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. If a source cannot be identified, please use {{Cv-unsure}}.

• This template is a self-reference.
• Please do not subst: this template.

To 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=November 2024}} produces:

This section may have been copied and pasted from another location, possibly in violation of Wikipedia's copyright policy. Please review https://example.org  and remedy this by editing this article to remove any non-free copyrighted content and attributing free content correctly, or flagging the content for deletion. Please be sure that the supposed source of the copyright violation is not itself a Wikipedia mirror. (November 2024)

• |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"

• Category:All copied and pasted articles and sections (95)

• {{Plagiarized}}

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.

Template parameters[Edit template data]

This template prefers inline formatting of parameters.

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
Month and year	date	Month and year of tagging; e.g., 'January 2013', but not 'jan13' Example January 2013 Auto value {{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}	String	suggested
URL	url	The URL believed to contain the original text Example https://example.org	String	suggested
Type (e.g., section)	1	Text to replace the word "article", usually "section" Default article or section Example section Auto value section	String	optional

• Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources
• Wikipedia:Template messages/Cleanup

• {{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