In the Wikitext editor there's notice stating that edits violating copyright will be reverted. It reads "Content that violates any copyrights will be deleted...", and is stored here.
VisualEditor inconsistently ignores this important message, and it doesn't display any other similar message about copyright violations prominently.
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | None | T265163 Create a system to encode best practices into editing experiences | |||
| Open | BUG REPORT | None | T300942 VisualEditor ignores editpage-head-copy-warn message |
The existing one is from showHeaderCopyrightWarning in EditPage.php, which shows the editpage-head-copy-warn message.
I've previously raised a similar thing here. @Whatamidoing-WMF pointed out that there's already a notice of sorts for new editors trying out VisualEditor. We made some adjustments to the wording, stored here (see the talk page), so I'm not sure there's all that much else to do.
As a suggested avenue for future development, it'd be nice if tools like Twinkle/RedWarn linked to the how-to-add-citations page when reverted unsourced material added by new editors.
The message cited in task description additionally concerns copyrights, linking to Wikipedia:Copyright violations page in enwiki, while this Cite tool popup text only urges users to cite sources.
New/careless users often copy and paste, or alter the source material only a little, and hence violate copyrights (no matter whether they cite sources or not). WikiEditor displays associated warning message at the top of WikiEditor and always (not only in one-time pop-up). I don't think there is less reason to display this important message prominently in VisualEditor.
I'm not sure where in VisualEditor this message should be displayed, though. In "Save your changes" dialog above edit summary field perhaps?
Aside: do you have links handy to 2-3 edits that show the above happening?
...I ask the above in an effort to add some evidence/context to the following row within mw:Edit check/Ideas: "Prompt people who are pasting text into an article to confirm the content is not at risk of creating a copyright violation."
Aside: do you have links handy to 2-3 edits that show the above happening?
In enwiki you can look for examples in maintenance categories like this, or look in deletion log for speedy deletion/redaction reasons G12 and RD1. Recent log entries refer to e.g. this page and this page where copyright violations were redacted today.
For clarity, I'm removing the EditCheck tag as the issue here isn't directly related to whether that project exists or not.
Also due to inconsistency between content related messages displayed to users I'd argue that this here is a bug rather than a feature request, hence changing task subtype.