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Discussion at Wikipedia talk:Copyright violations on history pages. The discussion has concluded that a copyright violation in the page history of a previously uncopyrighted article does not require the article or the copyrighted version in the history to be deleted. However, the copyrighted version will be selectively deleted from the page history if a complaint is made by the copyright holder. Only developers with shell or root access or users with oversight have the capability to perform such deletions.

This page is no longer updated. Dates are from 2004.

Summary of current status (as far as we can tell) at wikipedia:page history

Some examples of possible copyright violations in page history

February 27 - Possible copyright infrigements on the Al Gore page are being discussed on Talk:Al_Gore.
March 15 - Melbourne International Comedy Festival [1] [2]
March 17 - Al Gore's views: See Talk:Al Gore/discussion archive
March 21 - Greek art: [3]
March 30 - T-6 Texan [4] [5]
April 9 - Televisa [6] [7] [8]
April 9 - Celtic Frost: [9] [10] [11]
May 3 - Elements song: [12] [13] [14]
May 5 - Saturday Night Live: [15], [16], [17]
May 14 - Trish Stratus: [18]
May 14 - Shannen Doherty: [19]
May 14 - Alyssa Milano: [20]
June 16 - BAA plc [21]
June 16 - Allied Domecq plc [22]
June 16 - Joseph Carr [23]
June 16 - Gentle Giant [24] [25] [26] [27] [28] [29] [30] all contain material from http://www.progreviews.com/
June 24 - Wojciech Kilar [31]
June 24 - BlackBerry [32]
June 24 - Joachim Peiper [33]
June 24 - Justin Guarini [34] [35] [36]
June 24 - Horatio Hornblower [37]
October 17 - Yugas [38], from [39], redirected to Yuga