Help talk:How to port pages

Notice templates

Would we benefit from a generic notice template (i.e. like {{Beyonddamspage}} but not accepting the source and author as arguments), to make it easier to port material from various sources?

Or on second thoughts... it may be better to have a basic template, which can be called by other more specific templates, which add the specific source and author details. --Singkong2005 · talk 01:41, 16 November 2006 (PST)

I thought about this. It could work, but we'd either need one very flexible template, or a couple of different templates. Some porting is from web pages, some from docs, some have clear authorship, some just have publishers, yada yada. I don't mind separate templates for a while, since they're pretty easy to copy/paste to create a new one. Perhaps after a little more porting we will know what different generic templates would be required. --CurtB 09:56, 16 November 2006 (PST)

Prestarted porting pages?

Here is one thought that I've had: perhaps we should actually create the target page for porting, and add a link to the source page or source document, potentially some categorization, and a notice that permission has already been granted, and that porting is desired. And, of course, pointers to tips on porting (perhaps the help page for this talk page, which I haven't viewed yet!). I think that might lower the barrier to porting assistance. --CurtB 09:56, 16 November 2006 (PST)