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Hi Roads4117. The deletion reviews that you are creating are, in my opinion, unnecessary. WP:BLAR states that you can restore the article if you want to, after which the article can be taken to AfD if needed. Thanks, Schminnte (talk • contribs) 15:22, 17 August 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Schminnte OK thanks. Will restore the articles. Just thought it would be better to get an overall view. Roads4117 (talk) 15:26, 17 August 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you copied or moved text from Lordship Lane, Haringey into Draft:A109 road (England). 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, disclosing the copying and linking to the copied page, e.g., copied content from [[page name]]; see that page's history for attribution. 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. Please provide attribution for this duplication if it has not already been supplied by another editor, and if you have copied material between pages before, even if it was a long time ago, you should provide attribution for that also. You can read more about the procedure and the reasons at Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia. Thank you. — Red-tailed hawk _(nest) 19:44, 17 August 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Red-tailed hawk I put a message on the article talk page I was adding the text to, is that OK? Roads4117 (talk) 19:46, 17 August 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

The best practice is to place text saying that content had been copied into the edit summary of an edit to the target article, along with with a link to the source page and text that specifies that the source's history is where attribution can be found. Please see Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia for more information on how to properly copy text between pages. — Red-tailed hawk _(nest) 19:52, 17 August 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Red-tailed hawk OK then, thanks for the info. Roads4117 (talk) 20:01, 17 August 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Done attribution message ✅️ Roads4117 (talk) 20:06, 17 August 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hi, just another reminder to provide the required attribution any time you copy text from one Wikipedia page to another, as you did at Draft:A129 road, Draft:A157 road, and Draft:A159 road recently. Thanks, DanCherek (talk) 19:03, 3 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@DanCherek OK then - I thought that I didn't have to, because the text was a old revision from the same article. But I will add it to the talk page like @Red-tailed hawk did a few weeks ago, if someone else hasn't done it already. Roads4117 (talk) 09:28, 4 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you copied or moved text from one or more pages into another page. 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, disclosing the copying and linking to the copied page, e.g., copied content from [[page name]]; see that page's history for attribution. 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. Please provide attribution for this duplication if it has not already been supplied by another editor, and if you have copied material between pages before, even if it was a long time ago, you should provide attribution for that also. You can read more about the procedure and the reasons at Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia. I added the required attribution to five of your drafts. Please go through them and do the remainder yourself. If you're not sure what to do, please let me know. — Diannaa (talk) 03:19, 18 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you copied or moved text from York Road, Lambeth into Draft:A3200 road. 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, disclosing the copying and linking to the copied page, e.g., copied content from [[page name]]; see that page's history for attribution. 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. Please provide attribution for this duplication if it has not already been supplied by another editor, and if you have copied material between pages before, even if it was a long time ago, you should provide attribution for that also. You can read more about the procedure and the reasons at Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia. Thank you. Tollens (talk) 09:39, 21 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did at Portland Place, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear to be constructive and has been reverted. If you only meant to make a test edit, please use your sandbox for that. Thank you. Dl2000 (talk) 12:25, 21 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Roads4117 It appears that you are creating draft articles such as Draft:A3200 road and Draft:A3218 road by cutting material from existing long-established articles and pasting it into your drafts.

Please stop doing this.

If you believe that several existing articles should be merged into one article, please propose a merge using the process described at Wikipedia:Merging#Proposing_a_merge (aka WP:MERGEPROP). There can then be a discussion among interested parties.

But in every case, you must not copy material from one Wikipedia article to another without leaving a clear trail which acknowledges the copying, so that the work of other editors will be correctly traceable and attributed. See Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia (WP:CWW) You appear to have pasted other people's work into your drafts with no acknowledgement.

It may well be that other editors believe that the reader is better served by separate articles on the different streets which have their own identity within London, such as Southwark Street, rather than by an article on a numbered road which has little identity as such: merging the articles, even if done with correct attribution, cannot be considered uncontroversial.

Moving other editors' work out of mainspace and into draft space as you have done is bad practice. Turning established articles into redirects to Draft Space is completely out of order. Please now stop doing so. (Pinging @DI2000 and Tollens: for info). PamD 15:20, 21 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I see that you have already been told about copying content within Wikipedia, by @Diannaa and Red-tailed hawk: above. Continuing to copy inappropriately is disruptive editing: if I see it continuing I will report this activity to WP:ANI to protect the encyclopedia. PamD 15:26, 21 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I have rolled back your damaging edits of this morning which turned other editors' work into redirects to Draft Space. No redirects should ever go from mainspace to draftspace. PamD 15:46, 21 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@PamD Hello, I didn't realise that there was a Wikipedia law for redirecting in the future. I will use this I the future. Also, I am allowed to do this again if I redirect to the main article? Also, the redirecting the Regent Street article, I hadn't finished editing it. Thank you for you help. Roads4117 (talk) 06:49, 22 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

You ask "I am allowed to do this again if I redirect to the main article?" It is not clear what you mean.

You are not allowed to:

• copy other editors' work without acknowledging it properly
• destroy existing articles by cutting out their content for an undiscussed merge
• merge existing mainspace articles into a draft article, so removing the content from mainspace
• create redirects from mainspace to draftspace.

I think that summarises what you have been doing which is wrong and must stop.

If you believe that Regent Street, one of London's best-known streets, should be merged into a numbered road article, feel free to propose that merge, properly. But don't destroy the existing article until a discussion has agreed with your proposal, which I think is very unlikely. PamD 07:18, 22 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I notice that the "Good Article" Regent Street includes the statement From Piccadilly Circus northwards, it is numbered A4201, though in common with roads inside the London congestion charging zone, the number does not appear on signs. I suggest that you take that as evidence that streets like this should have Wikipedia articles at their names, by which they are known, and not be merged into numbered road articles. Also, be very cautious before making any significant changes to an article which has "Good Article" status, as a team of experienced editors have found it to be an excellent article as it stands Thanks. PamD 07:32, 22 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@PamD OK, thanks. Roads4117 (talk) 18:01, 23 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@PamD OK, thanks for confirming what I am allowed and not allowed to do :) Roads4117 (talk) 18:00, 23 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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