Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2011 October 26

26 October 2011

Reviewed and addressed all that I saw

Either Téa Delgado (history · last edit) from http://www.soapcentral.com/oltl/whoswho/tea.php, or http://www.soapcentral.com/oltl/whoswho/tea.php from Téa Delgado (history · last edit) per User talk:Moonriddengirl#Concern regarding inexperienced editor tagging things as possibly copyrighted. --Gh87 (talk) 02:24, 26 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. It is evident from the discussion above that SoapCentral copied from Wikipedia with regard to the Téa article. While trying to see if SoapCentral plagiarizing Wikipedia has been discussed anywhere here before, by using "Search," I located this discussion: Talk:Téa Delgado#Soap Opera Central not above copying Wikipedia. I researched this issue by using the Wayback Machine, and this is what I found. Look at this text:

Two years later, Téa returned to town for a brief visit. She visited Todd, and it was evident that Todd was still hurt by her having left him. Todd next ran into Téa in Hawaii. Blair and Sam Rappaport had secretly gone to Hawaii with Manning kids Starr and Jack, but Blair's bodyguards tipped Todd off and he followed them there. Téa warned Blair about Todd's plan to kidnap the kids, allowing Blair and the children to safely return to Llanview. Todd's plan to kidnap his children having gone awry, he ended up shipwrecked on a deserted island with Téa and Ross Rayburn, a man Todd had hired to help him with the kidnapping. Todd and Ross both vied for Téa's affections. After Todd spied Téa kissing Ross, he decided to leave the island alone. As he prepared to depart, Téa showed up and told Todd that she was in love with him and always had been. A wave of emotions came over Todd and he admitted to Téa that he wanted to be with her, too. The two then made love for the first time. Afterwards, however, Téa discovered that Todd still had a picture of Blair and painfully realized that he was still in love with Blair, despite having earlier sworn that he was through with her. Though hurt by this realization, Téa gave her blessing for Todd to romantically reunite with Blair. Desperate to get home to his family, Todd risked his life by getting on a make shift raft and rowing out into sea. He washed up on a beach in Guam, and from there made his way back to Llanview. Téa and Ross were later rescued.

The Téa Wikipedia article had it first. It was created on July 22, 2008.[1] On July 4, 2008, SoapCentral's looked like this and it was still that way on December 19, 2008.[2] So it's easy to see that SoapCentral copied Wikipedia. Don't know why Gh87 is saying "either from," when the evidence is quite clear. 85.195.138.27 (talk) 08:08, 26 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Backwards copyvio tags on article talk pages are really useful in these cases. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 19:11, 6 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Barbara Montgomery (All My Children) (history · last edit) from http://www.soapcentral.com/amc/whoswho/barbara.php. --Gh87 (talk) 03:05, 26 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

? I don't see the problem here. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 19:34, 6 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Collierville High School (Collierville, Tennessee) (history · last edit) from http://www.scsk12.org/SCS/high/Collierville/aboutus.html. I03927 (talk) 18:48, 26 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 19:39, 6 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Louis Néel (history · last edit) from http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1970/neel-bio.html. RockMagnetist (talk) 23:21, 26 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 19:45, 6 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Soil resistivity (history · last edit) I moved this to mainspace from AfC as it seemed okay, but after looking at the user's talk page, I see a previous versions of the same article was deleted for copyright violations. Perhaps someone with a penchant for this type of investigation should also take a look at the new one. Uʔ (talk) 11:23, 26 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

There's no doubt it uses some of the same text used in the articles he has previously had deleted as G12s of [3], but I cannot access that source. :/ --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 19:11, 6 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- I've notified the user who had tagged the first article as G12. We'd hope he has access to the sources. ASCIIn2Bme (talk) 19:51, 6 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  - Thanks! That could help. :) --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 21:08, 6 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    - Or not. ? I don't see any sign that he followed up with you. Lacking any evidence that this is a copyvio, I've restored the article. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 15:19, 13 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
      - That was a bit odd. Did he provide an URL or some other way to indicate the source whose copyright was allegedly violated in his G12 tag? He seems to patrol random new pages, but based on several feedback posts on his talk page, he doesn't seem particularly experienced. ASCIIn2Bme (talk) 06:41, 17 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]