Board Thread:Support Requests - Community Management/@comment-20302766-20130407124958/@comment-188432-20130407130052

No, you don't need permission, though if you're not an admin at both wikis then practically speaking an admin at either end could prevent you from doing it.

But there's no legal bar against you doing it; talk pages are under the same license as everything else. In my opinion, you'd want to make sure that you're exporting in such a way that you're preserving the entire history of the page, and then when you import, you should leave an edit summary saying something to the effect that the page is derived from the page of the same name at http://sherlockholmes.wikia.com. That way you're making an attempt to honour the terms of the CC-BY-SA 3.0.

However, having said that, on the face of it, I don't see why you'd need to preserve the old talk pages. Those discussions are pertinent to the particular situation of the article at w:c:sherlockholmes, which may or may not obtain at w:c:bakerstreet. I wouldn't have thought that every single talk page discussion would be worthy of bringing over to bakerstreet.

But you know your situation more than me. And if you want to import the talk pages, you certainly can, as long as you, or a friendly admin, exists on both the import and export ends of the deal.

By the way, I'm glad to see that you've stuck around and are still plugging away at trying to improve Wikia's coverage of Sherlock Holmes. :)