User talk:Quinzequinze


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Hi, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you recently tried to give Office National du Ducroire/Nationale Delcrederedienst a different title by copying its content and pasting either the same content, or an edited version of it, into Office national du ducroire/Nationale Delcrederedienst. 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) 18:45, 24 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Incidentally, this is neither the French nor the Dutch Wikipedia; our page titles are based on WP:COMMONNAME, which says that we should use whatever name is most commonly used in English. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 18:45, 24 August 2011 (UTC)
 * In general Wikipedia deplores double-barrelled titles. We put the article on one simple title and use redirects for the alternatives. I fully realise that with Belgium it is very tricky to decide which should be the main title. Perhaps R'n'B has the right idea: I have moved the article to Belgian Export Credit Agency. Now both factions of Belgium can complain about discrimination! Please obtain consensus at Talk:Belgian Export Credit Agency before moving the article again - and certainly do not attempt copy-and-paste changes. A bot should fix the double, treble and even quadruple redirects in the dext day or two. &mdash; RHaworth 18:26, 28 August 2011 (UTC)