Help:Copying from Wikipedia

Material from Wikipedia may be copied to the London Wiki as long as it is properly acknowledged.

The simplest and best way is to add at the bottom of the page; but if the Wikipedia page has a different name you must add that after a pipe before the closing brackets, e.g.  if our page is just "History".

Because it has usually had several authors, a copy from Wikipedia is a time-saving start for a wiki page, though it should be adapted to the London Wiki style as soon as convenient.

Often the simplest approach is to copy the whole of a Wikipedia page from its edit box, not from the displayed page, so that you get links, templates, and categories, many of which fit this wiki and need no further work. You or another editor can then delete or modify details that do not fit. Links that are not and should never be to pages of this wiki can have their brackets removed; but if a link to the Wikipedia target page is desired, add "Wikipedia:" just after the opening brackets and, if there is no pipe within the link, add a pipe just before the closing brackets. ''See examples in the London Regiment page.

The following box contains the current Central Wikia help page on the subject. Earlier versions were more Wikipedia-oriented.