User talk:Finphish

Moving pages

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you recently copied the contents of a page and pasted it into another with a different name. Specifically, you copied the contents of Pteronarcys california and pasted it into Pteronarcys californica. This is what we call a "cut and paste move", and it is very undesirable because it splits the article's history, which is needed for attribution and is helpful in many other ways. The mechanism we use for renaming articles is to move it to a new name which both preserves the page's history and automatically creates a redirect from the old title to the new. In most cases, you should be able to move an article yourself using the "Move" tab at the top of the page. If there is an article that you cannot move yourself by this process, follow the instructions at Wikipedia:Requested moves to request the move by another. Also, if there are any other articles that you copied and pasted, even if it was a long time ago, please list them at Wikipedia:Cut and paste move repair holding pen. In this case, since you were the only contributor, it is not a big deal, but I wanted you to be aware of the preferred method of renaming pages in case this situation arises again. Thank you. Russ (talk) 20:21, 19 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your comments, I appreciate the help. Finphish (talk) 23:20, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]