 | This article or section may have been copied and pasted from another ___location, possibly in violation of Wikipedia's copyright policy. |
 | This is the template sandbox page for Template:Copypaste (diff). See also the companion subpage for test cases. |
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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.
- This template is a self-reference.
- Please do not subst: this template.
Syntax
editTo 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=August 2025}}produces:
| This section may have been copied and pasted from another ___location, possibly in violation of Wikipedia's copyright policy. (August 2025) |
Parameters
edit|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
editRedirects
edit{{Plagiarized}}
TemplateData
editTemplateData for Copypaste
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.
| Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month and year | date | Month and year of tagging; e.g., 'January 2013', but not 'jan13'
| String | suggested |
| URL | url | The URL believed to contain the original text
| String | suggested |
| Type (e.g., section) | 1 | Text to replace the word "article", usually "section"
| String | optional |
See also
edit- {{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
- {{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