Talk:Rainbow Beach, Queensland

Copyright problem removed

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In this edit: [1], I removed unsourced material added on 6 July 2013, in edit Special:Diff/557495655/563080288, from the "History" section. It was copypasted by a user with a pattern of copyright violations. The first two paragraphs seem to originate in the 2004 Sydney Morning Herald article, though that same text is found on the Rainbow Beach Commerce and Tourism Association website. That website additionally has the second two paragraphs. The archive.org site only has archives for that page going back to 2017, so according to that it could be possible that the text was copied from Wikipedia to there. However it's unlikely that the user copypasted text from the Herald site, then added their own original text after that, and much more likely that the Rainbow Beach tourism page existed before the edit, and the whole thing was copied from it. Furthermore, the user appears to be the same person as now-blocked JohnLickor372 (talk · contribs), who has an extensive history of copyright violations, and in my experience has a poor command of English and is not capable of writing the text in question. The whole edit should be assumed to be a copyright violation. --IamNotU (talk) 22:51, 15 September 2019 (UTC)