User talk:HolyArtThou

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Hi, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you tried to give Muslim Television Ahmadiyya International 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.

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@Pppery: Hi! Apologies for this. I wasn't aware of this. I did previously attempt to move it directly to MTA International but unfortunately it didn't let me, since it's already a page hence why I did a cut and paste move. What should I do in this case? Thanks. HolyArtThou (talk) 19:22, 8 September 2022 (UTC)

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April 2023

Please remember to assume good faith when dealing with other editors, which you did not do on Qadiani. Thank you. Doug Weller talk 17:48, 1 April 2023 (UTC)

Hi @Doug Weller: I'm sorry if my edit came off as aggressive, but the user used Rekhta, which is an Urdu dictionary. The organisations themselves say it so. [1] and tried to claim that it is a Hindi word, when it isn't. They also used the Hindi version of the website as their reference, instead of Urdu, or just the normal English website. Surely that's bias? HolyArtThou (talk) 19:28, 1 April 2023 (UTC)

No, User:Anupam restored the wording that had been there for some time, with an edit summary that explained why and asked you to, as you did finally, use the talk page. In no way can that be called dishonest. They also have about 54,000 edits more than your 64. This is a content dispute. Doug Weller talk 07:17, 2 April 2023 (UTC)

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