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Recently CzechOut copied an article's contents from Wikipedia:List of Doctor Who writers to this wiki's List of Doctor Who television writers page, he had been the main contributor on Wikipedia of the article. (You are able to copy around content like this under the CC by SA).
As is stated in our T:WIKIPEDIA we are trying to create a unique and separate encyclopaedia from Wikipedia. However on real world articles this form of using material from Wikipedia is allowable, though highly discouraged.
However the MoS doesn't really consider the situation where a user who has largely created content on Wikipedia porting it over to this wiki.
Wikipedia and our wiki have fairly different styles and formatting, both of which introduce issues when performing such an inclusive copy of information.
As CzechOut has found and as he's stated on my talk page:
- I'm finding I have quite a lot of site-specific tailoring to do:
- *Story names are often different here than they are on Wikipedia
- *The point of view is quite different because our readership doesn't need to have things spelled out quite so much
- *A wikipedia article will often have links to articles that don't exist at all, so you have to re-edit your own work, line by line, to determine whether it's worth linking to the wikipedia article, or just removing the link altogether.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ <span style="">15:26: Thu 29 Dec 2011
So, should we allow this form of copying from Wikipedia?
I understand this particular situation is likely very limited given the number low number of articles on Wikipedia that have creators active on both sites. But I thought it best be raised now with an active issue/example. --Tangerineduel / talk 16:21, December 29, 2011 (UTC)
- It looks like a bit of a mare's nest, but it strikes me as academically dishonest to quote your own unsupported assertions as a source. I very much doubt that was Czechout's intention and I can easily imagine a string of innocent actions that would lead to this. However, this wiki seems a lot more conservative in assumptions than others. This looks like a case of Jove nodding.Boblipton talk to me 22:12, December 29, 2011 (UTC)
- Just to clarify, CzechOut isn't citing the Wikipedia page as a source, he's literally taking the whole page (which he created and for the most part kept updated) and then brought it over here. --Tangerineduel / talk 13:28, December 30, 2011 (UTC)