User talk:Diocesan Scribe

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Happy editing! SuperMarioOdyssy101 (talk) 05:14, 16 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

All citations were all deleted from my article (perhaps this is why it is classified as "unsourced"?). Is there a way to get those citations back? I don't want to take the time to create them again if they will only be deleted again.

Thank you!

Brian Diocesan Scribe (talk) 20:32, 24 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I have not deleted the article. I moved it so that it is a draft rather than an article. You can continue to edit it there. The issue is we cannot have an article without sources, especially if it is about a living person. I can see that you did create a version of it, with sources, on your userpage. All previous versions of pages on Wikipedia are saved, so you can still retrieve the citations. Go to the page history of your user page. You can pull up a previous version. If you clock edit (using the source editor rather than the visual editor) you can copy the sources to the draft. After that, because you are a new editor, I suggest submitting the draft for review rather than move it back yourself.

That being said, it appears that you have written the draft about yourself. This usually is not advisable and I suggest you read Wikipedia:Autobiography first. TornadoLGS (talk) 20:43, 24 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your response! So it sounds like it is not clear how/why the citations were deleted. I will look into this.

Thanks again,

Brian Diocesan Scribe (talk) 20:49, 24 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

My best guess is that what you copied was not the source text. TornadoLGS (talk) 20:59, 24 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your contributions to Brian Benison. Unfortunately, I do not think it is ready for publishing at this time because it has no sources. I have converted your article to a draft which you can improve, undisturbed for a while.

Please see more information at Help:Unreviewed new page. When the article is ready for publication, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page OR move the page back. TornadoLGS (talk) 20:26, 24 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

A tag has been placed on Brian Benison requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done for the following reason:

Unsourced article was immediately re-created in mainspace after being draftified.

Under the criteria for speedy deletion, pages that meet certain criteria may be deleted at any time.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, 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. TornadoLGS (talk) 20:28, 24 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you tried to give Draft:Brian Benison a different title by copying its content and pasting either the same content, or an edited version of it, into Brian Benison. 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. jlwoodwa (talk) 21:33, 24 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you tried to give User:Diocesan Scribe a different title by copying its content and pasting either the same content, or an edited version of it, into Draft:Brian Benison. 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. jlwoodwa (talk) 21:43, 24 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The article Brian Benison has been proposed for deletion because it appears to have no references. Under Wikipedia policy, this biography of a living person will be deleted after seven days unless it has at least one reference to a reliable source that directly supports material in the article.

If you created the article, please don't be offended. Instead, consider improving the article. For help on inserting references, see Referencing for beginners, or ask at the help desk. Once you have provided at least one reliable source, you may remove the {{prod blp/dated}} tag. Please do not remove the tag unless the article is sourced. If you cannot provide such a source within seven days, the article may be deleted, but you can request that it be undeleted when you are ready to add one. Wikishovel (talk) 21:51, 24 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]