User talk:David L Davis

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Orphaning pages
You recently restructured the contents of Japanese History. Up at the top-right of each page is a downward arrow. If you hover over it you should get the option to move a page. Please be sure to use that when restructuring. There are pages that were part of the old contents linked from Template:Japanese HistoryTOC and thereby many of the pages of the book because they have Japanese HistoryTOC on the bottom of them. New pages need to have that navigation template on them and the navigation template should be updated. However, several of the pages linked from that template and the old version of the contents are no longer linked from the main contents. That is what is called "orphaning" a page. It is not an acceptable replacement for requesting consensus for deletion from fellow contributors such as User:Rrgreen and marking the pages with. – Adrignola discuss 01:16, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

Reply
Orphaning pages was entirely inadvertent. I didn't know how to undo it. My intention was simply to rename them. I had already decided that it was not a good idea to even try that when I saw your communication. I do not really want to assert ownership of any page where I am not actually ready to post text as it might easily be months before I get to some of them. I have complete backup for all text I have posted updated to include recent minor edits. If there is a mechanism to do so, I would have no objection to undoing all changes I made from the point where my attempts to reorganize the chapter titles caused trouble, after which I would replace any text that got lost as a result.--David L Davis (discuss • contribs) 19:27, 20 January 2011 (UTC)


 * I have successfully reconciled the changes, with your additions integrated with the previous content. I left a note for User:Rrgreen to hopefully encourage a collaboration discussion with you on that book, since you are both significant contributors.  After all, you did request assistance on the featured books nomination page. – Adrignola discuss 23:07, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

additional comment
I have had time to look over what you have done and it is fine. Thank you very much. In the future I will be much more careful, and I plan to spend some time looking through the technical aspects of the organization of the books on this site so that I will have a better understanding of how to go about making changes.

When I first found this site it had been populated long before by very simple stub material and then left untouched for a long time, so I concluded, like Columbus, that it was MINE, ALL MINE. I promise that I will make no more changes or deletions of material I did not write without consultation with anyone who shows up as a recent contributor.--David L Davis (discuss • contribs) 04:19, 21 January 2011 (UTC)