WikiCheese:Copying articles from Wikipedia

This article describes guidelines for the copying of articles from Wikipedia.

Acknowledging source articles
Copying articles from Wikipedia is permitted, because Wikipedia has licensing rules that permit it. However, articles copied from Wikipedia must acknowledge that fact. There is a template available for this purpose, and at the start of the article on Cheese Wiki, there should be placed the notation (where nnnnnn is the name of the original Wikipedia article).

Title conventions
Many articles on Wikipedia contain the word "cheese" in their title, in order to distinguish the article from others about (for example) the place where the cheese is produced or was originally marketed. Thus, there are articles like  or . On WikiCheese, the corresponding article should not have the word "cheese" in it, as there would be no need to make this distinction: the article would be simply entitled Cheddar or Vacherin. The only time that the word "cheese" should be kept in the title is when the article is about a whole class of cheeses, like Artisan cheese or Blue cheese.

Changing links
Articles from Wikipedia will usually reference other articles that are also there. These references, in the original Wikipedia source coding, will look like this: xxxxxx or yyyyyy. In the first case, it will be easiest to simply make use of the template provided here and replace xxxxxx by (or , which does the same thing). In the second, the change is even easier to make: replace yyyyyy by yyyyyy. (You can also, if it is easier to edit, change it to, which does the same thing). Of course, if the article entitled xxxxxx has already been copied to the Cheese Wiki, you can leave the reference as is.

In some cases, you may prefer to change a link to reference a Wikia Wiki instead of Wikipedia. The appropriate code for this is documented at the documentation page that has been prepared for this purpose.

Templates
Some Wikipedia articles may use templates from Wikipedia, and those will not work here unless the template is copied as well from Wikipedia. Please check and either copy the template or expand the reference so it works.