Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1417834-20140208041633/@comment-413936-20140219045927

Also, just to reiterate from the blog, the link attribution is the very least. It satisfies the license / copyright stuff, but may not be as diplomatic a means - and diplomacy is very important, in my opinion. (I'm personally a fan of being highly specific as to using original the article link, link to history, and link to the license so there's no possibility of confusion).

For instance, most of my admining is on the English Huntik Wiki, which is the most complete of the wikis on Huntik. As such, we've run into people copying our articles all over. Fanon, translations, duplicate wikis,… you name it. But primarily translations, which means they definitely did not use Special:Import.

Most (aside from recent additions to the Spanish wiki) was without our knowledge. A number of contributors were annoyed that we were not contacted, and a number found some of the uses of material to be inappropriately done (I.E. the article was copied and translated, but made-up stats were added or was done with no attribution).

In my opinion, it's always good to check with the contributors/admins on a wiki with an article from which you want to reuse content. It's not as purely asking permission as it is making sure they find your means of attribution to be adequate and that there's no copyright issue (of stuff such as character names, etc., versus wording - Disney and Star Wars being pretty major sticklers). It's also just good practice as it helps build that inter-wiki communication