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Old 10-09-2006, 04:49 PM   #1 (permalink)
Blipo
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Join Date: Feb 2006
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Default Copying from Wikipedia

Don't do it. If you try to copy anything from Wikipedia, odds are there will be something wrong on the page. The two biggest problems are links and references.
A Wikipedia page will have a lot of links, and when you bring that article here, those links turn up in the "pages that need to be created" list.
Also, a lot of help articles refer to Wikipedia itself, or Wikipedia-specific features. This can cause confusion for readers.

As a general rule, please ask someone more experienced with Wikimatting to import articles in this manner. I myself would be happy to help.

Thank you!
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