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This is the {{Wikipedia text}} template. It is meant to be added to the top of articles that were ported over from Wikipedia. It automatically fills in the information for the links from the article's page name, although this can be optionally overriden with a parameter.

Usage

{{Wikipedia text}}

Results in:

The text for this article was ported from Wikipedia. It was originally at Template:Wikipedia text/doc. The original authors of this article are shown on the article's edit history page.
Wikipedia's text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

Parameters

This template accepts up to two optional parameters, one unnamed and one named.

To provide links to a different article, the name of the article can be provided as an unnamed parameter, like so:

{{Wikipedia text|Wikipedia:How to create a page}}

The text for this article was ported from Wikipedia. It was originally at Wikipedia:How to create a page. The original authors of this article are shown on the article's edit history page.
Wikipedia's text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

To specify if the article's text was modified, provide the modified parameter:

{{Wikipedia text|Wikipedia:How to create a page|modified=1}}

The text for this article was ported from Wikipedia, then modified. It was originally at Wikipedia:How to create a page. The original authors of this article are shown on the article's edit history page.
Wikipedia's text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.