Wikipedia:New Pages Patrol - Copyright Violations (WP:COPYVIO)

Copyright Violations (WP:COPYVIO)

CorenSearchBot sometimes automatically detects copyright violations. However, as 100% reliance should never be placed on bots, and bots can either produce false positives or miss copyvios entirely, articles that show suspicion of text copied from other sources should be checked manually. Articles about organizations and music groups are especially prone to 'borrowing' content from other sources. Therefore, when reviewing a new page, please consider

• Single reference articles,
• Articles with large sections of text without inline references.
• Articles whose style of text appears to come from a news article, press release, blog, or a book.
• Text with an informal style of prose, first person pronouns and possessives (I, we, my, our), and contractions (I'm, we're, they're, can't, didn't, aren't, won't, can't, didn't, etc)

1. Compare the article's content to the reference and looking for copy/pastes or close paraphrasing
2. Run a random passage of text from the article through a search engine (such as Google) for that exact phrase to see if it has been copied from anywhere.
3. If you find similar text on other sites, use the Duplication detector.
4. If appropriate, either remove the plagiarised content, or if this is not practical and most of the article is blatant copyright violation, tag the article for speedy deletion under G12.