Talk:Do the Russians Want War?

Copyright problem

This article has been tagged as part of a large-scale clean-up project of multiple article copyright infringement. (See the investigation subpage) It will likely be deleted after one week unless it is rewritten. Content has clearly been copied in part from Songs to seven strings: Russian guitar poetry and Soviet "mass song" and it is very likely that other material is directly translated from Russian language sources. (While the paragraph that begins "According to Prof. Gerald Stanton Smith" is attributed, attribution in no means clears verbatim copying from sources. See [1], [2], [3])) For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions must be deleted. Major contributions by contributors who have been verified to have violated copyright in multiple articles may be presumptively deleted in accordance with Wikipedia:Copyright violations.

Interested contributors are invited to help rewrite the article in original language at the temporary page linked from the article's face. Please see our guideline on non-free text for how to properly implement limited quotations of copyrighted text. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 20:29, 30 April 2011 (UTC)

This song is highly notable and the article should not be deleted. From the four sources, I've checked the only one available on the web. I found that in the second case of citing this source, the last three sentences of the paragraph (Impresario demanded an explanation and on) are rather close translation of the original Russian text. They should be reworded. The other sentences where this source is used are not that close, though the influence could be seen. I think we just could reword and contract this and the other sourced parts of the text (namely Production and release and Critical reception) to make sure there is no copyvio problems. The other sections, intro and images seem to be all right and should not be removed anyway. GreyHood ^Talk 19:44, 7 May 2011 (UTC)

Additional copyvio from The Bulletin here. It appears to be that entire last paragraph verbatim.--NortyNort (Holla) 06:10, 8 May 2011 (UTC)

And that is one of the reasons why, in these cases, the entire article generally needs to be deleted unless somebody undertakes a rewrite. :/ It isn't about the notability of the song, which is not in question, but the usability of the content. As mentioned above, there is a temporary space linked from the article's face. GreyHood, if you are able to assist by preparing even a stub, that would be fantastic. That's the purpose for the courtesy notices in these cases, to alert people to the issue in hopes that they can help resolve it. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 11:14, 8 May 2011 (UTC)