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Jul 2, 2015 at 11:42pm
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Re: Use of Wikipedia Content
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I think, to be on the safe side for copyrighting concerns, you should write to Wikipedia and get their approval in writing, even if Wikipedia is a creative commons project, as Elisa said.

Then if your book is going to be an informative book only for the objective of offering information, I suggest you check each piece of information from other more reliable sources, as well and put those in the bibliography. As a reader and a writer, I wouldn't trust information from only Wikipedia 100%.

It may just be that what Wikipedia has is correct, but many serious readers and writers do not trust it fully.





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Use of Wikipedia Content · 07-02-15 5:06am
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Re: Use of Wikipedia Content · 07-02-15 11:28pm
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Re: Use of Wikipedia Content · 07-03-15 8:00am
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