User talk:T568dx

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Merging material from one article to another
Hi. :) I note that you recently performed a merge of material to the article University of Western Sydney, and I just wanted to drop you a note to point out a few things about the procedure. As Help:Merge sets out, when we merge material, we have to provide a direct link to the source article. This is necessary because Wikipedia's contributors do not release their material into public domain, but retain rights to authorship under the terms of GFDL. This wikilink satisfies that requirement by allowing readers to access the history and see who contributed what and when. Usually, we put into the edit summary something along the lines of "Merge from UWS School of Law". Then, we note the merge as well in an edit summary at the source article. That would read like "Material merged to University of Western Sydney", in this case. When that leaves the source article a redirect, we also put it in the proper category by adding R from merge. This helps make sure that the article is not later deleted, as it cannot be as long as the article to which the material has been merged remains. I have fixed the problems with this merged, but I wanted to let you know for future use. If you have merged any other articles without following this process, please follow up. Thanks, and if you have any questions about this, please feel free to leave a line at my talk page. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 11:56, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

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