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Hello copyright patrollers, we currently have 76 reports at CopyPatrol that need to be assessed. I have been doing upwards of 50 reports per day this week, which is an unsustainable workload for me! Pinging some recent contributors as shown on the Leaderboard: GreenLipstickLesbian, Ymblanter, Sphilbrick, MCE89, Sennecaster, L3X1, Thorn6130, and Moneytrees. Any assistance you can offer would be perfect, even if you only have time to do a few cases. Assistance would be much appreciated! Thanks in advance,--Diannaa (talk) 22:25, 3 March 2025 (UTC)

omw ^Thanks,L3X1 ◊distænt write◊ 22:29, 3 March 2025 (UTC)

Thanks L3X1! Diannaa (talk) 01:30, 4 March 2025 (UTC)

I've been slammed with university coursework lately but I might be able to squeeze in a few here and there. I have your talk page watchlisted so there's no need to ping me. — Callitropsis🌲[talk · contribs] 22:43, 3 March 2025 (UTC)

Thanks, cool you will pop in when you can. Diannaa (talk) 01:30, 4 March 2025 (UTC)

Oops. So much for my intent to do an average of at least one of these a day. -- asilvering (talk) 01:52, 4 March 2025 (UTC)

Every little bit helps! But remember what Gretzky said, 100% of the shots you dont take, don't go in! :) Diannaa (talk) 02:00, 4 March 2025 (UTC)

Unfortunately, I have some real-life issues (a brother with health problems) that are force me to reallocate my time and I need to step back from Wikipedia for a little while. Sorry. S Philbrick(Talk) 13:44, 4 March 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for the update. Hope everything goes ok. Diannaa (talk) 13:46, 4 March 2025 (UTC)

Hello Diannaa getting touch for some help and guidance on page editing MariaNabat (talk) 05:22, 4 March 2025 (UTC)

Hello @Diannaa getting touch for some help and guidance on page editing. MariaNabat (talk) 05:24, 4 March 2025 (UTC)

Hello MariaNabat. The best place for users to get help with specific questions is the Teahouse. For an introduction to editing, a good place to start is Help:Contents or Help:Introduction.--Diannaa (talk) 13:30, 4 March 2025 (UTC)

Hello, I found this draft here and Earwig's is giving me 96% from https://tambent.com/2022/11/23/egon-huber-1905-1960-austrian-designer-ceramicist-and-philhellene/ , but I wanted to get a second opinion on it to see if it's a mirror site. The site indicates that it was published November 11, 2022, two months after the article was created. It doesn't look like the draft was ever in mainspace, and I've personally never seen a mirror take from draftspace, so this has me stumped. Any thoughts on this? Sophisticatedevening ^(talk) 16:37, 13 March 2025 (UTC)

(talk page watcher) The website has this statement:His story is little known, and, while awaiting the Solomonesque ruling of some Wikipedia judge, we can shed a little light on him: he well merits it. which indicates it was highly likely copied from the draft. -- Whpq (talk) 16:59, 13 March 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for checking. Sophisticatedevening ^(talk) 17:04, 13 March 2025 (UTC)

Hi Diannaa, I need your opinion on something. It was in the year 2010, a copyright law was passed in the Maldives. It was in October 2010 that the law was put into effect. According to Article 36 of the copyright law of Maldives any products such as photos published in websites before the copyright law was put into effect are not protected under the copyright law. This applies to photos copied from original sources and published in other websites too according to the law. This photo [1] was uploaded to Divehi Wikipedia on 2008 and I was wondering if I can upload this image on Wikipedia, as it was published before the law was passed in the country. Appreciate your input on this. You can refer to the law from here [2]. ShappeAli (talk) 07:53, 14 March 2025 (UTC)

Images uploaded to the Commons have to be in the public domain or compatibly licensed both in the country of origin and in the US. My opinion is no, it is not okay to copy, because we don't have adequate source information, i.e. who took the photo and on what date and when was the original publication date. See the Hirtle Chart. Best to ask at commons:Commons:Village pump/Copyright to be sure though. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 09:52, 14 March 2025 (UTC)

Thank you for your reply. I have raised the same query at commons:Commons:Village pump/Copyright. ShappeAli (talk) 16:12, 14 March 2025 (UTC)

I rewrote the Prizes section on European Crystallographic Association. I hope it is fine now. AvdL34 (talk) 14:40, 14 March 2025 (UTC)

Looks okay now. Thanks for taking the time to do that. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 22:29, 14 March 2025 (UTC)

The iOS 16 article also has the violation and I assumed it wasn’t. Sorry about the inconvenience. Icaneditalot42 (talk) 16:45, 15 March 2025 (UTC)

It looks like the page where I found the content is actually a copy of the Wikipedia page iOS 16. So I have restored your addition. It's okay to copy from one Wikipedia article to another, but you have to give attribution so that our readers are made aware that you copied the prose rather than wrote it yourself. It's also required under the terms of our license. I've added the attribution for this particular instance. Please make sure that you follow this licensing requirement when copying within Wikipedia in the future. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 17:08, 15 March 2025 (UTC)

Hi Diannaa, I just took care of the article DreamNote from CopyPatrol, but I want to ask you to look at the copyvio revision. It has random Hungarian(?) text added in and a citation to this: https://doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496811325.003.0047 (???)

