 | This article or section contains close paraphrasing of one or more non-free copyrighted sources. (December 2025) |
Template documentationUsage
This template is intended to mark close paraphrasing within articles that does not or may not rise to the level of copyright infringement. If you believe the paraphrasing is close enough that it may infringe copyright, please follow the procedures at {{copyvio}} instead.
{{close paraphrasing|article|source=http://example.com|free=yes/no|talk=Section name|date=December 2025}}
All parameters are optional. article can be replaced with a more specific description of the problematic part, such as section or table. |source= can be used to indicate which source is being too closely paraphrased; it can contain links. |free=yes can be used to remove the wording "non-free copyrighted" from the template, if you want to use it to mark an article that may be plagiarized from a public domain resource. |talk= can be used to specify the name of a section to link to on the talk page.
This template also includes support for using the |date= parameter. Adding this parameter sorts the article into a dated subcategory of Category:Articles with close paraphrasing and out of the parent category, allowing the oldest problems to be identified and dealt with first. A bot will add this parameter if it is omitted.
This template will categorize tagged articles into Category:Wikipedia cleanup and Category:Articles with close paraphrasing. See {{cleanup}} for more details.
See also
- {{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
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