Misplaced Pages:Contributor copyright investigations

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Contributor copyright investigations Shortcut

WP:CCI

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Contributor copyright investigations (CCI) is a process for identifying users who have repeatedly committed copyright violations over long periods of time and review their contributions for any remaining issues. A CCI begins when an editor notices a large-scale pattern of copyright violations from a user and files a case request. Administrators or copyright clerks review the request and may open a full survey of their contributions, which will be reviewed and removed if suspected or confirmed to be a copyright violation.

CCI is intended for large-scale systematic copyright violations only. Persistent unattributed copying within Misplaced Pages or from compatibly licensed sources and translations from sister projects may also be raised here. To list individual articles or files for evaluation, see Misplaced Pages:Copyright problems or Misplaced Pages:Files for discussion; however, attempting resolution is not required prior to filing a CCI request.

When and how should a CCI be started?

At least five instances of clear copyvios (copy/pasting of unlicensed third party material; clear derivative works) is required to file a case. More may be required for issues like copying within Misplaced Pages or plagiarism from free sources. There are no other requirements for filing a CCI request, but listing diffs, sources, and warnings clearly and concisely is recommended.

New cases should be filed by placing the {{subst:CCI-request}} underneath the requests header below.

{{subst:CCI-request
|user = the user subject to the CCI
|evidence = your reasoning for opening the case
}}

Please remember to remain civil. Most contributors violate copyright policies due to misunderstandings rather than malicious intent. While it may be necessary to intervene to prevent future copyright issues, treating individuals discourteously is unhelpful. Good faith requests are welcome even if they should prove mistaken. However, this is a serious allegation and should not be made without evidence. Requests without evidence may be interpreted as harassment and will be removed by administrators or clerks.

After submitting a case, please notify the contributor by adding {{subst:CCI-notice}} ~~~~ to the bottom of their talk page. It is not necessary to notify individuals who are currently blocked for copyright infringement, even if temporarily.

Review of CCI requests

Further information: Misplaced Pages:Contributor copyright investigations/Instructions

A copyright clerk or admin will review the request and determine if a full case is needed based off of the evidence presented, responses by the editor subject to a request, and their own brief survey. Clerks may request that an administrator review deleted contributions where necessary. If the evidence does not substantiate the concern, the CCI request will be declined, and then archived.

If a user has requested evaluation of your contributions here, please remember that the purpose of CCI is not to harass or embarrass you, but to keep Misplaced Pages compliant with copyright laws. If you believe that your contributions are not a copyright problem under Misplaced Pages's policies, please succinctly provide your rationale. If the user who made the request is proven mistaken, the request will be declined with a note. However, if a case is opened, you may best demonstrate your willingness to comply with Misplaced Pages's copyright policies by helping to identify and address the copyright issues you have caused.

Accepted cases

Upon accepting a case, a clerk or admin will create the appropriate contributor survey subpage and then populate the contribution data.

If contributors have been proven 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 thus removed indiscriminately, in accordance with our copyright violation policy. CCI tries to avoid significant collateral damage and generally reviews each article carefully, but presumptive wholesale removal is used if the effort required to review is much higher than reasonably expected.

To participate in cases, follow the link of one of the open cases. All contributors with no outstanding history of copyright problems are welcome to contribute to clean up, and users who are listed here are encouraged to help clean up their own materials. Users subject to a CCI will not receive notices of articles or images that are deleted or blanked for copyright concerns during the investigation.

The {{y}} and {{n}} templates are used to confirm whether the edit was a copyright issue. The {{?}} template is used to indicate that the edit has already been either deleted or completely rewritten, and therefore not worth the effort. Upon completion, the CCI case will be archived.

Requests

Please add any suspected infringers below, following the format at How should a case be filed? above. A CCI clerk or administrator will review your request according to the instructions, then either open the case or close it.

MightyPepper

MightyPepper (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
Check requested by EricEnfermero (Talk)
User is posting mostly verbatim text into medical articles; sometimes a word or two is removed from the original text. I tried reaching out on the talk page, but the offending content has been reinserted into multiple articles by User:68.232.115.25. See acrodysostosis, for example. Open to any suggestions. EricEnfermero (Talk) 05:26, 10 January 2015 (UTC) EricEnfermero (Talk) 05:26, 10 January 2015 (UTC)
I am cleaning up several of the articles in which I have added content, and rewriting the content. In most of the articles, I have come up with important references and they do provide very useful information. However, I am now aware of the issues with copyright and will make all necessary changes to avoid the violations. MightyPepper (talk) 06:41, 10 January 2015 (UTC)
- Today's contributions still indicate a lack of understanding of copyright violations and close paraphrasing. In this edit, MightyPepper appears to have taken almost all of the wording from here without even citing it as a source. The user changed a few words, but those changes affected the meaning of the material (changed "found more often in women than men and have increased incidence with age" to "found in women and have increased incidence with age.") The rest is almost verbatim from the source. I appreciate the user's attempts to engage here; my concern is that the copyright and sourcing issues are spreading to more medical articles. EricEnfermero (Talk) 02:16, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
  - Edits have been done to paraphrase the content in cases where the sources seem reliable. MightyPepper (talk) 03:40, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

Note that adding things like "It may be noted that", followed by a sentence pasted from the source, is not paraphrasing. Modifying a few words while maintaining the same structure is still considered too close. Please see This Diff for example, of me paraphrasing the paragraph linked above. Read the source material, understand it, then write the text in your own words. Pasting the text in and then modifying it is not usually sufficient. Crow 20:16, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

I am trying to write it in my own words, I have made a few edits now. Hopefully some reviewer can comment on them. MightyPepper (talk) 21:11, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

Open investigations

Closed investigations

All closed investigations, as well as requests that were declined, can be found at Misplaced Pages:Contributor copyright investigations/Archive.

Templates

See Category:CCI templates.

Template:CCI: placed on article talk pages to note cleanup
Template:CCId: placed on article talk pages when it has been tagged presumptively for deletion review in one week
Template:CCI-notice: to notify contributors of a new listing
Template:CCI-project: to notify a project of a CCI with which they may help
Template:CCI-request: to request new investigations
Template:CCI-open: to denote open CCI requests, this template should only be used by a clerk or administrator
Template:CCI update: to notify people who have assisted in a CCI that it is finished.

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