User:HouseBlaster/Personal templates/Cutpaste

Cut and paste move
Hi! It appears that you tried to give a different title by copying its content and pasting it. 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.

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 preserves the page history intact and automatically creates a redirect from the old title to the new one. 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 you moved any other pages by copying and pasting, even if it was a long time ago, please list them at Requests for history merge so that an administrator can fix the copyright issues. Thanks,