User talk:Nutchladsa
Nomination of David Latimer for deletion
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The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/David Latimer until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article until the discussion has finished.
MrsSnoozyTurtle 09:10, 22 May 2023 (UTC)
Welcome!
[edit]Hello, Nutchladsa, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.
I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was David Latimer, 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.
To reduce the chances of your contributions being undone, you might like to draft your revised article before submission, and then ask me or another editor to proofread it. See our help page on userspace drafts for more details. If the page you created has already been deleted from Wikipedia, but you want to save the content from it to use for that draft, don't hesitate to ask anyone from this list and they will copy it to your user page.
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- The reason I'm asking is that this is the first time you contribute to Wikipedia using this account and the first action you took was creating this article. This is typical behaviour of accounts closely connected to the subject they write about - but of course this is not necessarily the case. Please clarify if you have a connection to David Latimer or not so that we know. AncientWalrus (talk) 09:20, 23 May 2023 (UTC)
Your creation of David Latimer without attribution of User:JasonWeitz' work
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Hi, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you tried to give Draft:David_Latimer a different title by copying its content and pasting either the same content, or an edited version of it, into David Latimer. 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. AncientWalrus (talk) 16:49, 24 May 2023 (UTC)
