User talk:Ihowarth

Copying ULO content to a new article
Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you copied or moved text from University of London Observatory into UCL Observatory. While you are welcome to re-use Wikipedia's content, here or elsewhere, Wikipedia's licensing does require that you provide attribution to the original contributor(s). When copying within Wikipedia, this is supplied at minimum in an edit summary at the page into which you've copied content. It is good practice, especially if copying is extensive, to also place a properly formatted copied template on the talk pages of the source and destination. The attribution has been provided for this situation, but if you have copied material between pages before, even if it was a long time ago, please provide attribution for that duplication. You can read more about the procedure and the reasons at Copying within Wikipedia.

We could easily have re-named the old article from University of London Observatory to UCL Observatory, which would have preserved the history and attribution. Simply copy-pasting the same content from an old title to a new one only serves to complicate things and destroy the record. I've attempted to tidy up as best I can via copied notices, but the damage has been done; please don't copy-paste entire articles in future! Modest Genius talk 14:20, 11 April 2016 (UTC)