Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/TDKR Chicago 101

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Background

TDKR Chicago 101

TDKR Chicago 101 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
Check requested by SL93 (talk)
I found several articles with copyright violations created and expanded by TDKR Chicago 101 spanning since 2015, including the three articles John T. Richardson in 2022, Charles H. Townes in 2015, and Xu Caihou in 2015 that somehow passed ITN. Per Talk:John T. Richardson#Contested deletion, I don't think that there is any malicious intent. Diannaa cleaned up the John T. Richardson article and suggested starting a CCI if five or more articles could be found. I first came across the issue when the editor nominated Bally's Chicago for DYK. It still has one small copyright violation after the editor tried fixing the issues - "jointly owned by the city and state". There are also Lisa Cano Burkhead, 2018 Little Village fire, Laurie Mitchell, and Saugus High School shooting among likely others. SL93 (talk) 02:05, 25 May 2022 (UTC) SL93 (talk) 02:05, 25 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment I would like to apologize for my edits as if you see in the John T. Richardson talk page, I had no idea my edits were copyvio. SL93 had been the only one to thoroughly explain to me about how my edits and article creations were copyvio and had someone provided the thorough feedback as SL93 did I would not have committed these many errors. My intent was no malicious at all and as a result, I'll just shy away from article creations and major edits. I once again cannot emphasizes how sorry I am and furthermore I have been struggling at fixing these articles as I'm still not getting the picture of how these edits should look like and thank SL93 for the patience. TDKR Chicago 101 (talk) 04:01, 25 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
- Has this at least been looked at somewhat? SL93 (talk) 22:24, 3 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
- Hmm. SL93 (talk) 23:19, 9 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  @SL93 Sorry, I'm the only one who looks into more complicated cases currently, and I've been taking a break. I'll try and get to this later today. Moneytrees🏝️(Talk) 20:45, 14 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

(Sighing) I've looked further at TDKR's edits, and found some further issues. The recently created Magnificent Mile shooting has portions closely phrased to this NPR source, Barbara Nawrocka-Dońska look awfully like an unatributted translation of pl:Barbara Nawrocka-Dońska, and for that matter it looks like there are a lot of unattributed translations here. Looking at some older edits, 2018 Little Village fire has sections copied/ close to 1 2 and 3. I initially thought this case might be some minor close phrasing, but this unfortunately will need more investigation. The good news is that it should be relatively easy to rewrite affected portions of articles. Moneytrees🏝️(Talk) 05:20, 15 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@MER-C: over 20k mainspace edits. Offline surveyor is needed.... Moneytrees🏝️(Talk) 05:23, 15 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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