Wikibooks:Requests for deletion/The Legend of Zelda

The Legend of Zelda/Story
The Legend of Zelda/Story - Imported page from Strategywiki appears to be almost identical to one of the first pages in the game manual, sans attribution. Some of the words have changed slightly, but a side by side look is telling. Unsure what the policy for something like this, but figured I'd mention it here. --Mbrickn (discuss • contribs) 20:10, 8 July 2021 (UTC)


 * We can simply post-attribute to StrategyWiki (this would involve an import and a history-merge). Leaderboard (discuss • contribs) 18:25, 13 July 2021 (UTC)
 * That would be good, but my real concern is that this content is almost identical to material from the copyrighted game manual. --Mbrickn (discuss • contribs) 18:29, 13 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Indeed a copyright violation. ~ Super  Hamster  Talk Contribs 18:31, 13 July 2021 (UTC)
 * A bit confused - is the material from StrategyWiki or a game manual? Because if it's from a game manual, then StrategyWiki is also making a mistake... Leaderboard (discuss • contribs) 18:33, 13 July 2021 (UTC)
 * The material was imported from StrategyWiki. The material ultimately appears to originate from the game manual, with a few words changed. --Mbrickn (discuss • contribs) 18:35, 13 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Seems that it's OK in StrategyWiki, but Wikibooks is stricter about this, and hence this will have to go. The source (https://www.ign.com/articles/2006/06/13/the-legend-of-zelda-walkthrough-709539) can be uploaded as a non-free document though. Leaderboard (discuss • contribs) 18:38, 13 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Another instance at Super_Mario_Bros._2/Story, seems to be multiple of these. Good reason to not just mass-import things without due diligence. can you please go through and list imports that include content copied from instruction booklets and other copyrighted material? ~ Super  Hamster  Talk Contribs 18:45, 13 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Found another probable instance at The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past/Hyrule History (Searching excerpts of this page shows that it's almost certainly from an old official player's guide.). --Mbrickn (discuss • contribs) 19:24, 18 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Possible instance at Zelda II: The Adventure of Link/Story, which I had earlier moved from the main page of the book. --Mbrickn (discuss • contribs) 22:57, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

I have deleted The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past/Hyrule History as this is very likely a copyvio. But with Zelda II: The Adventure of Link/Story it appears in two other sources, but both appear to have a compatible free license. So I think it is likely to be OK. -- Jules (Mrjulesd) 12:30, 1 February 2022 (UTC)