Topic on All The Tropes talk:Copyrights

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 So I converted them to MediaWiki syntax and pasted them here as new pages.
 Now I see [[Thread:User talk:Deist Zealot/Please don't copypaste from TVT|a note in Deist Zealot's talk page]] about a similar conversion, which transcludes {{tl|TVT Copypasta}}.
-In turn, this template describes attribution failure.
+In turn, this template accuses failure to attribute the source.
+I can see how this might become a problem, both for ATT legally and for contributors unsure of how to avoid the appearance of impropriety.
-I'd like to see some sort of guidance in this policy page about best practices for attributing imports of one's own TV Tropes work pages, as well as clarification on whether formatting fixes and the like are copyrightable (I doubt it).
+So I'd like to see some sort of guidance in this policy page about how to express the attribution for an import of one's own TV Tropes work pages, as well as clarification on whether formatting fixes and the like are copyrightable (I doubt it).