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Global Warming

Roadrunner, I was reading the article on Peak Oil - which is excellent and followed the link to global warming and was very surprised that that article did not refer to peak oil even in passing.

I've added a section with some basic facts effectively inviting readers of global warming to visit peak oil to find out more. I don't know why some of the global warming evangelists are being so upetty about it, but they are giving me hassle. I noticed you were a contributor to the peak oil article, and I am leaving this to ask for some support88.110.38.52 22:22, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

California school

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Your article Leading small group

Your article Leading small group has been proposed for deletion "Wikipedia:No_original_research & does NOT include Wikipedia:Reliable_sources for WP:Verifiability of content." Please add references, or it will be deleted.--Parker007 04:09, 3 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I am interested in your removal the HongKong,Macau and Taiwan representatives stuff

I found it useful and I cannt persuade myself to remove these stuffs as NPC.--Ksyrie 02:54, 17 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Common law, "This seems incorrect"

See my reply to your question. Responsive? Helpful? Boundlessly 01:54, 20 March 2007 (UTC).[reply]

Taiwanese aborigines

hey, I don't have Hsiau's article at hand. Am gonna revert; if you are actually quoting Hsiau we can restore your edit another day. Thanks! Ling.Nut 03:40, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

...you need a reliable source..... Ling.Nut 03:53, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Please add a reliable source, or I'll have to delete your edit for now.... Ling.Nut 03:56, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry. I've seen your name around before.. but the truth is.. there are two kinds of vandals (I'm not saying you're a vandal!!): schoolkids who make IP edits that include insulting words... and established editors who have a POV to push. The first kind is easy to spot; the second is very definitely not... Please forgive me if I am trying to keep the page free of both... although I am not saying you are the latter... if we can verify your edits, I'm quite happy for them to remain (tho I would prefer to do it another day.. when we have more time...)

Sorry, and thanks! Ling.Nut 04:04, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

(undent) Thanks for your contribs. I reworded them slightly, have a look. Sorry if I was abit protective of the page — given the history of various well-known editors in the area of Taiwanese politics, I was really expecting an edit–spree–POV–battle to break out between factions. I have been pleasantly surpised so far.. the vandalism is all kids who wanna say "you're gay" or whatever... thanks! Ling.Nut

Are you saying this (from an ancient version of the article):

Supporters of Taiwanese independence see the interest in aboriginal affairs gradual move towards nation building and the creation of an alternative to a Chinese identity. For their part, supporters of Chinese reunification do not in generally object to the interest in aboriginal affairs and argue that this illustrates the broadness and diversity of the Chinese identity and point out that this interest in indigenous peoples parallels a similar interest in Mainland China as part of the Xungen movement.

Thanks Ling.Nut 17:31, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I actually chided Maowang at least once for his over-fondness for the word "colonial" — but RoadRunner ... they were colonies. Anything that is done as part of colonizing is "colonial"! Moreover, you commented out a source and changed the wording.. hmm.. that might or might not be kosher... kinda tired now will look again another day... Ling.Nut 01:20, 8 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Roadrunner,

I am going to have to revert the references to the coloniality of the various cultural projects in Taiwan. That is exactly what the sources claim and support. I realize Chinese nationalism is threatened by assertions that Qing era expansion was colonial, but the authors demonstrate VERY explicitly and clearly that the process fits securely within the definitions of coloniality. Maybe you could go on Amazon and peek inside the books to see exactly what the author says. Your message to Ling.Nut also shows you are coming from a Chinese Nationalist or Nationalist apologist POV "splittist"? We are trying to avoid bogging down in nationalisms on this page. The Chinese nationalist model includes many ethnicities as "Chinese" minorities, buy they are viewed by a sense of "denial of co-evalness", which is one mark of coloniality, where a dominant culture determines another culture to be subordinate and backward, lacking the modernity of the colonizing culture. This can be shown on Taiwan and in China when ethnic "minorities" are often asked to "be ethnic" by dressing in the traditional costumes their ancestors wore at first contact, frozen in time, where the Han wear "western" style suits as a symbol of their own "advancement" and their ability to use nationalism to "advance" the "backward peoples" toward madernity. This type of cultural chauvinism is very well documented. We designed this page to put the dirt out on the table so the topic could be discussed as we are not Aborigines. We need to discuss the coloniality of Taiwan's indigenous people, so we can expose how most of our knowledge and definitions are not from the indigenes themselves but rather they were defined by an ethnic "other"...another mark of coloniality. i highly reccomend, before continuing on this page, to read: Steven Harrell's Cultural Encounters on China's Ethnic Frontiers, Prasenjit Duara's Rescuing History from The Nation, Emma Teng's Taiwan's Imagined Geography, Charles F. Keyes Ethnic Change, Edward Said's Orientalism, Susan Blum and Lionael Jenson's China Off Center, Peter Perdue's China Marches West to name a few. We are very serious about sources and are trying to avoid original research. There are many things I would like to change based on my own research and "gut" feelings, but I will stick to the references...no matter where my bias lies. Maowang 05:27, 8 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Aargh!

