Forums: Village pump → Attribution of content from WoWWiki on Wowpedia
I created {{wwpage}} so you can quickly source from WoWWiki for the occasional content taken from there.
You use it like this:
== Sources =={{wwpage|source=|Zim'Torga Defender}}
...which gives:
- Sources
- Template:Wwpage
I hope we don't need to use it too much, but it makes it easy to properly attribute content from WoWWiki.
You will find candidates of content where this template will be useful at Template:Wwpage. --
Fandyllic (talk · contribs) 9:12 AM PST 19 Nov 2010
- Hmm, I don't think that's really necessary for small articles such as that, cause all that info can easily be gathered in-game, wowhead, or other database sites. Where as articles like Elemental Unrest, which has extensive info, mostly created by users can easily be identified as being copied between sites.
(Sssss/Slithered) 22:09, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- Agreed, copying data from Wowhead (or wherever) hardly counts as original content and thus doesn't need attributing. This wouldn't be an excuse for not attributing if something substantial was created there, but the way I look at it, when I implement changes that were made on WoWWiki, 99% of such changes were made by people who didn't know the site had moved, so I'm helping them and the community out. --Bellocois (talk) 07:14, 20 November 2010 (UTC)
- It is necessary, but people don't want to do it because they're lazy, just like alot of people don't choose a license when they upload images. I did this because sometimes I'm a different kind of lazy and rather than pretending I gathered it from another source, I just copy the already good page from WoWWiki, properly source it, and be done. -- Fandyllic (talk · contribs) 4:42 PM PST 20 Nov 2010
- It is necessary, but people don't want to do it because they're lazy, just like alot of people don't choose a license when they upload images. I did this because sometimes I'm a different kind of lazy and rather than pretending I gathered it from another source, I just copy the already good page from WoWWiki, properly source it, and be done. --
- The problem with blindly copying & pasting from wowwiki, is that wowwiki has a lot of incorrect information.
[Veteran of the Shifting Sands] has already been updated from the wowwiki version (which even cited the wrong achievement name), and no longer needs wowwiki citing. Someone should add the Wowwiki cite template in "Things to do" so that pages citing wowwiki can be checked, corrected, and then the cite can be removed. Ressy (talk) 00:16, 21 November 2010 (UTC)
- The problem with blindly copying & pasting from wowwiki, is that wowwiki has a lot of incorrect information.
- Nothing you said removes the need or usefulness of this template. And, that someone could be YOU. -- Fandyllic (talk · contribs) 5:28 PM PST 20 Nov 2010
- I would prefer original pages rather than just copying from WoWWiki because the page was made there. Don't just copy WoWWiki pages, re-create them with the same data. I don't want to see that template having any more reason to be used. In fact, I'm planning to delete it because there should not be enough uses of it to merit a template. --Pcj (T•C) 00:30, 21 November 2010 (UTC)
- Ahh Pcj, you never change. Whatever. You're the boss now. -- Fandyllic (talk · contribs) 10:38 PM PST 20 Nov 2010
- Nothing you said removes the need or usefulness of this template. And, that someone could be YOU. --