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OrthodoxWiki:Style Manual (Importing)

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=== Importing Articles from Wikipedia ===
It is permitted (and even encouraged) to import relevant articles from [[Wikipedia:Main Page|Wikipedia]]. However, when doing so, keep a few things in mind. First, all material from Wikipedia is not necessarily public domain. Most of it is probably released in several different forms of limited license, usually entailing that the material may be freely distributed so long as no monetary profit is made from it. The key thing is to look closely at the notes on the article. '''This especially applies to images being imported.'''
 
''All articles imported from Wikipedia should contain a link back to the original article, preferrably a version permalink (this can be obtained by right clicking on the topmost date in the "history" tab).'' Please see [[OrthodoxWiki:Copyrights]] for more information.
It is also important to '''strip out irrelevant links'''. Leave only links that are relevant to '''OrthodoxWiki'''. Things to strip out include year links (even for an historically oriented church like ours, there's probably not going to be enough of historic significance in the Church going on in a single year to warrant a whole article about it), city names, and so on. Place name links should be left in only if, for instance, they are the name of a place which is almost exclusively of religious significance (e.g., '''[[Iona]]'''). We don't need an article for '''Constantinople''', however, mainly because anything specifically religiously relevant to the city is likely to be covered in other articles.
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