Template:Copypaste/doc

This template will add tagged articles to Category:Copied and pasted articles and sections. If you have strong reason to believe that the source material is copyrighted, please instead follow the procedure at Wikipedia:Copyright problems. If a source cannot be identified, please use {{Cv-unsure}}.

• This template is a self-reference.
• Please do not subst: this template.

Syntax

To place this template, simply add {{Copypaste}} to the top of the suspect article or section. You may optionally include 3 arguments – one showing the date the tag was added, a second specifying whether it is an entire article or just a section that is suspect, and a third linking to the url you believe contains the original text.

For example:

{{Copypaste|section|url=https://example.org|date=December 2024}} produces:

Parameters

• |date=: the date the tag was added
• |url=: the URL believed to contain the original text
• |1= (or an empty parameter): text to replace the word "article", usually "section"

Tracking categories

• Category:All copied and pasted articles and sections (2)

Redirects

• {{Plagiarized}}

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData documentation for this template used by VisualEditor and other tools.

Copypaste

[[Category:TemplateData documentation{{#translation:}}]]

<templatedata> {

   "description": "Use this template to indicate that an article may be substantially copied and pasted from another location, possibly in violation of Wikipedia's copyright policy.",

"format": "inline", "params": { "date": { "label": "Month and year", "description": "Month and year of tagging; e.g., 'January 2013', but not 'jan13'", "type": "string", "autovalue": "{{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}", "example": "January 2013", "suggested": true }, "url": { "label": "URL", "description": "The URL believed to contain the original text", "example": "https://example.org", "type": "string", "suggested": true }, "1": { "label": "Type (e.g., section)", "description": "Text to replace the word \"article\", usually \"section\"", "type": "string", "default": "article or section", "autovalue": "section", "example": "section" } }, "paramOrder": [ "date", "url", "1" ] } </templatedata>

See also

• Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources
• Wikipedia:Template messages/Cleanup

• {{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
• {{Cv-unsure}} – if you're unsure whether a page violates a copyright because you don't know the 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