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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

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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.

  • {{CCI-open|Contributor name|Day Month Year|completed=yes}}

Text

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  • Examine the article or the diffs linked below.
  • If the contributor has added creative content, either evaluate it carefully for copyright concerns or remove it.
  • 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.
  • After examining an article:
  • 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 (~~~~)
  • If a section is complete, consider collapsing it by placing {{collapse top}} and {{collapse bottom}} beneath the section header and after the final listing.

Images

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  • Examine the images below. For free images:
    • Does the image look non-free? Is it likely the uploader is the copyright holder?
    • Is the image properly licensed and sourced? Be aware of images that say "this image is licensed under X" without specifying who created it.
    • Do a reverse image search using Google Images. Check the license of the source page. Compare the last modified time with the (Commons) upload time.
    • Do a Google image search for phrases that describe the image's contents.
    • See Wikipedia:Guide to image deletion#Addressing suspected copyright infringement on dealing with cases of possible image copyright infringement. There is no need to open a possibly unfree files listing. Administrators may delete images from multiple point infringers presumptively in accordance with Wikipedia:Copyright violations. Evaluators who are not administrators may section images into a "deletion requested" section for administrator attention.
  • For non-free images, determine whether each image meets our non-free content criteria.
    • Note that Commons does not accept non-free content.
  • Annotate the listing with the action taken, e.g. if the image was tagged no source write "no source"; if the fair use claim is deemed ok you can write "OK fair use".

Background

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More old stuff where nothing was filled out at the time because CCI was kind of dead. There was a whole arbcase about this one, Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Wikicology. To quote Arbcom's finding's when it came to the copyright portion of the case:

arbcom findings

Wikicology has introduced copyright-violating text A review of Wikicology's editing has also identified a number of instances in which he introduced copyrighted text to Wikipedia or copied Wikipedia articles without attribution. In some cases text was copied wholesale ([1], [2], [3]) and in others sources were closely paraphrased ([4], [5]). [...] However, multiple instances of copyright violations have been identified in recent contributions ([6], [7]).

Wikicology has uploaded copyright-violating images Copyright violations have also been identified in Wikicology's image uploads on both the English Wikipedia ([8]) and Commons ([9]). In many cases these images were labeled as "own work" although Wikicology was not the photographer (e.g. local: [10], Commons: [11]). He asserted he had been unaware of the meaning of labeling uploads as "own work" ([12]).

Arbcom then goes on to say in a remedy:

"The community is encouraged to make use of the material presented in the Evidence and Analysis of Evidence sections to organize a systematic clean-up effort for Wikicology's past problematic contributions."

It doesn't seem like any sort of cleanup happened, so here we are. The violations ranged from websites to books and journals, and there's image issues too, and several fake references that had nothing to do with the subject were used, and several articles were apparently riddled with factual errors. There are socks, but they have no substantial edits. It's probably best to simply burn everything. The user was originally named User:Wikicology before being renamed to User:T Cells; although that's not their real name, their real one is widely known and associated with their account, which is why I've opened this up under a dated name. Moneytrees🏝️Talk/CCI help

@MER-C: I get a large, pretty crazy list when I run the file surveyor, with a 1000 or so pdfs listed under transferred files. Do you think those should be listed? Moneytrees🏝️Talk/CCI help 04:13, 28 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Leave them out. This is one of the cases where there will be plenty of false positives. MER-C 12:52, 28 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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This report generated by ContributionSurveyor.java at 2021-01-27T05:52:04.291677Z. Survey URL: http://wikipediatools.appspot.com/contributionsurveyor.jsp?mode=on&user=T_Cells&wiki=en.wikipedia.org&nodrafts=1&earliest=&latest=&bytefloor=150

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