Please don't put that &*$&$#-ing hideous NPOV tag on the article. I'm sure you have concerns.... everyone who reads it has concerns. Half the people want the PRC section n there. Half don't. Half the people want the KMT to look bad and the DPP to look good. Half the people want the KMT to look good and the DPP to look bad.
The idea that Taiwan was not colonized is so very NPOV it hurts my brain to conceive of it. It is as Chinese nationalist an idea as is conceivable. Did the Qing etc. hold hands with the Aborigines and sing "We Are the World"? I'm thinking not...
Ling.Nut 12:06, 8 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

...more

The NPOV tag sitting at the top of the page is very very very POV. It screams to the world, esp. to the uninitiated in the politics of Taiwan, that the entire article is POV.. which it is not .. it is highly sourced and brimming with NPOV info, with the exception of your quibble aout the use of the word "colonize" .. unless your viewpoint is that of a Chinese nationalist... is that your viewpoint?
If yo leave the tag there, you kill the FA. If you're a nationalist, then that will in fact be your goal. If you are a scholar, it will not.
Which are you? Ling.Nut 18:15, 8 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

or better yet, remove it entirely, don't touch the article, and work things out with maowang in Talk. I have to study for prelims...

I'd rather not. I'd like to at least point out to the reader that there are certain sections that are disputed. There is a POV dispute. Also I doubt Maowang and I *can* or *should* work things out by ourselves, and I would really like to see the opinions of people who aren't as attached to a position. Roadrunner 18:52, 8 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

A nationalist scholar is still POV. A scholar should want NPOV. No? Ling.Nut 18:28, 8 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

That's not the way I think reality works. Everyone has a POV. A nationalist scholar has a POV. An anti-nationalist scholar has a POV. We see things based in light of our experiences, and that creates a POV. What I think a scholar should aim for is to respect and learn from alternative views of the world, and to be able to describe different views of the world in a fair even handed manner. One thing that I've learned from Wikipedia is "don't scream" rather "try to describe in a polite, calm manner why you feel like screaming."

The problem with claiming that you have a NPOV is that you end up ironically in the same situation that orientalist and decolonialist scholars have complained about, about in which you have a "master narrative" which is given scientific and objective authority, but in fact is as subjective and in some cases as inaccurate as alternative narrative. The message is that I am the wise, objective scholar, and you are the uncouth heathen. My views of history count. Yours don't.

What makes it particularly interesting is that in this case. Maowang and I obviously have been reading the same books, and I think (and he may disagree) that he is drawing unwarranted conclusions from what he has read.

Roadrunner 18:52, 8 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

That all sounds correct, but the facts on the ground at wikipedia are, there are two or three camps re Taiwan, depending on how you slice the cake, and AFAIK I am one of the extremely few who have even the slightest claim to being NPOV (despite your logic above). There's no one else to help! You're just gonna stir up the camps and give them the idea that there's room to make trouble.
The Qing were colonizers, and I am not anti-China. :-) I am the descendant of colonizers as well, and I am not anti-myself.
If you wanna add some balancing verbiage saying that there are mainland Chinese scholars who disagree, I think that's possible.
... and I can't be involved in this discussion either! I'm gonna try to avoid looking at my watchlist for the next couple months, tho I'll log in every morning to look for messages. Ling.Nut 19:05, 8 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

really and truly moving forward....

