User talk:Janet H Wilson
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Hi Janet H Wilson! welcome to Wikipedia!
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I hope you stick around and keep contributing to Wikipedia. If you need help, you can drop a note on my talk page or use Wikipedia:New contributors' help page. You can also type {{helpme}} on your user page, and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Hope you enjoy contributing to Wikipedia! utcursch | talk 16:14, 28 June 2010 (UTC)
A few tips
[edit]Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. I see you are bumping up against a few of the complexities here, and I thought maybe I could point out a couple of things.
- I noticed you because I had Help talk:Using talk pages on my watchlist, and saw that somebody had added something there. It turned out to be you, writing about "removing this page." Well, you were obviously on the wrong page, so I have removed your edit there. I don't know if you noticed your mistake, but I saw that you posted a similar comment to Talk:Indian Volunteers for Community Service, so I hope if you notice that happening again, you'll just revert your own edit from the wrong page.
- Now, I don't know anything Indian volunteer organizations, but it appears from a cursory glance that the Indian Volunteers for Community Service group has renamed itself, and is now called Volunteers for Rural India. You appear to have made an entirely new article for Volunteers for Rural India, which is largely a copy of the Indian Volunteers for Community Service article. The usual way to handle a situation like this is to simply rename the old article (this is also called a move, and we use the "Move" button at the top (it may be hidden to the right of the "Add to watchlist" star)). When you do the move, something called a redirect is usually created; this is a command hidden behind the old page (Indian Volunteers for Community Service) which points to the new name (Volunteers for Rural India), and automatically forwards visitors from the old to the new page. This keeps us from having duplicate pages (and would have kept you from creating duplicate content, had you known about it). Another important benefit is that the edit history is preserved for the (old) page with the content.
- If you're game, you can read Help:Moving a page and try to fix this up yourself. If it seems like too much for you, speak up (ask me here or on my Talk page; I'm watching both places now). You could also use the
{{helpme}}code as mentioned above.
In any case, I hope you like it here. Happy editing! — JohnFromPinckney (talk) 22:04, 28 June 2010 (UTC)
- Hi John; Yes, the organisation has just been renamed. I realise in retrospect I should just have requested that the original page be moved in order to retain the history. I don't have the appropriate level of access to do this (probably just as well given current level of expertise); could you do it for me? I've saved off the details of the new page so can edit the page as necessary once it is renamed (though won't get chance to do this for a few hours now as unfortunately have to earn living). Cheers Janet H Wilson (talk) 12:33, 29 June 2010 (UTC)
- (I had no idea Wiki was so responsive! Just a few hours after I realised I'd mis-named the new page, utcursch renamed it for me without my even asking, and now I'm getting even more help..) Janet H Wilson (talk) 12:34, 29 June 2010 (UTC)