User talk:MPWikiEdits/Archive/2017-12

MDY on Christmas
The consensus was clear and DATERET is only after it's no longer a stub. Just because the first edits were MDY doesn't mean it wasn't still a stub. As I wrote, take it to the talk page. I was opposed to MDY, but it seemed consensus was DMY and that was its state for the longest time. If you want a change in consensus, create it, don't try to force it. Consider this a warning. Walter Görlitz (talk) 20:25, 27 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Walter Görlitz, I apologize if I "forced" the MDY format into the article Christmas. I have referred to the article's history and have seen in the article's past that the dates in the article were written in the MDY format. According to MOS:RETAIN, the MDY format should be retained as the article's default date format. Was there a point in the article's history when the DMY format was used beforehand, or was there a consensus reached to use the DMY format? If possible, it would be helpful if you could provide a link to the discussion in the article's talk page if and where a consensus to use DMY was reached. I do not desire to tackle this issue as a brand-new discussion on the article's talk page, so I will not alter the article's date format hereafter. Thank you for your time. --MPWikiEdits (talk) 01:19, 28 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi, The closest thing we got to a consensus was Talk:Christmas/Archive_8 where I wanted DMY, Walter wanted MDY, I gave up fighting and that was it for well over a year the article's remained in the MDY format so as such that's the way it's staying, Not having a go but you can't be all "THIS ARTICLE'S IN MDY THAT'S IT!!!!" and then a year change your damn mind, not how it works. – Davey 2010 Merry Xmas / Happy New Year 01:56, 28 December 2017 (UTC)
 * The original date format, @ 2001-10-31T22:55:45 while it was a stub, was most certainly MDY. When it started accepting references, it switched. Could we please continue this discussion on the article's talk page? Walter Görlitz (talk) 01:57, 28 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Yes, my talk page is only if you want to talk to me about mistakes I made, so if you want to continue this discussion which pertains to the Christmas article, please do so on the article's talk page. Hopefully a proper consensus can be made on what format to use for the dates on that article.
 * For this reason, I have closed this discussion and am redirecting this topic to the article's talk page if any of you would like to expound on this further. Thank you. --MPWikiEdits (talk) 03:14, 28 December 2017 (UTC)

Cut and paste moves
I see you cut and pasted Animal Jam (game) to Animal Jam back in October 2017. Pages should never be copied from one page and pasted into another page name. The page should be moved so that the attribution is maintained for all the edits. I have listed this at Requests for history merge. If there are other pages where you have done cut and pasted pages from one name to another please request a history merge. ~ GB fan 15:30, 19 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Hello, GB fan. I apologize for cutting and pasting to transfer information from Animal Jam (game) to Animal Jam. I am still learning how to move pages on Wikipedia properly as I am a slightly new Wikipedia user. For this, I will refer to this help page and will not make any page moves or copying and pasting without referring to that page first. I will also bear in mind the necessity of requesting to merge page histories whenever a copy-and-paste transfer has been made.
 * I also would like to mention the speedy deletion request that I made on the article "Animal Jam (game)." I just realized that there was a typo on my rationale. It should have read: "There is no reason to keep an article named 'Animal Jam (game)' if the Animal Jam title is already being used to refer to the game." I simply thought that leaving a redirect article named "Animal Jam (game)" was not necessary given that the article with the title "Animal Jam" is being used to refer directly to the game. However, the "Animal Jam (game)" article need not be deleted; this was simply a suggestion that I wanted to bring up. I apologize for the confusion regarding this matter and will not bring up such deletion requests again. Thank you. --MPWikiEdits (talk) 15:53, 19 December 2017 (UTC)