User talk:Getreadyrefresh

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Hi, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you recently tried to give National Missing Persons Helpline a different title by copying its content and pasting it into Missing People. This is known as a "cut and paste move", and it is considered 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, 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 articles 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. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 14:27, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

Moving

Hi. Thanks for your note. :) Had I realized that you had made substantial changes in the new article, I would have "merged" them. Sorry for failing to notice that. I believed that the editor who had revised the title had incorporated substantial differences, but should have looked more closely. The only thing that was incorrect there was the copying of existing information from one article to another. Wikipedia's contributors don't release their contributions into public domain, but rather under a broad license that allows it to be modified and liberally reused provided authorship credit is maintain. When we copy material from one article to another, we actually violate the copyright of our own contributors. :) If all of the changes haven't been incorporated, please let me know, and I'll finish that job. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 14:27, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

This time, I've replied here. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 14:39, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

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Proposed deletion of Michael Booth

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