User talk:DocZach

November 2024

Hello, I'm Raladic. I noticed that you made a comment on the page Talk:Trans woman that didn't seem very civil, so it may have been removed. Wikipedia is built on collaboration, so it's one of our core principles to interact with one another in a polite and respectful manner. If you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Raladic (talk) 19:12, 8 November 2024 (UTC)

Nothing about it was uncivil. I'm sorry you saw it that way. DocZach (talk) 01:58, 9 November 2024 (UTC)

You may want to read the essay WP:NQP on why you comment was considered uncivil. Raladic (talk) 21:17, 9 November 2024 (UTC)

That's not a policy. That's an essay. And much of what that article classifies as "queerphobia" is ridiculous. DocZach (talk) 16:54, 10 November 2024 (UTC)

The essay is here for editors that may not be familiar with some policies and helps further explain them, which is why the actual cited policy/guideline for the content removed was WP:NPA as incivility towards trans women is incivility towards other editors.

In this particular case, it is also the reason why the talk page even has an Talk:Trans_woman#FAQ, because we do often get some editors who come to the talk page with their own motives, which is why such comments are very routinely removed and in some more extreme cases even revision deleted as you can see from the page history. As you saw from your attempt to re-instate the discussion, you were reminded by another editor of just that. Raladic (talk) 16:59, 10 November 2024 (UTC)

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 Spencer Reid. 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. Significa liberdade (she/her) (talk) 00:16, 24 November 2024 (UTC)

Can I have help with the Emily Prentiss articles, I am confused on what I did and how to get Emily Prentiss' article to have her own article when the page with her name already exists as a redirect. How can I fix this by moving the draft for her article (which has all the history) back to mainspace?

Articles in question:

Emily Prentiss

Emily Prentiss (Criminal Minds)

Draft: Emily Prentiss DocZach (talk) 17:24, 24 November 2024 (UTC)

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