Template:Copyvio
Investigation of potential copyright issue
Please note this is about the text of this Wikipedia article; it should not be taken to reflect on the subject of this article.
Do not restore or edit the blanked content on this page until the issue is resolved by an administrator, copyright clerk or VRT agent.
If you have just labeled this page as a potential copyright issue, please follow the instructions for filing at the bottom of the box.
The previous content of this page or section has been identified as posing a potential copyright issue, as a copy or modification of the text from the source(s) below, and is now listed at Copyright problems :
Unless the copyright status of the text of this page or section is clarified and determined to be compatible with Wikipedia's content license, the problematic text and revisions or the entire page may be deleted one week after the time of its listing (i.e. after 21:09, 15 Febuluwale 2026 (UTC)).
Temporarily, the original posting is still accessible for viewing in the page history.
Can you help resolve this issue?
If you hold the copyright to this text, you can license it in a manner that allows its use on Wikipedia.
- You must permit the use of your material under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License (CC BY-SA 3.0) and the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) (unversioned, with no invariant sections, front-cover texts, or back-cover texts).
- Explain your intent to license the content on this article's discussion page.
- To confirm your permission, you can either display a notice to this effect at the site of original publication or send an e-mail from an address associated with the original publication to permissions-en
wikimedia.org or a postal letter to the Wikimedia Foundation. These messages must explicitly permit use under CC BY-SA and the GFDL. See Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials. - Note that articles on Wikipedia must be written from a neutral point of view and must be verifiable in published third-party sources; consider whether, copyright issues aside, your text is appropriate for inclusion in Wikipedia.
You can demonstrate that this text is in the public domain or is already under a license suitable for Wikipedia.
Explain this on this article's discussion page, with reference to evidence. Wikipedia:Public domain and Wikipedia:Compatibly licensed may assist in determining the status.
Otherwise, you may rewrite this page without copyright-infringing material.
Your rewrite should be placed on this page, where it will be available for an administrator or clerk to review it at the end of the listing period. Follow this link to create the temporary subpage.
- Simply modifying copyrighted text is not sufficient to avoid copyright infringement—if the original copyright violation cannot be cleanly removed or the article reverted to a prior version, it is best to write the article from scratch. (See Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing.)
- For license compliance, any content used from the original article must be properly attributed; if you use content from the original, please leave a note at the top of your rewrite saying as much. You may duplicate non-infringing text that you had contributed yourself.
- It is always a good idea, if rewriting, to identify the point where the copyrighted content was imported to Wikipedia and to check to make sure that the contributor did not add content imported from other sources. When closing investigations, clerks and administrators may find other copyright problems than the one identified. If this material is in the proposed rewrite and cannot be easily removed, the rewrite may not be usable.
About importing text to Wikipedia
- Posting copyrighted material without the express permission of the copyright holder is considered copyright infringement, which is both illegal and against Wikipedia policy.
- If you have express permission, this must be verified either by explicit release at the source or by e-mail or letter to the Wikimedia Foundation. See Wikipedia:Declaration of consent for all enquiries.
- Policy requires that we block those who repeatedly post copyrighted material without express permission.
Instructions for filing
If you have tagged the article for investigation, please complete the following steps:
- Add the following to the bottom of Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2026 Febuluwale 8:
* {{subst:article-cv|Template:Copyvio}} from . ~~~~ - Place this notice on the talk page of the contributor of the copyrighted material:
{{subst:Nothanks-web|pg=Template:Copyvio|url=}} ~~~~ - To hide a section instead of an entire article, add the template to the beginning of the section and {{Copyvio/bottom}} at the end of the portion you intend to blank.
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This template should always be substituted (i.e., use {{subst:Copyvio}}). Any accidental transclusions will be automatically substituted by a bot. |
Usage
[kulemba source]If a text page is a likely copyright violation, add the following before the copied text:
{{subst:copyvio|url=source(s)}} where the copyvio starts and {{copyvio/bottom}} where the copyvio ends.
This template must always be substituted.
- If the entire page, including all previous versions of it, is a blatant copyright violation, do not use this template and do not blank the page. Tag with {{db-copyvio}} instead.
- If only part of the page is a likely copyright violation, you may tag only that section. The template by default will blank all content following it; to limit the blanking, place {{Copyvio/bottom}} at the point where copyright concerns end.
- This template is not for use with images. Blatant image copyright violations should be tagged with {{Db-f9}}. Otherwise, suspected image violations should be tagged with {{Ffd}}. If this template is used on a page in the File namespace, it will transclude Template:Copyvio error above the notice.
- Separate multiple URLs with spaces.
TemplateData
[kulemba source]This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. See a monthly parameter usage report for Template:Copyvio in articles based on its TemplateData.
TemplateData for Copyvio
No description.
| Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| url | url 1 | Source where the content was copied from | URL | required |
| fullpage | fullpage | Whether the full page is a copyright violation. If "yes", hides the content from search engines.
| String | optional |
See also
[kulemba source]- Wikipedia:Copyright problems § Instructions - for a more detailed description on how to use this template as well as the other related templates
- {{Db-g12}} – for speedy deletion of blatant text copyright violations involving an entire article
- {{Copyvio}} – for blanking entire articles or sections of article that violate copyright but do not meet the speedy deletion criterion
- {{Copyvio-revdel}} – for requesting a revision deletion after infringing material has been wiped
- {{Copyvio link}} – for just tagging a single external link, rather than an entire page
- {{Copyright violation}} – inline version to tag a sentence or paragraph
- {{Copypaste}} – for articles or sections that appear to be copy-pasted from another source
- {{Cv-unsure}} – if you're unsure whether a page violates a copyright because you don't know the source
- {{Close paraphrasing}} – can be used when content was apparently copy-pasted but also slightly reworded
- {{Non-free}} – for flagging articles that may use excessive amounts of non-free material
- {{Cclean}} – for notifying a removal of infringing material on articles' talk pages
- {{Uw-copyright}}, {{Uw-copyright-link}}, {{Uw-copyright-new}}, {{Uw-paraphrase}}, {{Welcome-copyright}} – for warning users who violate copyright
- {{CCI}}, {{CCId}}, {{CCI-notice}}, {{CCI-project}}, {{CCI-subject}} – talk page notices regarding contributor copyright investigations
- {{copied}}, {{translated page}} – to show where page text originates, from other pages or from other language wikis, respectively
- {{Backwards copy}} – to show a source has copied Wikipedia, not the other way around