Terrychen88850

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Guan dialect

I have made Guan dialect into a redirect again. Whether it is considered another name for Mandarin Chinese, or for the particular dialect of the officials Mandarin (late imperial lingua franca), we have articles on those already. Also you do not seem to be adding anything new on the subject; you just copied the first section of another article. Such copying without attribution is against our policies (see Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia) and strongly suggests that it is not really a new topic, just another name for Mandarin Chinese. That article already covers its name in Chinese; it does not need another article on it.--JohnBlackburne^words_deeds 08:00, 7 July 2017 (UTC)

Terrychen88850, copying articles isn't the way things are done here – we prefer to have one article on each topic, and focus our efforts on that. If you think the article Mandarin Chinese should be called something else, the procedure is to start a requested move discussion (though I don't think it would succeed in this case, because no-one says "Guan dialect" in English). If you disagree with some of the content of the existing article, bring along some reliable sources and let's see how the article can be improved. Kanguole 08:28, 7 July 2017 (UTC)

Copying within Wikipedia requires proper attribution

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you copied or moved text from Mandarin Chinese to Guan dialect (your addition has since been removed). While you are welcome to re-use Wikipedia's content, here or elsewhere, Wikipedia's licensing does require that you provide attribution to the original contributor(s). When copying within Wikipedia, this is supplied at minimum in an edit summary at the page into which you've copied content. It is good practice, especially if copying is extensive, to also place a properly formatted {{copied}} template on the talk pages of the source and destination. If you have copied material between pages before, even if it was a long time ago, please provide attribution for that duplication. You can read more about the procedure and the reasons at Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia. Thank you. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 12:37, 8 July 2017 (UTC)