Not sure if this is a weird LLM thing or an LTA tell? The user who made the edit has a history of vandalism warnings though.

Thanks, REAL_MOUSE_IRL talk 18:02, 15 March 2025 (UTC)

It looks to me like this is a citation that is unlikely to support the material it is purported to relate to. The editor in question has edited almost all the articles listed here. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 20:25, 15 March 2025 (UTC)

I found someone else had been adding it in. It seems obvious in hindsight, but the visual editor has an "automatic" citation function, and if you type "citation needed" into that it gives you a cite to this book, instead of a ^{[citation needed]}. I'm too used to the source editor to have thought of that...

I gave the user some advice on how to properly add the template, and to not add unsourced stuff to BLPs. I'll keep ahold of that handy linksearch in case I see this crop up again. Thanks! REAL_MOUSE_IRL talk 13:04, 16 March 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for the detective work! — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 13:32, 16 March 2025 (UTC)

Hey Diannaa. Please have a look at today's history of Madhav National Park : I had removed copy-pasted text + placed a copy-vio revdel on top of this page. But the editor who added the copy-pasted text, undid this revision already twice. Thanks, BhagyaMani (talk) 14:34, 19 March 2025 (UTC)

Hi @BhagyaMani. It looks like the problem has stopped. The rev-del was done by another admin. I will watch the page for a week to see if they resume. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 19:02, 19 March 2025 (UTC)

Hey. Yes, another admin took care of this much faster than I anticipated. I appreciate if you watch the page for some time. — BhagyaMani (talk) 20:34, 19 March 2025 (UTC)

Please review Special:Diff/1281520055 for possible COI. Many thanks. Zefr (talk) 22:00, 20 March 2025 (UTC)

Do you mean copyvio, or COI? Spot checks reveal no copyvio, and the CopyPatrol system did not pick up anything either. Earwig's tool shows nothing. You did right to remove it though. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 22:33, 20 March 2025 (UTC)

Did mean CV, as it was a first-time edit containing reference numbers and 'better-than-novice' composition, impressing as copied. Thanks for your quick attention. Zefr (talk) 23:30, 20 March 2025 (UTC)

It could be copied; I can't prove it. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 23:46, 20 March 2025 (UTC)

Hi Diannaa, I'd be grateful for your sage advice. I recently came across these two articles via NPP:

• Perception limit
• Breast milk oversupply

where I suspect the creating editor has either had an LLM generate content directly from the sources, or cut and pasted text from the sources and asked the LLM to reword them. In any case, I think that they are rife with WP:CLOP copyvios, and have already removed some content from both and asked for revdel. However, it will take a lot of editor time to analyse both articles and make the relevant excisions, and it seems that that is a bit of a waste. I wondered whether there was a speedier path to resolution: should I stubify both articles, retaining sources, ask for revdel and move to draft? Or nominate them at AfD, citing the probable copyvios and suggesting WP:TNT? Thanks in advance! Cheers, SunloungerFrog (talk) 11:30, 22 March 2025 (UTC)

Hello SunloungerFrog. That's a good question. Typically what I do when I come across more complex cases like this is I list them at WP:CP. That way the author of the suspect text has a week at minimum to repair their work before drastic action such as stubification is taken. Cleanup of listings at WP:CP is done by admins that are highly experienced in making these tough calls. --— Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 11:45, 22 March 2025 (UTC)

Thanks very much for the swift response, Diannaa. I'll do just that. Cheers, SunloungerFrog (talk) 11:51, 22 March 2025 (UTC)

Hi - I need help applying a template which expands and contracts the sections and have tried and failed to do it.   I am almost ready to send for review but I need to get this done to improve readability.

You sent me a note about plagiarism and avoiding it. I have tried very hard to do this and I assume it's a general message you send out.

Let me know please.

