Thread:George Dance/@comment-8199347-20130630214917/@comment-4097182-20130630235054

If you don't want to just copy Wikipedia, that's great! I would prefer original articles here, which will bring people to PPP. No one will ever come here if we just offer the same things as  Wikipedia.

The reasons I've imported so many from there are:

1) It was necessary to build the largest resource in the shortest possible time. In our 2 years of operation, I've written about 300 articles, which wouldn't even be a drop in the bucket.

2) It's fully legal and moral. All the articles on Wikipedia (where I used to write) are licensed under Creative Commons, meaning the copyright holders give permission to anyone to copy from them provided they give credit.

That last is important, because all the articles on PPP are similarly licensed (a decision of the host site, Wikia, but one I agree with). So be warned; some other site can come along and take all your writing, too (which is why I've bylined all of mine, so that they have to at least give me and PPP credit).

A lot of my time is spend upgrading those Wikipedia articles, so that they aren't just the same. That's what I'm doing now, in fact; working my way through the older ones and adding bibliographies, external links, and things like that.

I'll try to find an infobox that works: I've imported some from Wikipedia, but they don't all work here - I think I'm missing some templates.

Which reminds me: you don't have to squeeze pictures into the infoboxes. Some, headshots like the Plath one, work just fne there, and Frieda Hughes's may  as well. But other pictures need to be larger: for those, I've been putting the picture above the infobox, and leaving one out in the box. Just a tip which may help you out in the future.