Help:Importing from Wikipedia

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Importing from Wikipedia - What must I do?

First note: This is not optional. We must do this in order to honour the licencing of articles at Wikipedia. This holds true whether the original author is also an author here. If the article or media was first published on Wikipedia, this process applies.

Step 1

Assuming that the article is not present here, open the Wikipedia article in "edit" mode, select the entire text from the edit window, copy it to your clipboard, and paste it into the new page, usually with the same name as on Wikipedia, here.

After making any edits you wish to make, save the page.

Step 2

We must acknowledge Wikipedia as the source. On the talk page of the article, or, if the copied item is media, in the summary box on the upload page, place the template {{From Wikipedia}}.

This is an intelligent template. If the page name here is the same as the pagename there, then that is all you need to do. If the page name here is different, please follow the instructions at the template itself.

Importing from Wikimedia Commons

There is a special template {{From Commons}}. The process is identical in all respects to Importing from Wikipedia, except the different template is reqired