Help:Copying from Wikipedia

Copying from Wikipedia to this wiki is permissible because both use the same license. However, it is necessary to include the proper acknowledgment so that readers can refer to the original and discover its authors.

Whenever you do such copying from a page in the English-language ("en") version of Wikipedia, please add the following template near the bottom of the page: "Wikipedia|" (inside double curly braces, i.e.   ). Then before the final brackets paste the name of the Wikipedia article. You need to add similar attribution for other languages of Wikipedia and for other GFDL projects.

Wikia sites are not intended to duplicate substantial portions of Wikipedia. You may copy all or part of an article (and its links and templates) to start off a page on the subject, but you are expected to adapt it so as to reflect this particular wiki's slant on the subject.

Adding   to this page produces the following notice:

Linking to Wikipedia
If a large amount of information from Wikipedia is needed, consider linking to the Wikipedia page instead of copying from it. Links can be created with the following command:


 *   description to display   -- Links to "page" at Wikipedia and shows the link as "description to display". For example,  the beaver  would create a link like this: Arina Tanemura.

If the "description to display" will be the same as the page name, you can save time by leaving out the description. Example:  Arina Tanemura  would create link like this: Arina Tanemura. When the page saved, the description is added automatically and will show up the next time it's edited.

Likewise, any pages with part of their name in parentheses can be displayed with just the main part by the same trick.

The information below is provided automatically from Wikia's main help page.