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{5-Digit US ZIPCODE}.us[edit]
Neustar/Vendare Media -- Controller of .us TLD
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http://[0-9]{5}.us/
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http://10001.us/
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Low
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none, dump of ?action=render
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usdirectory@vendaremedia.com bounced
support.us@neustar.us
ISP (Amazon AWS) email: abuse@amazonaws.com, Abuse Form
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none yet
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101languages.net[edit]
21st century Cambodia: View and Vision[edit]
2violent.com[edit]
2violent.com
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http://www.2violent.com/
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http://www.2violent.com/sharon_tate.html
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Medium
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There is a notice that mentions Wikipedia and the GFDL. The whole thing links to wikipedia.org, but there is no history section, link to the original article, or link to the GFDL. Other pages besides "Sharon Tate" appear to be a partial derivation of older wikipedia articles, or, just possibly, some text from them has been uploaded to wikipedia, as I have found exact word for word passages in Jay Sebring and Charles Manson from around 2004 November 8 or later. -Wikibob - Talk 19:32, 2005 May 22 (UTC)
- Note: I've changed this to medium, as both Wikipedia and GFDL are mentioned, and the images are not being ripped off WP's servers.
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webmaster AT 2violent.com, clasione AT verizon.net (domain admin), abuse AT godaddy.com (host)
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- Emailed webmaster AT 2violent.com, clasione AT verizon.net (domain admin) politely referring to Sharon Tate copy.
-Wikibob - Talk 20:52, 2005 May 22 (UTC)
- Sent standard followup letter, mentioning Charles Manson. Superm401 - Talk 09:14, 3 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Got 553 sorry, relaying denied from your location from webmaster AT 2violent.com and 4.2.1 mailbox temporarily disabled from clasione AT verizon.net Superm401 - Talk 09:26, 3 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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99Colors[edit]
99Colors
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http://www.99colors.net/
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http://www.99colors.net/name/dark-candy-apple-red
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Low/None
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List of colo[u]r details, such as names & RGB values, at least partially scraped from en.wikipedia. Contains some problematic content which was removed from enwiki for other reasons (ie. simply made up by an editor); existence of this (mirrored) content has been used to justify re-adding it.
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contact@99colors.net
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Repeated emails; all bounced.
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abcdef.wiki[edit]
abcdef.wiki (title: QWERTY.WIKI)
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https://abcdef.wiki
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formerly xcv.wiki, qwerty.wiki, que.wiki, qaz.wiki and other.wiki: they all redirect to abcdef.wiki at the moment; it may change domain again in the future. It seems to use live machine translations from the English Wikipedia to generate mirrors in 16 languages, without references. Some translations are very poor (e.g. Russian) while others are very good (e.g. Italian). Too many invasive ads, some of which are mildly pornographic.
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https://es.abcdef.wiki/wiki/Wikipedia
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low
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matches WP:CCBYSAC
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admin@qwerty.wiki
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(qwe.wiki) reported to Google AdSense; it definitely violates the rules on invasive ads.
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About.com[edit]
- Site: http://www.about.com/
acknowledgement without a linkno mention of GFDL. Standard letter sent by: MB 08:01 13 Jul 2003 (UTC)- Point of contact, Mary Bellis inventors.guide AT about.com.
- Response received Sun, 13 Jul 2003 04:26:14 -0700.
- Portions of affected articles at inventors.about.com (as of July 14 2003) link back to wikipedia and are released under the GFDL.
- Any examples of the affected articles? Can't find any trivially.
- Don't email the person above; she is only responsible for "inventors" section, and seems rather grumpy.Proyster 15:22, 23 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- They have started mirroring the whole thing - see http://experts.about.com/e/a/index.htm. They seem to be compliant, albeit in a very discreet way.
They are putting a "copyright 2006 About.com" on the content--which (in my view) violates the terms. I find this extremely objectionable.Proyster 20:13, 21 June 2006 (UTC) As of the current time, they do not display an About.com copyright, instead: "This is the "GNU Free Documentation License" reference article from the English Wikipedia". AnonEMouse (squeak) 19:53, 23 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]- I emailed a complaint today regarding their page at http://experts.about.com/e/j/jo/Joshua_Scottow.htm and (a few hours later) the page now re-directs to the Wikipedia original page.Proyster 20:27, 21 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Looking at this mirror, I don't see any acknowledgement that the articles originally come from Wikipedia, or any history of contributions. FreplySpang 01:53, 9 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- No mention of Wikipedia or GFDL I saw before their obnoxious spyware?/adware? finally crashed my browser. John Reid ° 14:53, 18 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- I know an editor there, she definitely writes her own stuff. No adware/spyware at about.com either.
- experts.about.com now redirects to en.allexperts.com Allexperts is a wikipedia mirror apparently owned by about.com
About.com (not url)
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www.about.com
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http://classiclit.about.com/cs/profileswriters/p/aa_mshelley.htm?terms=Mary+Shelley is a former version of Mary Shelley.
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Varies from article to article. As mentioned above, some copyright it under themselves, others link right to Wikipedia.
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This one has a copyright on the bottom saying that it is copyright of About.com , a member of the New York Times Company.
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classiclit.guide AT about.com is the email address to the specific guide of this page. The problem was mentioned above. To other people, I don't know.
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None.
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Check this out though, it almost sounds like the "guide" claims she wrote the article: http://classiclit.about.com/mbiopage.htm
About Everything, everyone Wiki[edit]
Absolute Astronomy[edit]
Absolute Astronomy
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http://www.absoluteastronomy.com
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http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Choctawhatchee_Mid-Bay_Bridge
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Medium
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Off-site GFDL. Javascript required to view mention.
This website formerly violated the GFDL. I am uncertain whether they currently use Wikipedia articles. http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/planets/Uranus.htm , for instance, is similar to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranus but I haven't determine whether there's still copying. If you remove this entry, be sure to archive it.
I am one of the creators of this site. The GFDL violation was related to displaying source information inside javascripts. This created problems for visitors who had javascript disabled. The problem was corrected when it was brought to our attention.
No obvious sign of GFDL, copyrighted by website and no mention of wikipedia - http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Alice%27s_Restaurant_(film) L∴V 15:12, 10 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
May 2010:
http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/terms.aspx
"COPYRIGHT - AbsoluteAstronomy asserts its legal copyright for all original works of authorship or intellectual property published on AbsoluteAstronomy.com. You may not publish, modify, or transmit this content without express written permission from AbsoluteAstronomy"
This implies that AbsoluteAstronomy has copyright to the content on it's site, but mostly it doesn't. The vast majority of content on the site is copyrighted by wikipedia authors, and licensed to AbsoluteAstronomy under certain terms (GFDL I guess?), which include the right for others to 'publish, modify, and transmit' the content of the site. IMHO it's a bit misleading. Decora 23:12, 23 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
August 2014:
Articles from Wikipedia are now linked at their bottom to the corresponding wp article, and the GFDL is asserted. LeadSongDog come howl! 07:15, 27 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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AbsoluteArts.com[edit]
World Wide Arts Resources / AbsoluteArts.com
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http://www.absolutearts.com/
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http://www.absolutearts.com/artsnews/2006/01/06/33592.html
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"Low/None"
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I have no idea whether they often crib from us, but the last paragraph of the cited sample page on "Archival Investigations: Early Electro-mechanical Sound Works and Artifacts from Trimpin’s First Five Years in Seattle" is a straight-out copy of the first two paragraphs of our article on Trimpin - Jmabel
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Telephone: 740-587-3326, Fax: 740-587-4103
Email: help AT wwar.com or help AT absolutearts.com
Snail mail: World Wide Arts Resources; absolutearts.com; 3678 Loudon Street; Granville, Ohio 43023; USA
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Academic Accelerator[edit]
Academic Accelerator: The Most Up-to-Date Encyclopedia, News, Review, & Research
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https://academic-accelerator.com/encyclopedia/
(That page is identical to the one at https://academic-accelerator.com/, with no mention of any encyclopedia, mostly just a search field of unclear purpose saying "Enter Journal Full Title" and an ad for their scientific publication blockchain (?) thing. You have to go to a specific article to access the encyclopedia.)
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Apparently a complete mirror, though badly done and apparently disguised.
Articles (at least the Alouette 1 article that I found) are badly formatted with no internal links present in the text (but see below), all text styling removed, lists presented as flat text (including the "See also" and "External links" sections), and subheadings presented as full headings wrapped in equals signs, indicating poor parsing.
Ironically, while they claim to be academic, the References section is completely omitted. So are all categories and infobox content. They add a dynamically-populated "Scholarly Articles" section right below the introduction, though it's empty for the Alouette 1 article, as well as sections of videos (that look like they're from YouTube, and some of which are irrelevant (anime, etc.) that happened to include the word "Alouette") and images (all images in the article, even those used only as icons in navboxes). Images are also shown all combined into one thumbnail at the top. Clicking an image in either place opens a lightbox where you can cycle through them. In all three of those places, the captions are all missing.
In the "Related topics" section at the very bottom of the page, below the videos and images, there is a list of what I guess are the target articles of all of the links from the article, including those in navboxes, in alphabetical order, meaning they've lost their context and link titling. And, because they apparently tried to reinvent hyperlink functionality using scripting and failed, the links don't work, even with scripts enabled in the browser.
They seem to have modified the text in various ways, presumably to avoid detection. For example, the wording "deactivated Canadian" in the first sentence of the Alouette 1 article is changed to "Canadian deactivated", and "Parts used for the construction of Alouette 1 can still be found in the Musée des ondes Emile Berliner in Montreal…" became "The parts used in the construction of Alouette 1 can still be seen at the Emile Berlina Museum in Montreal…", both wordings that, as far as I could tell with a bit of WikiBlame and manual searching, have never appeared in Wikipedia. If you do a simple diff (with an external tool), you'll find many more examples. To do this in so many places in presumably every article, it must have been automated.
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https://academic-accelerator.com/encyclopedia/alouette-1
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Low/None
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No mention of or links to Wikipedia, copyright, or licensing anywhere, even with scripts enabled. Text is modified in ways that look like the goal is to avoid plagiarism detection.
If you point at an image, before opening the lightbox, and look at the target URL your browser displays, you'll see the URL of the bare image (not the file description page), e.g., https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e5/Alouette_1.jpg; it can also be copied from the contextual menu there. That's the only hint of any connection to anything Wikimedia-related.
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Academic Accelerator: contact (at) academic-accelerator.com (from https://academic-accelerator.com footer)
Cloudflare (CDN): https://abuse.cloudflare.com/ (email not accepted)
Namecheap (domain registrar): abuse (at) namecheap.com, +1.6613102107 (abuse contact info from whois)
Host unknown
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Academic Dictionaries and Encyclopedias[edit]
Academic Kids[edit]
Academic Kids
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http://academickids.com/encyclopedia/index.php/Main_Page
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http://academickids.com/encyclopedia/index.php/User:Jimbo_Wales
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"Low/Medium"
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Only contains top edit in article history, looks to be a mirror of the WP database as of June 23, 2005. No links back to Wikipedia, no mention of Wikipedia as a source, GFDL is mentioned via its link to Wikipedia.
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http://academickids.com/contact/index.htm lists jd4ga7 AT yaoo.com [sic] as the contact, WHOIS lists jd4ga AT classroomclipart.com, (310)832-5686.
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Academie.de Net-Lexikon[edit]
- Site: http://www.net-lexikon.de/
- copies German-language Wikipedia
- indicates Wikipedia as source
- links to original article
- links to copy of the WikipediaDE GNU/FDL page, which links to GNU/FDL at gnu.org (minus point for indirect link; however the GNU/FDL is mentioned directly, so not a grave one)
- Does not contain "aus Wikipedia, der freien Enzyklopädie"
African Movie Academy Awards[edit]
African Movie Academy Awards
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http://ama-awards.com
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[1] from 5th African Movie Academy Awards; [2] from 4th African Movie Academy Awards
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Low/None
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Contents are copied entirely from Wikipedia, including our own internal links, with no mention made that the content comes from Wikipedia. The bottom of each page bears the notice "copyright © 2010 AMAA"
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The contributor whose content was copied wrote to the webmaster and the content has been removed. There may be no future issues, but the listing here can be helpful in case the problem recurs. It is particularly important to document these issues in the event that they should continue and should become less obvious, to avoid our contributors being unfairly accused of copyright infringement. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 12:21, 8 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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Alchetron[edit]
Alchetron.com ~ Free Social Encyclopedia for the World
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https://alchetron.com/
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Wikipedia articles mixed with some info and YouTube videos.
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https://alchetron.com/Natasha-Bedingfield
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Medium
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Links back to Wikipedia with an unclear "(Text) CC BY-SA" link at the very bottom of the page while erroneously claiming in the footer " Alchetron © 2019", No mention of licence for images
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support@alchetron.com
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None so far.
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Algebra.com[edit]
Algebra.com
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http://www.algebra.com/algebra/about/history/Main_Page.wikipedia
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http://www.algebra.com/algebra/about/history/KForge.wikipedia
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High
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A seeming verbatim copy of all Wikipedia. It does not seem to use remote loading except when it has no copy of the article. In other cases, it appears to refresh a cache occasionally. However, it does appear to load images remotely, which is unacceptable. This should be verified. Now has text "Source: this wikipedia article, under CC-BY-SA", with appropriate links, on every page.
