User talk:Rcbutcher

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[edit] James Daly (American Actor)

Why did you create a copy of this article James Daly with a new title? If you wanted to move the old article, this is not the way to do it, because the edit history gets lost. Is that what you're trying to do? Fan-1967 01:24, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

What you should do is request an admin to delete the page you just created, then use "move" to move the James Daly article to this title, the way you did with the Talk page. That way the edit history goes with the article, and the legal folks insist edit history is very important to the GFDL, though I'm not super clear on why. Fan-1967 01:27, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, I've put it back the way it was, together with history. Nothing lost I hope. I was trying to create a disambiguation page, to separate the actor from other James Dalys such as an Irish politician. I'll do what you suggest - get an admin to delete James Daly (American Actor) and the "move" James Daly to James Daly (American Actor). I will then create a new disambiguation page for James Daly and change any links to the correct page. Sorry about the trouble. Rcbutcher 01:45, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

I've moved the Talk page back, and tagged both the article and Talk page at James Daly (American Actor) for deletion. Once an admin deletes them, we can move the article and Talk, and then turn the old page into a DAB page. Fan-1967 02:18, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] All set

The actor's page has been moved, and I took your disambiguation version and put it at James Daly. All that's left for you to do is create James Daly (Irish Politician) so we've got two articles to disambiguate between. Fan-1967 04:36, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for sorting that out, I'll be more respectful before I mess with other people's pages in future. Rcbutcher 05:19, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

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