WikiAlpha talk:Attribution

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Suggestion for simplicity

You may copy Wikipedia articles here, providing the license and satisfying it as to attribution by providing links to Wikipedia, to the article. Unless Wikipedia wants to cooperate with you to provide complete articles with history, a separate matter (and introducing complications because of possible user name conflict), your articles here are fine.

If Wikipedia later deletes the article, the article history becomes unreadable for ordinary mortals, but can generally be recovered if needed. If you want to, you could do a dump of the original article history when you copy it and save that to the Talk page. It could be reduced to your Talk page history.... (i.e., it doesn't have to be visible, but would be possibly linked from the remaining talk page as an old revision.)

Another possible trick would be to dump the page history to the page itself, first, then replace it with the content being deleted on WP.

Whatever you do, it has to be easy, mostly automated, or it will get old, fast. Requesting that admins on Wikipedia provide page histories is way too much. You are, my opinion, legally covered by providing the link to the original when you copy the page, you aren't obligated to then stand on your head just because Wikipedia fails to keep that information available. At the worst case, someone will complain about a license violation, but that's not likely to be a big problem.

I think the idea of simply dumping the entire page history to the article itself, edit summaries and all, is best, before replacing it with the article -- or with, perhaps, later, if people want to do the work, with various versions -- is simple, just involves presumably automated scraping, and gives you the whole history, just not the individual content edits. If this is open, instead of buried in history as I've suggested, something else will become possible that isn't possible now, searching for contributions to deleted pages. --Abd (talk) 05:13, 22 July 2011 (MSD)

What is attribution? You can see it on Wikipedia, too. CityOfSilver 03:11, 3 July 2017 (UTC)