User talk:Metafax1

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Twinsday

Again, welcome! serioushat 02:43, 8 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Luiseño

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, articles should not be moved, as you did to Luiseño, without good reason. They need to have a name that is both accurate and intuitive. We have some guidelines in place to help with this. Generally, a page should only be moved to a new title if the current name doesn't follow these guidelines. Also, if a page move is being discussed, consensus needs to be reached before anybody moves the page. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. -Uyvsdi (talk) 04:52, 2 November 2010 (UTC)Uyvsdi[reply]

Slow down there. You don't move pages by cutting and pasting. Propose the move first and bring up a discussion. Please read these guidelines. -Uyvsdi (talk)Uyvsdi

November 2010

~~The recent edit you made to Cahuilla people constitutes vandalism, and has been reverted. Please do not continue to remove content. Thank you. Sven Manguard _Talk 05:35, 2 November 2010 (UTC)~~[reply]

Okay, I see now that the pages have the same content. I'm sorry that I tagged this as vandalism. That being said, this type of change needs to be discussed. Put a merge tag on pages, and bring it up in the talk pages. Wait for community consensus before moving an entire series of pages to another name. When that is done, and if the consensus is for a change, the proper function is the "Move" tool, not a cut and paste of the content. Sven Manguard _Talk 05:40, 2 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Gotcha. Thanks for the info. Added item to relevant discussion pages regarding reversion. Metafax1 (talk) 05:57, 2 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Copying and pasting the content of an article as a way of moving is not acceptable because it loses the article's edit history. This edit history must be kept for copyright reasons. JamesBWatson (talk) 13:47, 2 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

One more point: Wikipedia's manual of style requires that article titles use the name most commonly recognised in English. Thus we have, for example, an article on Germany, not on Deutschland, one on Norway, not Norge, one on Peter the Great, not on Пётр Вели́кий. JamesBWatson (talk) 14:00, 2 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]