September 2016

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  Hi, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you tried to give 2016 Cascade Mall shooting 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 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. General Ization Talk 18:22, 25 September 2016 (UTC)Reply

In addition, there has been no consensus established for the move. The message above is polite, but please don't pull another stunt like that again as the next message will be less so. General Ization Talk 18:23, 25 September 2016 (UTC)Reply

Mapabo, you are invited to the Teahouse!

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Hi Mapabo! Thanks for contributing to Wikipedia.
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16:02, 26 September 2016 (UTC)