User talk:Leaveunashio

October 2016
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Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Arab settlement in the Philippines, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear constructive and has been reverted. If you only meant to make a test edit, please use the sandbox for that. Thank you. —Laoris (talk) 21:29, 11 October 2016 (UTC)

About Talk:Arabs in the Philippines
Hi, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you tried to give Talk:Arabs in the Philippines 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. —Laoris (talk) 21:31, 11 October 2016 (UTC)


 * Thanks talk. I first tried to use the "Move" tab but it did not work for me. Could you help me make the change to follow the name order used in all other pages "ethnicity in particular country" " Arabs in the Philippines" in place of the current one with the word "settlement" in it " Arab settlement in the Philippines". Thanks in advance. Leaveunashio (talk) 21:39, 11 October 2016 (UTC)


 * Hi Leaveunashio, you should file a request at WP:RM to have an administrator help you; there are directions there for filing an uncontroversial technical request. —Laoris (talk) 21:42, 11 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Thank you. Let's see if I can do it right.Leaveunashio (talk) 21:57, 11 October 2016 (UTC)

Arab settlement in the Philippines
Hi Leaveunashio, it appears that you are trying to move the contents of Arab settlement in the Philippines to Arabs in the Philippines. A copy-paste move is the incorrect way to handle this, because it discards the page history. Wikipedia has a guide on moving a page. If you believe there would be no objection to this move, you should open a request at the Technical move requests board. Otherwise, check out the instructions on opening a move discussion. Thanks! —Laoris (talk) 21:37, 11 October 2016 (UTC)
 * It's not necessarily uncontroversial. There are discrepancies in nomenclature for ethnic groups in the Philippines (i.e., Filipinos of Malay descent) which should be addressed through consensus, or by following the standard used for most other articles about ethnic group X in country Y, being Malaysian Australians, Arab Americans, Arab Colombians, etc. --Iryna Harpy (talk) 21:52, 11 October 2016 (UTC)
 * that is a good point; if you still wish to move the page, it may be best to open a move discussion on the Arab settlement in the Philippines talk page with your rationale for the move.  Instructions are at WP:RM. —Laoris (talk) 21:59, 11 October 2016 (UTC)

Please stop making disruptive edits, as you did at Template:Ethnic groups in the Philippines, Template:Arab diaspora, and Arabs in the Philippines. If you continue to disrupt Wikipedia, you may be blocked from editing. '' Note that I've looked at your editing history and it is a string of WP:BATTLEGROUND, WP:BLANKING, etc. Articles and templates have talk pages which are specifically designed for discussion of the content of the relevant page. Please learn to use these constructively and explain your rationale, bring reliable sources to the table, and follow the WP:BRD process.'' Iryna Harpy (talk) 21:41, 11 October 2016 (UTC)
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