User talk:Gerbstar

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 another page with a different name. 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. ~  ONUnicorn (Talk&#124;Contribs) problem solving 15:03, 15 September 2016 (UTC)

Hello
Hello. I'd like to welcome you to Wikipedia. I noticed you had done a lot of work on the Global Counterterrorism Forum article, but there are a lot of problems with what you have done.

First of all, you attempted to change the name of the article by copying and pasting it at the new location. Above this message I have left a standard warning that explains why that is not a good idea. Please read it.

Second of all, it seems much of the text you have added to the article is lifted directly from the organization's website. This is plagiarism and a violation of copyright law, and Wikipedia cannot allow that to remain. I have removed the worst chunk of copied text and tagged the article for clean up due to that problem.

Third of all, Wikipedia has a concept called notability. We only allow articles on topics that have been extensively covered in reliable sources that were produced independently of their topic - in other words, other people have to have written about a topic before Wikipedia can have an article about that topic. I do see from a brief Google search that such sources exist for the Global Counterterrorism Forum, but you have not used those sources in crafting the article.

Fourth, and related to the third point, one of the core content policies of Wikipedia is that all articles must be verifiable, meaning that all of the information in them must able to be verified by reference to external sources. The best way to ensure that an article meets the verifiability and notability requirements is to cite sources for all the information in the article. You have not cited a single source in the GCTF article.

Lastly, although I don't know for sure, someone has tagged the article suspecting that you may have a conflict of interest. If you work for GCTF you probably should not write about GCTF in Wikipedia. If you are being paid to edit the GCTF article you must declare that conflict of interest following the instructions at Conflict of interest.

Again, thank you for your work on the GCTF article. Don't think that the above criticism means you are unwelcome or that your efforts to improve that article are unappreciated. Please familiarize yourself with the policies and guidelines I've cited above, and if you have any questions, feel free to let me or someone else know. You can contact me on my talk page, and you can use the teahouse or the help desk to get help from other editors. ~  ONUnicorn (Talk&#124;Contribs) problem solving 15:41, 15 September 2016 (UTC)