User talk:Sschmoller


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Hi, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you recently tried to give ALT-J – Research in Learning Technology a different title by copying its content and pasting either the same content, or an edited version of it, into Research in Learning Technology. 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) 16:32, 3 January 2012 (UTC)

Russ - thanks for this. I think I understand what I did wrong. Looking at the your edits on Research in Learning Technology am I right that you've now done what I should originally have done and that I need take no action at this time? (I'm not aware of having done any other copying and pasting of this kind.) --Sschmoller (talk) 16:57, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes, that's right; I've merged the histories. The message was just for your information, not requesting you to do anything.  --R'n'B (call me Russ) 19:15, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Cheers! --Sschmoller (talk) 19:20, 3 January 2012 (UTC)