Help:Copying from Wikipedia
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Copying from Wikipedia to this wiki is encouraged, wherever the source page has potential for augmenting with more specifically genealogical material.
Whenever you do such copying from a page in the English-language ("en") version of Wikipedia, please add the following template near the bottom of the page: "enWP|" (inside double curly braces, i.e. {{enWP|}}). Alternatively use the smaller version {{Usedwps}}, which can be inserted with one click from the sidebar icon. Then before the final brackets paste the name of the Wikipedia article. If the page itself is a template, you need to have that inside a pair of opening and closing <noinclude></noinclude> tags. You need to add similar attribution for other languages of Wikipedia and for other Creative Commons projects such as Wikimedia Commons.
Unless copying just a paragraph, please copy the whole page from its edit box. We can use nearly everything, even (eventually) the interwiki links to other languages (though they should be "commented out" initially).
Don't be afraid of leaving lots of red links (though there may be fewer than you expect!) Any red link is an easy starter for a potential page. However, some we redirect back to Wikipedia: insert "wikipedia:" after the opening brackets, and if there's no pipe (|) in the link add one before the final brackets, e.g [[wikipedia:astrophysics|]].
Some Wikipedia templates are also here, or have better Wikia versions with the same name, and will therefore transition seamlessly. Other common templates for which Wikia has differently named equivalents have been redirected and will also transition seamlessly. Anything else may be worth adding. Check Help:Templates and its external links (particularly to the Starter wiki and the Templates wiki) or start a forum item to see if any other user wants to help or has a better idea.
Categories from Wikipedia do no harm, though we may redirect some or simply change some links. Before Wikia departed from the "red link" standard, you might see a red one, but now you have to click to see if a category exists here. Where a new link points to a category that we don't have and that is not redirected, you can give it the same parent categories as Wikipedia gives it.
Renaming Wikipedia categories
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This table shows how some of the Wikipedia categories are renamed on Familypedia.
| Wikipedia name | Familypedia name |
|---|---|
| year births | Born in year |
| year deaths | Died in year |
| year establishments | Established in year |
| year establishments in XXX | Established in year |
| year disestablishments | Disestablished in year |
| US State counties | Counties of US State |
| XXXish emigrants to YYY | Migrants from XXX to YYY |
| Popluated places in XXX | Settlements in XXX |
| Populated places established in year | Established in year |
| Popluated coastal places in XXX | Coastal settlements in XXX |
| Categories named after populated places in XXX | Categories named after settlements in XXX |
| Populated waterside places in XXX | Waterside settlements in XXX |
| Populated riverside places in XXX | Riverside settlements in XXX |
| XXXish people | People of XXX |
| XXXish monarchs | Monarchs of XXX |
| XXX alumni | Alumni of XXX |
Pages deleted from WikipediaEdit
We can copy them too, but should try to go through the history to list the registered authors. For thousands of such pages, saved from oblivion, see the Speedy deletion Wiki, founded in 2012 but collecting earlier deletions and all future deletions
