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 == Question on obtaining permission to use articles == 

 Hi, 

 I am a member of the Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle specialist group and over the last few years they have been producing web available pdf's which are accounts on every species of turtle. Its a long term project they have now done about half of them.as an example of one of these please see one I am an author on Chelodina burrungandjii. I have been thinking that writing accounts for each species on wikipedia is a bit of reinventing the wheel. I may be able to get permission to use these pdf's on here as major resources. If I was to get this permission from the editorial board of Chelonian Conservation and Biology, which would include images and distribution maps etc, what would I need from them so it would not be considered plagiarism.   "