Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2020 August 20

20 August 2020

• Baba Hardev Singh (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.nirankari.org/modules/founder/babahardev/founderHsMsg.shtml. As an FYI, its been subject to drive by copyvio two times in the past, so it may be time for semi permanent semi-protection or perhaps long term pending changes protection. TomStar81 (Talk) 06:32, 20 August 2020 (UTC)

  Reverted to the last version free of copyvio (22 July). Earwigs shows that version to have identical text to and but in both cases it looks like the text was in our article first and these were just backwards copies. Requested revdel of the relevant versions. No opinion on page protection. Thanks TomStar81 for bringing it here. Ajpolino (talk) 23:27, 27 August 2020 (UTC)

  Purged. Copyright problem removed from history. MER-C 16:29, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

• Charly Alberti (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://parlamentaria.legislatura.gov.ar/pages/download.aspx?IdDoc=156774 (note, it will download a Microsoft Word document). It was a translation of that document; I already removed it. © Tbhotch^™ (en-3). 16:22, 20 August 2020 (UTC)

  Purged. Copyright problem removed from history. MER-C 16:28, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

• Dennis Bonnen (history · last edit · rewrite); presumptive deletion per Wikipedia:Copyright violations#Addressing contributors, Billy Hathorn. Created by Hathorn, and his contributions suffuse the text and edit history. I'll create a draft to rebuild it from scratch once deleted. BD2412 T 19:09, 20 August 2020 (UTC)

  Article deleted due to copyright concerns. MER-C 16:27, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

• The Cooper Brothers hi, earwig is showing a major copyvio of the band's website history section but the content has been in the wikipedia article since 2007 and the band's history page has a url saying November 2016, regards Atlantic306 (talk) 20:41, 20 August 2020 (UTC)

  Backwardscopy @Atlantic306: Weirdly enough, it looks like this is a reverse copy. The band's site text is exactly the same as our article was in Nov 2016. Most of that text was added in 2007, but with slightly different wording sprinkled throughout. Compare the first sentence of the band site with the matching sentence in our 2007 article. That sentence in our article took its 2016 form through edits in 2009 (+"Gary Cape"), and 2012 (-"international"). So if our article was copy/pasted in 2007, then the band website was changed to mirror our article until 2016. That seems fairly unlikely. So I'm guessing whoever made their website grabbed our text. I've added a note at the talk page. Thanks for bringing it here! Ajpolino (talk) 02:55, 21 August 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for sorting that out, regards Atlantic306 (talk) 19:06, 21 August 2020 (UTC)