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2013-10-04 (Suspected copyright violations)[edit]
  • Histmerged. MER-C 12:43, 6 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
MadmanBot was incorrect in flagging Samuel Topp as copied from Obituaries Australia. Most of the text in the Wikipedia article was taken the public domain https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Dictionary_of_Australasian_Biography/Topp,_Samuel_St._John (published in 1892). Obituaries Australia took their text from the Argus of 1902 who looks like copied The Dictionary of Australasian Biography! I believe Obituaries Australia take their text from newspapers now in the public domain, so bots should probably stop checking there anyway. Diverman (talk) 03:36, 4 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]