Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20130908
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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 contribute to clean up of their own or others' copyright violations.
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}}
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[edit]- 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 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}}.
- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]Valich (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
More widespread problems with this contributor - who had copyright issues uncovered in the past - was brought to my attention by an editor who verified copying in two more articles. Following that note, I pulled up the list of articles the user had created and spot-checked in three. I found significant and persistent copying in the first two. I found the third had issues as well, although these were cleaned two years ago. Given the evidence, it seems we have no choice but to conduct a more complete investigation. Unfortunately, some of the content seems to have been taken from sources behind a paywall, which may make it difficult to exclude copying. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 15:20, 8 September 2013 (UTC)
- I read through about a dozen of the user's contributions in the articles where I could find them; all are copyright violations. It is hard to tell with some of the edits, they are all older, most of the literature is paywalled, although I have access, and a lot of it has been copied repeatedly by Wikipedia mirrors, making Wikipedia appear to be the original source. A few months ago I found a passage from an article (an article on cratons familiar to me) in a google search; it appeared to come from a Wikipedia article, although its original source was an obscure, important, but outdated tectonics article. It appears to me that all of his material is copied with a few word changes from the literature. Is it really necessary to investigate, which would take so long, rather than removing the material? I guess that all of it is copyrighted material from the scientific literature, done without real insight into the material being added, leaving Wikipedia with little in value to keep for the time that would be needed to check. --(AfadsBad (talk) 18:26, 8 September 2013 (UTC))
- Yes, I think that it is necessary to check them all. Graeme Bartlett and I have found instances which after investigation (some behind the paywall) are not copyright violations. Obvious examples include a couple of edits where an original source is quoted and it is so marked, but for others no source could be found, and the style is consistent with that on his userpage, rather than a more scientific one. In other cases while I found the source that Valich used directly or very slightly paraphrased, that content has been replaced by others over time. Since the majority of his edits occurred in the 2006-2009 timeframe it is not surprising that much has been weeded out. In an individual case, I've found that it made more sense to rewrite what had become rather contorted sections that contained some of Valich's original edit, than to find where he got his information. This was true in the Phenocryst article, where the language used looked like it came right out of a textbook, but one that I didn't have access to. --Bejnar (talk) 04:12, 13 December 2013 (UTC)
We should check the definitions found in Parker, Sybil P. (Ed.). 1997. McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Geology and Mineralogy. : McGraw-Hill. and Bates, Robert L. and Julia A. Jackson (Eds.) 1994. Dictionary of Geological Terms. American Geological Institute - as these have been referenced for some of the articles.
Contribution survey
[edit]Valich (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
This report covers contributions to 168 articles from timestamp 2006-05-23 22:34:00 UTC to timestamp 2009-05-03 22:24:17 UTC.
