User talk:Phacromallus

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I have undone your cut-and-paste page move[edit]

Hi, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you tried to give Loop (education) a different title by copying its content and pasting either the same content, or an edited version of it, into Looping (education). 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 for registered users, 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. — Diannaa (talk) 22:18, 19 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I was expecting a message like this - I thought I did the merge too simply. I'll read the links you sent, and see how I can use them to have another stab at combining the pages Phacromallus (talk) 21:36, 20 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Diannaa:. I noticed that in this edit of yours you just redirected the page to what I consider a poorer choice of title. Looping is even the word chosen in the introductory paragraph. Furthermore, there is some relevant information in the old version of Looping (education) that has now been removed from the site. I understand you're an admin, so clearly know what you're doing here, but I'd appreciate an explanation how what you did is more suitable than what I did. Phacromallus (talk) 21:47, 20 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

As for old pages moved by copy-pasting, I don't think there are any worth mentioning. We're talking 10+ years ago. Phacromallus (talk) 21:52, 20 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

When you do a cut and paste page move, you disassociate the page from the editing hitory, which is required for attribution. (The list of authors is legally required under the terms of our license.) So I moved the content back to its original location. If you are not able to move a page using the move function, you can list it at Wikipedia:Requested moves. If there's diffs at the old version of Looping (education) that need to be elsewhere, you can request a history merge. — Diannaa (talk) 22:35, 20 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

OK, I think I've done it. I listed at Wikipedia:Requested moves/Technical requests, which seems to be the right place Phacromallus (talk) 22:44, 20 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Actually I was mistaken! You merged the content into the page. It was not a page move but a merge. So you actually did it properly. So I have undone my actions. So sorry for the mistake. — Diannaa (talk) 22:54, 20 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wow, that is good news. For a minute there I was convinced that Wikipedia was full of rules and red tape, not caring about productive edits. Thanks for restoring my faith. I hope future edits of mine don't need to be argued so hard. But I do understand the scepticism, me being a n00b with a poorly disguised rude username and all (d'y'all still say n00b, inccidentally???) Phacromallus (talk) 23:01, 20 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Well I still say n00b but I am a boomer so what do I know? - so out of touch with the current slang. Thank you for gracefully acepting my apology for this mess-up. — Diannaa (talk) 00:41, 21 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]