Talk:21st United States Congress

Wikipedia content

Hi Tim,

This looks a lot like the Wikipedia article to me. We can bring in Wikipedia stuff that we ourselves have written 100%, otherwise the policy seems contradictory and vague to me, at least at the moment. At the very least, please check off the Wikipedia box down at the bottom of the screen on the next edit you make.

Then, on this discussion page, you may have to add the Wikipedia template at the very top, under the subpages template -- the WP template is {{WPauthor} with a second squiggly bracket at the end. And then fill in the info in the box. Take a look at the page I did a couple of years ago from an article that I brought in from WP -- and on which I later did *substantial* rewriting. http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Talk:Pancho_Gonzales

Even though I'm a Constable I'm *still* not clear on this WP business. If you bring in an article that has been written by other people (including yourself, but with others involved) and then just dump it here and leave it, I can delete it at any time. That's not allowed, and the policy is pretty clear. But what happens when you take a WP article that has been substantially written by other people, you bring it here, and then do some *minor* editing on it, I just don't know. Sometimes they get deleted, sometimes they don't. You probably ought to look in the Forums to see what discussions have been had about this. Or you might want to start a new Forum discussion yourself about it. Hayford Peirce 19:37, 15 May 2009 (UTC)