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Hello, 1000x7x8z10, and thank you for your contributions!
I wanted to let you know it seems an article you worked on, Adrian Visby (activist), is copied from another Wikipedia page, Adrian Visby (activitst). It's fine to do this as long as you provide the following information in the edit summary:
- a link to the article you copied from
- the date you copied it
You can do this now by editing the page, making any minor edit to the article, and adding the above information into the edit summary.
If you're still not sure how to fix the problem, please leave a message at the help desk. It's possible that I made a mistake, so feel free to remove the tag I placed on the article.
Thanks again for helping build the free encyclopedia! MadmanBot (talk) 20:37, 22 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you recently tried to give Adrian Visby (activitst) a different title by copying its content and pasting either the same content, or an edited version of it, into Adrian Visby (activist). This is known as a "cut and paste move", and it is undesirable because it splits the page history, which is legally required for attribution. Instead, the software used by Wikipedia has a feature that allows pages to be moved to a new title together with their edit history.
In most cases, once your account is four days old and has ten edits, you should be able to move an article yourself using the "Move" tab at the top of the page. This both preserves the page history intact and automatically creates a redirect from the old title to the new. If you cannot perform a particular page move yourself this way (e.g. because a page already exists at the target title), please follow the instructions at requested moves to have it moved by someone else. Also, if there are any other pages that you moved by copying and pasting, even if it was a long time ago, please list them at Wikipedia:Cut and paste move repair holding pen. Thank you. Redrose64 (talk) 14:47, 23 March 2013 (UTC)
Nomination of Adrian Visby (activist) for deletion
editA discussion is taking place as to whether the article Adrian Visby (activist) is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Adrian Visby (activist) until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. (✉→BWilkins←✎) 23:05, 22 March 2013 (UTC)