User talk:Football Lab

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Giant Snowman 19:55, 30 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you tried to give a page 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 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. Materialscientist (talk) 21:54, 9 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Yes I tried to "Move" the article first, but it did not work. Football Lab (talk) 22:02, 9 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

If you want to move a page, you MUST use WP:RM. Giant Snowman 08:35, 10 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Again - if you believe the article title is mis-spelt, please use WP:RM. Giant Snowman 17:36, 10 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Ok Football Lab (talk) 17:37, 10 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at Mohamed Sylla (footballer, born 1993), you may be blocked from editing. Giant Snowman 18:13, 10 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

This is not vandalism. Mohamad Sylla is not born in Ivry but in Ivry-sur-Seine, and the correct name is not L'Entente SSG but Entente SSG. The club's page has been renamed in 2021. Football Lab (talk) 18:20, 10 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Where is the source that says he was born in Ivry-sur-Seine? When he played for the Entente club, it was before the re-name, so we use the historically accurate name. Giant Snowman 18:56, 10 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

FBref, globalsportsarchive, soccerbase. Ivry has been renamed Ivry-sur-Seine in 1897. I'm not talking about a club rename (there hasn't been any) but about the Wikipedia article title. Entente SSG has always been named Entente SSG. Football Lab (talk) 19:04, 10 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you add unsourced or poorly sourced material to Wikipedia, as you did at Philippe Hinschberger. Giant Snowman 15:44, 13 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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