User talk:Cmaassen

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Hello, Cmaassen, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome! davidwr/ (talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail)  03:15, 4 June 2013 (UTC)
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Rafael Zamarripa
Hi, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you tried to give Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Rafael Zamarripa a different title by copying its content and pasting either the same content, or an edited version of it, into Rafael Zamarripa. 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. 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 Cut and paste move repair holding pen. Thank you.

I have placed a marker on Rafael Zamarripa asking an administrator to merge the histories of these two pages. This should be done in the next day or two. In the meantime, feel free to keep improving Rafael Zamarripa, but do not remove the "histmerge" template that is at the top of the page. davidwr/ (talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail)  03:18, 4 June 2013 (UTC)