Help:Copying from Wikipedia

Copying from Wikipedia to this wiki is perfectly permissible because we have the same "CC-BY-SA" license. It saves much duplication of volunteer resources.

The only stipulation is that we acknowledge the source, which is easily done by appending Wikipedia to our page (but if the page name differs we must add a pipe followed by the Wikipedia page name before the closing brackets.

It is best to copy the whole page from its edit box so that categories, links and templates are preserved.

Once a page has been copied, it should be expanded (and in places probably trimmed) to reflect the emphasis of this wiki. Red links should be considered as starters for new articles or redirected back to Wikipedia by prefixing "Wikipedia:" straight after the opening brackets.

Material in the following box is the standard "Fandom powered by Wikia" page about copyright: