Template:Uw-c&pmove

Hi, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you tried to give a page 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 for registered users, 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 (the tab may be hidden in a dropdown menu for you). 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 Wikipedia:Requests for history merge. Thank you.

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How to use:

{{subst:Uw-c&pmove}}

{{subst:Uw-c&pmove|Article copied from}} references a specific article copied from

{{subst:Uw-c&pmove|Article copied from|Additional text}} adds text onto the end of the message instead of "Thank you"

{{subst:Uw-c&pmove||Additional text}} or {{subst:Uw-c&pmove|2=Additional text}} also adds text onto the end of the message instead of "Thank you", but doesn't link a page as specified by the article copied from.

• : {{subst:uw-c&pmove|Article copied from|to=Article pasted to}} Add the article pasted to using the to parameter.

{{subst:uw-c&pmove|Article copied from|to=Article pasted to|Additional text}} Include both the copied-from and pasted-to articles as well as additional text.

• Please remember to substitute the template using {{subst:Uw-c&pmove}} rather than {{Uw-c&pmove}}.
• To give greater detail to your message, you may add the article copied from and some additional text to the end of the template. If such article copied from or additional text includes a URL or anything which includes an equal sign ("="), it may break the parser's function unless you prefix the article copied from or the text with a named template parameter. Use "1=" if the article copied from contains an equals sign and use "2=" if the additional text contains an equals sign (such as a URL).
• Please refer to the index of message templates before using any template on user talk pages to warn a user. Applying the best template available for your purpose may help reduce confusion from the message you are sending.
• This template automatically populates the relevant category with the user page. If and when the user account gets blocked, or approximately eight weeks pass with no further action, that categorization is automatically removed.
• This standardized template conforms to guidelines by the user warnings project. You may discuss the visual appearance of these standardized templates (e.g. the image in the top-left corner) at the user warning talk page.
• This is the documentation for the {{Single notice}} standardized template, as used by several single-level user warnings or notice templates. It is located at Template:Single notice/inner(edit talk links history).

See also:

• {{uw-copying}}, user warning about copying material from another article within Wikipedia
• {{uw-unattribcc}}, user warning about copying material from another Creative Commons licensed site
• {{uw-copyright}}, user warning template about copying material from outside Wikipedia
• Wikipedia:History merging, explanatory page about remedying the effects of a cut and paste move

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