Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/Racepacket

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Instructions

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. However, to avoid collateral damage, efforts should be made when possible to verify infringement before removal.

Text

• 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.

• 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.
• 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.

• 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}})
• 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

• 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 Tineye. 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

A permission email has been sent to OTRS from Cornell University giving permission to paraphrase or create derivative works from Cornell University press releases. Thanks, Racepacket (talk) 21:04, 16 February 2010 (UTC)

Just to note that this OTRS release was not usable. See Ticket:2010021610048245. The contents were not released under allowable license, and the terms offered were vague. Cornell did not say that derivative works could be created, but only that press releases could be paraphrased, which does not in any way address the closeness with which the content can be reproduced. They never responded to follow-up communication. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 15:25, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

• Notice Following the discovery of additional concerns, counts have been updated with a new subpage opened at Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/Racepacket 3. Some articles are likely to have redundant listings, but the diffs supplied at that subpage are new. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 15:14, 5 February 2011 (UTC)

Contribution survey

This results listing covers all edits from timestamp 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z through 2010-02-09T16:05:46Z and excludes minor edits and reverts.

• See Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/Racepacket 2 for sock contributions.  Done VernoWhitney (talk) 17:52, 22 April 2010 (UTC)
• Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/Racepacket 3; updated contribs