User talk:204.238.213.2

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Hey, please stop making cut and paste moves, they are never allowed! I have now blocked your IP address until the mess you made has been sorted out. In the future, please use an account for running your bot. jni 08:29, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

What mess? The changes are correct. These asteroid articles did not have an extensive edit history or anything. See the discussion in 402 Chloë. Apologies for not using my account. Infohazard 16:40, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

For reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Naming_conventions_%28use_English%29#Proposal_and_straw_poll_regarding_place_names_with_diacritical_marks Infohazard 17:21, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

I don't question the correctness of the name changes, just the way you decided to implement the conversion. Cut and paste moving is considered very bad by many Wikipedians because it makes it hard to find the old edits we need to retain because of GFDL legal issues. It could be argued that this does not matter if there is not much of the history, but I feel allowing huge number of newbie moves to persist makes life a little bit harder later (after articles have been expanded and there has been a few more moving rounds). Please see Wikipedia:How to fix cut and paste moves for some insight what it takes to re-unify bifurcated page histories again. I haven't looked at most of the edits your bot made (and won't) but the few I reviewed and the fact that I couldn't figure out who was running that thing was enough for calling a halt.
Correct functionality for your bot would have been to try to move the pages over a redirect, failing that request some admin delete the obstructing page and then try again later. You might want to register a separate account, say User:InfohazardBot, for running any bots. It will help you and others tracking your bots edits and if the bot is blocked because of odd behaviour, your main account won't be affected (provided some admin clears the IP autoblock). Hope this helps, jni 07:25, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
Thanks. I'm still learning. Infohazard 16:59, 11 November 2005 (UTC)