Talk:Charles Henry Ludington

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Possible copyright problem[edit]

This article has been revised as part of a large-scale clean-up project of multiple article copyright infringement. (See the investigation subpage) Earlier text must not be restored, unless it can be verified to be free of infringement. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions must be deleted. Contributors may use sources as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences or phrases. Accordingly, the material may be rewritten, but only if it does not infringe on the copyright of the original or plagiarize from that source. Please see our guideline on non-free text for how to properly implement limited quotations of copyrighted text. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 19:06, 4 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Copyvio, content not verified by sources, puffery, etc[edit]

See Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Doug Coldwell and ANI. From its creation, thi article contained the same familiar mix of archaic sources and family-published accounts, content not verified by sources, content contradicted by other sources, sources not available online that can't be verified, and a few instances of cut-and-paste copyio (sample1 and sample2). Moneytrees, when the copyvios were introduced on the first edit that created the article, does the article need to be G12 deleted, even when the actual cut-and-paste is only two sentences ? After you advise me what to do here, I will mark this page at the CCI page. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 05:22, 22 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I've now located Beers, and it is also plagiarized (went with his father to New York City bit). SandyGeorgia (Talk) 15:21, 22 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@SandyGeorgia G12 is for when majority of the article, since the first edit, is a copyright violation. If the copyright violation is subsequently removed, then a revision deletion under RD1 can be used instead. In this case, all the sources (bar a website you removed) were published in America before 1928 so they're in the public domain. Public domain material isn't a copyright violation and doesn't need revision deletion, but it needs to be attributed to avoid plagiarism. In a case like this, you have a choice between attribution and removal; we aren't bound to keep subpar content if it's in the public domain, so removal is fine. Coldwell had a habit of copying from public domain sources without attribution, so there'll be more examples of this... Moneytrees🏝️(Talk) 16:14, 23 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Got it, thanks ... SandyGeorgia (Talk) 16:35, 23 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]