LOTR:Copying from Wikipedia

Do not just copy an article from Wikipedia and paste it on top of one of our articles. Adding a few words copied from Wikipedia may be OK, but if it is more than a few words you have to say exactly which Wikipedia page it came from.

What should be copied or moved
A good place to start is the Vfd. See what articles have been flagged for moving from Wikipedia to here.
 * Everything.

Also check Wikipedia:Category:Middle-earth books for various things that can be added from them to here as an article; however, chances are most of it already is here.

How to move an article
Our technical people are working on a process similar to Transwiki, but that is not ready yet. (As soon as our LOTR-wiki article has been saved, add a link to it in the "See also" section of the Wikipedia article.)
 * Go into edit mode on the Wikipedia article, copy the source code of the article, and paste into the LOTR-Wiki.

Add the template notice
Before the first save, for a simple permanent acknowledgment and reference, add the template (where Page Name is the title of the English Wikipedia article). Click "Show preview" to see how it all looks. The template should have produced something like this:

Further improvements

 * Edit the LOTR article, making it the best article possible. Edit Wikipedia links (e.g. Wikipedia:Article_name) when appropriate, so that they direct to the Wikipedia article if we don't have one of the same name.  Click  Save page .
 * Copy and paste the the list of authors from the history page of the Wikipedian article to the talk page of the new one so contributors are properly credited.
 * Edit to take out any fancruft.

Merging articles from Wikipedia with our articles
Sometimes, people start an article here when an article already exists on Wikipedia. This is how to merge:
 * 1) 	Compare the articles.
 * 2) 	Copy (from the Edit box) the sections from WikiPedia our articles lack.
 * 3) 	Paste the sections from the WikiPedia articles into our articles lacking those sections.
 * 4) Add the template, and do other improvements, as above.