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{{Guideline}} {{-}} Don’t include listings or complete records, rather, link externally to the source. Don’t include lengthy poems, speeches or other source text. Link to it. {{main|Create an external link}}  
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Don’t include listings or complete records, rather, link externally to the source. Don’t include lengthy poems, speeches or other source text. Link to it.
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It may be tempting to copy vast amounts of public domain text into the wiki. Far better to add a brief quote or summary and then link to the public domain source material, so that the research can benefit from consulting the whole worked if wanted.
It may be tempting to copy vast amounts of public domain text into the wiki. Far better to add a brief quote or summary and then link to the public domain source material, so that researchers can find and benefit from consulting the whole work if needed. {{see also|FamilySearch Wiki:Copyrights}}  
{{see also|FamilySearch Wiki:Copyrights}}


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