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ichudov@algebra.com , ichudov@gmail.com (from WHOIS)
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- sent letter to contact attress
- Sent a letter to gmail address, mentioning CC-BY-SA. Superm401 - Talk 23:59, 28 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- He replied stating, "But I do say all of those things on the bottom". I replied noting that the requirements had changed due to the licensing transition, and KForge (which I cited) is CC-BY-SA only. Superm401 - Talk 00:35, 29 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- He replied, "so if I say CC-BY-Sa I will be fine?". I responded, "Generally yes, since all Wikipedia text is now available under CC-BY-SA.", with some further details. Superm401 - Talk 01:48, 29 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- He replied that it had been changed, and now seems compliant. Superm401 - Talk 02:47, 29 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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allmichaeljordan.com[edit]
Michael Jordan
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http://www.allmichaeljordan.com/
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http://www.allmichaeljordan.com/career.php
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High
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As of 17 April 2020 the website is compliant.
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| The following discussion has been closed. Please do not modify it.
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Material is spread across three pages at the site: http://www.allmichaeljordan.com/index.php, http://www.allmichaeljordan.com/biography.php, and http://www.allmichaeljordan.com/career.php. They appear to be taken from a version of the article Michael Jordan dated sometime in October, 2006. this version from October 1, 2006 is particularly similar, but phrases from versions as early as 2004 and 2005 are present, indicating that this wasn't a violation on Wikipedia's part. The WHOIS data from GoDaddy.com (through which the site is registered), lists a registration date of October 28, 2006. The site claims "Copyright © 2006 All Rights Reserved All Michael Jordan.Com".
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Site administrator: Mike Azif aziml AT aol.com.
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Standard GFDL compliance request sent. Sancho 15:32, 15 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
GFDL licensing information is now included on the web site, giving credit to Wikipedia and linking to the article. However, the GFDL is not hosted locally, but is a link to Wikipedia's GFDL page. I changed this site's compliance rating to Medium. Sancho 23:21, 21 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Alquds (not url)
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https://wiki.alquds.edu
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Appears to be a complete mirror
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https://wiki.alquds.edu/?query=Wikipedia
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"High", "Medium", or "Low/None" compliance with CC-BY-SA (matches Wikipedia:CC-BY-SA Compliance) (compare against GFDL if they choose that license).
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Describe details of compliance or lack thereof. List violations here.
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ISP: Al-Quds University, email (pr/general contact): pr@alquds.edu
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Actions taken (if any) to attempt to make the website comply.
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Amazines.com[edit]
Amazines
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http://www.amazines.com
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http://amazines.com/Superoxide_related.html, http://www.amazines.com/Jesse_Jackson_related.html
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"Medium"
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I have added notices but am unsure if this is sufficient. - Ryan (website owner).
- Links back to Wikipedia.org, but not specific page, and links to Wikipedia's version of GFDL. Changing to medium. The Evil Spartan (talk) 10:21, 26 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Ryan Jones - 805-579-0545
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email
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Amazon Alexa and Echo[edit]
Amazon.com books by mass production publishers[edit]
Amazon books published by Betascript, authors Lambert M. Surhone, Miriam T. Timpledon, and Susan F. Marseken
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http://www.amazon.de/Sachiko-M-Lambert-M-Surhone/dp/613110610X/ as just one of over 80.000 articles by this author
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The abstract is taken from the Wikipedia article Sachiko Matsubara with no attribution. This is not just a single incident, but a massive misuse of Wikipedia material. The publisher advertises "High Quality content by WIKIPEDIA articles [sic]!" on the book covers. It is a books-on-demand publisher.
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animefanwiki.de[edit]
Anna Wilding[edit]
Anna Wilding
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http://annawildingwikipedia.com/
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Subject of the Article on Wikipedia is upset that the page removed her unsourced information and put in referenced information she didn't like, so has now gone and created her own verion of the page but linked to a time when it was full of false information
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https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anna_Wilding&oldid=971096457#cite_note-3
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"High", "Medium", or "Low/None" compliance with CC-BY-SA (matches Wikipedia:CC-BY-SA Compliance) (compare against GFDL if they choose that license).
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Does not list or attribute extensive content taken from Wikipedia, and also trys to claim their own copyright on the page
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GoDaddy can be emailed at copyrightcomplaints at godaddy.com or fill out form here.
Can contact Anna Wilding directly through form on webpage as well http://annawildingwikipedia.com/contact-us
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Actions taken (if any) to attempt to make the website comply.
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Answers.com[edit]
Answers.com
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http://www.answers.com/
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http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery?s=New+York&answers.x=0&answers.y=0&gwp=8, http://www.answers.com/topic/absolute-power-series
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Medium – only thing missing is the link to page history.
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- Wikipedia pages are clearly attributed to Wikipedia. At the bottom of every page that includes a Wikipedia article, a note such as the following is presented: "This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "New York"." See http://www.answers.com/topic/new-york#copyright for that example.
- Footnote on front page but not articles: Copyright ©2005 GuruNet Corporation. About GuruNet: online reference library - encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesaurus and much more...
- Copy of Wikipedia article seen was a much earlier version which suggests that Answers.com may not be able to cope with Wikipedia's "ongoing editing" format. The unsuspecting visitor to Answers.com has no means of knowing this. Nor does this help Wikipedia's image. A mere external link on Answers.com rather than the article in full would be more satisfactory. Portress 19:45, 21 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
- Well, they might do some kind of fact checking on the article version they mirror. But they should mention the date of the last edit on the article they mirrored and mention that the article could have undergone further changes since then. --L33tminion (talk) 17:56, Jun 5, 2005 (UTC)
- They have started making "Answer Notes". These are shortened versions of Wikipedia articles (and possibly other content). At least one of them is a derivative work of the below Wikipedia article. This is certain because the first sentence is an exact copy. However, it is not licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. Others are probably also illegal deriviative works. Hence, they are now at medium compliance. I have sent a violation letter. Superm401 20:05, 3 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
- Rather than license the note under the GFDL, they rewrote it to attempt to stop it from being a derivative work. I suspect that other notes are derivative works, so I'm keeping it at medium. Superm401 18:37, 15 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Image pages now appear to display copyright correctly. See, e.g., [6]. Are there any concrete objections at this point? Slow mirroring isn't a valid compliance issue, and I don't see any concrete examples of pirated AnswerNotes. —Simetrical (talk • contribs) 04:45, 15 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- In the Absolute Power page above, the content appears to have been kept up-to-date with our version, including the image, which is also identical. There is a large bar at the top of the page including the Wikipedia logo and name, and their framing of the image looks distinctly familiar. —Vanderdecken∴ ∫ξφ 20:00, 15 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- See also Wikipedia:Tools/1-Click Answers and Answers.com press release announcing 1-Click Answers, Wikipedia Edition (released in 2006, in partnership with the Foundation).
- Also includes content from commercial encyclopædias.
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AppPedia[edit]
Archeometriai Műhely[edit]
Armageddon Online[edit]
Armageddon Online
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http://www.armageddononline.org/
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http://www.armageddononline.org/comet_shoemaker-levy_9.php, http://www.armageddononline.org/worldwar3.php, http://www.armageddononline.org/biowarfare.php
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Low
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Partial mirror, possibly with some additions.
- No mention of GNU FDL either on individual pages or on http://www.armageddononline.org/disclaimer.php (site disclaimer and legal information).
- Some pages contain links to original article and/or Wikipedia:Copyrights (eg, http://www.armageddononline.org/comet_shoemaker-levy_9.php, but not all of them (eg http://www.armageddononline.org/worldwar3.php, http://www.armageddononline.org/biowarfare.php). Appears to be haphazard.
- All pages have the footnote "All Pages Copyright © Armageddon Online".
- http://www.armageddononline.org/contact.php says "All articles on Armageddon Online were written exclusively for Armageddon Online and may not be used under any circumstances with out explicit permission from the administration."
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amazingbible AT verizon.net, http://www.armageddononline.org/contactadmin.php, http://www.armageddononline.org/contactwebmaster.php
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Sent tweaked standard violation letter to amazingbible AT verizon.net. Superm401 - Talk 23:37, 5 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Armeniapedia[edit]
Armeniapedia
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http://www.armeniapedia.org/index.php?title=Main_Page
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http://www.armeniapedia.org/index.php?title=Raffi_Cavoukian
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Medium
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Attributes (including linking to) Wikipedia and has a GFDL notice. But no link to history and no comment in general terms.
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http://www.armeniapedia.org/index.php?title=User_talk:Raffi
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Violation letter sent. Superm401
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Note Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2007-07-23/News and notes and Australian Refugee Review Tribunal
Ars Technica[edit]
Ars Technica
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http://arstechnica.com/
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http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/11/to-restore-credibility-nist-will-audit-its-standards-development-process/?comments=1
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| Rating
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Medium
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| Compliance
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They have a feature called "embeds". If someone links to Wikipedia in a comment, it will have an option, "show embeds". If you click this, it includes a significant chunk of the Wikipedia article. They could argue fair use, but I think it may not be when done on a consistent basis. It has the Wikipedia logo, the text "Wikipedia", and the full URL (which is also a link). However, there is no mention of the CC-BY-SA.
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| Contact info
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http://arstechnica.com/contact-us/
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| Actions
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Contacted using the "Contact the Editorial Team" option. Superm401 - Talk 03:21, 2 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Art Experts, Inc.[edit]
ArticleHubs.com[edit]
--Wondigoma (talk) 13:17, 4 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
articles.co.nr[edit]
Artistopia[edit]
Artistopia
| URL
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http://www.artistopia.com
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| Description
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| Sample
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http://www.artistopia.com/the-pussycat-dolls
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| Rating
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Medium
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| Compliance
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Every page has a Copyright citations section at the bottom. "It says This article is licensed under the GNU License", with GNU license linking to an off-site copy of the GFDL. The next line is " Click here for original article: ABBA". The article name links back to Wikipedia. At the very bottom it says "Copyright 2007, iCubator Labs, LLC, All Rights Reserved."
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| Contact info
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corporate AT artistopia.com (WHOIS), http://www.artistopia.com/About-Us/Contact.asp
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| Actions
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ArtLine.ro[edit]
ArtLine.ro
| URL
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http://www.artline.ro/
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| Description
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| Sample
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http://www.artline.ro/2_588_Baba__Corneliu_4945.html
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| Rating
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"Low/None"
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| Compliance
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Non-compliant. Page appears to be an image of some sort, not HTML text, but it is our content (I know, because I wrote this one). I haven't examined beyond the one page. - Jmabel
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| Contact info
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unknown
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| Actions
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Nothing so far
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ArtPolitic[edit]
- Site: ArtPolitic
- Says that it is GFDL, but links to an explanation page of the GFDL ([7]), instead of the license itself.
- Names Wikipedia and links to source article.
- Does not have "title page".
- Example: [8]
- Examples no longer seem to contain Wikipedia content --23:13, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
Asclepius Open, LLC[edit]
Artvee.com[edit]
artvee.com
| URL
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http://www.artvee.com/
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| Description
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Multiple of their 'artist' pages are either close or identical copies of the relevant article from here. The site appears to have been created in 2020, and the content seems to have been forked around about that time.
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| Sample
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https://artvee.com/artist/claude-monet/
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| Rating
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"Low/None"
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| Compliance
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Non-compliant. They do reference Wikimedia in one of the terms & conditions in relation to 'some of their images', but no reference to Wikipedia anywhere as far as I can see.
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| Contact info
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info@artvee.com
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| Actions
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Standard notice sent today: JeffUK 21:51, 7 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Asian American Data[edit]
Asinah.net[edit]
- Site: Asinah.net
- Acknowledges wikipedia authorship, links to wikipedia
- Not for their Dutch version.
- States that the article is licensed under the GNU FDL.
- Though it links to what looks to be a partial copy or commentary about the license rather than the actual text of the license.
- Does not link to the relevant wikipedia page, but does link to the edit function of the individual page (under the heading "edit this page")
- It no longer does this, at least not for an not logged in user.
- It now only links to their copy of our article on Wikipedia. [9] Guanaco 16:46, 21 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- Example: [10] from Kyoto Protocol.
- Now seems to be a Thailand tourist page, but previous version can be seen on Google search and cache [11] Henrygb 17:20, 1 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
- forum page include some comments on articles and replies from site admins. Reading a few replies, it seems that the admins encourage people to edit articles on Wikipedia.
- The placement of their own copyright notice makes it unclear exactly what they are claiming copyright for.
- I could not find any link to the history of the article nor any attribution of authorship aside from the link to the Wikipedia main page.
- No mention of Wikipedia on the Hindi version.
