User talk:Branfish

Welcome to Memory Alpha, ! I've noticed that you've already made some contributions to our database – thank you! We all hope that you'll enjoy our activities here and decide to join our community.

If you'd like to learn more about working with the nuts and bolts of Memory Alpha, I have a few links that you might want to check out:


 * Our policies and guidelines provides links to inform you on what is appropriate for Memory Alpha and what is not. Particular items of note are the and  policies, the, our ,  and guidelines for proper.
 * How to edit a page includes a basic tutorial about how to use our special wikitext code here on Memory Alpha.
 * Naming conventions provides guidelines on how to name a new page that you may want to create.
 * The Manual of Style is an overview of the basic guidelines for how to format and style your articles.
 * How to write a great article is a list of suggestions that can help you put together an article that might end up on our Featured Articles list someday.
 * See the user projects page for current projects of our archivists, or help us to reduce the number of stubs.
 * Look up past changes you have made in your contributions log.
 * Keep track of your favorite Memory Alpha articles through your very own watchlist.
 * Create your own user page and be contacted on this page, your talk page.

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If you have any questions, please feel free to post them in our Ten Forward community page. Thanks, and once again, welcome to Memory Alpha! --OuroborosCobra talk 05:42, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

Copyrights
Hi, just want to answer your question here so you get it quickly. Information from Wikipedia can not be copied to Memory Alpha. Wikipedia falls under the GNU FDL, Memory Alpha falls under Creative Commons. They are not compatible. It is a copyright violation to copy and paste content from Wikipedia over to Memory Alpha. --OuroborosCobra talk 05:42, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

Okey-dokey.

Is there any way to apply for permission for use? Because there are several episodes that have only stubs here that are fleshed out in full over there.


 * Nope, no way. Basically, people here need to write our own summaries. --OuroborosCobra talk 05:45, 17 December 2006 (UTC)