Cheers

Ian Mackay Iwmackay (talk) 09:36, 25 March 2025 (UTC)

Hi Mr Mackay. We don't collapse sections in article space. Typically this is only done for templates. See for example at the bottom of the Adolf Hitler article where there's four large templates that can be collapsed or expanded. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 10:30, 25 March 2025 (UTC)

Hi Diannaa, can I ask your help? I wanted to translate "Minas de Ríotinto" to "Minas de Riotinto" to give it the correct (and official) spelling. But it won't let me because the second page already exists. So, what can I do? CFA1877 (talk) 16:23, 26 March 2025 (UTC)

You can request a page move at Wikipedia:Requested moves/Technical requests. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 19:47, 26 March 2025 (UTC)

Hi Diannaa, could you or any of your page watchers take a quick look at the table I added here to see if my suspicious of WP:CLOP-violation is warranted? Cheers. Abecedare (talk) 18:05, 27 March 2025 (UTC)

Commented. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 20:31, 27 March 2025 (UTC)

Hi Diannaa, I noticed you added a topic on my User talk page about providing attribution when moving material from one article to the other. I made such an attribution in the talk page of the article Foundation of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures. I hope this all right now. As the moving of text was the result of an editing war in the article History of the metre, I would prefer not mentionning it in the talk page of History of the metre. Despite the fact that I modified the text, which I copied in accordance with the criticisms made and that I conformed to the request of moving text into other articles, I am afraid my work could be deleted in absence of consensus. Charles Inigo (talk) 16:06, 28 March 2025 (UTC)

Hi Charles Inigo. The attribution is actually supposed to be done via an edit summary at the time you add the content. The edit summary would be something along the lines of "copied content from [[page name]]; see that page's history for attribution". Posting on the talk page is optional. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 18:52, 28 March 2025 (UTC)

Hi Diannaa, I usually do that way, but I was pertubed by the fact that my contributions had just been reverted. Is there something else I could do to repare my omission? Charles Inigo (talk) 19:13, 28 March 2025 (UTC)

I have already fixed the attribution issue. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 19:32, 28 March 2025 (UTC)

World Transplant Games Federation

Hi. I think you made a mistake. The article I took had nothing to do with the blog. I took it from an archived site. The fact that the competition list has nothing to copyright means that the article is not copyrighted. It is also available on the new site of the same organization.

Please check again and restore the content. If you have any doubts, ask me. You removed a lot of content that I spent time and searched a lot for. It would have been better if you had asked me first.

https://web.archive.org/web/20190224232103/https://www.vantaa2016.fi/en/vantaa2016/games/ehltc

list in new site : https://www.ehltf.org/ehltf/our-games

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Umega23 (talk • contribs) 14:39, 1 April 2025 (UTC)

Hi Umega23 . A counple points: (1) It's not unusual for content to be present on multiple sites online. (2) The lists are okay to keep, or to add back if I removed them while doing the copyright cleanup. But it's not okay to copy the prose. --— Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 18:40, 1 April 2025 (UTC)

Hello, can you please take a look at contributions by HerakliosJulianus, I spot checked some of their article creations and they all suffer heavily from close paraphrasing issues. [3][4] Koshuri ^(グ) 11:18, 4 April 2025 (UTC)

Diannaa, I can promptly fix the issue, however there's not much of similarities between the content and source. Please have a look into Koshuri's close paraphrasing issue [5] [6], Zenith4151 has pointed [7] the WP:CLOP violation but koshuri failed to fix the issues [8] instead he's clerking over other's articles. Heraklios 11:48, 4 April 2025 (UTC)

@Koshuri Sultan, if you wish to start a comprehensive review of someone's work, the place to go is WP:CCI. @HerakliosJulianus, I was already pinged to Koshuri's talk page and declined to participate. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 13:16, 4 April 2025 (UTC)

I have opened a ticket. --— Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 18:48, 7 April 2025 (UTC)

Fixed --— Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 20:18, 7 April 2025 (UTC)

Hi Diannaa. Could you take a look at this IP edit if you have some time? It's nothing but promo-speak so I've gone ahead an removed it, but it also has the feel of being copyvio, perhaps from the official website of Tracey Neuls. I tried using Earwig to check this, but I can't get it to work at the moment. It's the only edit the IP made, and the article itself hadn't been edited by anyone since August 2023; so, my guess is the someone connected with Neuls might've thought they could "update" the article and wasn't familiar with WP:NOT and other things. -- Marchjuly (talk) 04:43, 8 April 2025 (UTC)

Hi MarchJuly. Thanks for the report. I can't find any copyvio manually or with Earwig's tool. You did right to remove it though obviously. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 12:27, 8 April 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for checking on this. -- Marchjuly (talk) 02:42, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

Update: Marchjuly, several of my chatbot detectors say that the text was AI-generated. A bot wrote it; that's why it's so pretty. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 23:34, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for continuing to look into this. That's another reason for removing the content. -- Marchjuly (talk) 01:36, 10 April 2025 (UTC)

Hello patrollers. In spite of the outage yesterday, we have 71 reports at CopyPatrol that need to be assessed. That's a lot more than I can handle alone. Any help appreciated. Pinging some recent participants: Moneytrees, L3X1, Tenshi Hinanawi, REAL MOUSE IRL, MCE89. Thanks!--— Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 14:03, 8 April 2025 (UTC)

