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=== Copying TV Tropes ===
=== Copying TV Tropes ===


You can only legally do this if it's your own edits, or the edits of people who have specifically granted you permission to post it here as CC-BY-SA 3.0. TV Tropes uses the incompatable CC-BY-NC-SA for edits after June 2012, so we can't use those. See [[All The Tropes:Copyrights]] for more details.
You can only legally do this if it's your own edits, or the edits of people who have specifically granted you permission to post it here as CC-BY-SA 3.0. TV Tropes uses the incompatible CC-BY-NC-SA for edits after June 2012, so we can't use those. See [[All The Tropes:Copyrights]] for more details.


What is legal, and kosher here, is copying Wikipedia to get an article started. It's certainly not going to be a good article from our point of view, since we'll need to make it [[More Dakka|much much tropier]]. But it's a lot better than staring at a white screen with no words; starting to write is always the hard part. If you do copy from any source, be sure to note it in the edit summary field (or page text).
What is legal, and kosher here, is copying Wikipedia to get an article started. It's certainly not going to be a good article from our point of view, since we'll need to make it [[More Dakka|much much tropier]]. But it's a lot better than staring at a white screen with no words; starting to write is always the hard part. If you do copy from any source, be sure to note it in the edit summary field (or page text).