Wikipedia:Possible copyright infringements

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    1. Place one of the following above the infringing text:
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      {{subst:article-cv|PageName}} from [insert URL or identify non-web source here] ~~~~

      Put the page's name in place of "PageName". If you do not have a URL, enter a description of the source. A pre-filled version can be copied from the top of the copyvio template after substituting it. If yours is the first listing of the day, please make sure a header has been added to the top of the page. This should happen automatically.
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    Older than 7 days

    20 November 2025

    26 April 2026

    Extended content

    Text: 'At the Best Design Awards in 2023, TOA Architects won gold in the Toitanga category, as well as the supreme purple pin, for work which raises the bar for New Zealand design.'

    Source: 'Toa Architects, which designed Te Taumata o Kupe, won the gold pin as well as the supreme purple pin in the Toitanga section at this year’s Designers Institute of New Zealand Best Design Awards.'

    Text: 'Te Māhurehure is a sub-tribe of Ngāpuhi from the Hokianga region. Post World War II, diaspora in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland searched for a site to maintain cultural identity and belonging in a predominantly non-Māori population'
    Source: Te Mahurehure is a Ngāpuhi hapū (subtribe) from Waimā in the Hokianga region. Like many other Māori communities since the end of the Second World War, Te Mahurehure has experienced a diaspora of some of its members to Tāmaki Makaurau. Mid-20th-century Māori migrants to Tāmaki Makaurau searched for places to maintain their cultural identity in a city where non-Māori were and still are the majority of the population.
    Text: 'The site of Taumata o Kupe used to be Auckland's tip'
    Source: 'The site of the Taumata o Kupe used to be the city’s tip' (in hindsight this one is blatant, its the same wording minus substituting 'city' for 'Auckland')
    Text: 'and the current site is a result of decades of commitment from numerous people in and around the Te Māhurehure community'
    Source: 'It is a remarkable result following decades of work and commitment from numerous people and speaks to the determination and perseverance of the Te Mahurehure community.'
    Text: 'a place where mātauranga Māori, especially that to do with Kupe, could be received.'
    Source: 'This would be a place where people could recite and receive mātauranga Māori, particularly that associated with Kupe'
    Text: 'The name Kupe recalls the Polynesian navigator thought in Māori legend to be the discoverer of Aotearoa New Zealand.'
    Source: 'The name Kupe is associated with the legendary Polynesian navigator who is thought to be the discoverer of Aotearoa.'
    Text: 'The sails on the waka of which Kupe arrived on were a starting point for TOA Architect's design.'
    Source: 'The sails of the waka (or canoe) were the starting point for the building’s form'

    Text: 'The site measures at 600 square feet over two levels.'

    Source: 'It measures 600 square metres over two levels'

    Text: 'The building veers from the structure of a conventional wharenui (Māori meeting house) with its rectangular gabled-shaped building.'

    Source: 'The building form is not that of the conventional Wharenui with a rectangular gabled-shaped building and front porch area.'

    Text: 'The glass facade is split in two, with the bottom tilted inwards, suggesting alluding to the nautical themes of sails and rudders'

    Source: 'and the glass’ inward tilt and angles on the red barge suggests the movement of the sails and rudders.'

    Source: 'the glass facade echoing the stays, while the faceted frame alludes to the shape of a rudder.'

    Text: 'The diagonal black wind brace which traces the front façade recalls the forms of stays used on Māori sails.'

    Source: 'The diagonal black wind brace on the front façade follows the form of stays used on Māori sails'

    Text: 'The glass panels illustrate Kupe's journey, drawing inspiration from whakairo rākau and kōwhaiwhai traditions as well as contemporary Māori artist Cliff Whiting's aesthetic and colour palette.'

    Source: 'Rawiri based his visual language on the traditions of whakairo rākau and kōwhaiwhai (scroll painting) and the contemporary aesthetic and colour palette pioneered by the Māori modernist artist, Cliff Whiting.'

    Text: 'TOA Architects designed the raised platform of the building to reference the Society Islands taumata (hill) from where Kupe departed for Aotearoa New Zealand'

    Source: 'According to TOA Architects, this raised platform is a direct reference to Society Islands’ taumata from which Kupe departed.'

    Text: 'Imric Porsolt was born in Pozony, Hungary (now Bratislava, Slovakia) in 1909. Living in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, he learnt both Hungarian and German.'

