Thread:Merrystar/@comment-4495599-20120713195417/@comment-11001-20120714034853

Hi. Yes. If you copy content from another wiki you need to give attribution as required by their license.

So Special:Import works great to take content from one wikia wiki to another, however it does not technically give attribution to the correct authors if you use it on content from a non-wikia site; that site will have its own user base and it is perfectly possible that User:The Maverick013 is somebody else over there altogether. So the "author list" is not actually correct after the import.

For a non-wikia wiki, you need to check what, if anything, the other site requests as attribution for pages copied from their site. And then do that. Most commonly the requested attribution is a link back to the site, but you should check what they say.