myself with about eight windows open, as he often took content from one source while citing another-- and then I forget where I am and what I've done! It's not easy work, and I expect mistakes from all of us :) SandyGeorgia (Talk) 14:52, 5 April 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
    Red-tailed hawk, I've now discovered why you missed that copy-paste. DC's original paraphrasing was so poor, that a subsequent editor's copyedit introduced the copy-paste (logically, and probably innocently, as the way DC wrote the paraphrase was so poor that the copyeditor restored a better construct, which turned out to be exactly the original), so you would not have seen it when checking only DC diffs. See this edit by Truthanado. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 15:13, 5 April 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  • N Sauder Woodworking Company (2 edits): (has hammer) Sent to WP:CP. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 01:42, 23 March 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
    Redirected to Erie J. Sauder, resurrected. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 00:59, 5 April 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  • N Praise of the Two Lands (ship) (2 edits): (has hammer) Sent to WP:CP. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 04:30, 2 April 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  • N Car cooler (3 edits): (has hammer) Sent to WP:CP. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 04:27, 2 April 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Moved to Chiomara. Moneytrees🏝️(Talk) 18:07, 23 January 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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