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This page in a nutshell: The purpose of this page is to provide a brief overview of the procedures in place for handling text-based copyright violations on Wikipedia. |
When looking at a Wikipedia article, you suddenly spot something that looks like it may have been copied and pasted or closely paraphrased from elsewhere (typically from one or several of the sources), or it looks like a machine translation from some foreign text. What can you do?