Talk:Gordon George Avery

Contested deletion

This article should not be speedy deleted as being recently created, having no relevant page history and duplicating an existing English Wikipedia topic, because... (your reason here) --Melchior2006 (talk) 05:34, 31 March 2018 (UTC)

Shellwood and I have proposed a disambiguation page for George Avery (details on Shellwood's talk page), therefore this new page has become a necessity. --Melchior2006 (talk) 05:34, 31 March 2018 (UTC)

@Melchior2006 and Shellwood: This page appears to be copied and pasted from an old version of George Avery. This is a bad way to rename a page, because it loses the attribution details. An admin now needs to mend the pages per WP:CUTPASTE, so the old article appears here with its history but without the recent edits that made it a dab, and the dab appears as a new page at George Avery. Certes (talk) 12:07, 31 March 2018 (UTC)

thanks for the tip! What other way is there to do it? Willing to learn... --Melchior2006 (talk) 15:33, 31 March 2018 (UTC)

Please see WP:MOVE. It's not as complicated as it looks. Sometimes you can move the page easily. If it won't go (usually because there's already a page at the new title) then ask an admin to help at WP:RMTM. There is more useful information in {{Uw-c&pmove}}. Certes (talk) 15:49, 31 March 2018 (UTC)

Histmerge request

This page is a copy and paste of a recent version of George Avery. Please can an admin do the necessary repairs, leaving Gordon George Avery as an article about the athlete and George Avery as a dab? Incoming links have been fixed. Thanks, Certes (talk) 15:53, 31 March 2018 (UTC)

• @Certes:  Not done see Wikipedia:Requests for history merge#Rejected requests March 2018 Anthony Appleyard (talk) 21:43, 31 March 2018 (UTC)