Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2012 January 21

21 January 2012

• Tarut Island (history · last edit) from http://qatifoasis.com/?act=artc&id=1961 http://www.scribd.com/doc/13294638/7/The-Ethnicity-of-its-People. See Talk:Tarut_Island for details. The scribd page has what seems to be an excerpt from the booklet at qatifoasis.com. The duplicate detector tool fails to pick up most of the common text, because scribd is some weird beyond-html website. Help from the Arabic-language Wikipedia editors would be needed to possibly contact the qatifoasis.com people to find out how much of the text is in common and whether or not they wish to release it under a free licence. Boud (talk) 02:02, 21 January 2012 (UTC)

• Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 13:45, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
  

• Christopher Hughes II (history · last edit) from http://www.soapcentral.com/atwt/whoswho/christopher.php. George Ho (talk) 22:06, 21 January 2012 (UTC)

• Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Thanks for keeping an eye out, but you could have cleaned that one yourself, George. You don't need an administrator to remove a copyright problem. In keeping with Wikipedia:Copyright violations, anyone can revert or remove such content. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 13:21, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
  

• Unfortunately, I don't have an authority to strike out the infringing log. Revdel, maybe? --George Ho (talk) 13:55, 4 February 2012 (UTC)

• Tuam Cathedral: a significant amount of text was copied from here. --AFBorchert (talk) 23:17, 21 January 2012 (UTC)

• Purged. Copyright problem removed from history. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 13:15, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
  

Load of logistic related articles

• The article logistics appeared to be essentially copied from a book see http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Logistics&action=historysubmit&diff=472401530&oldid=472399333 - a number of linked articles looked similar (lots of apparently non-amatuer unreferenced text) - much of it in a tone that doesn't appear encyclopedic - ie apparently from another source - articles I found included
  • Logistics management (compare), Warehouse management system (book), Warehouse control system #same book) which are (uncharitably) obviously copied from some book, and unreferenced
  • Other links from the see also section include Document automation text from (found in http://ijlit.oxfordjournals.org/content/15/2/170.abstract from 2006)
  • Others that are linked, look suspicious - ie text book or manual writing quality - no references include Returns management system Inventory management software
  • Reverse logistics has copied material from the same source as "Logistics"
  • Supply chain management probably needs checking (as do Third-party_logistics and Fourth-party logistics though I have nominated these for deletion for other reasons)
  • Sales territory - simply copied from source and referenced from same source (as far as I can tell)

The more I look the more I see for example Marketing Accountability Standards Board (MASB) contains text from the website (copyrighted) of http://www.themasb.org/about/mmap/ - the topic itself

I've given up looking - every link I click on from this set of articles turns up more like it - with textbook like text

I honestly can't tell if a lot of this has been written in an 'odd' way (ie textbook like) by a genuine contributer - some of the text appears to appear on multiple websites - but they aren't mirrors of wikipedia as far as I can tell - eg like this http://pressreleaser.org/what-is-third-party-logistics/1363695 which matches text from Third-party logistics. Mddkpp (talk) 09:44, 21 January 2012 (UTC)

Also see Inventory and compare http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=H6AM-vRhmoAC eg "A canned food manufacturer's materials inventory includes the ingredients to form the foods to be canned, empty cans and their lids .." is in both. But this text also appears in the book http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=cf4DClLxC2UC .. by a different author. Who is copying who?

I sense that some parts are genuine contributions - but it's obvious that much of it isn't. I should note that all these article should probably be merged into "logistics" "warehousing" etc - or given the content just proposed for deletion - however I'm concerned that there are many more like these. Mddkpp (talk) 09:59, 21 January 2012 (UTC)

More

• Business Intelligence http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ONQio9do_70C "a letter should be emailed to all interview participants to inform them about the process and the importance" etc

• Logistics, Logistics management and Reverse logistics; backwards copy. Tag placed on talk page. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 13:48, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
• Warehouse management system, Warehouse control system; backwards copy. That book was published in 2009. I've posted evidence at the talk page of each. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 14:04, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
• Document automation. We had the content which was purportedly written in 2009 (see the copyright notice) for in 2008, when the article was created. Reverse copying seems likely, but is minimal enough to probably not pose a copyright issue; their use of our text probably meets fair use. Similarly, is archived back only to August 2008. I cannot completely eliminate the possibility that content was copied from them, but I can't confirm it, either. With respect to the abstract, can you show me any copied content? I'm afraid I don't see it. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 14:29, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
• I haven't checked the ones you haven't offered sources for. That's not what this board is for. This board is for investigating copyright concerns when sources are known. If you simply suspect copying, please tag the article's talk page with {{cv-unsure}}. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 14:45, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
• Sales territory seems to have been created by a representative of the authors, but we can't use that content until the material is released. Removed, and information left for her at her talk page. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 14:55, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
• Marketing Accountability Standards Board (MASB) was created by the same person, who almost certainly can provide permission. It's been blanked to allow her time to do so. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 15:17, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
• Third-party logistics predates the press release. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 15:19, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
• Business intelligence, cleaned. An IP contributor added the whole section from the book. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 15:26, 4 February 2012 (UTC)