User talk:Policy & Politics

Concern regarding Draft:Chris Jones (Democratic Candidate, Governor of Arkansas)

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 14:02, 14 March 2023 (UTC)

April 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 Christopher M. Jones (politician). 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. UtherSRG (talk) 12:11, 22 April 2023 (UTC)

In this case, you wouldn't have been able to do the move because the destination was occupied. However, since the page you were moving was a draft, you also had the {{draft article}} option to put the draft through the WP:WikiProject Articles for Creation process. In fact, I highly recommend using this process for your first few articles, even though there is a 4+ month backlog of AFC reviews. That all said... good job on this article! - UtherSRG (talk) 12:18, 22 April 2023 (UTC)