⚓ T402601 Compile list of templates, jargon and policies relevant to Copyvio

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Description
This task involves the work of compiling the list of language/phrases/shorthand/codes/etc. volunteers at the wikis listed below use to signal that a given edit is being reverted on the grounds of a copyright violation and/or related policies.
Knowing the above will enable
@MNeisler
– as part of
T376064
– to approximate the current rate (read: baseline) at which new content edits are reverted on the grounds of suspected/potential copyright violations.
Deadline to participate:
September 9
. Feel free to edit this task to add the relevant information that concerns your wiki.
Requirements
For each of the wikis listed below, document all of the language/phrases/shorthand/codes/abbreviations/etc. volunteers use in edit summaries that are relevant to copyright violations.
Wikis
Pilot wikis
Wiki
Jargon¹ used in Edit summaries to tag a copyright violation (comma separated)
fr.wiki
copyvio, violation du droit d'auteur, droit d'auteur, cv, plag,
es.wiki
copyvio, plagio, violación copyright, copyright, posible plagio, posible copyvio, sin wikificar/copyvio, violación derechos de autor, viola copyright
ar.wiki
انتهاك الحقوق، خرق حقوق التأليف والنشر، خرق حقوق الطبع
en.wiki
copyvio, copy-vio, copy vio, copyright violation, close para, close paraphrase, remove copying, cv-revdel, CLOP
¹ Any language/phrases/shorthand/codes/abbreviations/etc. editors use in edit summaries to identify that they removed a copyright violation.
Other prioritized Wikipedias
These wikis have been prioritized as they will be part of an upcoming experiment.
Wiki
Jargon used in Edit summaries to tag a copyright violation (comma separated)
fa.wiki
ja.wiki
pt.wiki
VDA, Violação de direitos autorais, G3, copyvio
de.wiki
Urheberrechtsverletzung, URV
it.wiki
violazione di copyright, copyviol
zh.wiki
copyvio, 侵權, 侵权, 侵犯版权, 侵犯版權, 侵犯著作權, 侵犯著作权, 抄襲, 抄袭, cv rv, cvrv
ko.wiki
id.wiki
copyvio, teks berisi pelanggaran hak cipta, [[WP:PHC|pelanggaran hak cipta]]
uk.wiki
pl.wiki
[[WP:NPA|NPA]], npa, [[WP:NPA]], copyvio.
nl.wiki
copyvio, auteursrechten(schending)
he.wiki
cs.wiki
copyvio, copy vio, porušení autorských práv, porušení aut. práv, okopírované, zkopírované, okopírováno, zkopírováno, doslovná kopie, cv
vi.wiki
vi phạm bản quyền, VPBQ, copyvio
tr.wiki
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Jargon used in Edit summaries to tag a copyright violation (comma separated)
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Compile list of templates, jargon and policies relevant to Copyvio
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I'm assigning this over to Benoît to coordinate this work.
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You appear to have caried them over from the parent task without reviewing them as
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You appear to have caried them over from the parent task without reviewing them as
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Got it. Thank you for sharing this context. I think everything is sorted now :)
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Can we reuse what we have from
T389445: Compile list of templates, jargon and policies relevant to NPOV
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In
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Can we reuse what we have from
T389445: Compile list of templates, jargon and policies relevant to NPOV
Can you please say more about what you mean here,
@Trizek-WMF
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en.wiki
Documenting a couple of patterns
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Rather than being reverted, many revisions that introduce perceived copyright violations are
deleted
and reference the
RD1
redaction reason: "
RD1. Blatant violations of the copyright policy. Best practices for copyrighted text removal can be found at WP:Copyright problems and should take precedence over this criterion. Usernames should not be hidden under RD1."
In many instances, copyvio reverts don't have specific language in the edit summary; they're just reverted with the default summary and then {{copyvio-revdel}} is applied.
Example
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In order to identify how many edits are reverted due to copyright issues, the Editing team want to compile a list of templates, jargon, and policies used in edit summaries when a copyright violation is removed. We invite community members to list these terms in
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I suspect a number of edits reverted as "copied", "plagiar*", as well as deletions under the enwiki criterion "G11", "spam", "advertising", are also copyvios.
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on en.wiki typical edit summaries would include "copyvio", "copy-vio", "copy vio", "copyright violation", "cv" (but "cv" is ambiguous as also could be referring to "Curriculum Vitae" - but "cv" and a url is probably a hit), also all can be pluralised (+s) and G12
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On EN Wiki i use the following jargon in my edit summaries while removing copyvio:
copyvio
close para
close paraphrase
remove copying
I also use combined variations of the phrases above, but these are the main ones.
With the revdel script:
Requesting copyvio revdel (cv-revdel)
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Question: Should we also list terms and jargon that don't directly refer to copyright, but their usage is correlated strongly with copyright issues? Plagiarism is a different concept from copyvio but things that are plagiarized are frequently copyvios too, for instance.
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Pl.wiki: [[WP:NPA|NPA]] (automatic), npa, [[WP:NPA]], copyvio.
