Importing content

[Robert Badgett]

What is the policy on importing content from WikiPedia?
1. Can we import intact an article that we wrote for WP?
2. Can we import and edit an article from WP that we may have only partially contributed to, but the article seems well enough done to become the basis for an article at CZ?

[Derek Harkness]

1. Yes you can but only if you are the author of the whole thing. If you wrote the whole article then you can upload it here on the condition that you will stick around and maintain/update the article here. You don't have to mark it as form wikipedia if you wrote the whole thing yourself but you should leave a comment on the talk page saying that you are the author of the entire article.

2. Importing form any other site - wikipedia or others is frowned upon unless you are going to edit the article further here in the very near future. If you do use content form wikipedia then check the "Content form wikipedia" box at the bottom of the edit page before you save. Also clean the page up so that all the interwiki tags and wikipedia {templates} are removed. Cleaning up the article does not constitute editing it. Editing means adding to an improving the articles.

[Robert Badgett]

Thanks. I added http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Systolic_hypertension and tagged Health Sciences Workgroup. I assume someone in the Workgroup will followup.