    Source: 'Born in Pozony in Hungary in 1909 (now Bratislava in Slovakia), Porsolt grew up speaking both Hungarian and German as a citizen of the Austro-Hungarian empire'

    Text: 'Simultaneously, several avant garde art and architecture movements were growing and modernism was catching on as a depature from traditionalism'

    Source: 'Modernism represented a radical departure for him from the old way of life of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.'

    As per the instructions, @Traumnovelle: can you tag the problematic material with {{copyvio}}? Tenshi! (Talk page) 07:46, 27 April 2026 (UTC)
    I have done that, although it blanks the whole page which I find to be a bit extreme based on the perceived issue here. Traumnovelle (talk) 23:12, 27 April 2026 (UTC)
    I added some more examples from the first paragraph, some are quite blatant examples of close paraphrasing but others are debatable. Traumnovelle (talk) 09:22, 28 April 2026 (UTC)
    And more examples. I haven't gone through the entire article but I now believe the article may required to be fully deleted due to the extensive close paraphrasing. Traumnovelle (talk) 21:50, 28 April 2026 (UTC)
    @Traumnovelle ~2026-32797-61 (talk) 16:15, 6 June 2026 (UTC)
    Yes? Traumnovelle (talk) 20:31, 6 June 2026 (UTC)

    6 May 2026

    22 May 2026

    Extended content

    I've previously attempted solving this issue myself last year, but was reverted multiple times (, , ), and it appears that someone(s) readded similar WP:COPYVIO summaries, and it's just continued on to now.

    For example, the two episodes added on today are season 5 episodes 11 and 12, "The Ice King Melts" and "The Fight to The Final" The two summaries added for those episodes here are as follows:

    • "There is no safety net left on The Floor to protect players as a breathtaking winning streak has every remaining player on edge with 17 players ready to do everything it takes to win."
    • "The Season 5 finale delivers the most anticipated showdowns of the entire season in the fiercest fight ever for the $250,000 grand prize."

    Via the episodes' listing on The Futon Critic, these are their respective summaries via that:

    • "There is no safety net left on The Floor, hosted by Rob Lowe, to protect players in the most thrilling finale yet. A breathtaking winning streak has every remaining player on edge"
    • "the Season 5 finale delivers the most anticipated showdowns of the entire run. 17 players are ready to leave absolutely everything on the floor for a shot at winning the life-changing $250,000 prize"

    While not purely the same exact thing, as WP:COPYVIO notes, "Even inserting text copied with some changes can be a copyright violation if there is substantial linguistic similarity in creative language or sentence structure; this is known as close paraphrasing, which can also raise concerns about plagiarism".

    Just as another quick example, season 5 episode 1, "New Year, New Floor". Once again, the summary on the Wikipedia article:

    • "100 new trivia players dive straight in for a shot at $250,000. Chills go through the air as a new game advantage sends one contestant into the final stages of the game."

    And via the episode listing on The Futon Critic:

    • "In a dramatic two-part premiere of The Floor, hosted by Rob Lowe, 100 new trivia players dive straight in to take their shot at $250,000. This season, they will feel a chill when a new game advantage sends one contestant into the final stages of the game."

    Even the following episode, "The Expert-Slayer Strikes", gives quite a closely-paraphrased summary:

    • "A bold challenger shakes up The Floor with a fearless approach in pursuit of a crucial early advantage."
    • "Tonight, a bold challenger will shake up The Floor with a fearless approach in pursuit of a crucial early advantage."

    I've been trying to see how (possibly) bad it is through the Copyvio Detector, but I'm guessing it is likely yielding low percentages for the article due to how lengthy it currently is.

    On another note, I'd imagine with how lengthy the article is, I would suggest splitting it up into separate season articles, as previously suggested at Talk:The Floor (American game show)#Should we split the show into its respective seasons?. Should be noted that the show has already been renewed for a sixth and seventh season, so if it is not split now, it'll only be getting worse as time goes on.

