User talk:Gingerwasabi

Merge proposal of Dennis J. Bernstein
I have proposed to merge the article Dennis J. Bernstein with Dennis Bernstein. Please add your comments on the talk page here. Tassedethe (talk) 11:35, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

Page titles
Hi, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you recently tried to give Dennis Bernstein a different title by copying its content and pasting it into Dennis J. Bernstein. This is known as a "cut and paste move", and it is considered undesirable because it splits the page history which is needed for attribution and various other purposes. 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, 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 articles 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. Russ (talk) 15:16, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

Removal of redirect
I have reverted your removal of redirects and removed the request for deletion of the pages from which you removed them. You claim to be speaking for the subject about what name he prefers. First, I see no evidence whatsoever that you are--the way of doing this is described in WP:OTRS. Second, we would normally keep the redirects from other forms of his name. third, as I read the article histories and the talk pages, you have objected to both forms of the name at different times. In the absence of a name conflict, our style would normally be not to use the middle initial. Please direct further correspondence to OTRS. DGG (talk) 01:42, 3 January 2009 (UTC)