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@Crystallizedcarbon: On the Talk page for the Nubia article, we agreed to move the content to a new article on the History of Nubia. I just went through a deleted a lot of the duplicative content in the Nubia article.EditorfromMars (talk) 15:53, 31 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Hello, the correct way to preserve the history of contributions to the article would have been to use the move function. I added a redirect, so if you search for history of Nubia it redirects to Nubia. I hope that that solves the issue. Regards, --Crystallizedcarbon (talk) 15:55, 1 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Crystallizedcarbon: The issue was some editors thought the history section has become too long in the Nubia article, which overwhelms content on modern Nubia. Therefore, they felt the History of Nubia needs a separate article. There would still be a history section in the Nubia article, but it would be much, much shorter than it is today. Readers that were interested in a detailed review of Nubian history could go to the History of Nubia article for more contentEditorfromMars (talk) 16:16, 1 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Era Style Changes
So I noticed that you changed many of the dates on Nubia to BCE from BC. The article has long been a BC article, and you failed to even bring up this on the talk page before changing it. Both BC and BCE era styles are fine for Wikipedia, but you can't just change established style because you want to. From this point forward please don't just change these styles. I've made mistakes with this before, so you know, just be careful in the future. This is a collaborative community, with lots of members with lots of different opinions on these thing, the community is built on respect of this. Also, you can do multiple things in one edit, your edits on Nubia took up well over a whole page in the history. NDV135 (talk) 23:47, 11 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I don't have any strong opinions on era style. I once saw an edit requesting a change to the BCE style, so I changed the entire article to be consistent. Feel free to change them all back to the other style, as any era style is okay for me.EditorfromMars (talk) 15:42, 12 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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