Articles 1 through 20
[edit]- N Superior Craton: (40 edits, 40 major, +25854)
Same issue as Baltic Shield. Redirected to Craton. bobrayner (talk) 18:37, 8 September 2013 (UTC)
- Red panda:
final vestiges removed. --Bejnar (talk) 04:44, 13 December 2013 (UTC)
- Slave Craton: (13 edits, 13 major, +16883)
, earlier cleanup of copyvio by another editor but some slipped through the net; now redirected to Canadian Shield. bobrayner (talk) 22:22, 8 September 2013 (UTC)
- Khumbu: (1 edits, 1 major, +15867)
copyvio removed on 7 March 2010 Aqwis--Bejnar (talk) 04:24, 13 December 2013 (UTC)
- N Kalahari Craton:
Blanked. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 15:22, 8 September 2013 (UTC)
- N Carnivoramorpha:
Blanked. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 15:22, 8 September 2013 (UTC)
- N Carnivomorpha:
- see above. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 15:22, 8 September 2013 (UTC)
- N Monzogranite: (2 edits, 2 major, +8634) (+8634)(+1151) The section on MGr rock types appears to have been taken from a report on the Sierra de Famatina in Argentina, but I haven't found it yet. --Bejnar (talk) 05:57, 13 December 2013 (UTC)
- Carnivora: (10 edits, 10 major, +8271) (+173)(+1259)(+426)(+367)(+2484)(+191)(+340)(+8271)(+935)
- N Trans-Hudson orogeny: (15 edits, 15 major, +7634) (+1416)(+2127)(+3413)(+2067)(+1094)(+7634)(+2157)(+1636)(+1087)(+1920)(+1261)(+3356)(+182)(+1760)
- N Zimbabwe Craton: (11 edits, 11 major, +6829)
Same issue as Baltic Shield. Redirected to Craton. bobrayner (talk) 17:31, 8 September 2013 (UTC) Newly written stub substituted for redirect. --Bejnar (talk) 22:03, 10 December 2013 (UTC)
- N Wyoming Craton: (5 edits, 5 major, +6191) (+6191)(+1658)(+496)(+909)(+2715)
- Sinonyx: (2 edits, 2 major, +5774) (+5774)(+1010)
- Hemicyonidae:
blanked. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 16:06, 8 September 2013 (UTC)
- Canidae: (4 edits, 4 major, +4938) (+1200)(+1295)
- Mesonychid: (2 edits, 2 major, +4800) (+4800)
- At least from [1]. That all seems to be gone. I'm out of time to evaluate the rest of the text. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 16:15, 8 September 2013 (UTC)
- N Leucogranite:
Cleaned years ago. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 15:22, 8 September 2013 (UTC)
- N Kaapvaal Craton: (19 edits, 19 major, +3835) (+873)(+1587)(+1884)(+183)(+838)(+778)(+1931)(+3835)(+1153)(+652)(+2571)(+707)(+1550)
- Baltic Shield: (17 edits, 17 major, +3798)
Some confirmed copying, the rest of the article just looks like it's copied from a source which I can't get behind a paywall. Redirected to Fennoscandia. bobrayner (talk) 17:24, 8 September 2013 (UTC)
- Cat gap: (6 edits, 6 major, +3738) (+3738)(+1252)(+2560)(+477)(+198)
- Some content already removed that was taken from [2]. Other text has not been evaluated. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 15:26, 8 September 2013 (UTC)
Articles 21 through 40
[edit]- N Pilbara Craton:
Already cleaned. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 15:27, 8 September 2013 (UTC)
- N East European Craton:
Blanked. bobrayner (talk) 16:32, 8 September 2013 (UTC)
- Peridotite:
rewritten or already clean Graeme Bartlett (talk) 05:16, 14 September 2013 (UTC)
- N Gawler Craton:
Graeme Bartlett (talk) 05:34, 14 September 2013 (UTC)
- Plant cell:
Graeme Bartlett (talk) 05:44, 14 September 2013 (UTC)
- Kenorland:
cleaned Graeme Bartlett (talk) 08:48, 14 September 2013 (UTC)
- Miacoidea:
Graeme Bartlett (talk) 09:38, 14 September 2013 (UTC)
- Evolution:
Graeme Bartlett (talk) 10:47, 14 September 2013 (UTC)
- Norwegian Elkhound:
cleaned Graeme Bartlett (talk) 11:13, 15 September 2013 (UTC)
- N Vaalbara:
Graeme Bartlett (talk) 21:19, 14 September 2013 (UTC)
- Isua Greenstone Belt:
removed 9 March 2011 by Dpmuk --Bejnar (talk) 23:46, 11 December 2013 (UTC)
- N Black Norwegian Elkhound:
checked a couple of non-electronic sources as well. --Bejnar (talk) 01:59, 15 December 2013 (UTC)
