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== Can I just copy over stuff from TV Tropes?==
Nope, unless you wrote the relevant portion<ref>only the exact edits made by you count. Anything added by other people is not allowed unless they permit you to resubmit it elsewhere, and you must have their permission</ref>. They used to have a CC-BY-SA license, but they changed to a more restrictive license in July 2012. Since the change in license was done without the permission of some editors, it is unclear if they even have permission to distribute a large portion of their current content.<ref>See the Creative Commons FAQ [http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Frequently_Asked_Questions#If_I_derive_or_adapt_a_work_offered_under_a_Creative_Commons_license.2C_which_CC_license.28s.29_can_I_apply_to_the_resulting_work.3F here] and [http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Frequently_Asked_Questions#What_happens_if_I_offer_my_work_under_a_Creative_Commons_license_and_someone_misuses_my_work.3F here] for more info on the problems of converting CC-BY-SA to CC-BY-NC-SA licensing.</ref> We don't want to get involved in distributing content with such questionable copyright status.
 
However, you can add TVT content if it was created before July 2012, but more than likely, this site already has all of those pages. We might have lost some stuff in Main/, but you'd have to use a June 2012 version or earlier -- check [http://archive.org archive.org]. (If you're interested in the foreign language page, we do have that data, but it's not imported. Message an admin if you're interested in doing a site in another language. Mediawiki is much better for that purpose.)
 
You can, however, use TV Tropes a reference to your own writing. Avoid paraphrasing; we want to come up with new content. The names of the tropes used in a work (or a list of works that make use of a trope) are raw data, and thus not subject to copyright. They are facts, and can be used on our wiki. However, any description of how a work qualifies for a trope (or vice-versa) is copyrightable; do not copy the context for examples from TV Tropes.
 
However, youYou can also add TVT content if it was created before July 2012, but more than likely, this site already has all of those pages. We might have lost some stuff in Main/, but you'd have to use a June 2012 version or earlier -- check [http://archive.org archive.org]. (If you're interested in the foreign language page, we do have that data, but it's not imported. Message an admin if you're interested in doing a site in another language. Mediawiki is much better for that purpose.)
 
== I want to reuse something from All The Tropes==