User talk:Rethinkingc

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Again, welcome! JaventheAldericky (talk) 15:44, 1 September 2023 (UTC)

October 2023

Hi, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you tried to give a page a different title by copying its content and pasting either the same content, or an edited version of it, into Badminton at the 2022 Asian Games – Men's singles. 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. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 01:35, 3 October 2023 (UTC)

Hello, Rethinkingc,

Do not recreate articles in main space if there is an existing article in Draft space. Instead, move the article back to main space. There should not be more than one article on the same subject on Wikipedia as it complicates attribution. Please do not ever do this again.

If you have questions, please bring them to the Teahouse. Thank you. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 01:36, 3 October 2023 (UTC)

And you also did this with Badminton at the 2022 Asian Games – Women's singles, Badminton at the 2022 Asian Games – Men's doubles, Badminton at the 2022 Asian Games – Women's doubles and Badminton at the 2022 Asian Games – Mixed doubles. Please do not do this again. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 01:39, 3 October 2023 (UTC)

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