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Hello, editor, I noticed you recently participated in a discussion of a requested move for the article Brian Thompson (businessman). There is a new discussion open at Talk:Brian Thompson (businessman) § Killing of Brian Thompson, and I'd like to invite you to participate. Thank you. BarntToust 22:20, 8 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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 Hindustan Insecticides Limited. 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. Yuvaank (talk) 10:14, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I Wanted to move the article because it didn't have the official name of the organization, as per government sources. The official name is Hindustan Insecticides Limited but the official name was already a redirect article and redirected to the incorrectly named article, which was Hindustan Insecticides. I thought it was important to move the article since its a nationalized government owned corporation, and also the article itself only reffered to the company as that name. I tried moving but it kept saying that the page name already existed as an article. I tried swapping articles and it didn't work. I looked up how to swap articles, including their history, but couldn't find anything. So, I had to copy and paste it. My bad EarthDude (talk) 20:53, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Please review WP:COMMONNAME before making any further moves. Article titles should reflect the name most commonly used in independent and reliable sources, which may not always match the "official" version of the name. Furthermore, legal incorporation statuses like 'Limited' and 'Inc' are generally excluded from article titles per WP:NCCORP, except in certain cases. For example, Coal India is far more commonly used than Coal India Limited in secondary sources. Yuvaank (talk) 08:21, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]