I am no expert on how to handle this. One thing you can do if you suspect a copyright violation is to take a short phrase and google that phrase. If you find a match it is best to ask the editor who put it on Wikipedia about it. They may be the author or have permission to use it.
In the case of someone who is copying from a book or article, you have to know the literature, but you might catch it anyway on Amazon which permits search of the text of many books.
One giveaway is a lot of well written language which is not wikified and is not NPOVed.
This reply hardly exhausts this difficult area however.
Fred
From: NSK nsk2@wikinerds.org Organization: Wikinerds Reply-To: wikipedia-l@Wikimedia.org Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 00:46:10 +0300 To: wikipedia-l@wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikipedia-l] Copyright violations
Hey,
I know many irresponsible users try to upload copyrighted material in Wikipedia. What do you do to find which material is copyrighted and how do you handle the situation?
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