    Will also note that I have not warned any contributor(s) on their talk page, as this has been over sometime and likely involves more than one contributor, but I have issued a notice on the article's talk page at Talk:The Floor (American game show)#WP:COPYVIO issues and article splitting. I'd imagine if indeed considered copyright violation(s), there are too many revisions that would need deleting. However, I would recommend removing said copyright violation(s) and retaining the actual episodes' game summaries, as I'd previously attempted doing (such as this). Magitroopa (talk) 01:26, 22 May 2026 (UTC)

    26 May 2026

    16 June 2026

    • Wikipedia:Songs about Wikipedia (history · last edit · rewrite) Note: While I am filing this under Wikipedia:Songs about Wikipedia, I do not think that page should be discussed, as I’m only doing that for organisational purposes. Rather, what should be discussed is the following:
    List of pages
    The following discussion has been closed. Please do not modify it.
    Wikipedia:Songs about Wikipedia/No Deadline (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
    Wikipedia:Songs about Wikipedia/Non-Stop (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
    Wikipedia:Songs about Wikipedia/Revert (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
    Wikipedia:Songs about Wikipedia/Proud to be a Wikipedian (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
    Wikipedia:Songs about Wikipedia/'Pedia Ga Ga (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
    Wikipedia:Songs about Wikipedia/Party in the Wiki Way (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
    Wikipedia:Songs about Wikipedia/Oh, Wikipedia (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
    Wikipedia:Songs about Wikipedia/Revert It (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
    Wikipedia:Songs about Wikipedia/Sons of Wiki (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
    Wikipedia:Songs about Wikipedia/Spitvandal (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
    Wikipedia:Songs about Wikipedia/Smells like Wikipedia (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
    Wikipedia:Songs about Wikipedia/The Wikipedia (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
    Wikipedia:Songs about Wikipedia/Troll & Vandal (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
    Wikipedia:Songs about Wikipedia/There A Vandal Goes (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
    Wikipedia:Songs about Wikipedia/Total Edit to the Text (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
    Wikipedia:Songs about Wikipedia/Spongewilly Squarewheels (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
    Wikipedia:Songs about Wikipedia/Surfing Wikiay (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
    Wikipedia:Songs about Wikipedia/Still Unbanned (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
    Wikipedia:Songs about Wikipedia/Staying Alive (And Dying at the same time) (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
    Wikipedia:Songs about Wikipedia/Spammaz on the rise (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
    Wikipedia:Songs about Wikipedia/Ultimate Wikdown of Pedia Destiny (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
    Wikipedia:Songs about Wikipedia/User (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
    Wikipedia:Songs about Wikipedia/We didn't start the fire (Roads) (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
    Wikipedia:Songs about Wikipedia/We Are The Users (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
    Wikipedia:Songs about Wikipedia/Why your grounds (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
    Wikipedia:Songs about Wikipedia/What Shall We Edit Now? (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
    Wikipedia:Songs about Wikipedia/Wikisorder (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
    Wikipedia:Songs about Wikipedia/Want You Blocked (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
    Wikipedia:Songs about Wikipedia/Viva las Edits (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
    Wikipedia:Songs about Wikipedia/Vandalman (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
    Wikipedia:Songs about Wikipedia/Vandal In A Spin (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
    Wikipedia:Songs about Wikipedia/Vandal (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
    Wikipedia:Songs about Wikipedia/Users Paradise (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
    Wikipedia:Songs about Wikipedia/Wiki Paradise (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
    Wikipedia:Songs about Wikipedia/WikiHolics (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
    Wikipedia:Songs about Wikipedia/We Will Block You (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
    Wikipedia:Songs about Wikipedia/Wikipedia (Hallelujah) (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
    Wikipedia:Songs about Wikipedia/Wikipedia (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
    User:DanTahHedgehog/Wikipedia (song) (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
    Wikipedia:Songs about Wikipedia/Wikipedia (Edit By Your Page) (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
    Wikipedia:Songs about Wikipedia/Wiki-ped-ia (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
    Wikipedia:Songs about Wikipedia/Wiki Submarine (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
    Wikipedia:Songs about Wikipedia/Wikitext I Love You So (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
    Wikipedia:Songs about Wikipedia/Wikipedian in residence (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
    Wikipedia:Songs about Wikipedia/Wikipedian Rhapsody (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
    Wikipedia:Songs about Wikipedia/Wikipedian Pie (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
    Wikipedia:Songs about Wikipedia/Administrative Dreamin' (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
    Wikipedia:Songs about Wikipedia/5 Against and 6 Are For (The AfD Song) (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
    Wikipedia:Songs about Wikipedia/Block You (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
    Wikipedia:Songs about Wikipedia/Blaze of Vandals (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
    Wikipedia:Songs about Wikipedia/Around the Wiki (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
    Wikipedia:Songs about Wikipedia/Another Page (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
    Wikipedia:Songs about Wikipedia/Another Article (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
    Wikipedia:Songs about Wikipedia/All Eyes On Me (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
    Wikipedia:Songs about Wikipedia/Editing World (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
    Wikipedia:Songs about Wikipedia/Edit (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
    Wikipedia:Songs about Wikipedia/Don't cha wish your 'Pedia (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
    Wikipedia:Songs about Wikipedia/Don't vandalise this page (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
    Wikipedia:Songs about Wikipedia/Come here to Wikipedia II (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
    Wikipedia:Songs about Wikipedia/Coconut Monkey (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
    Wikipedia:Songs about Wikipedia/Edit Me (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
    Wikipedia:Songs about Wikipedia/Climb Up the Reichstag (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
    Wikipedia:Songs about Wikipedia/Changes (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
    User:ThatPeskyCommoner/WikiTunes (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
    Wikipedia:Songs about Wikipedia/Build (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
    Wikipedia:Songs about Wikipedia/Born in the Wikiay (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
    Wikipedia:Songs about Wikipedia/Empty Heads (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
    Wikipedia:Songs about Wikipedia/Hey Hey Wiki (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
    Wikipedia:Songs about Wikipedia/Give Me New Messages (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
    Wikipedia:Songs about Wikipedia/Hey Wiki (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
    Wikipedia:Songs about Wikipedia/I Don't Want to Be A Vandal (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
    Wikipedia:Songs about Wikipedia/Jimbo's Hymn (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
    Wikipedia:Songs about Wikipedia/Jimbo the Great (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
    Wikipedia:Songs about Wikipedia/I'm an Editor (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
    User:Editor510/Keyboard (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

