User talk:Uke

Welcome to Wipipedia; we hope you enjoy this site. Thanks for your contributions; I've been meaning to create that article for ages. Please feel free to create or edit further pages. If you need any help, please e-mail me or leave a note on my talk page. Ropeuser 20:18, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

Cosplay and other Wikipedia articles

You raise a good question. We have quite a few articles here that were originally copied from Wikipedia. There is merit in doing this rather than just linking to them:

• Articles often get deleted on Wikipedia, such as Box tie, Elbow bondage, Lotus tie, Furvert,

Yiffstar, Trampling fetishism ...

• As you say, there is often vandalism; there is often also ill-informed editing.
• We can re-write articles to reflect the ethos of the site and omit what we regard as irrelevant material.

Thus I would suggest copying over the article including photos. This does as you say have the disadvantage of freezing the article, but if it is a mature article that should not be a serious issue. Ideally someone should then monitor the WP article to pick up major improvements. Ropeuser 11:29, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

We have a few articles that are just links to Wikipedia and would benefit from having someone construct an article based on but not copied from there. See the first 11 articles here. Ropeuser 11:35, 14 July 2009 (UTC)