User talk:MichaelTeshomeDinku


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Hi, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you recently tried to give Saint Mary College a different title by copying its content and pasting either the same content, or an edited version of it, into St. Mary's University College (Addis Ababa). This is known as a "cut and paste move", and it is undesirable because it splits the page history, which is needed for attribution and various other purposes. 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. 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 Cut and paste move repair holding pen. Thank you. R'n'B (call me Russ) 15:53, 20 December 2011 (UTC)

RE: Page Titles
Thank you for the helpful advice. I have requested that the history of the original Saint Mary College page ,which did not have the appropriate title, be merged with that of St. Mary's University College (Addis Ababa). I was unaware of the existence of the original article when I created St. Mary's University College (Addis Ababa). As a teacher at the corresponding college, I obtained an edited version of the original version. MichaelTeshomeDinku (talk) 13:14, 21 December 2011 (UTC)