- Shield (geology): (2 edits, 2 major, +2678) (+2678)(+885)
- Feliformia: (2 edits, 2 major, +2646) (+2646)(+2145)
- Clade: (1 edits, 1 major, +2643) (+2643)
- N Tonalite-Trondhjemite-Granodiorite: (2 edits, 2 major, +2566)
already removed --MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 03:59, 14 February 2022 (UTC)
- N Churchill Craton: (5 edits, 5 major, +2461) (+2461)(+2001)(+1044)
- Andrewsarchus: (13 edits, 13 major, +2354) (+227)(+272)(+695)(+532)(+195)(+326)(+402)(+574)(+2354)(+212)(+750)(+344)
- Craton: (11 edits, 11 major, +2134) (+152)(+1842)(+187)(+211)(+1349)(+275)(+165)(+691)(+2134)(+573)
- Organism:
in section Organism#Was there a universal ancestor? from Discovery Institute's Center for the Renewal of Science and Culture. Copyviol material has been fully replaced. --Bejnar (talk) 00:46, 15 December 2013 (UTC)
Articles 41 through 60
[edit]- Bear: (6 edits, 6 major, +1991) (+454)(+1169)(+1991)(+457)
- Yilgarn Craton: (10 edits, 10 major, +1951) (+419)(+1440)(+1951)(+502)(+192)(+686)(+314)(+292)
- N Parictis:
just a rewording of Kemp. --Bejnar (talk) 02:36, 12 December 2013 (UTC)
- Genetic code:
Copyvio of publication and newsrelease of Discovery Institute's Center for the Renewal of Science and Culture, but none of those remain in the article. --Bejnar (talk) 23:16, 11 December 2013 (UTC)
- N Australian Shield: (3 edits, 3 major, +1790) (+1790)
- N Rae Craton: (1 edits, 1 major, +1760)
removed --MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 23:18, 6 May 2021 (UTC)
- Apa Sherpa:
Removed. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 15:28, 8 September 2013 (UTC)
- N Temnocyoninae: (1 edits, 1 major, +1697)
removed --MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 21:15, 2 October 2021 (UTC)
- Fennoscandian Shield: (1 edits, 1 major, +1638) already redirected --MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 20:19, 18 April 2022 (UTC)
- Hemicyon: (4 edits, 4 major, +1628) (+577)(+232)(+1628)(+175)
- Bear dog: (4 edits, 4 major, +1625)
removed --MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 21:37, 2 October 2021 (UTC)
- Hudson Canyon: (3 edits, 3 major, +1544) (+1544)(+499)(+403)
- Last Common Ancestor:
Copyvio of publication and newsrelease of Discovery Institute's Center for the Renewal of Science and Culture, but none of those remain in the article, nor do they remain at Last universal ancestor. --Bejnar (talk) 22:40, 11 December 2013 (UTC)
- N Paroodectes:
No copyright violations found. Quoted material is now in italics. --Bejnar (talk) 22:24, 11 December 2013 (UTC)
- Horizontal gene transfer:
all in quotations. --Bejnar (talk) 00:38, 12 December 2013 (UTC)
- Last universal ancestor:
previously removed --Bejnar (talk) 23:12, 11 December 2013 (UTC)
- Phenocryst:
potentially violative material removed in major rewrite. --Bejnar (talk) 21:24, 11 December 2013 (UTC)
- N Sanukitoid: (2 edits, 2 major, +1463) (+1463)(+727)
- Carnivore: (2 edits, 2 major, +1462) (+1462)(+1029)
- Joseph Smith: (3 edits, 3 major, +1445) (+1437)(+1445)(+190)
Articles 61 through 80
[edit]- Miacids: (3 edits, 3 major, +1428) (+381)(+1428)
- N Syenogranite: (4 edits, 4 major, +1417) (+151)(+1417)(+531)(+360)
- Fennoscandian shield: (2 edits, 2 major, +1384) redirected --MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 20:17, 18 April 2022 (UTC)
- Cyanobacteria: (2 edits, 2 major, +1380) (+552)(+1380)
- Miacis: (3 edits, 3 major, +1378) (+187)(+1378)(+407)
- Geosyncline: (2 edits, 2 major, +1290) (+1290)(+838)
- Amphicyon: (1 edits, 1 major, +1208)
removed --MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 21:39, 28 March 2021 (UTC)
- Flin Flon greenstone belt: (4 edits, 4 major, +1183) (+555)(+1183)
- Northern Highland: (1 edits, 1 major, +1173)
reworded overquote --MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 18:55, 6 May 2021 (UTC)
- Colorado orogeny: (1 edits, 1 major, +1171) (+1171)
- N Hypercarnivore: (2 edits, 2 major, +1132) (+1132)(+1086)
