The current version has a lot of overlap with this paper which is copyright, and the 2006 big edit has a lot of overlap with this one. At the bottom of that big edit, the person who added it says it's a copy of their thesis.— Diannaa (talk) 04:14, 11 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, in the 2006 big edit, everything from section 2.1 through 2.5 is lifted verbatim from the 2000 WHO report (chapter 2). The paragraphs under 4.2 were lifted from the paper you note above. Everything in section 5 is lifted from that same WHO document (from the Diagnostics chapter; it's a bit of a pain to find the matching bits since at least on my computer the text search doesn't work quite right on the WHO PDF). Section 6 comes from the same document, page 42. The same editor around the same time created a couple of related articles by copy/pasting from the papers that described the species Mycobacterium shottsii and Mycobacterium pseudoshottsii (G12'd yesterday). Since the papers/chapters all have different authors and precede the 2006 edit, it seems unlikely the editor was actually re-using their thesis text (or that their thesis text was grabbed from these other sources...). Ajpolino (talk) 05:28, 11 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I guess to summarize, my guess is that the original 2006 edit is all copy/pasted. I've been able to find the source of ~80% of it, all of which is copyrighted material. In 2007 Calliopejen1 removed a copy/pasted paragraph. Then all edits look minor until 2014 when DocJames snips out a few of the copy/pasted paragraphs to remove redundancy with another article. Last week when I first looked at the article, it had three sections. The first (Epidemiology) is all still verbatim from the 2000 WHO Report (Chapter 2). The second (Pathogenesis) is all verbatim from [5]V. The third (Diagnosis) is a jumble. The first two subsections (Clinical and Laboratory) are verbatim from Chapter 8 of the WHO report (graphic picture alert for anyone scrolling through). The last bit ("DNA fingerprinting" to the end) is verbatim from the WHO report (chapter 5, starting at "DNA fingerprinting techniques for M. ulcerans"). Two subsections in the middle ("Polymerase chain reaction" and "PCR for environmental samples") are the only ones I can't place. But my suspicion is that they're copy/pasted from somewhere... So the cleanup over the years removed some copyvio, but still nearly all the remaining material is copy/pasted directly from other places. The only diff without copy/pasted material is the first edit (which creates the page as a redirect). Before realizing the copy/paste, I added a couple of paragraphs, but I've got them saved in my sandbox, so don't worry about keeping them if you decide to nuke the article. Sorry for all the text! I guess I was somewhat shocked to see this, and got a little obsessed finding the copy/paste sources. Admin help scrubbing the copyvio diffs (or blowing up the article) would be much appreciated. If there's any way I can be useful, let me know. Ajpolino (talk) 17:44, 12 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
The lead contains traces of copyvio, so I've deleted it. I copied over the non-creative content to the draft before doing so. MER-C 16:42, 17 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Article deleted due to copyright concerns. MER-C 16:43, 17 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
MER-C have you had a chance to look at the three others I posted above by the same author? I forgot about them ... SandyGeorgia (Talk) 17:00, 17 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, for Mycobacterium marinum the original history section was lifted verbatim from [6]. The current lead and history sections are mostly from that text. Happy to send the PDF to anyone interested. I can't find where the rest of the text in that article came from; the sources are mostly older scanned PDFs and not readable by Earwigs or Google. I checked a handful of them by eye but no luck (though, the source of all the text in the history section is also not among the references...). Ajpolino (talk) 04:26, 18 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Article deleted due to copyright concerns. MER-C 16:43, 17 August 2020 (UTC)
