Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2023 February 14

14 February 2023

List of county routes in Elko County, Nevada (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://cms2.revize.com/revize/elkocountynevada/departments/roads/Zones___Road_System.pdf. As far as we are aware, Elko County works are not public domain. My concern is that while facts are not copyrightable, there are entire phrases in the Notes and Descriptions column verbatim. I will also point to the original diff [1]. Rs chen 7754 01:46, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
While the text is a direct copy from the Elko County log, what is there is so straightforward that I don't really think the threshold of originality to confer copyright is met on most of it (there are a few lengthy items in the description column that maybe are). After all, there's not really a whole lot of ways to say "No winter maintenance." As a whole, it functions much like a directory of the sort contemplated by Feist v. Rural. —Scott5114 ↗ [EXACT CHANGE ONLY] 03:53, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

No copyright concern. Material is PD, license compatible, or ineligible for copyright protection. I concur with Scott5114 here; the notes column may not be appropriate for this kind of information in the first place, but I don't edit roads so I don't know the norm. Sennecaster (Chat) 17:22, 17 February 2023 (UTC) Sennecaster (Chat) 17:22, 17 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Robert Dixon (explorer) (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/dixon-robert-1981. The current version is an overly close paraphrase in many spots, but the main problem is that the original version is a very blatant copypaste of that ADB article so nothing good to revert to. Wizardman 02:00, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Article cleaned, revision deletion requested. Sennecaster (Chat) 19:04, 17 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Revision deletion completed. Copyright problem removed from history. MER-C 10:37, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Earth Trust (history · last edit · rewrite) from https://earthtrust.org.uk/. It's a paraphrase in almost all the spots, would suggest reducing back down to a stub plus the list of properties managed and starting over. Lizthegrey (talk) 20:29, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Article cleaned by investigator or others. No remaining infringement. Lizthegrey: I didn't nuke the article of anything besides copyvio, and I couldn't find definitive sources of copyvio for everything, so any further removals are probably under PROMO and NOTDIRECTORY. Sennecaster (Chat) 04:43, 22 February 2023 (UTC) Sennecaster (Chat) 04:43, 22 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]