User talk:Vienna1980

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I notice that one of the first articles you edited was Vitaly Vanshelboim, which appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

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September 2013
Hi, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you tried to give Vitaly Vanshelboim 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. 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. Singularity42 (talk) 14:10, 24 September 2013 (UTC)


 * Also, please note that I have redirected the article to United Nations Office for Project Services. This person did not appear to be notable as per our guidelines at WP:BIO.  The only reason anyone would be searching for an article about this person is because of his connection with UNOPS.  Therefore, a redirect made the most amount of sense. Singularity42 (talk) 14:34, 24 September 2013 (UTC)

Notability
Dear Singularity42, thanks for your help and advice. As you can see I am new here and don't quite know how this works. If possible though I would like to try to make the Vitaly Vanshelboim page I was working on, because I believe it would be valuable to the wikipedia community. I am happy to change it as necessary to comply with all the rules though.

Just to explain the background - I noted that there was a page about someone I know of (I used to work with him and have watched his career with interest as he climbs the UN ladder) and that it contained some inaccuracies and also had a strange title. So I tried to recreate the page under his name, fix the mistakes and add proper citations.

I didn't realise you couldn't copy/paste pages, but I would instead be happy just to move it, or for you to move it if you prefer.

I do think he fits the notability guidelines though, as he is a big player in the aid adevelopment world, he is a top-ranking UN official, the youngest ever Under-secretary General and an advocate for open aid data. A quick search revealed the following news and web articles.

Can we put the page back? Many thanks.

http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/datablog/2012/nov/07/who-doing-business-un-data http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2009-03-27/news/36876887_1_reconstruction-funds-task-force-usaid http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-04-14-un-probe_N.htm https://www.devex.com/en/news/unops-helps-in-u-n-effort-to-boost-interagency-procurement-collaboration/29301 http://www.iese.edu/Aplicaciones/News/view.asp?id=3519 http://ciudaddelsaber.org/en/press-room/news/unops-launches-online-recruitment-roster-system/966 http://newsle.com/vitalyv http://soufangroup.com/world-leaders-and-policy-makers-participate-in-groundbreaking-global-town-hall-on-countering-violent-extremism/ http://www.un.org/sg/ethicalstandards/2010/Vitaly_Vanshelboim_FD_10.pdf http://www.un.int/protocol/documents/ListofUNSeniorOfficials.pdf http://um.dk/en/~/media/UM/English-site/Documents/About-us/The%20Protocol%20Department/InternationalOrganisations%20862012.ashx http://www.jposc.org/content/JPOs/Workshops/Cairo/Cairo-en.html http://www.undg.org/docs/13025/UNDG%20Advisory%20Group.pdf http://www.wsscc.org/sites/default/files/pr_transfer_final_eng.pdf http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/theuae/2007/August/theuae_August667.xml&section=theuae http://www.ilostaffunion.org/new/wp-content/uploads/HLCM-non-paper-7Jan2013.pdf http://unsceb.org/CEBPublicFiles/Report_HLCM_25th_Session.pdf http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/2009/cop15/eng/misc01p02.pdf http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dvZtyWwEEs