Talk:Chatham Granite Club

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Copyvio

Marchjuly - I can't determine if this came from the website or if they added it from the Wikipedia page. It looks like it was on their page in May 2016 per the Wayback Machine and the content on Wikipedia was added as early as 2014.

I think one of the safer things here would be for the content to be re-written just to be on the safe side. Aidenpoole97, would you be interested in doing this? (I know you didn't post the content, but since you know so much about the club you seem like the best person for the job.) Another option would be to get the club to license the copyrighted text (the paragraphs on their history page) under a Creative Commons license, but that would be something they would have to do. Re-writing is generally the easiest way to resolve these types of issues. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:21, 15 February 2018 (UTC)

Thank you for checking on this Shalor (Wiki Ed). I asked Diannaa about this at User talk:Diannaa#Possible copyvio in Chatham Granite Club, but as you say this might just be a case where the official website is actually mirroring Wikipedia. I guess technically that would make the official website a copyvio unless there's attribution to Wikipedia somewhere on it, but I don't think that's something we can resolve here. Anyway, I'll post something on Diannaa's user talk just in case the ping didn't work. She's got lots more experience with this type of thing than I, so she'll probably better know what if anything needs to be done. -- Marchjuly (talk) 21:40, 15 February 2018 (UTC)

This tool shows the potential source webpage was created on March 3, 2016. So it's possible that it copies from Wikipedia rather than the other way around. Or potentially the club had a different website at some point from which this prose was copied. As things stand we can't conclusively prove it's a copyvio. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 21:49, 15 February 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for the info Diannaa. Does that mean {{Copyvio}} should be removed and replaced with {{Cv-unsure}}? -- Marchjuly (talk) 11:31, 17 February 2018 (UTC)

I haven't seen that template before so I don't know the answer to your question. My preference would be to re-write the suspect material or remove it. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 13:35, 17 February 2018 (UTC)

I discovered the suspect material could be removed without damaging the article too much so I went ahead and did that. I won't be doing revision deletion though, as we can't prove a copyright violation. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 13:56, 17 February 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for all your help Diannaa. -- Marchjuly (talk) 14:43, 17 February 2018 (UTC)