User talk:HedgeHogPower

Talk:Johnnie L. Cochran Jr. Middle School
Don't ever copy someone's signature. Your edit made it appear that I wrote something on this talk page that I did not. And copying your signature from a different page made it appear that you edited this talk page days before you actually did. Meters (talk) 00:02, 13 November 2016 (UTC)


 * If you look in your history trail, you will see that at 23:35, 6 November 2016 you did write:


 * "It was not deleted. It was redirected as per normal for non-notable middle schools. You recreated it under a different, invalid, name, leaving us with two different articles. Teh valid name is a redirect, and your new article has an invalid name (there is no comma in the school's name). I'm going to redirect this the correct name, which is where you should create the article if you think the school is notable. I'm not moving it myself since I'm not convinced this school is notable."


 * I was trying to keep the conversation about this school in one place. As you noted, there shouldn't have been a comma in the name of the school, resulting in two different pages.     Is there a way to move the previous conversation to the current page?HedgeHogPower (talk) 00:47, 13 November 2016 (UTC)
 * What part of "Don't ever copy someone's signature" did you not understand?
 * I know very well that I wrote it, but as I said, I didn't write it on the page you moved it to. I was referring to the new page you made. If I had wanted my comment on the other page I would have put it there. A signature means that the editor listed wrote the content when and where the signature was added. You copied the thread to a different page, including my signature. Don't do that. If you want to refer to something that is on a different talk page then you can link to the entire page (Talk:Johnnie_L._Cochran_Jr.,_Middle_School), link to the specific thread on the page (Talk:Johnnie_L._Cochran_Jr.,_Middle_School since you didn't use a header I've added one for this example), link to a diff of a particular edit or to a series of edits, or quote parts of the comment. If you quote a comment then use quotation marks or quote and make it very clear what you are doing.
 * There are very limited cases where it is appropriate to move a comment including a signature, but this was not such a case and you are not experienced enough to do so. Meters (talk) 03:41, 13 November 2016 (UTC)

multiple articles on same school
Stop editing the Johnnie L. Cochran Jr. Middle School articles until I get this cleaned up. Don't copy anything and don't move anything. Just leave it all alone until this mess is fixed. You have now turned the redirect Johnnie L. Cochran Jr. Middle School into an article, and that's OK. If the school is notable enough to warrant an article then that is the correct title. You created another copy of the article at the incorrect title Johnnie L. Cochran Jr., Middle School which I temporarily redirected to the school board. You created a third copy of the article at at the incorrect title Johnnie L. Cochran Jr. Middle School (Los Angeles) (there is only one Johnnie L. Cochran Jr. Middle School so there is no need to disambiguate the name. You created a fourth copy of the article at the incorrect title Johnnie L. Cochran Jr. Middle School (Los Angeles) - (formerly Mount Vernon Middle School) which is an even worse title. Not only does it have an unnecessary disambiguation but it includes the former name of the school. This last one now redirects but to Johnnie L. Cochran Jr. Middle School (Los Angeles) rather than the correct title. To top it all off, you made a cut and paste move in there somewhere and lost the edit history of the original material. There is content in those articles that was not written by you, but we can't tell from the edit history. That is not acceptable. I am going to ask to have the three incorrect titles deleted sinc enone of them are appropriate redirects.

Please don't create incorrect new names for existing articles, and don't recreate existing articles under new names. Meters (talk) 04:29, 13 November 2016 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Johnnie L. Cochran Jr., Middle School


A tag has been placed on Johnnie L. Cochran Jr., Middle School requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section R3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a redirect from an implausible typo or misnomer. Please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Meters (talk) 04:57, 13 November 2016 (UTC)

November 2016
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It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. You cannot copy verbatim from online sources. Thank you. Meters (talk) 02:53, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

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