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    So it is, link: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/… Commented Sep 6, 2019 at 17:48
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    "According to the WMF legal team, CC BY-SA 4.0 is not backwards compatible with CC BY-SA 3.0. Therefore, mixing text licenses under 3.0 and 4.0 would be problematic" - WP:COPYPASTE Commented Sep 7, 2019 at 11:38
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    In general you couldn't use content from here in Wikipedia anyway, due to WP:SOURCE. Commented Sep 9, 2019 at 14:04
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    @OrangeDog Do you mean that SO is not authoritative? At least for the more useful questions and answers the content is made by professionals in the field. Commented Sep 10, 2019 at 8:25
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    @Trilarion there are very very few answers that would be suitable encyclopaedia content, are not tertiary sources themselves, do not reference Wikipedia and are written by verifiable authorities. Commented Sep 10, 2019 at 8:29
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    @OrangeDog Jon Skeet has hundreds or thousands of answers with a score higher than 100 alone. Would he count as a verifiable authority? I don't know. I would probably count him as verifiable but not everything he posted here as notable. Commented Sep 10, 2019 at 9:49
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    @Trilarion read the Wikipedia policy. You can cite his books no problem. You can legally copy his (CC-BY-SA 3.0) answers into Wikipedia, but you'd need citations for that content beyond the content itself. Commented Sep 10, 2019 at 9:54
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    @OrangeDog: There are plenty of secondary sources (linking directly to language specifications, which are primary by definition). Some of those answers are even written by the very same people who co-wrote the primary source. IMO, the chief problem with using SO content Wikipedia would be a disagreement what stands above primary sources. On SO, that would be math and logic, on WP it's generally the page owner's opinion. Commented Sep 17, 2019 at 13:40