User talk:Joshcathay

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Chōnaikai
Hello,, and thank you for your contributions!

I wanted to let you know it seems an article you worked on, Chōnaikai, is copied from another Wikipedia page, Chōnakai. It's fine to do this as long as you provide the following information in the edit summary:


 * 1) a link to the article you copied from
 * 2) the date you copied it

You can do this now by editing the page, making any minor edit to the article, and adding the above information into the edit summary.

If you're still not sure how to fix the problem, please leave a message at the help desk. It's possible that I made a mistake, so feel free to remove the tag I placed on the article.

Thanks again for helping build the free encyclopedia! MadmanBot (talk) 01:29, 27 September 2013 (UTC)

September 2013
Please do not remove maintenance templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Chōnaikai, without resolving the problem that the template refers to, or giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your removal of this template does not appear constructive, and has been reverted. Thank you. MrScorch6200 (talk) 01:42, 27 September 2013 (UTC)

Chonaikai
Hi, thanks for working on Chonaikai. However, it seems that you tried to fix a problem with the title by creating another article, copying and pasting the old article into the new one, and turning the old one into a redirect. This is not the preferred way to do things because the new article no longer has the history of the old article. In these cases, you should use the page move function: WP:MOVE. Michitaro (talk) 02:11, 27 September 2013 (UTC)