I think "copyvio" might be used sometimes for images, but rarely. We have a tool for adding common phrases to summary that adds NPA with a link, so that would be the most popular.
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On en.wp "G12" and "
F9
" are the speedy deletion reasons for copyright violations of text and files respectively (the "G11" noted above is a typo for G12, G11 is related to advertising and promotion, not copyright). Do note that these can appear in other edit summaries that are not removal of content (e.g. a deletion discussion may be closed with an edit summary like "close as speedy delete G12" with the nominated content then being deleted under that criterion).
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On enwiki, I use "rmv copyvio", "rv copyvio", "rmv close paraphrasing", "rv close paraphrasing". When requesting revdel, "Requesting copyvio revdel (cv-revdel — Red-tailed hawk's version)"
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Above it is suggested that spam/advertising are quite likely to be copyvios. If the spammer/advertiser is an agent of the copyright holder, they have arguably relaxed the copyright by publishing it with a CC license. Perhaps more to the point the reason for the revert is not copyvio.
I'm not sure that we should distinguish between deletions of revisions and reverts, since an effective revert is still required - except where a page is deleted (in which case it should probably be blanked anyway before deletion, as a belt-and-braces measure).
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On he.wiki, common edit summaries are
הז"י
and
הפרת זכויות יוצרים
. Less common, and somewhat ambiguous but still often suggestive of copyright infringement, are
העתקה
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הועתק
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he.wiki relevant templates:
files:
תבנית:אישור OTRS = No permission on Commons
תבנית:תמונה מוגנת = Copyvio on Commons
תבנית:תמונה חופשית = Not fair use
תבנית:תמונה בשימוש הוגן = Not free file, should be fair use
תבנית:תמונה בשימוש הוגן ללא מקור = fair use file without source
תבנית:כללי מדיניות ישנים לקבצים = Grandfathered old file
תבנית:אין להעביר לוויקישיתוף = don't move to Commons
ויקיפדיה:תמונות/אולם דיונים = files notice board
ויקיפדיה:ויקישיתוף/קבצים לאישור בקר-רישיון בוויקישיתוף = open license review for Hebrew requests
articles:
תבנית:הפרת זכויות יוצרים - for copyvios
also:
bot checking copyvios - ויקיפדיה:בוט/בדיקת הפרת זכויות יוצרים
handling copyright:
ויקיפדיה:זכויות יוצרים/שאלות ותשובות - for questions
עזרה:תמונות/ניטור - help page for file patrolers
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On enwiki, I use CLOP for close paraphrasing, and the other ones mentioned here.
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A quick note to say: THANK YOU! Thank you all for contributing to and partnering with us in this work.
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I listed G11 because pure spam is often done by copy-pasting, so even if it isn't flagged as G12 or copyvio it often is one.
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But G11 is also used for a lot of things that are not copyright violations so it is not a reliable indicator of copyright status. This task (as I understand it) is seeking to identify jargon that unambiguously identifies content removed for being a copyright violation.
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Hi
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, Does this list also include the logs (e.g. reason on deleted pages due to copyright infringement and/or RevDel), or is only based on the reason of the reverted edits? Thanks!
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bit more (he.wiki):
מדיה ויקי:Filedelete-reason-dropdown - reasons for deletion for admins
ויקיפדיה:מדיניות המחיקה --> Deletion policy
ויקיפדיה:מדיניות המחיקה#סיבות למחיקה מהירה --> reasones for speedy deletion
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CLOP, CV, Copyvio, copypaste, cutpaste move (reverting cut and paste moves without attribution), G12, close paraphrasing, copyright violations.
This is quite niche, but English Wikipedia will use PDEL or Presumptive deletion/removal in certain cases; where we have confirmed previous instances of copyright violations from a user and have identified the case as not worth the editor time to carefully review either due to volume or difficulty accessing sources.
We may also refer to the excessive use of quotations (ie. a whole section being made of quotes) as overquoting. Some people use "blanking" to refer to sending an article to Copyright problems.
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Japanese Wikipedia
Uses the exact wording from
MediaWiki:Deletereason-dropdown
for copyright-related deletion reasons:
著作権侵害のおそれ
(“Possible copyright infringement”) → e.g.
著作権侵害のおそれ: Wikipedia:削除依頼/Article name
GFDLまたはCC-BY-SA違反
(“GFDL or CC-BY-SA violation”)
[[WP:CSD#全般9]] 明白な著作権侵害
(“Obvious copyright infringement”)
Unlike other wikis (e.g. “cv”, “copyvio”), no abbreviations are used.
Related policies:
WP:COPY
WP:DP#B-1
, and
WP:CSD#全般9
Note: I only noticed the Wikimedia-wide announcement (
Tech News 2025/36
) today, so I apologize for the late submission.
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In
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Hi
@Trizek-WMF
, Does this list also include the logs (e.g. reason on deleted pages due to copyright infringement and/or RevDel), or is only based on the reason of the reverted edits? Thanks!
Sorry for the late reply. The list is only for edit summaries, post-edition. We aren't exploring deletions as we can't reuse them for comparisons.
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