User talk:Baysin

Hi, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you recently tried to give European mud-minnow a different title by copying its content and pasting it into European mudminnow. This is known as a "cut and paste move", and it is considered undesirable because it splits the page history which is needed for attribution and various other purposes. 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, you should be able to move an article yourself using the "Move" tab at the top of the page. 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 articles that you moved by copying and pasting, even if it was a long time ago, please list them at Wikipedia:Cut and paste move repair holding pen. Thank you. Russ (talk) 12:55, 20 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Mudminnow. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 December 2#Mudminnow until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. Muskellungelounge (talk) 18:57, 2 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]