Askville.amazon.com[edit]
Askville by Amazon
| URL
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http://askville.amazon.com/Index.do/
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| Description
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| Sample
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http://askville.amazon.com/SimilarQuestions.do?req=favorite+newspaper+comic+strip
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| Rating
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| Compliance
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Has a link to the Wikipedia source page
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| Contact info
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| Actions
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assault-weapons.com[edit]
Astra 2D[edit]
Astra 2D
| URL
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http://www.astra2d.com/
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| Description
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| Sample
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http://www.astra2d.com/dab.htm
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| Rating
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Low/None
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| Compliance
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Site takes some text and tables from Wikipedia articles on television and radio technology in the UK, no GFDL mention or links. GFDL violation became apparent after a suspected copyright violation discussion, with evidence on the Birdsong (digital radio channel) talk page.
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| Contact info
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expat AT astra2d.com
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| Actions
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None --tgheretford (talk) 23:24, 16 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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Auctores Publishing, LLC[edit]
Australia Legal Encyclopedia[edit]
Australian Plumbers and Electricians[edit]
Babylon-software.com[edit]
Backgammon.co.uk[edit]
BackGammon Federation
| URL
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http://www.backgammon.co.uk/
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| Description
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| Sample
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http://www.backgammon.co.uk/strategies.htm (only article I can find)
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| Rating
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Medium
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| Compliance
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Does not link to enwiki article, but has GFDL notice.
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| Contact info
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info AT backgammon.co.uk
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| Actions
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The site uses an image I created, licensed under the GPL. I sent an email stating that the page should note the GPL license of the image, and the GFDL license of the article. I included links to the licenses at gnu.org and a link to Backgammon.
4 October 2006: Webmaster replied to my email noting the updated copyright notice.
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—ptk✰fgs 04:54, 4 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Backgammoned.net[edit]
Backgammoned.net
| URL
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http://www.backgammoned.net
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| Description
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| Sample
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http://www.backgammoned.net/all-about-backgammon.html (only article)
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| Rating
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Medium
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| Compliance
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States that content is under GFDL and is reprinted from Wikipedia.
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| Contact info
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info AT backgammoned.net
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| Actions
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Maintainer appears to have joined a discussion at Talk:Backgammon. I referred him to Wikipedia:Copyrights.
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—ptk✰fgs 20:23, 7 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Baghdad Museum[edit]
- Site: [12]
- contains this explanation:
- You may freely contribute to this article using the authoring tools provided at the article's source, Wikipedia.org, sponsored by the Wikimedia Foundation. In addition, this article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License, which means that you may copy and modify it as long as the entire work, including your additions, remains under this license. Iraq Museum International always displays the most recent published revision of the article; all previous versions may be viewed here.
- High Compliance
- In addition, the paragraph above includes the article title and a link to the Wikipedia article itself, the GNU Free Documentation License, and to the history of the article on Wikipedia.
- A site-wide copyright notice -- which may have been misinterpreted by Wikipedians as a claim on the Wikipedia article appearing on a particular page -- has now been dropped altogether on all the Wikipedia pages. (Wikipedia articles can link to pages protected under US Copyright law, but do comments and sidebars added outside a Wikipedia article on the same webpage count as additions under the GNU License? In other words, if a Wikipedia article appears on a web page and Gore Vidal writes an essay about the Wikipedia article just below it, can the essay be copyrighted?) On the BaghdadMuseum/Iraq Museum International site, where the copyright notice used to be is now the statement: "The Iraq Museum International Open Encyclopedia is offered to the public under the GNU Free Documentation License" with yet another link to the GNU Free Documentation License.
- Yes, they're better than most. However, I'd still like to see a direct link to the original Wikipedia article. I think that's reasonable, given how generous we are in interpreting some GFDL provisions(like what's a "modified work", including our copyright notice, 5 original authors, history...). I sent an email asking for a direct link today. Superm401 | Talk 01:15, 6 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
- There are now direct links for the original article, editing the original article, and the article's history. The GFDL link is to the FSF copy, but I don't think that's really an issue. Superm401 | Talk 20:14, 8 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Barry's Tickets[edit]
Barry's Tickets
| URL
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http://www.barrystickets.com/
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| Description
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| Sample
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http://www.barrystickets.com/hockey-tickets/index.php
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| Rating
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None
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| Compliance
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No mention of Wikipedia or the GFDL. Excerpts of various ticket-related articles are used.
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| Contact info
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info AT barrystickets.com, (800) 928-7199 (818) 990-8499 FAX (818) 990-5433, Technical Contact: Katz, Randy randyk AT CCSALES.COM, (213)307-9581 fax: 123 123 1234; Administrative Contact: Rudin, Barry info AT BARRYSTICKETS.COM, 818 990-8499; IP=66.114.252.14 = Broadwing Communications
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| Actions
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- Sent standard violation notice to info AT barrystickets.com. Superm401 - Talk 08:00, 3 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Received autoreply with only text "test info AT barrystickets.com"
- Resent violation notice to randyk AT CCSALES.COM
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BBC Music[edit]
- Artist biographies
- Example Link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artist/nh3n/ a version of the Rolling Stones article; and many more
- Disclaimers at the end of the articles state that "This entry is from Wikipedia, the user-contributed encyclopedia. It may not have been reviewed by professional editors and is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. If you find the biography content factually incorrect, defamatory or highly offensive you can edit this article at Wikipedia" with links to Wikipedia home, the GFDL at gnu.org, and the Wikipedia article.
- Comment at http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/faqs#why_is_the_bbc_using_wikipedia
- We know that many people using our website would like to find out more about artists, and basic biographical information is one of the key things that people expect to find on our pages. We feel that we provide best value to the licence fee payer by concentrating our resources on providing great original content (mainly through broadcast) and making it easy to find that content on the web. Biographies are a standardised type of content that are expected across thousands of artists. Wikipedia offers good quality biographies with very good coverage across artists. There are two good reasons to use this content rather than recreating similar content in-house or sourcing it from a commercial supplier:
- It's available under the GNU Free Documentation Licence, which means not only is there no licensing cost to the licence-fee payer for this text, but it is freely available to all our users to use and share in turn.'
- It's editable by anyone. This may seem like a mixed blessing, but the entire Wikipedia model is a living demonstration that openness to user contribution and amendment tends to improve content over the long term and not vice versa.
BBCNewsAmerica.com[edit]
BBC News America
| URL
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http://www.bbcnewsamerica.com
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| Description
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| Sample
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http://www.bbcnewsamerica.com/tag/texas-chainsaw-massacre
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| Rating
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Low/None
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| Compliance
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No mention of Wikipedia or the GFDL.
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| Contact info
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|
| Actions
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MRG verified copyvio. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 01:29, 25 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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Best Pest Control[edit]
- Site: http://www.bestpest.com.au/pest-control-in-hobart.html
- The bottom section is completely copied from Local Government Areas of Tasmania (much of the rest is copied from Lonely Planet).
- No links at all, no mention of Wikipedia or GFDL
- Two copyrights printed on it:
- Copyright © 2006 Best Pest Control
- (c) copyright Best Pest Control (NSW) Pty Ltd 2004/05. All Rights Reserved.
- As of 13:03, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
- Site no longer hosts above page. However, it has http://www.bestpest.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=11&Itemid=44, the text of which is mirrored elsewhere often on the internet (though frustratingly, none mention Wikipedia). Does not mirror WP: page may have changed. The Evil Spartan (talk) 10:59, 26 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Bharatpedia[edit]
Bharatpedia
| URL
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https://en.bharatpedia.org/
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| Description
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A copy of the simple english wikipedia, made by converting WP Articles into simple Indian English.
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| Sample
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https://en.bharatpedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia
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| Rating
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"LMediam"
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| Compliance
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Clearly based on WP; copy and pasting as well as using the same citations word for word and the exact same UI and format. Easy to confuse with WP if not knowledgeable. No mention of Wikipedia, CC-BY-SA, or licensing except end of page disclaimer, which reads: "Content is available under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. This article may uses material from the Wikipedia article Earth, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License (view authors). Bharatpedia® is a registered trademark." It is the exact same wiki-format inc. lots of templates and the MOS.
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| Contact info
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All help links e.g. speaking to an administrator are red links
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| Actions
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The disclaimer at the bottom (see above)
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Bibleocean[edit]
- Site: http://bibleocean.com/
- Example: [13] of Albania
- Article ends with "Original Article from WikiPedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albania"
- No mention of GFDL
- Note: looks like it may be mirroring the site by crawling, since it handles section edit links poorly and has specific error pages indexed all over the place where the crawler has tried to follow them wrong (this is a mirror, so of course no actual vehicle for editing).
Biblio.com[edit]
Biblio.com
| URL
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http://www.biblio.com/
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| Description
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|
| Sample
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[14] of Identifying and Managing Project Risk (see talk page for evidence)
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| Rating
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Low/None
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| Compliance
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No mention of Wikipedia or GFDL/CC-By-SA. Page says Copyright © 2000-2011 Biblio, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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| Contact info
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Online form: [15]
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| Actions
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None
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BigMac.biz[edit]
The Big Mac Index
| URL
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http://bigmac.biz/
|
| Description
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| Sample
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same as above
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| Rating
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Medium
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| Compliance
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Wholesale copy of Big Mac index from [16] or earlier. No mention of Wikipedia or GFDL on site.
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| Contact info
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webmaster AT bigmac.biz (given on site); +819.2934278, matt AT utsn.net (whois admin)
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| Actions
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Standard violation letter sent. -- Scott eiπ 08:47, 18 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
No response or change. Second letter sent. -- Scott eiπ 02:11, 26 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Fixed. -- Scott eiπ 09:31, 28 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
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BigMaybe[edit]
BIGpedia[edit]
BIGpedia
| URL
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http://www.bigpedia.com/
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| Description
|
|
| Sample
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http://www.bigpedia.com/encyclopedia/Gray%27s_Anatomy
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| Rating
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"Medium"
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| Compliance
|
- Mentions and links to GFDL.
- Mentions Wikipedia.
- The link does not reach the original page nor Wikipedia itself (at least without JavaScript).
- has adult ads.
- may have pop-up ads.
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| Contact info
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- tuqybpe4kz1km37 AT protectfly.com (proxy domain registeration mail)
- abuse AT cari.net (ISP)
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| Actions
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None -- WB 09:13, 12 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
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Biocrawler[edit]
Biocrawler
| URL
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http://www.biocrawler.com/encyclopedia/Main_Page
|
| Description
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|
| Sample
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http://www.biocrawler.com/encyclopedia/Illiad
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| Rating
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Medium
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| Compliance
|
This is a mirror as of June 23, 2005 that has apparently had minor forking since then. However, almost all instances of Wikipedia have been changed, even in people's talk comments. This makes it a modified version, and these modifications have not been specifically mentioned on page history. Also, the GFDL specifically states that "The author(s) and publisher(s) of the Document do not by this License give permission to use their names for publicity for or to assert or imply endorsement of any Modified Version." However, the bottom of every page states, "Content is available under GNU Free Documentation License 1.2.", with a local link to the GFDL. With images, it also says "This document originates in his first or later version from the English Wikipedia. You can find it there under the keyword (ARTICLE). The list of previous authors is available here: (link to Wikipedia's history of ARTICLE). ... This text falls under the same license (GFDL). Additions to biocrawler (starting from 23.6.05 will be doubly licensed under the GFDL and CC-by-sa)." Without images, it also has simple links to Wikipedia, the original history, and Wikipedia's copy of the GFDL.
update: as of 04/24/2008, this site was flagged by Google with the verbiage, "visiting this web site may harm your computer!" For more information on Google's claims about this website, see http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=http://www.biocrawler.com/encyclopedia/Library_(computer_science)
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| Contact info
|
boeckl AT biofacts.com, domain AT biofacts.com
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| Actions
|
- Sent letter requesting correction of these issues. Superm401 - Talk 23:34, 22 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Received apparently form reply that didn't address complaints. It ranted about things like "Biocrawler being a fork, you can edit pages yourself." and "Please edit each page being aware that this is a biological Wiki." The closest it came to addressing the fraud and improper page history was "There is a full detailed disclaimer on every page stating the source of each article, and the history of each page." I replied asking for a direct response to the real issues. Superm401 - Talk 06:03, 25 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Received response noting that another Wikipedian told him to replace all mentions of Wikipedia with Biocrawler. Said he would fix it if I demonstrated consensus here that my advice was correct. I referred him to Wikipedia talk:Mirrors and forks#Weird. Superm401 - Talk 01:13, 26 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
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Biodatabase.de[edit]
biodatabase.de
| URL
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http://www.biodatabase.de
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| Description
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| Sample
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http://www.biodatabase.de/Dodona, http://www.biodatabase.de/Herodotus
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| Rating
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HighNone
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| Compliance
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Links to original en.wiki articles and histories, GNU FDL note is reported correctly in bottom of page.
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| Contact info
|
|
| Actions
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None. Website is now a search-spammer and no longer mirrors wikipedia content; last wikipedia mirror found archived from 8 February 2008 at [17]. 84user (talk) 16:00, 4 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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Biographicon.com[edit]
Biographicon (not url)
| URL
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http://www.biographicon.com
|
| Description
|
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| Sample
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http://www.biographicon.com/view/4yf4i/Ethan_Allen
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| Rating
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"None" compliance with GFDL.
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| Compliance
|
Site does copy wholesale biography articles from English wikipedia. It does not provide information of the source of the articles, it does not give attribution to authors or link to wikipedia history page, the site does not acknowledge that content sourced from wikipedia is licensed under GFDL.