... can you take a couple hours and find all the key passages in all the key books that you believe are central to this debate, and scan them to .pdf or an image? Scanning to text is no good; it could be tampered with. I will try to find someone to help... I have a friend who may be a good informal arbitrator...

I'll need to wait a while. Part of it, is that I really don't want to sink too much time in this article, and I really do want some feedback from third parties. I don't doubt that some scholarly works describe Taiwan's situation as colonial, and I don't challenge the inclusion of that viewpoint. My concern is over wording, that this viewpoint be considered *a* view of Taiwanese aboriginal history rather than *the* view of Taiwanese aboriginal history. The problem with stating this viewpoint as *the* view of Taiwanese aboriginal history is that you've basically copied a history out of pan-Green Taiwanese nationalist history textbooks, and you run into the standard problems with nationalist histories, along with some problems that are particular to Taiwan.

Also, Maowang cites a lot of books, but I don't think they tend to support his point, and in some cases, they may undermine his. DiKotter's main point is the Han identity was recently created. There is a whole genre of history under the description of "New Qing History" which argues that the Qing dynasty *didn't* view the world in terms of "circles of civilization" but most of that related to Inner Asia, and I don't know of any scholar that has tried to relate that to Taiwan.

What I'm looking for, and may take me a few weeks to get is a semi-authoritative historical narrative from the KMT and the pan-blues.

I should note that most of the sections I put NPOV tags are are uncited. The big section NPOV doesn't have a single citation associated with it. Also I need to check out the Harrell reference to see what he actually says and if he uses the term "colonial project" in it.

BTW, this is the type of link that I'm looking for....

http://muse.jhu.edu/demo/journal_of_colonialism_and_colonial_history/v006/6.1taylor.html

Roadrunner 20:11, 8 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

If you leave the NPOV tags anywhere on the article for a month or so, the FA is guaranteed to disappear. And you're not willing to sink too much time in it? That's your best plan? That's constructive? It really is infinitely easier to destroy something than to create.. would you please do me a favor? I may be busy studying when the article loses FA. When that happens, would you please remove {{User Featured Article|Taiwanese aborigines}} from my userpage? Don't wanna false advertise... thanks... Ling.Nut 21:49, 8 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'll try to read Teng tonight & try to comment tomorrow. Thanks for supplyimg it... But even by your standards, I doubt Blueshirts' "settlers" is acceptable. If you think maowang's def is problematic, Blueshirts' is downright revisionist. Mingtian jian. Ling.Nut 13:14, 9 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

requested Harrell; anything else I should request?

I requested the Harrell chapter from interlibrary loan. Be advised that I am kinda suspecting everyone will back up the "colonial" reading; but I am willing to reword if that is not the case.
BTW the Teng chapter that you posted gives very strong support of the "barbarian" term that POTS objects to! Case is very closed. Will add to article when I have time.
Anything else I should request?
Ling.Nut 16:12, 10 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Your Project

Try reading David Wu's essay on Hua Qiao communities in China Off Center. In a discussion with one of the scholars I cite, we discussed the concept of the common Trans-Chinese and it seems language may be the only uniting factor... like "English Speakers".Maowang 02:34, 18 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I am also of the Anderson/Hobsbawm constructionist understanding of nationalism. It wasn't so much spoken language, but more written... understanding the characters. Even after the advent of the Republican period, these was an ambiguity as to whether China would be Han or made of the "five races". Sun Yat Sen supported both. Many of the peripheral peoples viewed the end of the Qing as an oportunity for independence and in the case of Mongilia, it was actualised. I think you are going to find that in places where Chinese nationalism was not promoted, the Han acculturated and assimilated... there was no great signifier.

harrell... others?

I have harrell; what part d you dispute? And should I order other articles too? Ling.Nut 03:52, 23 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Christian Patriot

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Seventeenth National Congress....

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overseas chinese?

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Early Infanticidal Childrearing

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irredentism

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Thanks

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Can you help???

