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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:39, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

Your contributed article, Bernice Eddy (Virologist)

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Hello, I noticed that you recently created a new page, Bernice Eddy (Virologist). First, thank you for your contribution; Wikipedia relies solely on the efforts of volunteers such as you. Unfortunately, the page you created covers a topic on which we already have a page – Bernice Eddy. Because of the duplication, your article has been tagged for speedy deletion. Please note that this is not a comment on you personally and we hope you will continue helping to improve Wikipedia. If the topic of the article you created is one that interests you, then perhaps you would like to help out at Bernice Eddy. If you have new information to add, you might want to discuss it at the article's talk page.

If you think the article you created should remain separate, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. Additionally if you would like to have someone review articles you create before they go live so they are not nominated for deletion shortly after you post them, allow me to suggest the article creation process and using our search feature to find related information we already have in the encyclopedia. Try not to be discouraged. Wikipedia looks forward to your future contributions. DoubleGrazing (talk) 13:33, 22 March 2021 (UTC)

I moved your draft back to your sandbox. Please improve the existing article instead of creating a new one. If you have questions, please leave me a message on my talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 13:58, 22 March 2021 (UTC)

Duplicate articles

Hi — as you'll have seen, I have requested speedy deletion of your article Bernice Eddy (Virologist), as it seems to duplicate (and, judging by your edit notes, be at least partly copied from) the well-established article at Bernice Eddy. Not that you have to account for your actions to me, but I can't help wondering what was your reason for creating a new article rather than developing the existing one?

Anyway, my main reason for being here on your talk page is a practical one: if the speedy request is actioned and the new article you've created gets deleted, you may want to go to the article before that happens and copy its contents into a local text file, so you don't lose whatever additions and edits you've made there. And you may want to do that ASAP, because the deletion (if any) may occur at any time, and without warning.

Any questions or comments, ping me. Cheers, --DoubleGrazing (talk) 13:42, 22 March 2021 (UTC)

Okay, it seems your article was moved to your own user space, rather than deleted, which is good; this way you can rescue what needs to be rescued. My suggestion, without knowing the background to why you created this in the first place, would be to just incorporate your edits into the older article, rather than trying to get the new one re-published. (And when you do that, please make sure that they are well supported, as otherwise you may get some pushback from other editors with an interest in that article, especially if you're introducing anything that has already been rejected by community consensus and/or which could be controversial.) --DoubleGrazing (talk) 13:56, 22 March 2021 (UTC)