    See Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Songs about Wikipedia. Wikipedian Talk to me! or not… 20:53, 16 June 2026 (UTC)

    18 June 2026

    • Indonesia Stock Exchange (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://www.idx.co.id/en/products/index/. - Ivan530 (Talk) 00:20, 18 June 2026 (UTC)
      Article cleaned, revision deletion requested. Tenshi! (Talk page) 23:33, 27 June 2026 (UTC)
      Revision deletion completed. Tenshi! (Talk page) 12:31, 28 June 2026 (UTC)
    • List of The New York Times number-one books of the 1990s (history · last edit · rewrite) from and Steve Quinn (talk) 18:24, 18 June 2026 (UTC)
      No copyright concern. Material is PD, license compatible, or ineligible for copyright protection. Per rationale below Tenshi! (Talk page) 09:08, 29 June 2026 (UTC)
    • List of The New York Times number-one books of the 1980s (history · last edit · rewrite) from and Steve Quinn (talk) 18:53, 18 June 2026 (UTC)
      No copyright concern. Material is PD, license compatible, or ineligible for copyright protection. Per rationale below Tenshi! (Talk page) 09:08, 29 June 2026 (UTC)
    • List of The New York Times number-one books of the 1970s (history · last edit · rewrite) from and and . Steve Quinn (talk) 19:00, 18 June 2026 (UTC)
      The three New York Times articles were created as undiscussed merges of the existing articles for each year. The original articles for each year have been restored by Οἶδα. As such, the merged articles should be deleted or redirected to Lists of The New York Times number-one books and a separate discussion started on whether the articles for each year violate copyright. Johnj1995 (talk) 15:23, 21 June 2026 (UTC)
      Sounds good to me. I have no expertise on whether such articles constitute copyvios. Though it was my vague impression that they didn't when articles such as those at Category:Record charts by year remain on Wikipedia. Οἶδα (talk) 18:28, 21 June 2026 (UTC)
      @Steve Quinn: What's the issue you are asserting here? Note that the Non-free content policy only disallows such lists if they possess creativity. Tenshi! (Talk page) 23:19, 27 June 2026 (UTC)
      Οἶδα, Johnj1995, Tenshi Hinanawi. The issue is these Wikipedia articles are simply verbatim lists that copy the New York Times Bestseller lists. Each list seems to be an example of copyright infringement. The New York Times holds the copyright. Additionally, I have tagged only three Wikipedia articles for copy vios, as shown above, out of a set of nine similarly created articles. Here are the other six articles:
      , ,, , , and .
      As an aside, I left a message on each of the talk pages of the above articles that I tagged, attempting to explain the issues. ---Steve Quinn (talk) 16:05, 28 June 2026 (UTC)
      Please re-read my question, specifically the second sentence. Tenshi! (Talk page) 16:08, 28 June 2026 (UTC)
      How is this different from Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1976 or any other such record chart list articles? Genuinely curious. I have no firm opinion on this. Οἶδα (talk) 16:12, 28 June 2026 (UTC)
      I did read your second sentence and it does not seem applicable to this situation. There is no indication that these list have been selected in a so-called creative manner - and it is difficult to understand what "creative manner" refers to. However, what this is, according to what you linked to is: "2. Excessively long copyrighted excerpts," and it may violate "1. Unattributed pieces of text from a copyrighted source." I don't know anything about the Hot 100. I am talking about the above New York Times list. If you look at the NYT lists above you will see what I am talking about. ---Steve Quinn (talk) 16:37, 28 June 2026 (UTC)
      • I just realized that this discussion is moot based on Johnj1995's response. All of the above articles should be redirected or deleted due to a reverse merge. So, I will endeavor to do that. It might take some times. I will begin by removing the copyvio tags. ---Steve Quinn (talk) 16:50, 28 June 2026 (UTC)
      • My preference is redirecting for merge, so I will most likely change these to redirects when I get the chance. ---Steve Quinn (talk) 16:53, 28 June 2026 (UTC)
      I have removed the copy vio tags on the above articles ---Steve Quinn (talk) 17:00, 28 June 2026 (UTC)
      No copyright concern. Material is PD, license compatible, or ineligible for copyright protection. As I said above, doesn't appear to be any creativity in the list selection, so it's not copyrightable, and it's not unattributed either. Tenshi! (Talk page) 09:08, 29 June 2026 (UTC)

