Dune2k.com Wiki:Guidelines for importing text
Wikipedia has a number of good or even very good articles on Dune-related topics (alongside a number of bad ones). It is a useful idea to get Dune Wiki kick started by importing relevant text from wikipedia into our articles. Please note, however, that Dune Wiki is not a mere mirror of Dune-related wikipedia articles. When we copy text from wikipedia, we copy it for the purpose of improving upon it. Having said that, there are three ways to deal with Dune-related wikipedia material, depending on your evaluation of its quality:
Bad quality wikipedia articles
Ignore them. If you find a jumbled, confusing, and/or largely inaccurate wikipedia entry, we are better off not taking anything from it into Dune Wiki.
Moderate quality wikipedia articles
If you find a wikipedia article of moderate quality, you should copy it onto the Talk page of the corresponding Dune Wiki article, in order to make it available to our editors as a source of information. You should also place the following templates on the article itself and its talk page:
Template to place at the top of the article:
{{Wikipedia text (main)|name=ARTICLE_NAME|date=TODAY'S DATE}}
Replace ARTICLE_NAME with the name of the Dune Wiki article you are editing and TODAY'S DATE with the date when you are editing it.
Once you save the page, it will look like this:
Wikipedia has an article on this subject, and a copy of it (as of today) has been placed on this article's Talk Page. Please select any information you find relevant from the Talk Page and include it in our own article, keeping in mind that we must distinguish between facts provided by the original novels, the prequels and other sources. Once all relevant info has been merged into this article, delete this notice and the copy of the wikipedia text.
Template to place on the Talk page right above the wikipedia text:
{{Wikipedia text (talk)|name=[[ARTICLE_NAME]]|date=TODAY'S DATE}}
Replace ARTICLE_NAME with the name of the Dune Wiki article whose Talk page you are editing and TODAY'S DATE with the date when you are editing it.
Once you save the page, it will look like this:
The following is a copy of the wikipedia article on Example as of today. Please select any information you find relevant and include it in our own article, keeping in mind that we must distinguish between facts provided by the original novels, the prequels and other sources. Once all relevant info has been merged into our article, delete this notice and the copy of the wikipedia text.
Good quality wikipedia articles
If you find a wikipedia article which you believe to be of high quality, you may consider copying its text into the corresponding Dune Wiki article directly. When doing so, you should place the template {{imported}} as the first line of the article in question. Once you save the page, it will generate the following box:
