User talk:Paaleikaas

June 2016
Hello, I'm GiantSnowman. I noticed that you recently removed some content from Omar Elabdellaoui without adequately explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an accurate edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry; the removed content has been restored. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. GiantSnowman 07:09, 23 June 2016 (UTC)


 * I have reverted all of your recent positional changes - having more specific positions is a good thing, but only when supported by reliable sources. GiantSnowman 07:12, 23 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Information orange.svg Please do not add or change content, as you did at Niklas Gunnarsson, without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. GiantSnowman 17:26, 23 June 2016 (UTC)

Hi, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you tried to give User:Paaleikaas/sandbox 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. JMHamo (talk) 16:12, 23 June 2016 (UTC)