Thread:Deltaneos/@comment-35301431-20140919222301/@comment-166269-20140919223650

Hello Bunai82, thanks for your interest. =)

You don't actually need to ask for permission; like all content on Wikia, Template:Portal is licensed under the Creative Commons Share-alike license, meaning that, as long as you properly attribute it (which I'll explain in a minute) and release your work under a similar license (which isn't a concern for just copying between Wikia wikis), you can freely reuse it. There are technical considerations that limit its reuse, though: the template makes use of the Variables and Arrays extensions, without which it will not work; you can request Wikia to enable these extensions on your wiki if you haven't already via Special:Contact.

Attribution, as I said, is fairly simple, and can be achieved in one of several ways. First is to use an attribution template like Wikipedia, which adds a notice to the template saying it was copied from another wiki and including links to the template and its history on the originating wiki; if you do this, the attribution template should be added inside  tags on the copied template itself, or can be included on its documentation page. The second, and my favored, method is to link to the original template in the edit summary when you copy it; you can create links between Wikia wikis (as I did above) by starting the wikilink with  (for example,   resulting in w:c:yugioh:Template:Portal, or   resulting in w:c:mlp:Template:Infobox character). The last method is to use Special:Export on the original wiki to export the entire history of the page you're copying, and then use Special:Import on the wiki you're copying it to, which preserves the page's whole history and makes it unnecessary to link back to the original page.