User talk:SquareGuava

Copying from Zeldapedia
Hey, SquareGuava. I just wanted to let you know that for multiple reasons, we can't just copy articles over from Zeldapedia. Instead of copying them, we need to adapt the information to fit our guidelines, which are separate from Zeldapedia's guidelines. I can explain in greater detail why we can't copy articles, but if you're interested in adapting them to fit our guidelines, you're welcome to join our Discord and we can talk more in-depth about what's needed to do that. Thanks! TriforceTony (talk) 01:39, 20 May 2020 (UTC)
 * I'm really sorry for the late follow-up but I have time to explain further now. To clarify, the post about merging that you linked to on my profile was about the communities merging, not the wikis themselves. Our communities have merged, and we now use one Discord server. It's not so easy for the actual wiki portion of it, however.
 * The main reason why you shouldn't copy over from Zeldapedia is that our policies are different. The way information is presented on ZW is different from how it's presented on Zeldapedia. Things ranging from our templates, the way we link to articles, and even how and where information is displayed are totally different between the two, so special care needs to be taken to make sure things are up to our specific standards. You can check out our guidelines here for info on how to handle  articles specifically.
 * We've also been advised to not copy content because of our licenses. Zelda Wiki uses a GNU license whereas Zeldapedia uses a Creative Commons license, and we've been told there are legal issues with copying from CC to GNU. What we can do instead of copying the articles directly is refer to Zeldapedia's articles and adapt the information to fit our article guidelines. If you're unsure of how things are done on Zelda Wiki specifically, we have a guide for getting started.
 * If you join the Discord server that I linked above, we can work together on adapting the articles instead of copying them. I'm going to try to work on adapting the articles that you've already worked on. :) TriforceTony (talk) 00:54, 21 May 2020 (UTC)