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| Contact info
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feedback AT biographicon.com
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| Actions
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none yet
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Biography Base[edit]
Biography Base
| URL
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http://www.biographybase.com/
|
| Description
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|
| Sample
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http://www.biographybase.com/biography/Yarwood_Mike.html
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| Rating
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Medium
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| Compliance
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Links to GFDL and mentions individual Wikipedia article, but does not directly link to them or include history section.
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| Contact info
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leonardo.mikelic AT ri.htnet.hr (whois), abuse AT theplanet.com (host), legal-response AT theplanet.com (host)
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| Actions
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Sent violation letter to Biography Base, noting that they should link to Wikipedia article and provide on-site GFDL. Superm401 - Talk 02:08, 23 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
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Biography Finder[edit]
- Site: Biography Finder
- Contains older versions of Wikipedia articles on various people.
- Has no mention of Wikipedia.
- No link to GFDL.
- Claims copyright.
- Is apparently linked with Phobia Finder.
- Sent standard GFDL e-mail. - Evil saltine 22:43, 11 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- Removed from main page (duplicate)
- Now, at the bottom of each page, it reads: This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article <article name>. Where <article name> is appropriately filled in. It links to http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html and to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page, but no link to the actual Wikipedia article. I'm moving this to Medium compliance. -Rholton 03:36, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Biolicense.net[edit]
Biolicense.net
| URL
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http://biolicense.org
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| Description
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| Sample
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http://biolicense.org/index.php/Shareware
|
| Rating
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None.
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| Compliance
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No information about articles being copied from Wikipedia, imposes its own weird license called Biolicense. The site states: "Biolicense is a license scheme to enable human beings and machines to openfreely share information and knowledge for limitless number of purposes. It is a license that tries to protect information and knowledge from being exclusively owned by limited number of classes, races, and economic groups in the world. It also aims to maximize human creativity and entrepreneurship." Also see http://biolicense.org/index.php/Biolicense.net:About The site seems to be a part of some spammer's link farm. See its links to other sites.
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| Contact info
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admin phone and email from whois: +82.01077996754 (Korean number); j@bio.cc
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| Actions
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None yet.
|
Biology Daily[edit]
Biology Daily
| URL
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http://www.biologydaily.com/
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| Description
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|
| Sample
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http://www.biologydaily.com/biology/Aerobiologyand http://www.biologydaily.com/biology/Gmail
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| Rating
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Medium
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| Compliance
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There is a notice that says the content is from Wikipedia and links to a local copy of the GFDL (part of a copyright page). Wikipedia is linked to the main Wikipedia URL backwards (gro.aidepikiw.www//:ptth). A javascript function reverses the link (if you have JS enabled). There is also a link to another section on the copyright page that is meant to tell users how to view the "transparent copy"; it just tells them to go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/<PAGENAME> by typing it in. Arguably, XHTML itself is transparent so this isn't necessary. However, it does vaguely help users vaguely find the history section.
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| Contact info
|
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| Actions
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bird-center.net[edit]
- Seems to be HIGH compliance, as far as I can see. Will someone move them to that list, please? JesseW 20:34, 11 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
- Server not found --Rumping 16:38, 23 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
BirminghamUK.com[edit]
bizgos.com[edit]
GameLow.com
| URL
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http://www.bizgos.com/
|
| Description
|
|
| Sample
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http://www.bizgos.com/AnheuserBusch/ARINC.php
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| Rating
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None
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| Compliance
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No mention of GFDL. Claims copyright. No links to original article or mention of Wikipedia. No history section. Contains copies of the old wiki entries.
Apparently related to gamelow.com, which infringes similarly and has the same graphics.
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| Contact info
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BIZGOS.COM AT domainsbyproxy.com
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| Actions
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Sent standard violation letter. Superm401 - Talk 20:20, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Blinkybits[edit]
blog.shops-net.com[edit]
Blogspot[edit]
Hot Topics in the News
| URL
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http://information-headquarter.blogspot.com/search/label/Grand%20Opera%20House
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| Description
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| Sample
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http://information-headquarter.blogspot.com/search/label/Grand%20Opera%20House
|
| Rating
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Absolutely no compliance.
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| Compliance
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Straight out theft of Grand Opera House (Seattle), which I recently wrote
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| Contact info
|
At http://www.google.com/blogger_dmca.html, they make it clear that they will consider only complaints sent to them on paper or by fax. Kind of amazing: this is Google, and they provide no online means to complain when they plagiarize. And the wording on that page is very belligerent: "Indeed, in a recent case (please see http://www.onlinepolicy.org/action/legpolicy/opg_v_diebold/ for more information), a company that sent an infringement notification seeking removal of online materials that were protected by the fair use doctrine was ordered to pay such costs and attorneys fees."
Fax number is 650-618-2680, Attn: Blogger Legal Support, DMCA Complaints. I think someone should follow this up, and also Wikimedia Foundation, who I understand have some working relationships with Google, should ask about setting up a procedure to streamline it when their bloggers plagiarize us so blatantly.
Further examples from Blogspot are listed on the talk page, to document other Blogspot users' WP usage without messing up the format above.
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| Actions
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Blogspot "truskemata"[edit]
Mata & Penglihatan / WikiapadiaMata
| URL
|
http://truskemata.blogspot.de + http://truskemata.blogspot.com
|
| Description
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|
| Sample
|
http://truskemata.blogspot.de/2012/09/atasi-masalah-silau-dengan-helmet.html
|
| Rating
|
?
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| Compliance
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Copied part of Motorcycle helmet#Laws and standards (oldid=491661146) including blue & red wikilinks; marked as "Copyright © 2013 Mata & Penglihatan - Created by SoraTemplates and Blogger Templates" at the page bottom
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| Contact info
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"Contact" link at truskemata.blogspot.de does not work
- http://www.soratemplates.com/p/contact-us.html
- http://www.mybloggerthemes.com/p/contact.html: "Email : mybloggerthemes90@gmail.com - Skype : ekaariyasa - Gtalk : akuinginsukses@gmail.com"
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none (as I am new to these procedures)
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bluerhinos.co.uk[edit]
<bluerhinos.co.uk> (not url)
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http://bluerhinos.co.uk/
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http://www.bluerhinos.co.uk/molview/view/propan-1-ol
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"High", "Medium", or "Low/None" compliance with GFDL (matches Wikipedia:GFDL Compliance).
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| Compliance
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Includes a backlink to WP, but doesn't appear to mention GFDL; in fact, it includes a lot of claims to copyright for all content.
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| Contact info
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The request posted by User:Walkerma
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None
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BlurbWire[edit]
BlurbWire
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http://www.blurbwire.com/
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| Description
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| Sample
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http://www.blurbwire.com/topics/Kohlu
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Low
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| Compliance
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Brief mention of Wikipedia on homepage, copied articles lack attribution. [EDIT]: On their sources page (linked at the bottom) they cite "Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Data from Wikipedia is licensed under the GFDL". There are no backlinks to the Wikipedia article, there is a notice at the bottom 'Copyright 2010, Discovery Media'.
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| Contact info
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discoverysites AT gmail.com (from contact)
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bobby-fischer.net[edit]
Bobby Fischer
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http://www.bobby-fischer.net/
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http://www.bobby-fischer.net/paul_morphy.htm
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Low/None
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| Compliance
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The site includes a page on the chessplayer Paul Morphy that mirrors full paragraphs of the Wikipedia article Paul Morphy. This is also the case for numerous other chessplayers.
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| Contact info
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chuck_ayoub@hotmail.com, ISP=TUCOWS INC. (according to whois)
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bobbysouthworth.com[edit]
BollywoodMasala[edit]
- Site: http://www.bwmasala.com/
- Example: http://www.bwmasala.com/actordata.html?title=User:Eugene-elgato
bookonlinesale.com[edit]
Bookonlinesale and Booksonlinesale
| URL
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http://bookonlinesale.com/ and http://booksonlinesale.com
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| Description
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| Sample
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http://bookonlinesale.com/258082_edgar-prestage_1131743628lettersofaportuguesenundiscountbookstores.html and http://www.booksonlinesale.com/623250_margaret-mitchell_113517007xautantenemporteleventbookreportforfree.html
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| Rating
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High
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| Compliance
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Includes text "This artikel <ARTICLENAME> is licensed under the GNU free Documentation License. There is a list of authors available. You can edit this article if you like. " The article name links to the original wikipedia article, "GNU" links to the GNU's copy of the GFDL, Authors links to the history tab, and edit links to the edit page. However, on some pages none of these links are colored or formatted distinctly from normal text (until you hover over them); thus, it is hard to tell they can be clicked.
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| Contact info
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INFO AT 100000BOOKS.COM (whois), http://www.cd-music.org/mailform.php (contact form), info AT server4you.de (host)
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bookrags.com[edit]
BooksRags
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http://www.bookrags.com
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| Description
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| Sample
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http://www.bookrags.com/wiki/High_Commissioner
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| Rating
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Medium?High?
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| Compliance
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Includes text "This artikel <ARTICLENAME> is licensed under the GNU free Documentation License". There isn't a list of authors available or a link to the original Wikipedia article. Link to GNU Free Documentation License is absent.Includes text "<ARTICLENAME> from Wíkipedia. ©2006 by Wíkipedia. Licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. View a list of authors or edit this article." Links to GFDL at gnu.org, and to article history and edit pages at wikipedia.org. Uses images as thumbnails but doens't link to image pages.
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| Contact info
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whois
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| Actions
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Books, LLC
| URL
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http://booksllc.net/
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| Description
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"Wikipedia Introduction": http://booksllc.net/book.cfm?id=3744759 Sample title and summary on Amazon:[19]. Google Books search:[20]
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The website states that "Paperbacks marked "OCR" may have numerous typos or missing text. Other paperbacks contain Wikipedia content." The FAQ states that: "All content cam [sic] from Wikipedia. Please check the book's Publication page, Introduction and the end of each chapter for further details. For example, you can click the hyperlink at the end of any chapter and then click the history tab to see a list of each chapter's contributors. Our license with Wikipedia is at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
- Also publishes as General Books LLC.
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| Contact info
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Contact form
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| Actions
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No action yet taken.
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Bookvika Publishing[edit]
Bookvika Publishing (VSD)
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| Description
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| Sample
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Print on demand books [21]
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| Rating
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Low
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| Compliance
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States "High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles!" and contains direct copy of the start of the article as a blurb, which is then published online (the creation of the book itself is a separate issue). No links to original article or authors. Claims to be published by VSD and/or authors Ronald Cohn and Jesse Russell, but the article content is still copyrighted. See also VDM Publishing.
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| Contact info
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None
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| Actions
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Bookyards[edit]
Bookyards
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http://www.bookyards.com
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| Description
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| Sample
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http://www.bookyards.com/biography.html?author_id=2011&author_name=Janvier%2C%20Thomas%20A.
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| Rating
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None
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| Compliance
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No mention of GFDL; only mentions of Wikipedia are from copied cleanup notices; links back to original article are edit links only and not labelled
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| Contact info
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?
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| Actions
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None yet
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bopedia.com[edit]
*Link to local copy of the GFDL: yes (As of 2 Nov 2006 DES (talk)). No longer true. Superm401 | Talk 06:14, 6 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
- Link to original Wikipedia article: yes (As of 2 Nov 2006 DES (talk))
- State that content is under the GFDL: Yes (As of 2 Nov 2006 DES (talk))
- State that content is from Wikipedia: Yes. (As of 2 Nov 2006 DES (talk))
Seems to be HIGH compliance, as far as I can see. DES (talk) 21:33, 2 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Example fails to produce meaningful content --Rumping 16:43, 23 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
borgfind[edit]
Examples not loading Wikipedia content --Rumping 16:44, 23 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Site: http://sthweb.bu.edu/shaw/anna-howard-shaw-center/biography?view=mediawiki&article=Main_Page
- States "© This material from Wikipedia is licensed under the GFDL (Inserted by aWiki)." at the bottom of each page.
- Accessed 2009-03-02. Jayen466 17:46, 2 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Site: http://sthweb.bu.edu/archives/index.php?option=com_awiki&view=mediawiki&article=Category:Spy_novels
www.bostoncoop.net[edit]
- Site: http://www.bostoncoop.net/~tpryor/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
- Mentions Wikipedia, which leads to this explanation: "This is a static mirror of the wikipedia site. It exists for the purpose of testing experimental interfaces, made for wikipedia. It is my own project. I am using wikipedia content to gather anonymous user navigation behavior as a statistical sample for a centroid cluster based recommendation system" No links to the original article.
- As of 09:04, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
- ~tpryor appears to no longer exist --Rumping 16:45, 23 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
bowise.com[edit]
- Site: www.bowise.com
- Seems to combine links to ads and other non-wikipedia content with links to related articles on bopedia, which in turn has proper compliance info. This is the result of a brief look, however. DES (talk) 21:39, 2 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Research requested. JesseW 22:23, 18 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]
- No longer has any content - just domain parking --Rumping 16:46, 23 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Server doesn't seem to exist anymore. This, that and the other [talk] 09:37, 28 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Braindex[edit]
Braindex
| URL
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http://www.braindex.com/encyclopedia/mainpage.php
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| Description
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| Sample
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http://braindex.com/encyclopedia/index.php/Ring_of_the_Fisherman
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| Rating
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Medium
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| Compliance
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Pages link to Wikipedia main page and offsite copy of the GFDL. There is no link to the original Wikipedia article or included history section. Pages display "© 2005 BrainDex LLC".
