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July 2010

Hi, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you recently tried to give Move.com a different title by copying its content and pasting either the same content, or an edited version of it, into another page with a different name. This is known as a "cut and paste move", and it is undesirable because it splits the page history, which is needed for attribution and various other purposes. 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. Steamroller Assault (talk) 08:16, 25 July 2010 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added to the page Move (company) do not comply with our guidelines for external links and have been removed. Wikipedia is not a collection of links; nor should it be used as a platform for advertising or promotion, and doing so is contrary to the goals of this project. Because Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the article's talk page before reinserting it. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Steamroller Assault (talk) 00:07, 27 July 2010 (UTC)

Move (company)

Hi there. I have removed the text you recently added to Move (company) because it was blatantly promotional, which is counter to the goals of the project. Wikipedia strives to be a neutrally-written encyclopedia, and is not a place for advertising. Nor is it a place to write about subjects using overly-complementary text that doesn't impart any real information. If you wish to continue editing on this subject, please first take a look at our guidelines on writing when you have conflict of interest, and then remember to only add material that can be verified by citing a reliable source. Thanks, Steamroller Assault (talk) 00:43, 4 August 2011 (UTC)

Please note that products and services offered by the company are not promotional to the company on their own. This is factual information about what Move, Inc. does. Look at eBay's page... do they not reference what they've accomplished over the years. Please help me understand how one can indicate what a company does without the presumption of promotional motivation.

No problem. Here a few examples:

• "With these tools, consumers have access to the most comprehensive selection of existing homes for sale...". without a citation to a reliable, third-party reference (i.e. a news article, not a press release), this is blatantly promotional.
• "...has the deepest consumer engagement among all real estate sites." Same thing.
• "On the Move Network, advertisers can choose a variety of advertising and marketing solutions including subscription, lead generation, text-link and rich media, directory products, price quote tools and sponsorships." This is a direct marketing appeal.
• Terms like "real estate experience", "decision support tools", "leading supplier", etc. read more like advertising copy than an encyclopedia article.

I see you've undone my edit, and have started to fix the text already. That's a really good sign.You should work on adding to the encyclopedia by referencing reliable, third=party sources that have written about the subject. Otherwise, the text will have to go. Also note that since Wikipedia is not the Yellow Pages, we tend not to print the mailing address of companies in the encyclopedia. Also, we do not apply trademark symbols in article text. In fact, REALTOR® is a specific example cited in this guideline.

Thanks for supporting this project by helping to create a neutrally-written encyclopedia that is free of promotional text. Steamroller Assault (talk) 01:06, 4 August 2011 (UTC)

File permission problem with File:Steve Berkowitz Photo.jpg

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Orphaned non-free image File:Move-logo.gif

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DS Alert

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You have shown interest in post-1932 politics of the United States and closely related people. Due to past disruption in this topic area, a more stringent set of rules called discretionary sanctions is in effect. Any administrator may impose sanctions on editors who do not strictly follow Wikipedia's policies, or the page-specific restrictions, when making edits related to the topic.

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--Jorm (talk) 23:31, 9 September 2020 (UTC)