Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/Gilabrand

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Background

Gilabrand

Gilabrand (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
Check requested by Hog Farm _Talk
I recently encountered copy-and-pasted information added by this user at Elon (Judges) (I can't link to the deleted revision, since I'm not an admin anymore). A search through the user's contribs includes more copy-and-paste - text added here is a straight copy-and-paste from the source, more copyvio added here, and some close paraphrasing inserted here. This is certainly enough to be concerning. Hog Farm _Talk 23:33, 28 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Copyvio found in Bikur Cholim Hospital (from http://www.jewishmag.com/123mag/bikur_cholim/bikur_cholim.htm). Accepting. MER-C 19:54, 3 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I just looked at the three links Hog Farm linked. The first is not straight copy-and-paste... it adds quotation marks and is WP:LIMITED in any event. The second and third aren't even close to the cited source, unless I'm missing something. Levivich (talk) 03:22, 6 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
@Levivich: For the first one, adding quote marks around two words out of an entire copied sentence does not resolve the copyvio. WP:LIMITED applies to close paraphrasing, not copy-pastes.

As for the other two, the close paraphrasing is pretty obvious (similar parts bolded):

Addition:
The theater is an exotic venue with several small performance spaces created out of a warren of rooms. The roof terrace, decorated in period Arabic furnishings, overlooks the Old City of Jaffa.

Website:

Several small performance spaces have been created out of a warren of rooms, and there is a spectacular roof terrace decorated in period Arabic furnishings overlooking Jaffa City.

Addition2:

In the 1930s, a plan was proposed to rebuild the ancient Talmudic academy founded by Yochanan Ben Zakkai. In 1941, an agreement was reached between the Jewish National Fund and the Mizrachi/Hapoel Mizrachi movements, allocating five hundred dunams in Yavne area for a yeshiva. In 1948, the building was used as a forward post by Yigal Alon, commander of the southern front, because of its commanding view of the coastal plain.

Website2:

It was then that the idea was conceived to rebuild the ancient Talmudic academy, founded by Rav Yochanan Ben Zakai two millennia ago.....In 1941, an agreement was reached between the Jewish National Fund and the Mizrachi/Hapoel Mizrachi movements, allocating five hundred dunams in the area for the Yeshiva.....By the outbreak of the War of Independence in 1948, the shell of the main building had been completed. Since it was the tallest structure in the area, and offered a commanding view of the coastal plain, it was used as a forward post by Yigal Alon, who was the commander of Israel's southern front.
ARandomName123 (talk)^{Ping me!} 14:47, 6 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Contribution survey

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Gilabrand

Gilabrand (talk | contribs | deleted contribs | logs | block | block log)

This report generated by ContributionSurveyor.java at 2023-11-03T19:44:43.765644771Z. Command line: java org.wikipedia.tools.ContributionSurveyor --user Gilabrand --outfile dump.txt

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