Talk:List of Alaska Native inventors and scientists

This page has been created to support a wikipedia edit-a-thon and class project at the University of Alaska Anchorage, titled Indigenize Science. JECason (talk) 07:38, 12 April 2019 (UTC)

Hi, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you tried to give Draft:List of Indigenous Scientists a different title by copying its content and pasting either the same content, or an edited version of it, into List of Indigenous Scientists. 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 Requests for history merge. Thank you. JECason (talk) 07:53, 12 April 2019 (UTC)

I am a little confused. I did not perform a cut and paste. Rather, I did use the move command under the More menu. I am not sure why it seems otherwise. I performed a similar move procedure on a couple of other pages--Della Keats and Orville Huntington. JECason (talk) 07:55, 12 April 2019 (UTC)