| If you restore a copyright violation, you will be held responsible for that violation, as if you had written the text yourself. Systematic reinstatement of copyright violations will lead to permanent loss of editing privileges. |
You can help clean up articles suspected of copyright violations resulting from the Darius Dhlomo contributor copyright investigation case. All contributors with no history of copyright problems are welcome to contribute to clean up. A 'bot has blanked the article. There are, in summary, three things that happen at this point:
- If and only if the article is verified to be entirely free from any copyrighted non-free content, the blanking of the article by the 'bot can be simply reversed. Please make a note at the article's listing at the CCI subpage that you've done so, signed with four tildes, so we can keep a record of the cleanup. You can generally easily locate the specific listing by following "What links here" in the article toolbox.
- If the article contains copyrighted non-free content, but there's other entirely independently written content in the article, the article can be restored minus the infringing content and any content that was based upon it. Please note that you have done so at the CCI subpage.
- If the article contains solely copyrighted non-free content, it can be flagged by using the normal {{copyvio}} or {{db-copyvio}} tags. The article will then be deleted, as appropriate, by an administrator. There's also a streamlined tagging process that is specifically for this cleanup effort.
You can help with this. This is the procedure.