Template:Copyvio
 | An editor has launched a copyright investigation involving this section. The text under investigation is currently hidden from public view, but is accessible in the page history. Please do not remove this or restore blanked content until the issue is resolved by an administrator, copyright clerk, or volunteer response agent.
The purported copyright violation copies text from {{{url}}} ; as such, this page has been listed on the copyright problems page. Unless the copyright status of the text of this page or section is clarified and determined to be compatible with Wikipedia's content license, the problematic text and revisions or the entire page may be deleted one week after the time of its listing. What can I do to resolve the issue?
Steps to list an article at Wikipedia:Copyright problems:
|
 | This template should always be substituted (i.e., use {{subst:Copyvio}}). |
Usage
If a text page is a likely copyright violation, add the following before the copied text:
{{subst:copyvio|url=source(s)}} where the copyvio starts and {{copyvio/bottom}} where the copyvio ends.
{{subst:copyvio|url=source(s)|fullpage=yes}} if the entire page has a copyright issue.
This template must always be substituted.
- If the entire page, including all previous versions of it, is a blatant copyright violation, do not use this template and do not blank the page. Tag with {{db-copyvio}} instead.
- If only part of the page is a likely copyright violation, you may tag only that section. The template by default will blank all content following it; to limit the blanking, place {{Copyvio/bottom}} at the point where copyright concerns end.
- This template is not for use with images. Blatant image copyright violations should be tagged with {{Db-f9}}. Otherwise, suspected image violations should be tagged with {{Ffd}}. If this template is used on a page in the File namespace, it will transclude Template:Copyvio error above the notice.
- Separate multiple URLs with spaces.
TemplateData
This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. See a monthly parameter usage report for Template:Copyvio in articles based on its TemplateData.
TemplateData for Copyvio
No description.
| Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| url | url 1 | Source where the content was copied from | URL | required |
| fullpage | fullpage 2 | Whether the full page is a copyright violation. If "yes", hides the content from search engines.
| String | optional |
See also
- Wikipedia:Copyright problems § Instructions - for a more detailed description on how to use this template as well as the other related templates
- {{Db-g12}} – for speedy deletion of blatant text copyright violations involving an entire article
- {{Copyvio}} – for blanking entire articles or sections of article that violate copyright but do not meet the speedy deletion criterion
- {{Copyvio-revdel}} – for requesting a revision deletion after infringing material has been wiped
- {{Copyvio link}} – for just tagging a single external link, rather than an entire page
- {{Copyright violation}} – inline version to tag a sentence or paragraph
- {{Copypaste}} – for articles or sections that appear to be copy-pasted from another source
- {{Close paraphrasing}} – can be used when content was apparently copy-pasted but also slightly reworded
- {{Non-free}} – for flagging articles that may use excessive amounts of non-free material
- {{Cclean}} – for notifying a removal of infringing material on articles' talk pages
- {{Uw-copyright}}, {{Uw-copyright-link}}, {{Uw-copyright-new}}, {{Uw-paraphrase}}, {{Welcome-copyright}} – for warning users who violate copyright
- {{CCI}}, {{CCId}}, {{CCI-notice}}, {{CCI-project}}, {{CCI-subject}} – talk page notices regarding contributor copyright investigations
- {{copied}}, {{translated page}} – to show where page text originates, from other pages or from other language wikis, respectively
- {{Backwards copy}} – to show a source has copied Wikipedia, not the other way around