User talk:Visitar

Hello Visitar! Welcome to Wikivoyage.

To help get you started contributing, we've created a tips for new contributors page, full of helpful links about policies and guidelines and style, as well as some important information on copyleft and basic stuff like how to edit a page.

If you are a Wikipedian then you may notice some differences in policies and the style of our articles. These include:
 * NPOV &rarr; be fair (not quite the same thing!)
 * be bold &rarr; plunge forward
 * Village pump &rarr; travellers' pub
 * External links &rarr; We do not use a separate external links section, but incorporate primary links only into the text itself.
 * sandbox &rarr; graffiti wall
 * stub notes &rarr; Article status notes

It may also be very useful for you to check out Welcome, Wikipedians. If you need help, take a look at Help, or else post a message in the travellers' pub or on my talk page. Thanks for contributing!

I would add that there's not much point in copying large swathes of Wikipedia text verbatim, as the two sites differ in purpose (encyclopedia vs. travel guide). It's quite alright to paraphrase relevant Wikipedia articles, noting in your edit summaries (not in a citation on the page) that you've done so, but the content has to be made to conform to the standard structure (see Article templates) and expected content of this site.

Please feel free to ask any questions you like below, signing your post with 4 tildes (the ~ key) in a row.

All the best,

Ikan Kekek (talk) 09:44, 29 October 2015 (UTC)

Please don't just copy
Hi Visitar. Nice that you have an interest in Wikivoyage! Again however, I would like to point you to the articles mentioned above. If you want to create new articles, please use our article templates and add original content. Please don't just copy plain text from Wikipedia. While the license is compatible, it defeats the purpose and policies of this travel guide. It's perfectly fine to use information from Wikipedia, but verbatim copies with no other info are not very helpful. I've created a template for Beni Suef to show. Feel free to ask any questions. JuliasTravels (talk) 12:30, 29 October 2015 (UTC)