Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2014 December 31

Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)

• Wurzelpeter (history · last edit · rewrite) closely paraphrased from http://web.archive.org/web/20070807232021/http://demirtas.com.tr/Wurzelpeter.htm. Psychonaut (talk) 12:27, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

• Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 13:58, 11 January 2015 (UTC)
  

• Roman Catholic churches in Bohol (history · last edit · rewrite) from http://web.archive.org/web/20040526072226/http://www.bohol.ph/article8.html CCI:Pinay06. Already had a copyvio clean last month, but that didn't get rid of all of it. (I would double check anything that's still highlighted here). MER-C 13:06, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

• Hey, MER-C. :) You want to just pull out whatever concerns you? Your blanking starts with "The bell tower was damaged by the earthquake of October 15, 2013 with the two upper levels collapsing. The front façade of the church (portico) added by the Recollects also collapsed." - the source is from 2004. I'n not sure what you're seeing. :) --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 14:04, 11 January 2015 (UTC)

• I deleted the suspect content when I blanked the article. The comparison before I did this is here. The earthquake stuff should be OK though. MER-C 08:33, 12 January 2015 (UTC)

MER-C, Moonriddengirl, I had a quick look at this to see if there was any chance it could be closed now. I didn't much like what I found. I'm not happy that the earthquake stuff is completely OK: I found some limited copying from the Manila Standard, which appears in its turn to be copied from here. My main worry is that the many large edits by Briarfallen may contain other copied material (see Michael de Aozaraza, listed today). Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 20:29, 25 January 2015 (UTC)

Hi Justlettersandnumbers, this is Briarfallen. Please maybe you should restrain yourself a little bit and treat other editors with respect. We unselfishly contribute our time here to help Wikipedia as I believe in its purpose. There is nothing personal to gain here. Please read Wikipedia:Assume good faith. Instead of treating me like a criminal first, maybe you should checked my contributions first one by one, and if you find any, maybe we can work together on it and help improve it. I am aware and try to follow Wikipedia rules including about copyrights. Yes, I used to contribute a lot in Wikipedia especially improving Philippine articles, but not starting this year because of a new job. Thanks.

Maybe this is the reason why some people don't add references. You are more like HOUNDS that hunt copyright violators instead of fixing those articles that you think have violated. It is easy to find faults on others, but is it harder for you to help others? Why don't you just wait till the original sources complain about infringement as some, I believe, would just let it go. If you think about it, this is also beneficial for them as this is like free advertising if their articles were added as references. In my opinion, not only you are wasting your time, but you are also teaching others NOT to add references, instead of being honest and follow Wikipedia rules. This is akin to bad parenting. Yes, you could erase it but would you, if the article is actually true just unreferenced? Wikipedia rule is only leaving a template on top about searching and adding references. In addition, this is not personal opinion or personal research, which Wikipedia is more strict about.

I'm just trying to find the rationale of what you guys are doing, as you could use your time in something more fruitful for Wikipedia. As for myself, I always try to follow Wikipedia rules ever since, not unless I'm unaware of it. Thanks. -- Briarfallen (talk) 04:40, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

I've responded at Briarfallen's talk page. a CCI check is probably necessary here, but I won't have time to do a broader check for probably a few days. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 15:38, 30 January 2015 (UTC)

Hi Moonriddengirl. Did you check my revised version of the article following from instructions from the template? Could you please tell me what CCI stands for? Thanks. -- Briarfallen (talk) 17:21, 1 February 2015 (UTC)

I have checked and have made several articles compliant with WP:Plagiarism where content was copied form public domain sources. The copying was not acknowledged as per our requirements, although the sources were cited. Some content in Balete tree was a problem, as it was taken from WikiPilipinas. WikiPilipinas is not compatibly licensed with Wikipedia, but even if it were copying would have to be explicitly acknowledged to meet the license. For my own notes, I have looked at articles 14-20 on the contribution surveyor. I did not look as deeply as I would if this were a CCI. It's more of an in-depth spot-check to see if one is needed so we can close this listing out. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 12:58, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

• Chula Vista Bayfront (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.portofsandiego.org/public-documents/doc_view/3910-chula-vista-bayfront-master-plan-fact-sheet.html http://www.cvbayfront.com/?page_id=22 http://www.chulavistaca.gov/city_services/Development_Services/Planning_Building/bayfront.asp. TheGGoose (talk) 14:42, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

• Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 14:14, 11 January 2015 (UTC)