      doesn't appear to be any creativity in the list selection

      Is that true though? It's not an objective metric. It is well known that how the The New York Times compile their lists is trade secret. Publishers Weekly uses Nielsen BookScan, but the The New York Times compile their own lists from their own numbers. They even assert that their lists are based on the vendors they choose to include in their sales figures. Also, as covered in the main article, The New York Times was famously sued and defended itself by saying its list was an editorial product, not an objective compilation of information, so the Times had the legal right under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution to exclude books from the list. Here's another controversial example of a book that Publishers Weekly reported sold 692,238 units in the United States but was excluded by The New York Times for arbitrary reasoning and that was proven to be logically inconsistent. Οἶδα (talk) 16:49, 29 June 2026 (UTC)
      Tenshi, it seems your assessment of not qualifying for copyright protection based on the rationale provided is inaccurate. For one thing, common sense says these are copyrighted materials based on general knowledge. Second, is the multiple rationales provided by User:Οἶδα. I have no idea why you have a focus on "doesn't appear to be any creativity in the list selection". There are other criteria involved. So, I do not accept your final decision. If I didn't already resolve the problem I would challenge it. I think you need to change your decision to reflect other criteria because " doesn't appear to be any creativity in the list selection" is not a valid rationale. ---Steve Quinn (talk) 18:25, 29 June 2026 (UTC)
      Also, if you want to go the "creative" route, the way these lists are compiled is a creative endeavor — given that the list are compiled based on decade. That is a creative decision. It can be seen as an interpretation. In any case, as User:Οἶδα has pointed out, this is not an objective metric. ---Steve Quinn (talk) 18:37, 29 June 2026 (UTC)
      Okay, that does make sense. I'll put this back on the main page and leave this for another clerk/admin to handle. I'll note though that even if you have merged the content somewhere else, that needs to be addressed as well as the history of the now-redirected page. Tenshi! (Talk page) 19:30, 29 June 2026 (UTC)

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    23 June 2026

    • Our text says the state of all things - including objects, facts, and events - as they exist, rather than how they might be imagined to be
    • The source says the state of things as they are, rather than as they are imagined to be.
    It's not a one-to-one copy but it may fall under WP:CLOSEPARAPHRASE. Phlsph7 (talk) 16:36, 23 June 2026 (UTC)
    Simply enclosing an exact copy in quotation marks would suffice as far as I can tell. Unfortunately editors are not satisfied with "things" and wish to elaborate inline. Maybe we should try yet again to get a definition that is not a quote. Johnjbarton (talk) 17:52, 23 June 2026 (UTC)
    • No copyright concern. Material is PD, license compatible, or ineligible for copyright protection. WP:LIMITED Tenshi! (Talk page) 18:28, 23 June 2026 (UTC)

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