User talk:TillF

E. coli outbreak
Hi, I am reverting your cut and paste move before more edits happen to the article in the new location and things get even messier. Cut and paste moves cause a lot of trouble for the few admins who have the technical competence for repairing them. More explanation in a few minutes. Hans Adler 21:09, 1 July 2011 (UTC)


 * See the bold text at Help:How to move a page. This is a natural mistake to make at first – I got caught by it as well. For various reasons, including legal reasons, we are careful to keep the history of a page in one place. Cut and paste moves upset this, and then an admin has to follow a complicated procedure to merge the page histories again.
 * As normal users we can only move a page to a new name or to a name that was created as a redirect to the page we are moving, and was never edited. For everything else we must ask an admin for help, but admins will usually want to be convinced that there is a consensus for the move. I haven't followed the situation, so I don't know how necessary the page move is. As it's probably not urgent, you should propose it at WP:RM if you think it's important.
 * PS: Welcome to Wikipedia! Sorry for this kind of reception. Let me know if I can help you with anything else. Hans Adler 21:18, 1 July 2011 (UTC)


 * PPS: I now see that there is already a move discussion going on at Talk:2011 German E. coli O104:H4 outbreak. I suggest that you give your opinion at that discussion to contribute to a good consensus on what to do. Hans Adler 21:21, 1 July 2011 (UTC)