Harry Potter Wiki:Potterfy

To Potterfy is to modify an article that was copied from Wikipedia (cfw) so that it fits better on Harry Potter Wiki.

There are many aspects to this task, as listed below.

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Harry Potter articles that are on Wikipedia will begin with statements indicating that they are from the Harry Potter universe. When these articles are copied to the Harry Potter Wiki, such statements become unnecessary and should be removed. Take for example, the opening line of Chewbacca:

Sometimes this can be made more difficult by the fact that an article will start with a "This is from Harry Potter" statement, and then the next sentence starts a paragraph full of spoilers. Such articles will need the beginnings to be slightly rewritten in order to give a non-spoiler introduction.

Links

 * Removing any non-Harry Potter links.
 * Removing "Harry Potter" from links, such as in the case of "Magic (Harry Potter)".
 * Adding links to more detailed Harry Potter information that wouldn't be accepted on Wikipedia.
 * Fixing any links that point to lists so that they point to the correct article&mdash;many of the list articles from Wikipedia have been broken down into their component parts. Notice that whether this is required depends on whether or not the list article has been split yet.

Categories and templates

 * Cleaning up the categories: both the removal of leftover Wikipedia categories and the addition of Harry Potter Wiki categories.