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== Cut and paste move == |
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[[File:Information.svg|25px|alt=Information icon]] Hi, and thank you for [[Special:Contributions/Taeyebaar|your contributions]] to Wikipedia. It appears that you tried to give [[:Younge Pakistan Flag Movement]] a different title by copying its content and pasting either the same content, or an edited version of it, into [[:Young Pakistan Flag Movement]]. This is known as a "[[cut-and-paste]] move", and it is undesirable because it splits the [[Help:Page history|page history]], which is [[Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia|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. |
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In most cases, once your account is [[WIkipedia:Autoconfirmed|four days old and has ten edits]], you should be able to move an article yourself using the [[Help:Moving a page|"Move" tab]] at the top of the page (the tab may be [[:File:Vector hidden move button.jpg|hidden in a dropdown menu]] for you). This both preserves the page history intact and automatically creates a [[Wikipedia:Redirect|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 [[Wikipedia:Requested moves|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. <!-- Template:uw-c&pmove--> [[User:GeoffreyT2000|GeoffreyT2000]] ([[User talk:GeoffreyT2000|talk]]) 23:00, 12 March 2016 (UTC) |
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