Hello, thanks for your copyvio revdel there ... could you (or any other admin watching this) do the same for all the other edits by 2A02:8429:6FA0:2A01? They're all identical. Thanks. Graham87 (talk) 14:19, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

Looks like there's more at the /64 and unrevdel'd edit at 169.155.251.119 (but it's not to an article). Probably the /64 needs a block; I'll also ping the blocking admin about that. Graham87 (talk) 14:24, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

I got all the revision deletsions done on

• 169.155.251.119 (talk · contribs),
• 2A02:8429:6FA0:2A01:4142:4912:4DD0:B33D (talk · contribs),
• 2a02:8429:6fa0:2a01:f1a3:374:96f9:df9f (talk · contribs).

I have to go to work now, but please post here again if you find any more. Some page protections might be useful too if the problem keeps recurring, as they keep hitting the same articles. Thanks for the report. --— Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 14:49, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

Thanks and no problem. Oh they've been doing this sort of thing on and off, cross-wiki, for years (except, as in that diff, they often made dummy edits). Favonian knows this user well. I for one would prefer that the pages be kept open to editing as a honeypot (unless they get more continuous vandalism/disruptive editing from other sources), but YMMV. Graham87 (talk) 15:04, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

I wonder could you provide any advice at Talk:Daniel Kahneman#Death location? I tried to raise the issue at Wikipedia:Copyright problems#Listings of possible copyright problems. But it now seems to have disappeard. Martinevans123 (talk) 15:48, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

Once the first seven days have gone by, the subpages for each date have to be manually transcluded on the main page for reports to show up there. I have gone ahead and added the subpages through to the end of March. So if you look at the page now, you will see your report under the heading for March 31. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 18:39, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

Oh, I see. Thank you for the explanation. I'm assuming that someone will eventually address it. Martinevans123 (talk) 18:44, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

Yes. Sorry I don't have time to do it myself. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 18:48, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

More complex cases often remain on the page for a while before being assessed, sorry about that.— Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 19:18, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

Somebody knows that this is a more complex case? Martinevans123 (talk) 19:54, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

I'm not saying nothing. I'm just saying. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 22:37, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

Are there geography and programming articles created in 2025 on the English Wikipedia? I think yes. Help me find these articles! (KuchliWiki (talk) 12:38, 10 April 2025 (UTC)

Sorry, I don't know how I would find these amongst the millions of articles. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 14:00, 10 April 2025 (UTC)

Hey there, would you consider unprotecting BlueWare? No recent vandal activity there. Have a great day, it's lio! | talk | work 05:02, 12 April 2025 (UTC)

Hi, I have gone ahead and unprotected. Please consider adding the page to your watch-list as there are very few active editors watching this page. Thanks. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 12:32, 12 April 2025 (UTC)

Done. Cheers, it's lio! | talk | work 12:41, 12 April 2025 (UTC)

Could you take another look at Bellano? The editor who you reverted a few days ago has made a number of edits, including many html tags 176.108.139.1 (talk) 02:40, 18 April 2025 (UTC)

Hi, there doesnn't seem to be any copyright issue or copying within Wikipedia. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 11:15, 18 April 2025 (UTC)

Hi. this user just copied and pasted more content from another project, this time at Ross Rizal. He's not been listening to copyright notices given by multiple users including yourself. Here's a link to the diff: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ross_Rizal&diff=1286991439&oldid=1286990944 A^♭m ^(Ring!) _(Notes) 09:02, 23 April 2025 (UTC)

The page was deleted several hours ago. The material was copied from Simple Wiki, not a copyright violation per se. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 11:41, 23 April 2025 (UTC)

Hi @Diannaa, I have been working on the Beaune-la-Rolande internment camp article and would appreciate a quick look from you before nominating it. If you spot anything that could be tightened or improved, I would be grateful for your advice. Thanks very much for your time. Aeengath (talk) 12:24, 26 April 2025 (UTC)

Sorry,I don't have time to help with this project. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 13:42, 26 April 2025 (UTC)

No worries at all @Diannaa, and thanks again for all the great work you do! Aeengath (talk) 17:24, 26 April 2025 (UTC)

Hi Diannaa, its been a while. I kniw you don't have any ideas on our media situations here in the Philippines, but I'd like some advice on how will I contest the edits that was made by some contributors, claiming that DWAO-TV is officially inactive, though upon checking, it is still active on analog broadcast. Can you help me to contest this? Thank you and Cheers. PandaB31 (talk) 11:30, 28 April 2025 (UTC)

I see you've posted on the talk page, and that's a good start. What you need to do is find some sources (other than your local observations) to support the changes you want to make. Their website is not working. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 11:59, 28 April 2025 (UTC)