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ur an admin

Hello roadrunner, And please dont tease me that your the real roadrunner OK? But just a question since your an admin why dont you place this info. on your user page? Would you rather stay anonymous? Surely not, admins are supposed to be on wiki to help users and since you want to hide this fact im not sure. Im not saying you should go all out by having a userbox that your an admin or putting the symbol in top right corner, just tell users who visit your page that you are or add it to the categories down below. Its your choice but i think you should inform users of this. Thanks Roadrunnerz45 (talk) 00:20, 14 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Proofs of NORTH Cyprus

Dear Roadrunner; You seem to start the [Northern Cyprus] article, There is NO regulation in TRNC laws that impose the use of Northern. Please, could you write why did you start the article as Northern instead of the correct one North?

The following note was added after the insertion of the whole section on this talk page

Who says that "North" is the "correct one"? Don't start with a misleading POV statement when you turn to someone for advice and clarification. --Zlerman (talk) 11:46, 7 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Roadrunner; As you may see, there are various conflicts and various opinions about the naming issue. Hence, we look forward why you chose Northern instead of North? 213.243.30.8 (talk) 12:36, 7 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Presideny Page of North Cyprus

1 The official name is of course, "Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus". But, this is long form. The Short form is "North Cyprus", not "Northern Cyprus". Let's examine the counter-examples given above:

--Zlerman gave the example Office of the President for proof of "Northern Cyprus". In this presidential site, look at the menu: PRESIDENT - PRESIDENCY - PRESS OFFICE - DOCUMENTS - CONTACT - NORTH CYPRUS - E-DIRECTORY E-LIBRARY.

The Country registers itself as NORTH Cyprus in membership to international organizations

1 Here is my proofs from international fora: The "North Cyprus" is a full member of European Countries Biologists Association (ECBA). If you click ECBA - members - full in the Official site of ECBA, you can see the countries NORTH Cyprus.
2 The Official name is Billiard Federation of North Cyprus - (BFNC) and BFNC is a Prov member of European Pool Championships. If you click European Pool Championships - People - Members, you can see Billiard Federation of North Cyprus is listed in the table. North Cyprus is the only representing country of Cyprus Island in EPC.

In official web sites of the country's organizations and ministeries, NORTH is used

1 In the North Cyprus' state 's easykart federation web site, you can clearly see the NORTH Cyprus expression everywhere in the site.
2 In the country's Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (Do Ctrl+F North Cyprus in the site), North Cyprus is used.

The Country Registers itself as NORTH Cyprus in international sportive tournaments and championships

1' World Easykart Champion (in year 2008, 125cc Light) is Zeka Ozteknik of NORTH Cyprus [3]. You can see the expression North in his announcement of top degree in the site [4] as well.
2 In "International Bocce Friendship Tournament" in Hungary (4-9 of February 2009), North Cyprus played the Final game and took 2nd place in the tournament.

The Country's officials use NORTH Cyprus when international communications and writings

1 Again a proof from international fora: Even the North Cyprus officials are using the term "North" when citing their country in international communications as in [5] in which North Cyprus Bocce Federation president invites a foreign president to a tournament in North Cyprus.

Countive proofs (not official proofs, but giving enough idea)

1 This proof in fact is NOT an official proof, but gives the idea: Just Google "North Cyprus" and "Northern Cyprus" (Note: Put in quotation marks, and in advanced search select the language English). The results are: North Cyprus: 1.190.000 hits and Northern Cyprus is 676.000 hits. When the language is set to Turkish: The results are: North Cyprus: 94.800 hits and Northern Cyprus is 32.500 hits.

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OT

Just out of interest, when exactly did you start editing at Wikipedia? I've been looking through the history for Three Principles of the People, and noticed that your name goes way back. -- 李博杰 | —Talk contribs email 12:01, 18 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

"on Taiwan"

I am a native English speaker and opponent of the Pan-Greens, so don't think what I'm about to say springs from ignorance or is about politics, respectively.

I rarely hear anyone say "on Taiwan" when referring to social phenomena that takes place here, and yet you seem to use it exclusively so as to not imply Taiwan is a sovereign state (which it isn't). Consider Hainan. No one disputes its political status, but "in" is generally preferred in its wikipedia article when referring to a variety of topics. "In Beijing", "In Japan", "In Hawaii", "In Gansu Province", etc.

