User talk:Polygnotos

James Atkinson (translator)

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to James Atkinson (translator), did not appear to be constructive and has been automatically reverted by ClueBot. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. If you believe there has been a mistake and would like to report a false positive, please report it here and then remove this warning from your talk page. If your edit was not vandalism, please feel free to make your edit again after reporting it. The following is the log entry regarding this warning: James Atkinson (translator) was changed by Polygnotos (u) (t) redirecting article to non-existant page on 2009-08-29T18:19:56+00:00 . Thank you. ClueBot (talk) 18:20, 29 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did with this edit to the page James Atkinson (translator). Such edits constitute vandalism and are reverted. Please do not continue to make unconstructive edits to pages; use the sandbox for testing. Thank you. Tiderolls 18:20, 29 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Polygnotos. The two notices above are, of course, false positives, as they misinterpreted your redirection of James Atkinson (translator) to James Atkinson (Persian scholar). However, you should not have made a cut-and-paste move when you wanted to change the article title as that splits the edit history into pieces -- you should instead have moved the article to the new title. A redirect is created automatically with the move process, although if you decide that it is not desired you can delete it via WP:CSD#G7 (author requests deletion). In order to re-merge the history of your article, I requested a hist-merge via {{db-histmerge}} and that was done a couple of days ago.

Maintenance aside, thank you for creating this article. It is well written and sourced, and I enjoyed reading it. (I would suggest that you clarify the start of the second paragraph of James Atkinson (Persian scholar)#Government Gazette to indicate whether the Government Gazette "was the most widely circulated of all the English language newspapers" in Bengal, in India, or in the entire world.) I look forward to reading more of your articles. -- ToE^T 14:00, 6 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]