English Wikipedia @ Freddythechick:Copyright problems/2009 March 22

22 March 2009

The entire article body appears to have been lifted from the website above at some point, though it has undergone subsequent editing. It has been suggested at the article's Talk page that the website in question may in fact have copied the WP article, though no evidence has been produced in support of this contention, and there appear to be elements in the webpage which were never present in the article. I have emailed the website owners on 2009-03-23 requesting clarification, but have received no response so far. Some guidance is needed here.--Yumegusa (talk) 13:17, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

Please see this and this. I think they show the development of this text by the Wikipedia community and not by the website owners. In fact one of them includes the addition of sources, although at the time I did not know how to do inline referencing. Also look at the Glendalough, Greystones and Avoca pages of the Town and country website and you'll see the same pattern of copying from Wikipedia. I suggest this is sufficient evidence to remove the copy vio tag. Beyond that I'm unsure what to do about the wb site, if anything. Nelson50T 16:40, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
Well done, pulling that together. That evidence appears to be conclusive, and I'll lift the copyvio forthwith. It's a reminder how tricky these thing can be.--Yumegusa (talk) 17:12, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
  •   Done - GDFL release now present on the web site. Tag removed. – Toon(talk) 17:49, 27 March 2009 (UTC)