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2015-05-16 (Suspected copyright violations)[edit]
  • Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. VernoWhitney (talk) 17:42, 26 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
    • No copyright concern. Material PD or appropriately licensed for use. CWW CrowCaw 19:19, 14 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Sanity check me here please! This appears like the author began to add content to Kuttoor, before realizing that the Kuttoor he was writing about was another Kuttoor in a different district. He then reverted his edits and created the new article about the other Kuttoor, which CSB matched against a mirror of the first go-round of edits. Thus making this a FP/CWW match, not requiring attribution since the same author made both edits. Clear as mud? CrowCaw 22:21, 1 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
    • No copyright concern. Material PD or appropriately licensed for use. CWW, attributed CrowCaw 19:19, 14 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Checking with author TheGreenGiant23. This and several others below were CWW's, but I want to confirm the source page for the required attribution. CrowCaw 22:21, 1 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • @Moonriddengirl: What to do here? I've pinged the user here, and left messages on his talk page (and a follow up ping there). No response, and the user has edited a lot since then. There's a good 10 of these articles and the "from" source is not as clear as it has been in the past, so it is hard to tell which one to attribute to. What do we do in cases like this where we have an unattributed CWW and an unresponsive author? G12? CrowCaw 22:59, 5 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • MRG is AFK (OMG!) so pinging MER-C and Sphilbrick for opinions on this. CrowCaw 21:39, 8 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • And re-ping Sphilbrick due to mis-spelling the first go round. CrowCaw 21:40, 8 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Okay, I thought I was following and now I’m not so sure. The CSB original report referred to Cyclopaedia.de. My guess is that that site actually copied from the 2011 Wikipedia entry. You said the CSB identified the earlier Wikipedia entry but I don’t see that, I’m wondering if you were just connecting the same dots I connected.--S Philbrick(Talk) 13:54, 9 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • @Sphilbrick: the issue is that the article in question was CWW from one of the other "Shooting at the <year> Pan American Games - <event>". The CSB flagged on a mirror of one specific article, but just about all of the articles from the 2011 and 2015 Pan Am games have the same intro text, with only the date and venue changed. So to Properly attribute, I would just want to know which one that was. I could just say it is the one that the bot flagged, but that may not be correct, thus mis-attributed. The author is a rather prolific creator, and there's no question that this text is freely licensed with the exception of the attribution, so I'm concerned about appearing too heavy handed (especially since I lack anything to back it up, rights-wise). CrowCaw 22:24, 9 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
(edit conflict) I see that User:Sphilbrick left him a note, too, user:Crow. Meanwhile, I'm afraid his problems go beyond infringing on copyright of his fellow Wikipedia editors. Unless we can verify free license, Jacqueline Simoneau is a problem against [1]. :/ --Moonriddengirl (talk) 22:25, 9 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • What then do we do with these dozen or so unattributed CWWs here and in the subsequent days below? G12? Send em all to WP:CP? Other? Also, I note the author is AutoPatrolled... CrowCaw 22:33, 9 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • I'd give him a day or two and see if he responds. If not, we've got a problem under Wikipedia:Disruptive editing, especially if he has continued doing this after being advised that he cannot. I don't like being heavy-handed in these situations, either, but this is not just a technicality - copying content without attribution voids the license. I've left him a note also. Let's see where we need to go from here. :/ (I'll remove the autopatrolled flag.) --Moonriddengirl (talk) 22:47, 9 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • So far, I have received little sign of positive response from TheGreenGiant23, I'm afraid, who mostly seems upset that these problems are being flagged. :/ User:Sphilbrick, user:Crow, I believe that if he doesn't cooperate with cleanup, {{copyvio}} may be the only choice. WP:CV authorizes blocking a user until copyright problems are cleaned up, but I really hate to do that unless absolutely necessary. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 18:13, 11 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Attribution added by GG23, they all are logical sources. I'll close out the related SCVs is nobody has further concerns about the Pan-Am CWWs. CrowCaw 21:41, 12 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds good, although it leaves all the copyvios that User:CactusWriter found, which may necessitate a CCI. Oh, this one has been fun. I'ma poke at the backlog at CP for a bit and backburner that. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 16:25, 14 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

  • GG23 blocked for re-inserting copyvios, so for now further damage is being prevented. I will watch his page and try to help if he engages in dialog. CrowCaw 19:19, 14 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
    • No copyright concern. Material PD or appropriately licensed for use. CWW, attributed CrowCaw 19:19, 14 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Checking as per the other "Shooting at..." unattributed CWWs.
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