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| Contact info
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kevin AT braindex.com (whois), http://www.braindex.com/products/contact_us.php (site contact form), support AT iicinternet.com (host)
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| Actions
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- Standard complaint letter sent to domain registrant (as found via whois) on 26 October 2005 by User:DESiegel
- Sent letter to kevin AT braindex.com asking for removal of copyright statement and direct link to original article. Superm401 - Talk 21:08, 25 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
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BrainyEncyclopedia[edit]
BrainyEncyclopedia
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http://www.brainyencyclopedia.com/
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| Description
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| Sample
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http://www.brainyencyclopedia.com/encyclopedia/t/te/telectronics.html
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| Rating
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Low
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| Compliance
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Without JavaScript, no mention of Wikipedia or the GFDL. With Javascript, has notice that "The Wikipedia article included on this page is licensed under the GFDL" with link to Wikipedia main page and local copy of the GFDL. Is not clear what "the Wikipedia article" is. There is no link to the original Wikipedia article or included history section."
Home page gives 403 Forbidden as of 00:39, 29 July 2009 (UTC).
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| Contact info
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domain.names AT xplore.com (whois), service84 AT brainyquote.com (customer service email)
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| Actions
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- Standard complaint letter, modified to include request to remove copyright claim and request for link back to individual articles, sent to domain registrant (as found via whois) and customer service (as found using Inquire link in the drop down menu on their pages) on 12 November 2006 by User:WAvegetarian
- Example now states "This article uses material from the Wikipedia article "Telectronics"" with link to original article --Rumping 16:52, 23 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Brassbandinformation.co.uk[edit]
Brass Band Information
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http://www.brassbandinformation.co.uk
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| Description
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| Sample
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http://www.brassbandinformation.co.uk/brass-instruments.html
- This was linked from the Trombone article.
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| Rating
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Low/None
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| Compliance
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yes
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| Contact info
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Address info AT brassbandinformation.co.uk is mentioned. WHOIS says very little:
Registrant: Carl Wilkinson
Registrant type: UK Individual
Registrant's address: The registrant is a non-trading individual who has opted to have their address omitted from the WHOIS service.
Registrar: GX Networks Ltd t/a 123-Reg.co.uk [Tag = 123-REG] URL: http://www.123-reg.co.uk
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none
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Looks like a parked domain advertising page at first sight. Filled with ads. No good purpose for existence. This, that and the other [talk] 06:41, 5 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Brendaadderly.com[edit]
brian-oshaughnessy.com[edit]
- Site: www.brian-oshaughnessy.com
- There are ostensible ripoffs directly from Wikipedia in the Resident Evil articles, mostly from past, unmodernized versions of them, while making no mention at all to Wikipedia.
- As of 20:18, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
- Now redirects to www.customflamepainting.com --Rumping 16:49, 23 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
BrisWiki[edit]
BrisWiki
| URL
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http://www.briswiki.com and
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| Description
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| Sample
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http://briswiki.com/wiki/The_Myer_Centre from Myer Centre, Brisbane.
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| Rating
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Unrated
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| Compliance
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I believe that site is compliant. However I have only imported one article as above and request that someone more up to speed with this advise whether current efforts are acceptable. Thanks in advance Nicholas Perkins (T•C) 14:38, 13 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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| Contact info
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supernicko AT gmail.com
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| Actions
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Britain tv[edit]
Britain tv
| URL
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http://www.britain.tv/articles/publish/ and http://www.britain.tv/wikipedia.php
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| Sample
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http://www.britain.tv/articles/publish/parliament_house_of_commons.shtml from British House of Commons and http://www.britain.tv/articles/publish/belly_dance_belly_dancing_music.shtml from Belly Dance and http://www.britain.tv/wikipedia.php?title=Philippines.
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| Rating
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Low/None
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| Compliance
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There are two separate groups of copied articles. Some of them are linked from http://www.britain.tv/articles/publish/. Examples of this include http://www.britain.tv/articles/publish/parliament_house_of_commons.shtml, http://www.britain.tv/articles/publish/belly_dance_belly_dancing_music.shtml, http://www.britain.tv/articles/publish/george_galloway_respect_member_parliament.shtml, http://www.britain.tv/articles/publish/regional_assembly_assemblies_england.shtml, http://www.britain.tv/articles/publish/york_city_minster_yorkshire_england.shtml. Not all of the articles in the "articles/publish" section are from Wikipedia, but violations are widespread, especially in certain categories (such as Cities and Towns). These now say "© Copyright Wikipedia - Under GNU Free License " right beneath the article, in addition to "All rights reserved. Material may not be copied or reprinted without written permission." which is at the very bottom of every page. They also still credit the submitter, such as "By Brian Fox" at the top, where Brian Fox is some disingenuous Britain.tv contributor.
A separate mirror has also been created. This is located at http://www.britain.tv/wikipedia.php. An example is http://www.britain.tv/wikipedia.php?title=Philippines. Articles in this section clearly note that Wikipedia is the source. They say "extracted from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia" with a link to the Wikipedia main page; Wikipedia also appears prominently elsewhere on the page. However, there is no link to Wikipedia or the GFDL, and "Copyright (c) 2006 Britain.tv All rights reserved" appears at the bottom in a graphic.
- As of 00:48, 29 July 2009 (UTC), this second set (/wikipedia.php) appears to be dead.
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| Contact info
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webmaster AT elite-media.co.uk
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| Actions
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- I sent an email asking that the ad hoc copies in the article section be removed outright, and explained how to make the articles in the Wikipedia section GFDL-compliant. Superm401 - Talk 23:09, 25 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Sent followup to webmaster AT elite-media.co.uk . Superm401 - Talk 09:25, 6 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Sent a final notice to webmaster AT elite-media.co.uk - Localzuk(talk) 12:35, 28 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Brough's Books[edit]
- Site: Brough's Books
- link to current version of article
- link to the GFDL on www.gnu.org
- Example: [22]
- Example seems to have Wikipedia metatags but fails to load bodytext --Rumping 16:57, 23 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
BT Research[edit]
- Appears to be bulletin board. Example fails --Rumping 16:48, 23 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
BuddyTV.com[edit]
The 'So You Think You Can Dance' Pocket Guide to Tabitha and Napoleon
| URL
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http://www.buddytv.com
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| Description
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| Sample
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http://www.buddytv.com/articles/so-you-think-you-can-dance/the-so-you-think-you-can-dance-31992.aspx
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| Rating
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"Low/None"
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| Compliance
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Almost completely copy and pasted from the Tabitha and Napoleon article here on wikipedia but not written verbatim. It's written in the author's own words but clearly all the information is taken from wikipedia with no attribution at all. It's even in the same arrangement (early life, career, directing, married life) but without the section headings.
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| Contact info
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email: vlado AT thracetech.com and andrewiliu AT yahoo.com
phone number +1.2068594180
Full WhoIs summary here
ISP: easydns.com
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| Actions
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None
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Tabitha and Napoleon
| URL
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http://www.buddytv.com/
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| Description
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| Sample
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http://www.buddytv.com/info/tabitha-and-napoleon-info.aspx
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| Rating
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"Low/None"
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| Compliance
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Same as above. The "biography" section is taken from the Tabitha and Napoleon article here with no attribution.
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| Contact info
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email: vlado AT thracetech.com and andrewiliu AT yahoo.com
phone number +1.2068594180
Full WhoIs summary here
ISP: easydns.com
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None
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Bvio
| URL
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http://bvio.com/index.php/Main_Page
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| Description
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| Sample
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http://bvio.com/index.php/Credit_card
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| Rating
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Low
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| Compliance
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- No mention of the GFDL or Wikipedia on individual pages. On the About page, it says "Copyright: much of Bvio contents are directly from Wikipedia that follows GNU license." but there is still no link to the GFDL, even there. Website is badly mirrored, with misparsed formatting and broken images.
- Still non-compliant as of April 2006. Any WP content there is badly outdated ([23] is marked "last updated 2004", for instance) and provides no attribution as to the origin of the text. --carlb 15:43, 10 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Still non-compliant as of July 2006. - Jmabel | Talk 03:08, 10 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- and 16:58, 23 September 2007 (UTC) --Rumping
- Should be non-compliant since nothing seems to have changed. --Puzzlet Chung 23:20, 9 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Bvio has been erroneously listed on the GFDL compliance page as a former user of Wikipedia content. Since it still uses our content, I've reclassified it. Lurker (said · done) 13:49, 2 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Gives database error as of 00:56, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
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| Contact info
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biopark AT kaist.ac.kr
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| Actions
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- He said he'll comply with our interpretation of the GFDL for derivative works. Let's give him some time to do so. Superm401 - Talk 20:24, 8 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
- I've sent another email asking for a notice and link on every page. Superm401 - Talk 20:37, 25 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
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Calendar of historical events births holidays and observances[edit]
Calendar of historical events births holidays and observances
| URL
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http://books.google.com/books?id=t4YZUcjx6poC&printsec=frontcover
Calendar of historical events births holidays and observances is an e-book published by MobileReference for use on mobile devices. The URL links to Google books' incomplete copy. A complete copy has to be purchased from a commercial supplier.
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| Description
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| Sample
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p.197 incorporates text from an earlier version of Wikipedia's article Scientology holidays.
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| Rating
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Medium, judging from the Google books copy. Precise degree of compliance is difficult to evaluate without buying a commercial copy
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| Compliance
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The licensing information provided on the "back cover" acknowledges that material from Wikipedia has been used, and that this material is licensed under the GFDL, although it also wrongly implies that this material is also "public domain". However, it also asserts "all rights reserved" over the work as a whole, whereas the GFDL requires that the whole of any modification of a work licensed under it—which is what this is—must also be licensed under the same licence or a substantially similar version.
A copy of the GFDL licence doesn't appear to be included anywhere in the publication, as required by the terms of that licence, although a link to an on-line copy of the licence appears to be provided with the licensing information. The licensing information includes an apology for not listing all the authors of the Wikipedia material, and asserts that these can be seen "by following the hyperlink at the bottom of each article". As far as is possible to tell from the Google books copy, such links do appear regularly throughout the the publication, but it doesn't appear to be possible to use the Google books copy to check that these links work and do in fact point to the proper articles.
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| Contact info
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support@soundtells.com
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| Actions
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None as yet.
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CalSky.de[edit]
- Site: www.calsky.de
- Example: www.calsky.de/lexikon/en/txt/p/pa/partial_differential_equation.php
- States: "This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Partial differential equation". In the Wikipedia, a list of the autors/history is available."
- Link to local GFDL
- Links to original article and history
Cambridge Encyclopedia (encyclopedia.stateuniversity.com)[edit]
Cambridge Encyclopedia: Volume 1 through 80
| URL
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http://encyclopedia.stateuniversity.com
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| Description
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| Sample
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http://encyclopedia.stateuniversity.com/pages/19270/Russian-Orthodox-Church.html
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| Rating
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"Low/None" compliance with GFDL
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| Compliance
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Articles state towards top that "Portions of the summary below have been contributed by Wikipedia." but fails to identify the readers rights nor link back to Wikipedia. As an example the sample URL contains content that is word-for-word identical to this diff [24] which I do not believe is WP:COPYVIO. The text at the bottom says that "Content on this website is from high-quality, licensed material originally published in print form. You can always be sure you're reading unbiased, factual, and accurate information." which is wrong as Wikipedia is not published originally in print form.
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| Contact info
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| Actions
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See entry listed under "S" [25] for actions.
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Campus Empire[edit]
Campus Empire
| URL
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http://www.campusempire.net
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| Description
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| Sample
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http://www.campusempire.net/school_index.php?school_id=342
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| Rating
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"Low/None"
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| Compliance
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Copies a portion of the University of Oklahoma article with no mention of Wikipedia anywhere on the page. Has CampusEmpire.net copyright at the bottom.
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| Contact info
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admin AT campusempire.net
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| Actions
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Sent first GFDL notice (1/15/07).↔NMajdan•talk
Sent followup notice (4/5/07).↔NMajdan•talk 20:57, 5 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Campusprogram.com[edit]
- Example: http://www.campusprogram.com/reference/en/wikipedia/n/ne/new_forest.html
- A link to GFDL from every page.
- A link back to individual wikipedia articles from the top of the page. The text of the link is quite prominent.
- Confirmed. High Compliance. -Rholton 15:15, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- update - Doesn't seem to be using wikipedia content any longer. \Rexruff
- update - I am the owner of campusprogram.com and only removed the wikipedia mirror because I believed I was not in compliance and that it was generally frowned upon. There are 1000's of backlinks that now go to a 404 page which is a shame. Any advice would be appreciated.