Please try to use "in Taiwan" or "in the ROC" or "in the Republic of China". —Preceding unsigned comment added by 118.168.237.36 (talk) 20:10, 7 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Leo Ryan addition

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tkWWW

I was wondering if you're the Joseph Wang that wrote the tkWWW browser at MIT?Smallman12q (talk) 00:07, 21 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

=D. Would you be willing to provide some screen shots for the article? Maybe help with the article a bit?Smallman12q (talk) 02:36, 22 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I'm mabdul the main editor of the article. Can you explain me, why the development stopped? Although the browser seemed to be slow, I was always praised as innovative and a good idea/concepted. When did the development stopped? Do you have correct dates for my timeline for the pre versions? (the extended timeline is in progress) Have you any dates for the Phoenix browser? mabdul 17:21, 22 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, at http://books.google.com/books?id=BTfbAAAAMAAJ&q=tkwww&dq=tkwww&hl=en&ei=Ra_vTLfKIJGJ4QaV9vzHAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CEMQ6AEwBzgU google books] I found a book saying that there was a 0.17 of tkwww. Did I miss something? This was the official server as a download reference (which is down :( ). mabdul 13:16, 26 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

-It would be nice if you could upload a few screenshots for tkWWW.Smallman12q (talk) 14:14, 28 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I will get a big problem: Do you know any references/papers/sites/mails/books or whatever that could be used to use in the article? (Maybe wouldn't be so bad to read the discussion on the talkpage). mabdul 07:49, 29 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You could make a blog post and we could reference that.Smallman12q (talk) 21:41, 29 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

OK. again me. you said that you have any interestint facts. Would you give them to me just for looking if I can get them into the article (and for my own interest)? mabdul 22:57, 30 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I found accidentally User Chenyu. was this an old account of you? mabdul 14:35, 6 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Speedy deletion nomination of Universal jurisdiction

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A tag has been placed on Universal jurisdiction, requesting that it be deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under two or more of the criteria for speedy deletion, by which pages can be deleted at any time, without discussion. If the page meets any of these strictly-defined criteria, then it may soon be deleted by an administrator. The reasons it has been tagged are:

It appears to be about a person, organization (band, club, company, etc.), individual animal, or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. (See section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion.) Such articles may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable.
It appears to be about something made up, and it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. (See section A11 of the criteria for speedy deletion.)

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Administrative permissions and inactivity reminder

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Pending suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity

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Imminent suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity

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State highway moved to draftspace

An article you recently created, State highway, is not suitable as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. Mattdaviesfsic (talk) 11:29, 1 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity

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Your contributed article, Minister of National Defense of the People's Republic of China

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Hello, I noticed that you recently created a new page, Minister of National Defense of the People's Republic of China. First, thank you for your contribution; Wikipedia relies solely on the efforts of volunteers such as you. Unfortunately, the page you created covers a topic on which we already have a page – Ministry of National Defense of the People's Republic of China. Because of the duplication, your article has been tagged for speedy deletion. Please note that this is not a comment on you personally and we hope you will continue helping to improve Wikipedia. If the topic of the article you created is one that interests you, then perhaps you would like to help out at Ministry of National Defense of the People's Republic of China. If you have new information to add, you might want to discuss it at the article's talk page.

If you think the article you created should remain separate, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. Additionally if you would like to have someone review articles you create before they go live so they are not nominated for deletion shortly after you post them, allow me to suggest the article creation process and using our search feature to find related information we already have in the encyclopedia. Try not to be discouraged. Wikipedia looks forward to your future contributions. Lightoil (talk) 07:51, 20 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of Slowpoke Rodriguez for deletion

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Dispute over fried chicken page

Since the historic origin of fried chicken is Scotland would it be possible to have joint origin as Scotland and United states. If the page is solely invented to be about southern fried chicken could the name of the page be changed to this please. Thank you sharna Sharnadd (talk) 11:14, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

October 2024

Hi, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you 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 List of mayors of Baltimore. 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. Charlotte (Queen of Hearts • talk) 19:36, 13 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]