- Yunnan:
no specific source found, but now completely rewritten --Bejnar (talk) 18:40, 11 December 2013 (UTC)
- Canadian Shield: (3 edits, 3 major, +1082) (+1082)(+572)
- N Dharwar Craton: (1 edits, 1 major, +1076)
removed --MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 19:09, 6 May 2021 (UTC)
- Hesperocyon: (2 edits, 2 major, +1011) (+1011)(+704)
- N Sebakwe Craton: (2 edits, 2 major, +977)
Removed. bobrayner (talk) 16:21, 8 September 2013 (UTC)
- Minoan civilization: (1 edits, 1 major, +968) (+968)
- Daphoenus: (1 edits, 1 major, +963) (+963)
- Geology of the Grand Canyon area: (4 edits, 4 major, +920) (+920)(+176)(+220)
- Kathmandu: (1 edits, 1 major, +900) (+900)
Articles 81 through 100
[edit]- Synthetic genomics:
Mikenorton (talk) 17:04, 21 September 2013 (UTC)
- N Cataclastic rock:
Completely rewritten long since Mikenorton (talk) 16:22, 21 September 2013 (UTC)
- Free fall:
Mikenorton (talk) 20:03, 23 September 2013 (UTC)
- Megistotherium:
Rewritten long ago Mikenorton (talk) 16:22, 21 September 2013 (UTC)
- Indo-Australian Plate:
Mikenorton (talk) 16:22, 21 September 2013 (UTC)
- Radiometric dating:(1 edits, 1 major, +766)
Rewritten long ago Mikenorton (talk) 16:22, 21 September 2013 (UTC)
- Monera:
Almost completely rewritten Mikenorton (talk) 20:40, 23 September 2013 (UTC)
- Sarmatian Craton:
Original source no longer available for checking - minor rewrite and new ref added. Mikenorton (talk) 22:12, 23 September 2013 (UTC)
- N Giga-annum:
Since redirected Mikenorton (talk) 22:21, 23 September 2013 (UTC)
- N Limpopo Belt:
Mikenorton (talk) 22:52, 23 September 2013 (UTC)
- Mesonyx: (1 edits, 1 major, +568) (+568)
- N Microline: (1 edits, 1 major, +559) (+559)
- Brown bear: No longer in article Wizardman 23:23, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
- N Olistostrome:
Mikenorton (talk) 23:01, 6 November 2013 (UTC)
- N Siliciclastic: (1 edits, 1 major, +522) (+522)
- Supercontinent cycle: (1 edits, 1 major, +516) (+516)
- N Sequence (geology): (1 edits, 1 major, +504) (+504)
- N Bedding (geology): Redirected Wizardman 02:06, 13 September 2023 (UTC)
- N Calc-alkaline magma series: Since rewritten Wizardman 01:42, 16 April 2021 (UTC)
- Province: No longer in article. Wizardman 02:23, 15 April 2021 (UTC)
Articles 101 through 120
[edit]- N Incised: Redirected Wizardman 02:07, 13 September 2023 (UTC)
- N Platform (geology): (1 edits, 1 major, +430) (+430)
- Supercontinent: (2 edits, 2 major, +427) (+427)(+203)
- Trondjhemite: Since rewritten Wizardman 02:08, 7 December 2023 (UTC)
- Green River (Colorado River): (2 edits, 2 major, +426) (+206)(+426)
- N Orthogeosyncline: Redirected Wizardman 17:56, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
- Tsavo Man-Eaters:
Wizardman 02:31, 2 September 2024 (UTC)
- N Prism (geology): (1 edits, 1 major, +408) (+408)
- Microcline: (1 edits, 1 major, +401) (+401)
- N Bed (geology): Since rewritten Wizardman 01:57, 13 September 2023 (UTC)
- Geologic province:
Checked. ThadeusOfNazereth(he/him)Talk to Me! 20:06, 9 February 2023 (UTC)
- Laurentia:
Removed from article. ThadeusOfNazereth(he/him)Talk to Me! 19:57, 9 February 2023 (UTC)
- N Compression (geology):
Checked. ThadeusOfNazereth(he/him)Talk to Me! 19:54, 9 February 2023 (UTC)
- Complex:
No longer in article. ThadeusOfNazereth(he/him)Talk to Me! 19:52, 9 February 2023 (UTC)
- N Obligate carnivores: Redirected Wizardman 18:00, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
- N Obligate carnivore: Redirected Wizardman 18:00, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
- N Platform basement: Redirected Wizardman 18:00, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
- Multituberculata: No longer in article Wizardman 01:48, 25 June 2020 (UTC)
- N Lens (geology):
Wizardman 03:09, 31 December 2019 (UTC)
- Polar bear:
Wizardman 03:09, 31 December 2019 (UTC)
Articles 121 through 140
[edit]Articles 141 through 160
[edit]Articles 161 through 168
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