User:SOTO/Forum Archive/Tales from the Tardis/@comment-188432-20121204220013

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 * It has been site policy for some months to ban all importation of material from Wikipedia, and the importation of Wikipeidia material into in-universe articles has been forbidden for years. Because of that long gap, most of these articles no longer bear a resemblance to their Wikipedia counterparts.

That's why we've chosen a less obvious indication of the ties these articles have with Wikipedia.

Appropriate notes have been left behind in the page histories, advising people to look back to the page history of the original Wikipeidia article if they wish to see a list of the very earliest contributors.

Furthermore, all pages which were derived from Wikipedia articles remain in the category Articles that were originally Wikipedia forks, which continues to identify these articles as having originally come from Wikipedia.

Happily, only a very small minority of our articles were ever started this way. The bot changed only 148 pages, and a handful more had been previously done manually. That works out to about .006% of our articles that have ties to Wikipedia.