- I've told him by email that he was complying perfectly, and he has expressed interest in setting up the mirror again. I referred him to some information on how to do so. Superm401 | Talk 20:33, 8 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
- No authors or dates are listed. Medium compliance. Uncle G 11:08, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Canbet.com[edit]
Canbet.com
| URL
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http://www.canbet.com
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| Description
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| Sample
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http://www.canbet.com/whatsnew/atlanta-falcons-history.aspx
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| Rating
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Medium
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| Compliance
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Uses sections of sports-related articles. GFDL notice with link to original article and offsite GFDL.
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| Contact info
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mail AT canbet.com, marketing AT canbet.com
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| Actions
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Sent GFDL violation letter to contact on April 4, 2006. --JerryOrr 19:14, 4 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
No response to email or change to the page in violation; sent follow-up GFDL violation letter on May 16, 2006. --JerryOrr 16:17, 16 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Received response to follow-up email on May 16, 2006 stating that they would resolve the problem --JerryOrr 11:52, 17 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
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- Example failed to load --Rumping 17:01, 23 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Canineconcepts.co.uk[edit]
CanineConcepts: What is dog agility
| URL
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http://www.canineconcepts.co.uk/ccp51/cc/dog-training/dog-agility-training.shtml
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| Description
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| Sample
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| Rating
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Low compliance with GFDL (matches Wikipedia:GFDL Compliance). Full compliance.
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| Compliance
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Has a note at the bottom of article, which includes several photos from wikipedia, that says "courtesy of Wikipedia" with a link to our main page. No GFDL, no link to the article (dog agility), no clarification that both text & photos come from there--and they have their own copyright notice at the bottom of the page. Have link back to article, GFDL text, and link to gnu.org copyleft page.
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| Contact info
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Patricia Hunter is owner, cannot find email or phone number of admin and ISP. Patricia's company's phone number (UK: 01608 73 83 77) is on their web site, along with snail-mail address. April 4, got response from info (at) canineconcepts (dot) co.uk, signed Peter Hunter.
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| Actions
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01:46, 3 April 2006 (UTC), emailing standard letter from Wikipedia:Standard GFDL violation letter using GFDL letter for site that doesn't acknowldge WP (since compliance is so minimal). Used their form-based emailer since that seemed to be the only way to get them email. User:Elf . April 4, 2006: They revised this page and are in full compliance. Note: I have not checked their site for other wikipedia-source articles. User:Elf
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CanineConcepts: dog breed articles
| URL
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http://www.canineconcepts.co.uk/dog-breed-directory
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| Description
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| Sample
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http://www.canineconcepts.co.uk/dog-breeds--Affenpinscher--Affenpinscher
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| Rating
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Low compliance but working on it (see above).
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| Compliance
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Has a note at the bottom of article (which includes photos from wikipedia), that says "courtesy of thefreedictionary" with a link to their main page. No GFDL, no link to the article (dog agility), no clarification that both text & photos come from there--and they have their own copyright notice at the bottom of the page. (freedictionary is a wikipedia mirror)
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| Contact info
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info (at) canineconcepts (dot) co.uk, signed Peter Hunter.
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| Actions
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4 April 2006 (UTC), sent nice email about breed articles in reponse to his fix of the agility article (above). User:Elf
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Caninecrib[edit]
Caninecrib
| URL
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http://www.caninecrib.com/dog/pictures/
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| Description
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| Sample
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http://www.caninecrib.com/dog/pictures/bostonterrier/boston4.asp -- compare to Image:BostonTerrierBrindleStand_w.jpg)
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| Rating
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None
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| Compliance
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Doesn't give credit or link back to WP; claims copyright by prominently adding THEIR copyright directly onto each photo
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| Contact info
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caninecrib AT caninecrib.com, legal AT crystaltech.com (host DMCA)
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| Actions
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- Sent email Dec 2, 2005, have received no response & n othing seems to have changed. Elf - Talk 23:20, 7 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
- Have just sent another email using the standard wikipedia gfdl & linking text as recommended on this page's main page. Elf - Talk 23:28, 7 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
- Just sent 3rd warning using standard 2nd warning modified with note about takedown notice if they don't comply, with list of some specific photos (there are too many on their site to list individually if I don't really have to go through the whole thing! but one can start comparing their photos to what we have posted at Wikipedia:List of images/Nature/Animals/Dogs). Sent again to caninecrib AT caninecrib.com. Elf - Talk 01:55, 3 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Found a different whois tool that provided me with this data: http://who.godaddy.com/whois.aspx?domain=caninecrib.com&prog_id=godaddy . Email of admin and technical is listed as Hoang, Chung; email chung(dot)h at ewebcircle(dot)com(dot)au . Sending email to that address. Elf - Talk 17:30, 11 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Update: Just got this email (email address syntax edited by me):
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 09:19:47 -0700
Subject: re: invalid use of Wikipedia material on your site
From: "CanineCrib" <caninecrib(at)caninecrib(dot)com>
Apologise for the late reply. Photos were sent to me via the public.
I will go through them and take them ones that are from wikipedia
regards
Chung
Elf - Talk 16:31, 17 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
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captaincopyright.ca[edit]
- Site: Captain Copyright
- Page: Colouring Book
- That page is dynamic and displays different versions at random on each load. Three of the versions contain quotes or very close paraphrases from Wikipedia articles Paper, Book, and ISBN. The only credit is "[Source: Wikipedia.com]". No GFDL information, no link, and entire site purports to be covered by a license that seems very much incompatible with GFDL: [26].
- Example failed to load --Rumping 17:02, 23 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
caribbean-forum.com[edit]
- Site: [27]
- site appears to be taking live Wiki data
- Examples:
- http://anguilla.caribbean-forum.com/encyclopedia.php?title=Wikipedia
- Images are hot-linked to Wikipedia servers
- Copyright might be OK, says: Copyleft © 2005 caribbean-forum.com and Wikipedia - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License". Wikipedia content can be freely edited. Sometimes the edit option does not function from this site. In that case, please go to Wikipedia and edit over there in the corresponding section
- but on start page http://www.caribbean-forum.com/ has same message, this sounds like the site is affiliated with Wikipedia, even though on that page there stand only forums, no Wikipedia content
LarsSanders 17:33, 3 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
- Examples failed to load. Main page www.caribbean-forum.com said "Lo sentimos, este sitio web está temporalmente cerrado" i.e. "Sorry, this website is temporarily closed" --Rumping 17:05, 23 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
CaribbeanMD[edit]
CaribbeanMD
| URL
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http://www.caribbeanmd.com/
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| Description
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| Sample
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http://www.caribbeanmd.com/?page_id=6
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| Rating
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None
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| Compliance
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No attribution. Indicates "Copyright © 2008 CaribbeanMD". Only four pages found.
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| Contact info
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| Actions
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Carlos Zambrano[edit]
Carlos Zambrano
| URL
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http://www.carloszambrano.com/
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| Description
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| Sample
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http://www.carloszambrano.com/
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| Rating
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None.
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| Compliance
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Verbatim copy of Carlos Zambrano article introduction, without mention of GFDL or Wikipedia.
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| Contact info
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frontoffice AT gmail.com
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| Actions
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Sent standard violation letter to frontoffice AT gmail.com. Superm401 - Talk 00:12, 7 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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- Now no obvious Wikipedia content in example --Rumping 17:06, 23 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
CARluvers[edit]
- Site: http://www.carluvers.com
- Example: [28] for Albania
- Each article ends with: " The contents of this article are licensed from Wikipedia.org under the GNU Free Documentation License. How to see transparent copy" with link to www.wikipedia.org (using backwards Javascript) and to local copy of GFDL plus link to local description of how to find original article.
- As of 01:55, 7 December 2005 (UTC) --Henrygb
Casinozone.info[edit]
- Site: Casinozone.info
- Site seems to have updated with the wiki copyright
- Mentions Wikipedia and GFDL, however links back to the main page, and not the individual article.
- Site appears to be down --Rumping 17:08, 23 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Castles and Manor Houses around the World[edit]
Catholic University of Brussels[edit]
- Site: Catholic University of Brussels
- Most of main site is in Dutch
- Copies the Semantic Web article completely
- Mentions Wikipedia and has a link on the bottom (not clickable)
- No GFDL Link
- Sent standard GFDL email. David Newton 16:36, 14 Mar 2004 (UTC)
- If problem persists, and Dutch translation seems needed, add a message to my talk page. Don't expect a quick response from me, though. --Kasperl 19:27, 20 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- Page is now 404 missing. Diderot 10:52, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- and still missing so probably dead --Rumping 17:09, 23 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Celebrity Genius[edit]
Celebrity Genius
| URL
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http://www.celebritygenius.com/
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| Description
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| Sample
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http://www.celebritygenius.com/Nikki-Cox/biography.html?title=Ryan_White
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| Rating
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Low
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| Compliance
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Includes link back to en.wp root page (no path) but not to the original article. makes no mention of GFDL; has no attribution/history. copyright claimed in footer: "Celebrity Genius © Copyright 2006 - 2008"
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| Contact info
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E-mail, phone number of admin and ISP.
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| Actions
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None so far Jeremyb (talk) 05:35, 17 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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Celebrityspy.org[edit]
Celebrity Spy
| URL
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http://celebrityspy.org/indepth/PageName
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| Description
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| Sample
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http://celebrityspy.org/indepth/California
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| Rating
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Low/None
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| Compliance
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No mention of Wikipedia or GFDL. Pages copied verbatim from Wikipedia.
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| Contact info
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No contact details listed on site. Whois lists contact as Ian Hawkins of AcornSearch, ian AT acornsearch.com, with a UK postal address & mobile phone number. Webhost appears to be Easynet, who publish an abuse contact email on their website & in whois.
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| Actions
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Standard letter emailed to whois contact at 23:23, 2 September 2007 (UTC) by User:AJR. Awaiting response.
404 Page not found --Rumping 17:09, 23 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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CelebRoad[edit]
CelebRoad
| URL
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http://www.celebroad.com/
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| Description
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| Sample
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http://www.celebroad.com/people/christi-shake
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| Rating
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None
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| Compliance
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There is no mention of the information coming from Wikipedia at all
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| Contact info
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Can't find a contact address. Maybe webmaster AT celebroad.com would work?
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| Actions
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none taken, I don't understand all the red tape that encompasses Fair Use images so I'm not even going to try contacting anyone off site.
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CelebsAgeWiki[edit]
CelebsAgeWiki
| URL
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https://www.celebsagewiki.com
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| Description
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Changes article format into timeline, possibly with some LLM or templated text on each of their articles.
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| Sample
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https://www.celebsagewiki.com/kauko-kangasniemi
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| Rating
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None
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| Compliance
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© 2020 Celebrity Wiki at bottom of every page, unable to find attribution or anything linking to Wikipedia
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| Contact info
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contact link at bottom of page with organizational email adress
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| Actions
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CelebYOLO[edit]
CelebYOLO
| URL
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https://www.celebyolo.com/
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| Description
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Repackages the first lines of Wikipedia articles about celebrities and their photos, adds a gallery of photos from random non-attributed sources.
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| Sample
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https://www.celebyolo.com/celebs/abbie-cornish
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| Rating
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None
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| Compliance
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No copyright information whatsoever, links back to the English Wikipedia article with a sentence like "Read More about Natasha Bedingfield on Wikipedia".
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| Contact info
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No contact information but celebyolo@gmail.com
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| Actions
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Champions (UK) Plc After Dinner Speakers[edit]
Champions (UK) Plc After Dinner Speakers
| URL
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http://www.championsukplc.com/after-dinner-speaking/
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| Description
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| Sample
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http://www.championsukplc.com/after-dinner-speaking/speaker_details.cfm?speakerID=530
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| Rating
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| Compliance
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No mention of Wikipedia/GFDL. Seems to copy text directly from biographical articles.
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| Contact info
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| Actions
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chatrium.com[edit]
chatrium
| URL
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http://www.chatrium.com
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| Description
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| Sample
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http://www.chatrium.com/destination.php
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| Rating
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| Compliance
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no mention of GFDL or Wikipedia, no backlink, claims own copyright
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| Contact info
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| Actions
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ChemEurope.com[edit]
ChemEurope.com
| URL
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http://www.chemeurope.com
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| Description
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| Sample
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http://www.chemeurope.com/lexikon/e/Nanoscale_iron_particles
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| Rating
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| Compliance
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Gives both local copy of GFDL and Wikipedia backlink
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| Contact info
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| Actions
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Identical website at http://www.chemie.de.
Chemistry Daily[edit]
- Site: Chemistry Daily - the chemistry encyclopedia
- Seems to have a pretty much complete copy of the WP database - including non-chemistry articles. [29]
No reference to GFDL on individual pages. Instead, line at the bottom:
- The contents of this article is licensed from Wikipedia.org
- Potentially confusing copyright line beneath that. No link to wikipedia on individual article's pages.
- Terms of use [30] are pretty good though, including copy of GFDL license, plus reference to wikipedia.
- Annoying popups and JavaScript.
Chesnutz.info[edit]
Example url:
http://mp3player.chesnutz.info/dir11/mp3-player-compact-flash.html
I don't know what the term for this is, but it's basically link spam, they try to attract every search engine match possible to their link pages. That particular page rips off content from Limb darkening. There are lots more on that group of sites. No wikipedia credit or gfdl mention whatsoever. Actually the several that I looked at all use Sun-related snippets. Weird.
