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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:40, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

Unnecessary separate "Police Corruption in x" article creations

Hello, I have seen you have recently created many new pages in which you directly copied the text of different countries in various subsections of the article Police corruption and spun them off into a separate article without adding any new content. Making separate articles on article subsections topics are fine, but only if additional content is added. Otherwise there is no need to create a separate article. Thank you. Flemmish Nietzsche (talk) 23:09, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

Hi Flemmish Nietzsche!

I am trying to clean up the original Police Corruption Wikipedia Page. The article itself is rather lengthy and I'm moving things into new articles to take away from the overall length of the original article!

Thank you! CaitlynCavalllaro (talk) 23:12, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

That is fine, but as I said, if you think those subsections warrant individual articles, please add some new content instead of doing just a copy-paste of the existing text.

Additionally please format any new articles you create correctly. The new articles you created do not adhere to MOS:AT, as they do not use sentence case. Secondly, clear up any maintenance messages from page moves and remove the extra top header that was copied from the original subsection in the police corruption article if you wish to split off any articles. Flemmish Nietzsche (talk) 23:20, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

@Flemmish Nietzsche: Could you please tag the pages as speedy delete copy&paste move instead of redirecting? Because we don't need misspelled redirects ("Police Corruption In XYZ", note the capital In), thanks. Killarnee (talk) 23:21, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

Sure, though it seems that the stream of copy-paste articles has stopped for now. Flemmish Nietzsche (talk) 23:22, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

@Pppery: Why redirect? Capital In is not proper English. Killarnee (talk) 23:22, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion has consistently kept redirects from miscapitalizations. You requested G6 when none of the subcriteria of G6 apply. The closest applicable criterion is WP:A10, which would require that the title is not a plausible redirect, which I'm not convinced of * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 23:24, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

This is absurd in that there are not even redirects in the correct capitalization. Delete and create correct redirects. Or revision delete because it's a copyvio. By the way WP:5P5. Killarnee (talk) 23:41, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

I agree that the redirects should be deleted, the miscapitalized ones are to sensible miscapitalizations, while there is little reasoning for someone typing the redirect naturally with the first letter of each word capitalized. However, in what way is copying some text from wikipedia a copyvio? It says clearly on WP:COPYRIGHT that wikipedia articles are not copyright protected in any way. Flemmish Nietzsche (talk) 23:48, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

You are welcome to take these to WP:RFD if you think they should be deleted. Speedy deletion is the one area of Wikipedia that comes closest to having firm rules.

Both of you are wrong on the revdel issue - Wikipedia articles are copyrighted but released under a license that requires attribution, so unattributed copying within Wikipedia is a copyright violation. Revdel is unnecessary, though, since the issue can be solved by providing the needed attribution. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 23:59, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

Everything is copyrighted in most countries, it's the license the copyrighter can choose. And Wikipedia's isn't a public domain like license but CC BY-SA 4.0 which requires attribution. That's why we have page history, which doesn't work with copy&paste. Killarnee (talk) 00:01, 18 April 2024 (UTC)

You were faster... providing the needed attribution? Null edit with a link to the article it was taken from? I prefer WP:RfD, I don't think anything other than deleting and re-creating with a lower case "in" makes sense. Killarnee (talk) 00:03, 18 April 2024 (UTC)

Hi everyone!

I am so sorry for the confusion, I am doing this for a class project and am clearly not up-to-date on all the proper ways of Wikipedia just yet. Could someone please clarify how to properly title these articles?

I just got a notification from Wikipedia and it says that I can simply use the "Move" tool on the original article itself to move information to new article. Would this be better? I am simply just moving whatever was in the original article to new articles.

Thank you and sorry for all the trouble. CaitlynCavalllaro (talk) 00:21, 18 April 2024 (UTC)

About Police corruption#Greece

Hi, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you tried to give Police corruption#Greece a different title by copying its content and pasting either the same content, or an edited version of it, into Police Corruption In Greece. 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. Killarnee (talk) 23:12, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

About Police corruption#Kazakhstan

Hi, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you tried to give Police corruption#Kazakhstan a different title by copying its content and pasting either the same content, or an edited version of it, into Police Corruption In Kazakhstan. 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. Killarnee (talk) 23:13, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

About Police corruption#Marseille

Hi, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you tried to give Police corruption#Marseille a different title by copying its content and pasting either the same content, or an edited version of it, into Police Corruption In Marseille. 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. Killarnee (talk) 23:15, 17 April 2024 (UTC)