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Background[edit]

BOZ[edit]

  • BOZ (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
  • Check requested by Fram (talk)
  • In March 2020, I noticed that BOZ had added many short copyright violations in articles in 2019: see User_talk:BOZ/Archive 2020#Short copyright violations in plot summaries. BOZ then went through some articles and removed some copyvios. Now, during an AfD, another editor found another, older copyright violation, see User talk:BOZ#Copyright problem: Mike Tinney. This got me worried, so I checked some other older articles.
  • Jeff Tidball has e.g.
    • "[...]by January 2004 the Last Unicorn Games RPG division of Decipher Games consisted of just Tidball and Jess Heinig, so Decipher shut down its RPG division and laid off the remaining staff."
  • The source[1]
    • "By January 2004, the Last Unicorn Games RPG division of Decipher Games consisted of just Jeff Tidball and Jess Heinig, two designers hired in the interim. Decipher then decided to shut down its RPG division and lay off the remaining staff. "
  • Philip Reed (game designer)
    • "In September 2002, Reed created a little hobby business, first releasing Mime Smashing (2002) - a card game that had been intended for publication by Hobgoblynn Press before the deal fell through - then the PDF that his company would be built on: 101 Spellbooks (2002), a collection of fictional books for use with the d20 system."
  • Source[2]
    • "That September, Reed decided to create a little hobby business, first releasing Mime Smashing (2002) — a card game that had been intended for publication by Hobgoblynn Press before the deal fell through. Then he published the PDF that his company would be built on: 101 Spellbooks (2002). 101 Spellbooks was a collection of books (and the spells, feats, skills, magic items, and poisons they contained) for use with the d20 system. "
  • Eric J. Gibson
    • "in 2008, Gibson announced that he was cancelling Septimus, that he could not refund preorders, that he could not afford to ship books to people who wanted to take product instead of a refund, that none of his D6 lines had ever made money, that he had lost hundreds of thousands of dollars, and that he was would be dissolving West End Games."
  • Source
    • "In 2008, Gibson announced that he was cancelling Septimus, that he couldn’t refund preorders, that he couldn’t afford to ship books to people who wanted to take product instead of a refund, that none of his D6 lines had ever made money, that he’d lost hundreds of thousands of dollars, and (finally) that he was done with West End Games and would be dissolving the company."

Note how in this last example you have the typical telltale of someone trying to avoid a copyvio getting detected by doing the most minimal of changes, and end up creating grammatically incorrect sentences which still are copyvios anyway. These are just some examples (and not the only ones in these very articles even), all from the same week; presumably, as these are from 2014 and many other copyvio's were from years later, this has happened in countless other articles and edits. Fram (talk) 09:25, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I understand that this situation is serious, so I will take responsibility and will cooperate and participate to find and correct any problematic additions on my part. I understand that an investigation like this can take a considerable amount of time, so starting with the examples here I will proactively go through my contributions as time permits and begin rewriting them to remove any actual or potential plagiarism, as well as any other incidents that are found throughout the course of this investigation. BOZ (talk) 14:48, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I looked a bit through some recent edits. Escape from the Hidden Castle, created a little more than a month ago, had the sentence Escape from the Hidden Castle is a game in which two to eight players take charge of some guests in a haunted house.- compare that to the source, which says Midnight Party is a game for two to eight players, each of whom take charge of some guests in a haunted house... No, they don't say the same thing, but there is clear close paraphrasing- some words are removed the structure of the sentence is changed a bit, but they are the same.

Twilightcycle: 2000- Shannon Appelcline explained that three time travel adventures were published after the Computer was destroyed with the publication of Crash Course Manual: Alice through the Mirrorshades (1989), Twilightcycle: 2000 (1990), and Vulture Warriors of Dimension X (1990). The goal of these adventures was for the player characters to restore the Computer... compare to the source: A trilogy of time travel adventures followed: Alice through the Mirrorshades (1989), Twilightcycle: 2000 (1990), and Vulture Warriors of Dimension X (1990). Characters set out to restore the computer... more close paraphrasing...

Breakaway Rider- compare Breakaway Rider is a game in which each player receives six cards, and the object for the cyclists is to keep up with the yellow jersey rider – the player who has played the highest card in the round to The gist of it is: each player receives six cards. The object is to keep up with the ‘yellow jersey’ rider (the player who has played the highest card in the round)

This will need to be accepted and is going to be a difficult case, I will be opening it after I write this. It is late where I live right now, I will figure out what further to do tomorrow morning. Moneytrees🏝️Talk/CCI guide 05:20, 1 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Article still exists it's just currently in draftspace. Wizardman

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