Template : Copyvio link

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Wikipedia:Copyrights , the official English Wikipedia policy on copyrights, says, in part: "... if you know that an external Web site is carrying a work in violation of the creator's copyright, do not link to that copy of the work."

This template will categorise tagged articles into Category:Articles containing links to copyright violations .

Add this template only if you strongly suspect that the external location which the associated link references is carrying a work in violation of the creator's copyright.

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Parameter		Description	Type	Status
Month and year	`date`	Provides the month and year; e.g., 'January 2013', but not 'jan13' Auto value `{{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}`	String	suggested

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Template:Copyvio links - a banner version of this template

{{ 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

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