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Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/Zackmann08

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This CCI cleanup subpage has been opened because concerns of repeated copyright violations from the listed contributor have been substantiated and further review of contributions is necessary. Listings are not intended to imply a presumption of bad faith on the part of any contributor, as copyright laws vary widely around the world and many contributors who violate Wikipedia's copyrights policy do so inadvertently through not understanding it or the United States' laws that govern it.

If you are here because of a note on an article's talk page explaining removal of text, please do not restore any removed text without first ensuring that the text does not duplicate, closely paraphrase or plagiarize from a previously published source. You are welcome to use sourced facts that may have been removed to create new content in your own words or to incorporate brief quotations of copyrighted material in accordance with the non-free content policy and guideline.}}

Instructions

All contributors with no history of copyright problems are welcome to contribute to clean up. Contributors who are the subject of a contributor copyright investigation are among contributors with a history of copyright problems and so are not welcome to directly evaluate their own or others' copyright violations in CCIs. They are welcome to assist with rewriting any problems identified, and are encouraged to assist with accessing offline and paywalled sources.

If contributors have been shown to have a history of extensive copyright violation, it may be assumed without further evidence that all of their major contributions are copyright violations, and they may be removed indiscriminately in accordance with Wikipedia:Copyright violations. Contributors who are the subject of a contributor copyright investigation are among contributors who have been shown to have a history of extensive copyright violation and so all of the below listed contributions may be removed indiscriminately. However, to avoid collateral damage, efforts should be made when possible to verify infringement before removal.

When every section is completed, please alter the listing for this CCI at Template:CCIlist to include the tag "completed=yes". This will alert a clerk that the listing needs to be archived.

  • {{CCI-open|Contributor name|Day Month Year|completed=yes}}

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  • Examine the article or the diffs linked below.
  • If the contributor has added creative content, either evaluate it carefully for copyright concerns or remove it.

:*Evaluating for copyright concerns may include checking the listed sources, spot-checking using search engines, google books, or archives, and looking for major differences in writing style. The background may give some indication of the kinds of copyright concerns that have been previously detected. For older text, mirrors of Wikipedia content may make determining which came first difficult. It may be helpful to look for significant changes to the text after it was entered. Searching for the earlier form of text can help eliminate later mirrors. If you cannot determine which came first, text should be removed presumptively, since there is an established history of copying with the editor in question.

:*If you remove large portions of text presumptively, place {{tlsp|CCI|name=Contributor name}} on the article's talk page.

:*If you specifically locate infringement and remove large portions of the text (or revert to a previous clean version), place {{tls|cclean}} on the article's talk page. The url parameter may be optionally used to indicate source.

:*If there is insufficient creative content on the page for it to survive the removal of the text or it is impossible to salvage, replace it with {{tls|copyvio}}, linking to the investigation subpage in the url parameter. List the article as instructed at the copyright problems board, but you do not need to notify the contributor. Your note on the CCI investigation page serves that purpose.

:*To tag an article created by the contributor for presumptive deletion, place {{subst:copyvio|url=see talk}} on the article's face and {{tlsp|CCId|name=Contributor name}} on the article's talk page. List the article as instructed at the copyright problems board, but you do not need to notify the contributor.

  • After examining an article:

:*replace the diffs after the colon on the listing with indication of whether a problem was found (add {{tl|y}}) or not (add {{tl|n}}). If the article is blanked and may be deleted, please indicate as much after the {{tl|y}}. The {{tl|?}} template may be used for articles where you did not determine whether or not a violation occurred, but are prepared to remove the article from consideration – either because the material is no longer present in the article, or it is adequately paraphrased so as to no longer be a violation (please specify which).

:*Follow with your username and the time to indicate to others that the article has been evaluated and appropriately addressed. This is automatically generated by four tildes (~~~~)

  • If a section is complete, consider collapsing it by placing {{tl|collapse top}} and {{tl|collapse bottom}} beneath the section header and after the final listing.

Background

= Zackmann08 =

  • {{User5|Zackmann08}}
  • Check requested by Apocheir (talk)
  • * Fire department pages are plagued by copyright violations, usually material copied or very closely paraphrased from the department's webpage or the webpage of the city or county that it's a part of. Some of this user's edits have introduced such material.
  • Santa Clara County Fire Department, speedy deleted for obvious copyvio, from https://web.archive.org/web/20170505203739if_/http://www.sccfd.org/images/documents/key_reports_documents/SCCFDBusinessPlan20152019compressed.pdf.
  • Sacramento Fire Department from http://portal.cityofsacramento.org/Fire/Operations/Special-Operations
  • Santa Barbara County Fire Department from https://web.archive.org/web/20150217030642if_/http://sbcfire.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Type-3-Engine.pdf and https://web.archive.org/web/20150217034741if_/http://sbcfire.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Helitender.pdf
  • Springfield Fire Department from https://www.mafirefighters.com/SpringfieldFD.htm and https://web.archive.org/web/20150317184518/http://www3.springfield-ma.gov/fire/history.0.html
  • Clark County Fire Department (Nevada), North Las Vegas Fire Department, Las Vegas Fire & Rescue, Henderson Fire Department, all from https://web.archive.org/web/20141218011616/http://nvtf1.org/ . This one may be rewriting of earlier copyvio material.

This user is a long-time editor with hundreds of thousands of edits. He has written or rewritten many pages on fire departments in the US. It does not appear that every single time he's rewritten a page he has introduced copyright violations, but at least several have. These edits introducing copyvios are from several years ago. Honestly I hope there's an alternate explanation here. 02:34, 9 April 2023 (UTC) Apocheir (talk) 02:34, 9 April 2023 (UTC)

  • Comment: The editor in question has not contributed for about six weeks. It seems quite possible that the editor believed that the above publications by local governments in the United States were in the public domain. I did a bit of amateur research into the potential copyright status of these documents but quickly became lost in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike. – Jonesey95 (talk) 06:39, 9 April 2023 (UTC)
  • I'll note the first one wasn't added by Zackmann, so I've restored it sans the copyvio edits. But looking further, I've found more issues, including some close paraphrasing on Refugio oil spill... it looks like most of this CCI will focus on that. I'm going to accept this one, but I'm intending the scope to just be their major edits and articles created. They've made a ton of minor, non problematic edits from what I can see. Moneytrees🏝️(Talk) 02:51, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

  • {{U|MER-C}} This will need the non-public survey due to 300k plus edits, although I predict this will be a smaller one because this user made a ton of minor edits. Moneytrees🏝️(Talk) 02:56, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

Contribution survey

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This report generated by [https://github.com/MER-C/wiki-java ContributionSurveyor.java] at 2023-07-22T09:57:59.089988477Z. Command line: java org.wikipedia.tools.ContributionSurveyor --user Zackmann08 --outfile dump.txt