Adamant1

Hello, Adamant1! Welcome to Wikivoyage.

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Thanks for adding content to the Redding article.

All the best,

Ikan Kekek (talk) 07:09, 2 September 2017 (UTC)

Using Wikipedia

Adamant, I use WP articles quite a bit for bolstering the Understand sections of articles -- it is quite okay to do this.

We can use text from Wikipedia, but we have to provide attribution. This can be done by putting a link to the specific version of the Wikipedia article in the edit summary, and putting a {{Wikipedia}} tag on the article's talk page. I've done this for you on the Medford article, so you can see how it's done.

It's generally a good idea to also edit/re-write the text a bit to

1. make sure it reads like a travel guide article instead of an encyclopedia article, and
2. improve our search engine optimization rankings. What this means is that the more the WV article is a copy of the WP article, the lower search engines will rank the WV article in their listings.

Thanks for your contributions. Ground Zero (talk) 14:21, 4 December 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for the information. I'll be sure to do that from now on. --Adamant1 (talk) 14:27, 4 December 2018 (UTC)