User talk:Yahoowill54321

Welcome![edit]

Welcome to Wikipedia, Yahoowill54321! I am Gimme danger and have been editing Wikipedia for quite some time. I just wanted to say hi and welcome you to Wikipedia! If you have any questions, feel free to leave me a message on my talk page or by typing {{helpme}} at the bottom of this page. I love to help new users, so don't be afraid to leave a message! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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Danger (talk) 06:08, 4 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Jume 2010[edit]

Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, but when you add or change content, as you did to the article Americas, please cite a reliable source for the content of your edit. This is particularly important when adding or changing any facts or figures and helps maintain our policy of verifiability. Take a look at Wikipedia:Citing sources for information about how to cite sources and the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Deor (talk) 02:45, 9 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not "switch" pages as you attempted to do with the United States. Even if the new name is well justified, this breaks the article history; however, in this case the move was not appropriate adn should be discussed at the talk page of the article first. Materialscientist (talk) 07:31, 13 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Moves of articles should never be done by copying and pasting, as this loses the edit history. There is a proper way of performing such moves which, in the case of an article where there is already a redirect at the place the article is to go to, can be performed only by an administrator. JamesBWatson (talk) 07:51, 13 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

United States[edit]

Think logically: the article United States exists since 2001, and there are many thousands wikipedia editors who are aware of that article and of the US Constitution. Thus before changing its name, it might be a good idea to try understanding why it is named United States on wikipedia. Posting a question at talk:United States might help. Cheers. PS there is actually a long name-related thread there. Materialscientist (talk) 08:14, 13 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

See my comments on the talk page of United States. I am still trying to do what Materialscientist suggests, trying understanding why it is named the way it is, or more accurately, when there are several quite reasonable alternatives, why some editors are so certain that only one approach is the correct one. HiLo48 (talk) 06:49, 14 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

UK & US English[edit]

Hi Yahoowill54321

I notice that you changes the spelling of "metre" to "meter" in the artcile on the mile. I have reverted back as there is a long-standing convention that once the variant of English for a particular article has been established, it should not be changed unless there is consensus for such a change. I have seen no consensus regarding the change of the flavour (yes I have spelt that correctly) of English in the article mile. Martinvl (talk) 14:09, 10 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you tried to give The United States of America a different title by copying its content and pasting either the same content, or an edited version of it, into United States. 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, 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. Ssjhowarthisawesome (talk) 21:05, 23 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]