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Template:Copyvio-revdel

Certain historical revisions of this page may meet criterion RD1 for revision deletion, as they contain significant copyright violations Error: No URL has been provided! that have been removed in the meantime. The revisions to be redacted have not been specified. Please check the talk page for more information. Note to admins: In case of doubt, remove this template and post a message asking for review at WT:CP. Note to the requestor: Make sure the page has already been reverted to a non-infringing revision or that infringing text has been removed or replaced before submitting this request. This template is reserved for obvious cases only, for other cases refer to Wikipedia:Copyright problems. Note to others: Please do not remove this template until an administrator has reviewed it.

Requests for revision deletion under any other criteria should be made to an administrator in Category:Wikipedia administrators willing to handle RevisionDelete requests.

You must specify at least one revision (using the |start= parameter alone), or first range of revisions to redact.

A user script is available to quickly select ranges of revision IDs to be used in the template at User:Enterprisey/cv-revdel. If adding the template manually, please place it at the top of the page.

Usage

{{copyvio-revdel
|url        = <!-- The url of the site the article was in infringement of, or a text explanation of where the source(s) can be verified. -->
|url2       = <!-- The url of a second site the article was in infringement of (optional). -->
|url3       = <!-- The url of a third site the article was in infringement of (optional). -->
|start      = <!-- The number of the first (oldest) revision to be deleted. -->
|end        = <!-- The number of the last (newest) revision to be deleted (optional). -->
|start2     = <!-- First (oldest) revision of another range to be deleted (optional). -->
|end2       = <!-- Last (newest) revision of another range to be deleted (optional). -->
|start3     = <!-- First (oldest) revision of another range to be deleted (optional). -->
|end3       = <!-- Last (newest) revision of another range to be deleted (optional). -->
|start4     = <!-- First (oldest) revision of another range to be deleted (optional). -->
|end4       = <!-- Last (newest) revision of another range to be deleted (optional). -->
|CopyPatrol = <!-- The permalink of the ''detection'' of the copyright violation by the CopyPatrol interface (optional). -->
|comment    = <!-- A space for comments about the requested revdel for the reviewing administrator, which are not already expressed using the fields above (optional). -->
}}

The template will accept up to nine sequences of diffs in the manner above.

Parameters |end=, |end2=, |end3=, |end4= are always optional, even when |start2=, |start3= and |start4= are specified.

Providing the URLs wherever possible will allow a swift processing of the request. If that is not directly possible (e.g. because providing it would in itself be a WP:LINKVIO), please explain on the talk page how to verify the validity of the request.

The numbered URLs are NOT tied to the numbered start & end revisions. Multiple URLs may be dealt with in the deletion of a single range. Conversely a violation of a single URL may have been reinserted a number of times making it necessary to delete multiple ranges.

Parameter |CopyPatrol= is intended for use by users experienced in the CopyPatrol interface.This is very helpful when the site(s) the article was in infringement of is currently inaccessible.

This template adds the page to ‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:Requested RD1 redactions.

{{copyvio-revdel
|url        = 
|url2       = 
|url3       = 
|start      = 
|end        = 
|start2     = 
|end2       = 
|start3     = 
|end3       = 
|start4     = 
|end4       = 
|CopyPatrol = 
|comment    = 
}}

Targeting the correct revision "oldids"

1. In the usage instructions above, the "number of the ... revision" is the number next to "oldid=" at the end of the URL shown in your browser's address bar, when at a revision of a page. For example, the oldid from this URL of a revision of przevalski's nuthatch is highlighted:

   https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Przevalski%27s_nuthatch&oldid=748591277

2. Probably because of a false equivalence with a diff view that people are so used to—where one invokes the revision before a span of revisions to see the changes in between—it is common for people to provide one revision too early (and sometimes one revision too far), when choosing the span of revisions requested to be redacted.
3. The "first (oldest)" revision ID is the oldid number from the URL where the copyright violation was added (and not the revision before it).
4. The "last (newest)" revision ID is the oldid number from the URL where the copyright violation last existed (and not the revision that deleted it.) That is, the revert does not have the copyright violation in its text, so it's the edit prior to the revert.

See also

• {{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
• {{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

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