Gear126
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Hi, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you tried to give I Decided. (album) a different title by copying its content and pasting either the same content, or an edited version of it, into I Decided (album). 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 (the tab may be hidden in a dropdown menu for you). 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:Requests for history merge. Thank you. --Finngall talk 22:01, 28 December 2016 (UTC)
Please stop. When an AfD discussion is started, and the page is subsequently renamed, the normal practice is to leave the discussion page in its original location. I've already warned you about copy and paste moves above--the same goes for AfD discussion pages. I will consider any further attempts to muck around with the article, the discussion page, and their associated redirects to be vandalism and will act accordingly. Please let the discussion continue where it began. Thank you. --Finngall talk 04:43, 29 December 2016 (UTC)