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Deborah Morris and John Franklin

I saw this in my watchlist...

Potential copyright violation log b 22:10 CopyPatrolBot talk contribs marked revision 1221979003 on Deborah Morris and John Franklin as a potential copyright violation ‎ Tag: PageTriage

but the only thing that I am finding is the duplication of a long title in the Bibliography: The Morris family of Philadelphia, descendants of Anthony Morris, born 1654-1721 died. It seems that I can post a comment somewhere related to this... but I forgot where. Where can I provide a comment on this? Thanks so much!CaroleHenson (talk) 05:29, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

I found the log here: https://copypatrol.wmcloud.org/en. It identifies a source I did not use, but it has content that is in the article in a quote from another source: "https://archive.org/details/havilandgenealog00fros/page/210/mode/1up?q=%22no+longer+able+to+hear%22". It's a quote - and the source is from 1914, so not a copyright violation.

The source that I used was a 1893 newspaper article: "Old-Time New-York Friends: Services of the "Plain People" in Revolutionary Days". The New York Times. November 11, 1893. p. 16. Retrieved May 2, 2024."

I couldn't figure out how to add a comment that it's not a copyright violation.CaroleHenson (talk) 05:51, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

@CaroleHenson When using quotes it's normally enough to add the reference. If you use public domain content outside of quotes, then you need to add the attribution template. I've marked the raport as no action needed since you already added the reference. Nobody (talk) 08:15, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

Great thanks!CaroleHenson (talk) 19:44, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

Bugged

Got told that this edit was a "potential copyright violation". Creating new league tables. No links added, no tables copied from elsewhere. Usually you can guess how/why a bot has flagged something incorrectly, but if that edit is tripping it, it can only be bugged to hell. Kingsif (talk) 03:59, 2 July 2024 (UTC)

This case was marked as a false positive. The headers on the tables caused the report to be generated. Sorry for the inconvenience. Diannaa (talk) 12:09, 2 July 2024 (UTC)

Also Bugged

I was told that Draft: Kevin Trudeau's Global Information Network (GIN) had a potential copyright violation. Please let me know what part was flagged so it can be fixed. Grad0507 (talk) 13:40, 13 September 2024 (UTC)

There are a lot of quotations, which often trigger a false positive. Diannaa (talk) 21:25, 13 September 2024 (UTC)

hmong.es/wiki/

I'm seeing several instances where hmong.es/wiki/ is being flagged as having been the source for possible plagiarism. The site itself is offline and the URL is for sale, but checking in the Wayback Machine, it looks like the site was republishing/reskinning Wikipedia articles. Based on what I can tell, these are false positives and not actual copyright violations. —Tcr25 (talk) 22:02, 5 November 2024 (UTC)

@Tcr25 Pretty sure that's what User:CopyPatrolBot/UrlIgnoreList is for. From what I see MusikAnimal has added sites like that one to the list in the past. Nobody (talk) 10:12, 6 November 2024 (UTC)

Thanks, I've added it there. —Tcr25 (talk) 13:13, 6 November 2024 (UTC)

Michael Oldstone (on en-wiki)

Is there a problem with this? I added a one-and-a-half-sentence quotation from a two-page obituary. I can trim it if necessary, but it seems ok to me. Espresso Addict (talk) 22:45, 12 November 2024 (UTC)

@Espresso Addict As long as it's sourced and not WP:OVERQUOTING it should be fine. Nobody (talk) 06:49, 15 November 2024 (UTC)

Search for reports involving a specific user

It'd be nice to be able to look at how many times someone appears at Patrol, like how we can search for reviews done by a specific user. Sennecaster (talk) 02:42, 18 November 2024 (UTC)

Filed at task T380143. Nobody (talk) 07:31, 18 November 2024 (UTC)