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What remains of these edits https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Artists_Repertory_Theatre&diff=566502959&oldid=558680926 appear to be PR edit. Needs to be properly sourced and rewritten as needed. Graywalls (talk) 04:20, 1 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I've now removed a great deal of the article due to WP:COPYVIO. Text had been lifted extensively from the subject's own website (here [1]) and from the sources indicated within the text.

There was also an amount of material sourced to dead links. I felt it was prudent to also remove this material on the basis that it was likely that at least some of it represented further copyvio, and it was unsourced in any event if the links no longer exist.

I was unable to access source 6 (Portland Tribune article) so I was unable to determine if the material with that as a source was also further copyvio.

Assistance would be appreciated in requesting revdel in relation to the copyvio material, as I have been unable to either apply the relevant template or create a report at WP:CP. Axad12 (talk) 19:09, 1 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Try the archived link I just added Graywalls (talk) 20:59, 1 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks, the material re: source 6 is free of copyvio.

Thanks also for identifying the serious issues with this article. Axad12 (talk) 02:38, 2 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Revdel now requested at WP:CP. Axad12 (talk) 02:47, 2 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure which revs you've requested. You ought to be specific what revs to be deleted in that request. Graywalls (talk) 16:09, 2 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

From memory, I think it was clear from the request that they will need to look at the two edits labelled as being COPYVIO from the subject's own website and COPYVIO from the sources indicated in the text.

Unfortunately there is a wider problem because a huge amount of material had been deleted from the article before I noted the copyvio. I assume there is a very high likelihood that much of that material was also copyvio, because the MO of the users seem to have been on a rather basic cut and paste type of copyright violation.

So, exactly how much needs to be revdelled would require a great deal of work that I am unable to do, but it is at least what I've indicated in the opening sentence of this post. Axad12 (talk) 16:20, 2 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Special:Contributions/50.255.106.121, the IPs other edits aside from this article all have something to do with ART. Graywalls (talk) 16:14, 2 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright problem removed

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@Saqib and Axad12:, the request is confusingly unclear. Rev delete prevents edit history which contain copyright violations. For this article, that's been done already in the past. So, you'll have to find where else it was done since then and specifically point out where the vio occurred rather than leave it for whatever admin responding to the report to figure it out. It's not obvious at all. I couldn't figure it out. Graywalls (talk) 16:53, 3 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It looks to me as though copyvio was installed during a batch of edits by a single user in May 2019 and been present ever since. Axad12 (talk) 17:01, 3 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]