MrKatannga

Copy-and-paste move

Hi, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you tried to give Draft:Kyle Hupfer a different title by copying its content and pasting either the same content, or an edited version of it, into Kyle Hupfer. 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. MrKatannga (talk) 18:10, 12 April 2021 (UTC)

• Reply Thank you. I did this out of not understanding the new article policy. I believe the Draft article has now been merged and/or deleted with this live article.

Hi, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you tried to give Draft:Kyle Hupfer a different title by copying its content and pasting either the same content, or an edited version of it, into Kyle Hupfer. 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. Nathan2055^{talk - contribs} 19:15, 9 March 2021 (UTC)

Hi, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you tried to give Draft:Kyle Hupfer a different title by copying its content and pasting either the same content, or an edited version of it, into Kyle Hupfer. 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. MrKatannga (talk) 17:22, 12 April 2021 (UTC)

Welcome

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Hi, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you tried to give Draft:Kyle Hupfer a different title by copying its content and pasting either the same content, or an edited version of it, into Kyle Hupfer. 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. MrKatannga (talk) 20:34, 9 March 2021 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Kyle Hupfer

The article you submitted to Articles for creation has been created.

Congratulations, and thank you for helping expand the scope of Wikipedia! We hope you will continue making quality contributions.

Since you have made at least 10 edits over more than four days, you can now create articles yourself without posting a request. However, you may continue submitting work to Articles for creation if you prefer.

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MrKatannga (talk) 20:34, 9 March 2021 (UTC)

Hi, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you tried to give Draft:Kyle Hupfer a different title by copying its content and pasting either the same content, or an edited version of it, into Kyle Hupfer. 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. MrKatannga (talk) 20:34, 9 March 2021 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Kyle Hupfer (March 11)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Robert McClenon was:  The comment the reviewer left was: Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.

• If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:Kyle Hupfer and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
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Robert McClenon (talk) 15:30, 11 March 2021 (UTC)

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March 2021

Hello, I'm Larry Hockett. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions have been undone because they did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use your sandbox. If you have any questions, you can ask for assistance at the Teahouse. Thanks. Larry Hockett (Talk) 17:13, 15 March 2021 (UTC)

COI check

Hello. Do you have any links to the Indiana Republican Party? Regards, MrsSnoozyTurtle (talk) 01:47, 11 April 2021 (UTC)

MrsSnoozyTurtle I don't know if I am replying correctly. I live in Indiana and tend to vote Republican. I've volunteered on Republican campaigns in Indiana in the past. — Preceding unsigned comment added by MrKatannga (talk • contribs)

April 2021

Hello MrKatannga. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a category of conflict of interest (COI) editing that involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is prohibited by our policies on neutral point of view and what Wikipedia is not, and is an especially serious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat search-engine optimization.

Paid advocates are very strongly discouraged from direct article editing, and should instead propose changes on the talk page of the article in question if an article exists. If the article does not exist, paid advocates are extremely strongly discouraged from attempting to write an article at all. At best, any proposed article creation should be submitted through the articles for creation process, rather than directly.

Regardless, if you are receiving or expect to receive compensation for your edits, broadly construed, you are required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at User:MrKatannga. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=MrKatannga|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. If I am mistaken – you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits – please state that in response to this message. Otherwise, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, do not edit further until you answer this message. TAXIDICAE💰 17:35, 12 April 2021 (UTC)

As previously advised, your edits give the impression you have a financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. You were asked to cease editing until you responded by either stating that you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits, or by complying with the mandatory requirements under the Wikimedia Terms of Use that you disclose your employer, client and affiliation. Again, you can post such a disclosure on your user page at User:MrKatannga, and the template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=MrKatannga|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. Please respond before making any other edits to Wikipedia. TAXIDICAE💰 19:20, 12 April 2021 (UTC)

• Reply I am not paid to do edit/create on Wikipedia. I live in Indiana and am generally interested in Indiana Republican politics and have volunteered on GOP campaigns before. I noticed that the current and previous Indiana democrat chairs have wikipedia pages (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Schmuhl, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Zody) and that the previous Indiana Republican chair has a page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Cardwell) so to me it made sense to have the current GOP chairman have a page.

Great, then you should have no problem at all explaining how you have no connection to Hupfer but this is your own work. TAXIDICAE💰 15:05, 14 April 2021 (UTC)

• Reply 1) I know who Hupfer is and a lot of people active with the GOP know who he is. So if that qualifies as a connection, I want to be clear on that 2) As for the picture, I took it from the internet. Again, I am new to the article creation process and want to make sure I am doing it in accordance with the rules of the Wikipedia community. I'll delete the picture.

This does not explain why you uploaded it as "own work" since it very specifically asks you. Pardon me for not believing you given you fibbed about this and wrote a completely promotional article. TAXIDICAE💰 15:29, 14 April 2021 (UTC)

Nomination of Kyle Hupfer for deletion

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April 2021

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for advertising or self-promoting in violation of the conflict of interest and notability guidelines.

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