- Wikipedia content not obvious in example --Rumping 17:13, 23 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Chessbase.com[edit]
(article about Howard Staunton)
- link to current version of article, mentions Wikipedia as source
- no link to GFDL (perhaps not needed - very short text)
- I agree, but we could tell him to put source: wikipedia (under GFDL). wikipedia would link to article, gfdl to license?
- It's long enough to be copyrighted, so they should probably license the entire thing under the GFDL. Which will be nice, because they have some nice photos we could use. Martin 10:41, 31 Jul 2003 (UTC)
- Any more feedback for this? Should we tell them to license the entire article, or just add "(under GFDL)" with a link to the GFDL. The rest of the article is unrelated to the first part about Howard Staunton IMHO, so I don't see how it is even an extension of the Howard Staunton article. dave 18:28, 8 Sep 2003 (UTC)
- I suggest completely ignoring it. We're prominent enough that a link to our article with our name is ample notice that people can reuse that text. Chances are that we're better recognised as meaning open content than the initials GFDL are at this point... The picture of Howard Staunton appears to be a simple reproduction of a work made during his life and given his date of death and US law that means it is now in the public domain and can be taken from their site and used in the Wikipedia. Jamesday 21:05, 16 Jan 2004 (UTC)
- I don't believe this site should be listed as Low compliance (as it currently is). It may not be a shining example to hold up, but they sure made it clear where the article came from. Anyone following the link would then become aware of its GFDL status. There are better things than this to worry about. -Rholton 04:25, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)
chess.go.ro[edit]
- Site: chess.go.ro
- All (?) chess related articles
- Link to GFDL (but not local copy)
- Links to www.wikipedia.org but not to corresponding article
Choam info[edit]
- Site: http://www.choam.info/
- No mention of wikipedia
- No mention of GFDL
- Front page is a list of topics. Subpages produce errors --Rumping 17:11, 23 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Christians on the Left[edit]
<Christians on the Left>
| URL
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http://www.christiansontheleft.org.uk/everyday_violence
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| Description
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| Sample
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URL
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| Rating
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"High" compliance with CC-BY-SA (matches Wikipedia:CC-BY-SA Compliance) (compare against GFDL if they choose that license).
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| Compliance
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In sharing information about IJM's work, Christians on the Left Web site used some of IJM's own language, descriptions and case studies to best describe what IJM does.
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| Contact info
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E-mails, phone numbers, contact form URLs, etc. of admin and ISP.
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| Actions
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IJM will contact Christians on the Left to ask to reference material/Wikipedia.
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Christianclassifieds.com[edit]
- Main page seems to have copied dating, including a vandilism
- No mention of GFDL, lot of other site too, just look for "Dyersburg, Tennessee, illegal for a woman to contact a man by telephone"--Rayc 23:31, 7 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
citiesamerica.com[edit]
- As of 16:46, 06 Feb 2007 (UTC)
Citizendia[edit]
Citizendium
| URL
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http://www.citizendium.org
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| Description
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| Sample
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Ellipse
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| Rating
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N/A
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| Compliance
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Partial. Some articles credit Wikipedia, some do not
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| Contact info
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admin AT citizendium.org
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| Actions
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At 14/07/2009 I sent the standard letter about the article Chess. SyG
At 25/07/2009 I sent a follow-up letter. SyG
At 27/07/2009 I received a letter from "constables@citizendium.org" saying they had started a discussion on their forum at http://forum.citizendium.org/index.php/topic,2787.15/topicseen.html and they added a mention on Wikipedia on their "Chess" article. SyG
At 01/08/2009 I checked that the link to WP was in their "Chess" article indeed, and I sent a reply saying thank you (among other things). SyG
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- has a policy that articles that take content from wikipedia should credit but not all do. Situation with images worse. However the site is new so it is to be expected they will take some time to find their feet. No action taken at this time.
Geni 01:19, 26 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Actually, they are now widely violating the GFDL and they explicitly intend to do so according to their founder on their forums. Last I looked, their plans were not yet finalized but they were bouncing between either taking Wikipedia content and calling it cc-by-nc or calling Wikipedia content GFDL and keeping CZ originated articles as CC-by-nc with the explicit intention of using a non-free-content license to avoid any cooperation with Wikipedia (from whom they take a significant amount of content). Their frequent copying of images from commons, even in approved articles, with zero attribution or license data is especially troubling. --Gmaxwell 01:20, 26 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Where on their forums do they explicitly say that they intend on violating the GFDL? I checked out this topic on the GFDL but I couldn't find what you are talking about. I saw something on CC-by-NC-SA: is that the same as CC-by-nc? Even if it is the same, how does CC-by-nc violate the GFDL? I'm only asking because I don't know. Thanks. ~a (user • talk • contribs) 01:27, 26 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
-
- I am of course not a lawyer, but it does seem re-releasing GFDL under CC-by-nc might require a day in court at some point. But that may be okay. We don't really know what the GFDL means until such a time, nor the interoperability between the GFDL and any CC licenses. A "day in court" could be a considerable societal good.
- That's reply #3 in above mentioned thread. The idea is then re-inforced several times in that thread, also by Larry Sanger. But it's only one of many alternatives discussed there.
- Pjacobi 13:10, 26 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- I edit Citizendium and I will not link back to Wikipedia or give any credit to Wikipedia when I am the only author of the Wikipedia entry. Andries 21:41, 9 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- not a problem.Geni 20:26, 14 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- And are there any such entries? (Tongue in cheek.) Rich Farmbrough, 04:21, 23 April 2010 (UTC).[reply]
- http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Portuguese_language no attribution. Rich Farmbrough, 04:21, 23 April 2010 (UTC).[reply]
citymayors.com[edit]
CityMayors
| URL
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http://www.citymayors.com/
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| Description
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| Sample
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http://www.citymayors.com/mayors/denver_mayor.html (city description is the lead to the article Denver, Colorado)
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| Rating
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Low
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| Compliance
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No mention of GFDL. Site claims copyright to material from Wikipedia.
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| Contact info
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info AT citymayors.com, telephone: +44.20.8209.1722.
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| Actions
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Civil-War.ws[edit]
See Wikipedia:Mirrors_and_forks/Mno#Otherground
Classic TV & Movie Hits[edit]
Classic TV & Movie Hits
| URL
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http://www.classictvhits.com
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| Description
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| Sample
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http://www.classictvhits.com/network.php?id=15
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| Rating
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Medium to Low
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| Compliance
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In very small print: "(Source: wikipedia.org)" The text "wikipedia.org" links to www.wikipedia.org. Does same thing for some pages taken from IMDb. No mention of GFDL. Claims copyright at bottom of page. On its "disclaimer" page, it quotes U.S. copyright law on fair use.
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| Contact info
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Admin: webmaster AT classictvhits.com 978-886-2357 ISP: domains AT ev1servers.net 713-333-7873
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| Actions
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none so far
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Cleartest.com[edit]
This Pot Smoker of the Month is in significant parts a copyvio of Wikipedia's article on Melissa Etheridge
clearups.com[edit]
clearups.com
| URL
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http://www.clearups.com/
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| Description
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| Sample
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http://www.clearups.com/af.html
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| Rating
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"Low/None"
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| Compliance
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[32] "Content is for general informational purposes only and any copyrighted materials with be removed immediately if requested by the rightful copyright owners."
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| Contact info
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admin AT clearups.com
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| Actions
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clickabove.com[edit]
clubblogs.com[edit]
clubblogs
| URL
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http://clubblogs.com/
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| Description
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| Sample
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http://clubblogs.com/train
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| Rating
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"Low/None" compliance with GFDL (matches Wikipedia:GFDL Compliance).
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| Compliance
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mirror of wikipedia without any comment
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| Contact info
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|
| Actions
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none
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- No obvious Wikipedia content in example --Rumping 17:19, 23 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Clusty
| URL
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http://wiki.clusty.com
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| Description
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|
| Sample
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http://clusty.com/search?v%3Aproject=clusty-encyclopedia&query=dog
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| Rating
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High
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| Compliance
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All uses are accompanied by a GFDL notice, link to the original article, and mention of Wikipedia as the source. This is a search engine with a mirror of Wikipedia's Main Page. Searches show abstracts from Wikipedia. The front page (http://wiki.clusty.com/) is a direct copy of Main Page. License notices state, "Results from Wikipedia are licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License." The GFDL is linked to Wikipedia:Text of the GNU Free Documentation License. However, there is a copyright notice stating "© 2004-2006 Vivísimo, Inc. Clusty is created entirely with Vivísimo Velocity." The use of the Wikipedia logo is specifically authorized by the Wikimedia Foundation (by way of Jimbo Wales).
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| Contact info
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arment AT vivisimo.com
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| Actions
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- I have emailed to ask for slightly better compliance. Superm401 -
- I am emailing to ask for a rephrasing of the copyright notice. Superm401 - Talk 00:58, 4 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Talk 01:34, 20 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
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Coda Books[edit]
codeboy.net[edit]
Research requested. JesseW 22:16, 18 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]
- Currently in non-workable state, full with "\n" and "font=", etc. I would assume noone with any sense would use it --Msoos 13:40, 21 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Cognition.com[edit]
Cognition (not url)
| URL
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http://wikipedia.cognition.com/
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| Description
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| Sample
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http://wikipedia.cognition.com/?num=10&from_val=1&to_val=10&f=simple&d=wikipedia1,wikipedia2,wikipedia3,wikipedia4,wikipedia5,wikipedia6,wikipedia7,wikipedia8&win=0&sf=524418&fld=-1&search=beat%20a%20drum%20in%20combo&Submit=Search&window=0&positional=1
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| Rating
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""Low/None" compliance with GFDL
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| Compliance
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Absolutely false copyright claim on Wikipedia data, inappropriate usage of Wikipedia Trademark as logo
http://wikipedia.cognition.com/info/tos.html
Ownership of Materials
Materials are copyrighted and are protected by worldwide copyright laws and treaty provisions. They may not be copied, reproduced, modified, published, uploaded, posted, transmitted, or distributed in any way, without Cognition Technologies' prior written permission.
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| Contact info
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http://whois.domaintools.com/cognition.com ljkutcher@earthlink.net
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| Actions
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Website warned from the web fonm.
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collectionagencysupport.com[edit]
Collection Agency Services
| URL
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http://www.collectionagencysupport.com/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1
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| Description
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| Sample
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http://www.collectionagencysupport.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=22&Itemid=32
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| Rating
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Low/None
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| Compliance
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Copy of Collection agency on various pages including the sample above. The author even kept in the Wiki markup.
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| Contact info
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Owner/Admin: bobur2002 AT hotmail.com, 302-345-1634
ISP: abuse AT site5.com, 888-748-3526
Owner/Admin Address: Bob Kurbanov, 309 Waters Edge Drive, Newark 19702
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| Actions
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none
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colombialink.com[edit]
colombialink.com
| URL
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http://www.colombialink.com/01_INDEX/index_finanzas_eng.html
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| Description
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| Sample
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http://www.colombialink.com/01_INDEX/index_finanzas_eng/arrow_impossibility.html
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| Rating
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Medium
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| Compliance
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GFDL notice with mention of Wikipedia and local link to the GFDL on all economics page copied. However, every page links to our list of economics topics rather than the particular page copied.
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| Contact info
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duran AT colombialink.com, sales AT ifxcorp.com (host)
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| Actions
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- Received message that they have fixed problems and appreciate my notice. However, I replied noting that they link to the wrong page for most articles. Superm401 - Talk 23:13, 12 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- No obvious mention of Wikipedia or GFDL in example page --Rumping 17:23, 23 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Comedy Zone[edit]
Comedy Zone
| URL
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http://www.comedy-zone.net
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| Description
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|
| Sample
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http://www.comedy-zone.net/standup/comedian/s/stephenson-pamela.htm
|
| Rating
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Low/none
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| Compliance
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Site features numerous comedian profiles; all four I checked were cut-and-pasted from Wikipedia articles with minor editing. Pamela Stephenson article includes material written by me. Comedy Zone notices claim copyright to site content, no mention of Wikipedia, GFDL, or link to source. I checked threefour more comedian profiles at random, and all were simply cut-and-pastes of corresponding Wikipedia articles with some abridgement.
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| Contact info
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ray.chapman AT comedy-zone.net (registrant whois), hostmaster AT POSITIVE-INTERNET.COM (technical whois), good AT positive-internet.com (host email listed on their site)
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| Actions
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- Sent copy of PD letter (modified to note the other pages besides the one I contributed to) to technical contact with request that they pass on on to Mr/Ms Chapman. --Calair 00:24, 23 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Sent followup letter to ray.chapman AT comedy-zone.net. Superm401 - Talk 00:37, 7 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Still non-compliant more than a year later, http://www.comedy-zone.net/standup/comedian/s/smirnoff-yakov.htm does make it appear that in Soviet Russia, copyright violates YOU!! --carlb (talk) 17:41, 10 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Compwisdom.com[edit]
CompWisdom
| URL
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http://www.compwisdom.com
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| Description
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| Sample
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http://www.compwisdom.com/topics/BSD
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Low/None
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Some entries credit Wikipedia. Most don't. Some attribute material to unrelated other Wikipedia mirrors. (e.g., WordIQ.)
