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Please do not attempt to move or rename the Wikipedia articles for the individual editions of the World Games.

Per WP:THE, definite articles can cause problems with the length of the name, the quick search function, and sorting. Due to these problems, the default rule is to exclude them unless certain specific conditions are met.

Per WP:COMMONNAME, in Wikipedia, an article title is a natural language word or expression that indicates the subject of the article: as such the article title is usually the name of the person, or of the place, or of whatever else the topic of the article is. ... Wikipedia generally prefers the name that is most commonly used (as determined by its prevalence in a significant majority of independent, reliable English-language sources) as such names will usually best fit the criteria listed above. When there is no single, obvious name that is demonstrably the most frequently used for the topic by these sources, editors should reach a consensus as to which title is best by considering these criteria directly. Wikipedia does not necessarily use the subject's "official" name as an article title; it generally prefers to use the name that is most frequently used to refer to the subject in English-language reliable sources. This includes usage in the sources used as references for the article.

Per WP:TITLE, article titles are based on how reliable English-language sources refer to the article's subject. There is often more than one appropriate title for an article. In that case, editors choose the best title by consensus based on the considerations that this page explains.

It appears that there was no attempt to reach consensus on your page move. Jeff in CA (talk) 17:34, 27 February 2018 (UTC)

February 2018

Hi, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you tried to give World Games 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 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. Spyder_Monkey (Talk) 00:54, 28 February 2018 (UTC)

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{{request edit}} Thank you for your detailed answer on the topic.

After I have searched for a long time in Wikipedia, I didn't find any other option than approaching you via this request form.

The reason for the cut-and-paste measure is the fact that the event is called "The World Games" and not "World Games". Therefore, the term which is actually in place is wrong. Could you please correct it? You will find the proves on the webpage on www.theworldgames.org

Thank you!

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