User:Chzz/help/copying

To add 'example text' to a user sandbox page, two suggestions;

1. You can put to quickly generate random text - if I put that below, it makes...

...it is quite random; see Lorem ipsum. You can also put a number up to 4, to get several paragraphs, e.g. 4.

2. You can copy the entire text of any Wikipedia article, with a few caveats;


 * Say where it comes from, in the edit summary - use a link to the specific dated revision from the page, for example;

This text copied from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sausage&oldid=386277439
 * You can get such a link by clicking on the History tab at the top of the article, ie in this case I went here.


 * Remove any non-free images (logos, record-covers, etc) if any &mdash; they are not permitted in user space


 * Add a colon-character : at the front of any categories, which should be at the end of the article. For example, changing  to  . This stops the userspace page from appearing in those Wikipedia categories.

HTH, Cheers,