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some wikipedia oblivion articles up for deletion ... transwiki candidates?

Not sure who to address this to but there are some wikipedia articles up for deletion. Some may duplicate content on this wiki already but others (eg, Septim bloodline) do not. If anyone has dealt with transwikis before, or if there is a recommended, least-painful, process, FYI:

28 November (AfD, CfD, TfD):

• Creatures of Morrowind at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Creatures of Morrowind (2007-11-28 –)
• Creatures of Oblivion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Creatures of Oblivion (2007-11-28 –)
• Creatures of Cyrodiil at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Creatures of Cyrodiil (2007-11-28 –)
• Artifacts of The Elder Scrolls at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Artifacts of The Elder Scrolls (2007-11-28 –)
• Septim bloodline at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Septim bloodline (2007-11-28 –)
• Organizations of The Elder Scrolls at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Organizations of The Elder Scrolls (2007-11-28 –)
• High Rock at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/High Rock (2007-11-28 –)
• Cuhlecain at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cuhlecain (2007-11-28 –)
• Oblivion (dimension) at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Oblivion (dimension) (2007-11-28 –)
• Valenwood at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Valenwood (2007-11-28 –)

-DarkElf 21:40, 5 December 2007 (EST)

Unfortunately, due to legal concerns, we are unable to accept content taken from Wikipedia. It has to do with a difference between their licensing and ours, and the fact that it would be impossible for us to get permission from all of the original authors to publish the page under our license. (It's rather complex, actually.) Anyhow, I'm pretty sure most of this content does exist in some form or another. (See Lore:Septim Dynasty for your example.) I feel for these articles, really, I do. It's always disheartening when the Wikipedia elite decide to trash a lot of people's efforts in an effort to "clean up", but we've been through this before, and it unfortunately is not possible for us to take these articles without complicated legal entanglements. If you would like to rewrite some of them in your own words, by all means do so. But I'm afraid you won't find much support for a verbatim copy of these articles to UESP. --TheRealLurlock ^Talk 22:52, 5 December 2007 (EST)

Actually, the GFDL (Wikipedia's license) and the Creative Commons license (UESPWiki's) are shortly going to become compatible, so it might be worth pulling them off for a transwiki at some later point. Personally I don't think that Wikipedia is the right place for these things - I go to Wikipedia looking for things that exist in the real world, and I go to the UESP looking for things that exist in Tamriel. Better publicity in the main Wikipedia articles on Morrowind, Oblivion etc. of the UESP wouldn't go astray though. Alphax 22:56, 8 December 2007 (EST)

That's really interesting, Alphax. Where'd you hear that?--Ratwar 23:27, 8 December 2007 (EST)

There are at least some UESP "external links" in those articles. Better publicity might be achieved by a wikipedia article on UESP itself, since there isn't one now. That would at least be a "real-world"-relevant wikipedia topic. Of course, someone somewhere would raise the topic of notabilty, though I'm sure I've seen less notable things on there. -DarkElf 03:26, 10 December 2007 (EST)