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| Contact info
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contact page
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| Actions
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None.
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Concise Encyclopaedia of India[edit]
Concise Encyclopaedia of India
| URL
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http://books.google.com/books?id=9dNOT9iYxcMC (at Google Books)
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| Description
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| Sample
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http://books.google.com/books?id=9dNOT9iYxcMC&lpg=PA1104&pg=PA1104#v=onepage&q&f=false (at Google Books). This was questioned as a source for Etymology of Assam at WP:RS/N.
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| Rating
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Low/None
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| Compliance
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Note that this is a book, not a website. I don't see any credit given to (nor any other mention of) Wikipedia. Publisher claims "All Rights Reserved."
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| Contact info
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www.atlanticbooks.com, info@atlanticbooks.com (as given in the book)
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| Actions
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None.
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concordchrysler300.com[edit]
- Site: http://concordchrysler300.com/wiki2.php
- Just raw copy of Simple English Wikipedia.
- The only mention of GFDL and Wikipedia is from the links in the actual Main Page of the Simple English Wikipedia.
- nonworking as of 13 April 2006. Chris Chan.talk.contribs 00:03, 14 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- dead - no domain registration --Rumping 17:26, 23 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Site: http://conk.com/encyclopedia/
- |rating=|compliance=s Wikipedia
- Contains notice: "Data for the CONK! Encyclopedia provided by Wikipedia" with a non-working link to Wikipedia:About and no mention of GFDL.
- Example: http://www.conk.com/search/encyclopedia.cgi?q=Zone_plate Zone plate
- Have sent email. --Laura Scudder | Talk 23:49, 16 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
- Dead and gone. --WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 18:06, 26 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
- Still dead (and gone) ℬastique▼parℓer♥voir♑ 02:49, 12 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Site doesn't work anymore. This, that and the other 10:27, 22 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Connect Online[edit]
Connect Online
| URL
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http://encyc.connectonline.com/
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| Description
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| Sample
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http://encyc.connectonline.com/index.php/Tonga
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| Rating
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Medium
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| Compliance
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Notes that material ("information" as the site says) is from Wikipedia, with link to original article and main page (at top and bottom of article respectively) and links to local copy of the GFDL. Specifically disclaims copyright of Wikipedia material in copyright section (with another local link to the GFDL). Authors and dates are not listed.
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| Contact info
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jrutherfordmd AT hotmail.com (whois), support AT oar.net (host)
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| Actions
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- Sent letter asking for a direct link to article, on-site GFDL, and no claim of copyright. Superm401 - Talk 02:24, 23 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Received reply stating "I am forwarding this to my webmaster, who only works on this in his frre [sic] time, to make corrections. We will stay in touch and follow-up." Superm401 - Talk 03:18, 23 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
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Consumer's Research Council of America[edit]
Consumer's Research Council of America
| URL
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http://www.consumersresearchcncl.org
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| Description
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| Sample
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http://www.consumersresearchcncl.org/Healthcare/Dermatologists/derma_chapter1.html (compare [33], which shows page was put together on wiki slowly)
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| Rating
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"Low/None"
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| Compliance
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Poor compliance: "Copyright © Consumers' Research Council of America. All rights reserved. "
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| Contact info
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See [34], [35]
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| Actions
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none yet
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Cookery-Online[edit]
- Site: cookery-online.co.uk
- The site uses Wikipedia (and Wikibooks) content about cooking, kitchen appliances, diets, ect (all of their recipes come from Wikibooks). They provide a link to the text of the GFDL at the GNU's site, and to the Wikipedia Main Page, but not to specific articles (and make no reference to Wikibooks at all).
- I received a reply from Chris Anstey, letting me know that the links have been changed to the relevant articles, and wikibooks content is now properly attributed. Gentgeen 02:32, 16 Jan 2005 (UTC)
- I think I would call them medium compliance overall, slightly higher compliance with respect to Wikipedia, and slightly lower in respect to Wikibooks.
- Changing to high compliance, after checking the site. Gentgeen 02:32, 16 Jan 2005 (UTC)
- Standard letter (modified to include Wikibooks issues) sent on January 5 by Gentgeen
- Received reply January 15, 2005. Gentgeen 02:32, 16 Jan 2005 (UTC)
- No authors or dates listed. Medium compliance. Uncle G 11:13, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Cooking Vinyl UK[edit]
Cooking Vinyl UK
| URL
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http://www.cookingvinyl.com/
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| Description
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| Sample
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http://www.cookingvinyl.com/artist_info.php?id=26#albdesc
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| Rating
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None
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| Compliance
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Uses text directly from Billy Bragg with no acknowledgement of source
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| Contact info
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Tel: +44 (0)20 8600 9200
Fax: +44 (0)20 8743 7448
Email: info AT cookingvinyl.com
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| Actions
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None yet
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Cooldictionary.com[edit]
Cooldictionary.com
| URL
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http://www.cooldictionary.com/
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| Description
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| Sample
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http://www.cooldictionary.com/words/Main_Page.wikipedia
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| Rating
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Medium
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| Compliance
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Like #Algebra.com, it looks like a nearly complete copy of Wikipedia from May 18. Links to the corresponding Wikipedia articles and notes that each article is licensed under the GFDL at the bottom of each page. However, it appears to be dynamically fetched, which is a major drain on Wikipedia resources. See for instance http://www.cooldictionary.com/words/Portal:Current%20events.wikipedia.
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| Contact info
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| Actions
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Notified wikitech-l about dynamic loading. Superm401 - Talk 01:53, 3 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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copernicus.subdomain.de[edit]
- Site: copernicus.subdomain.de
The main page is the Wikipedia article on Nicolaus Copernicus, but they seem to have copied all of the article namespace but none of the other namespaces.They link to the GFDL at GNU.org, and to the respective Wikipedia article, and mention Wikipedia, at the bottom of every page.
- However, as of 03:33, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC), google seems to still pick them up even with "-wikipedia" added. Strange. JesseW 03:33, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- All namespaces.
- Sample: http://copernicus.subdomain.de/Jimmy_Wales
- No mention of Wikipedia.
- No mention of GFDL.
- As of 13:54, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
- not functioning --Rumping 17:29, 23 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
www.corkipedia.com[edit]
corpusdata.org[edit]
CottageBuddy[edit]
- Site: www.cottagebuddy.com
- Example www.cottagebuddy.com/cottage_resources/en/Mormaerdom_of_Moray
- States: This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License, which means that you can copy and modify it as long as the entire work (including additions) remains under this license. The source of this article is Wikipedia and a list of the authors can be found here. with broken links failing to reach GFDL at gnu.org, original article and history
- Ends with ©2006 CottageBuddy
Creekin.net[edit]
Creekin.net
| URL
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http://creekin.net/
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| Description
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| Sample
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http://creekin.net/c5157-n125-western-sahara-morocco.html
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| Rating
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Low
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| Compliance
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- Mentions Wikipedia, as the source of "Some information" (really all)
- Mentions GFDL, but with incorrect link.
- Links to irrelevant page in Wikipedia.
- No link to the original article.
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| Contact info
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- CREEKIN.NET AT domainsbyproxy.com (proxy domain registeration)
- abuse AT rackspace.com (ISP)
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| Actions
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Asked for DMCA takedown notices at Portal talk:Geography. Superm401 - Talk 00:50, 7 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Cricket Updates[edit]
Cricket Updates
| URL
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http://www.cricketupdates.org
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| Description
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| Sample
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http://www.cricketupdates.org/cricket-bowling-machine.html
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| Rating
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Low/None
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| Compliance
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The above sample is a slightly amended and shortened version of the Wikipedia article Bowling machine. No mention is made of GFDL or Wikipedia. I found two other examples: [36], a significant portion of which is lifted, with only minor re-wording, from Hawk-Eye and [37], which consists of a few extracts from Hot Spot (cricket). These pages aren't complete copies of whole articles, but they are clearly derived from them and consist mainly of shortened and slightly modified extracts. At the foot of every page it says "This blog copyright � 2008 Cricket Updates. All Rights Reserved"
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| Contact info
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admin AT cricketupdates.org (from WHOIS)
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| Actions
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Sent an E-mail 8 May 2009
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Crystalinks.com[edit]
Crystalinks Metaphysical and Science Website
| URL
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http://www.crystalinks.com/
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| Description
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| Sample
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http://www.crystalinks.com/chupacabras.html
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| Rating
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Medium
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| Compliance
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Uses content from Chupacabra. No mention of Wikipedia or GFDL, claims copyright on front page. Links to Answers.com copy of article.
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| Contact info
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http://www.crystalinks.com/email.html
WHOIS: ecrystal AT nyc.rr.com, 10031 4th Avenue Apt 6A, Brooklyn, NY 11209, US, Phone: (718) 833-4264
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| Actions
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- Standard GFDL violation letter sent. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 21:00, 15 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Response received, page now links back to Chupacabra as "References and Links". Still no mention of the GFDL. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 11:16, 16 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Sent standard followup letter to ecrystal AT nyc.rr.com. Superm401 - Talk 07:33, 7 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- She replied stating, "The file has been change. I apologize for any inconvenience."
- I replied noting that the site was still in violation, and apparently had just changed to mentioning Answers.com. Superm401 - Talk 23:40, 7 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Cuil.com[edit]
Cuil Search engine
| URL
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http://www.cuil.com/
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| Description
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| Sample
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http://www.cuil.com/search?q=dublin&sl=long&m=Dublin%20Ireland
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| Rating
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Medium
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| Compliance
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Uses wikipedia categorisation & article content for tooltips and search organisiation
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| Contact info
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| Actions
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CultureCentric[edit]
CultureCentric
| URL
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http://www.culturecentric.com/
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| Description
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| Sample
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http://www.culturecentric.com/Language-A/affricate_consonant.php
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| Rating
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None
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| Compliance
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No mention of Wikipedia or the GFDL. Page says "© CultureCentric.com. All Rights Reserved"
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| Contact info
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I can't find any contact information.
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| Actions
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None yet. —Angr 19:30, 16 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
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Cunnan (SCA wiki)
| URL
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http://cunnan.sca.org.au/wiki/Main_Page
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| Description
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| Sample
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http://cunnan.sca.org.au/wiki/SCA
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| Rating
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Low
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| Compliance
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Links to local copy of GFDL (under the text "legal small-print"). Articles do not mention Wikipedia.
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| Contact info
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Webmaster: Delbert von Straßburg (del AT sca.org.au); ISP: Babel Com Australia (http://www.babel.com.au)
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| Actions
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None
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Cured.com[edit]
Cured.com
| URL
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http://www.cured.com/
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| Description
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| Sample
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http://www.cured.com/drug-index/Aripiprazole/
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| Rating
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"None"
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| Compliance
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no mention of wikipedia or gfdl. LeadSongDog come howl! 15:41, 26 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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| Contact info
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whois masked by Godaddy and Domains By Proxy
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| Actions
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CuteWalls.com[edit]
CuteWalls.com
| URL
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http://cutewalls.com/
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| Description
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| Sample
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http://cutewalls.com/a-to-f/anne-hathaway.html
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| Rating
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"None"
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| Compliance
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no mention of wikipedia or gfdl. Patstuarttalk·edits 08:01, 25 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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| Contact info
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9a30232f81f94adab722fcb45955739e.protect AT whoisguard.com (yes, this is correct), Phone:6613102107.
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| Actions
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cyberpedia.net[edit]
cyberpedia.net
| URL
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http://cyberpedia.net/
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| Description
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| Sample
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http://www.cyberpedia.net/info.php?title=Immune_system
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| Rating
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Medium
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| Compliance
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Mentions wikipedia, links to original article. Mentions gfdl, links to the GNU project site
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| Contact info
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| Actions
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none
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cyclechaos.com[edit]
Cyclechaos Motorcycle Information & Community
| URL
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http://www.cyclechaos.com/
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| Description
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| Sample
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http://www.cyclechaos.com/wiki/Cruiser
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| Rating
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Low/None
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| Compliance
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No apparent GFDL, no article history, no credit to Wikipedia.
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| Contact info
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cyclechaos.com AT proxy.dreamhost.com
cyclechaos.com Private Registrant
DreamHost Web Hosting 417 Associated Rd #324 Brea, CA 92821
United States
+1.2139471032
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| Actions
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Actions taken (if any) to attempt to make the website comply.
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Cyese.info[edit]
- Google suggests copy of some articles (e.g. [[38]] should have a copy of Polyol) but protected behind registration requirement --Henrygb 18:21, 11 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
- Site ont found, as of 00:06, 14 April 2006 (UTC). Chris Chan.talk.contribs
cytaty.servis.pl[edit]
- Site: http://www.cytaty.servis.pl/haslo/Main_Page
- Sample: http://www.wiedza.servis.pl/haslo/Albinizm
- Uses Wikipedia, Polish Wikipedia, and Wikiquote contents.
- Mention of GFDL 1.2, no links to it though. No mention of Wikipedia. -- WB 08:11, 15 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- E-mail sent. -- WB 08:18, 15 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Sample now seems to be: http://www.encyklopedia.servis.pl/wiki/Albinizm 17:37, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
