User talk:Alphawulf
2011
Welcome
[edit]Hello, Alphawulf, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the New contributors' help page, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type {{helpme}} and your question on this page, and someone will show up shortly to answer. Here are a few good links for newcomers:
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Moving articles
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Hi, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you recently 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 needed for attribution and various other purposes. 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 Wikipedia:Cut and paste move repair holding pen. Thank you. Woody (talk) 10:04, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
Hi there, welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed your attempted move of Future Surface Combatant to Type 26 Global Combat Ship and I've now reverted it as it was a cut and paste move as described above. If you want to nominate a page for moving you should generally open up a requested move discussion on the talkpage and leave it a week for other editors to comment on it. I noticed your talkpage note on Talk:Future Surface Combatant but you didn't really give it enough time for a discussion to develop and to get other editor's opinions. I have asked for opinions from the Ships WikiProject so hopefully a discussion can get going and the article can be improved. If you have any questions then please leave them on my talk page. Thanks, Woody (talk) 10:04, 26 July 2011 (UTC)