This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the
current talk page.
Newsstand was cut and pasted to
Newsagent at 20:56, 17 June 2006 (and then was moved to
Newsagent's shop at 21:53, 18 September 2010). Please merge the edit history. Thanks. --
Pengyanan (
talk) 03:22, 19 December 2011 (UTC)
The revisions of
Halifax, Nova Scotia before 01:25, 11 May 2007 (UTC) belong to the
City of Halifax article, however City of Halifax was created a month prior, creating an overlapping history which I don't know how is dealt with.
117Avenue (
talk) 04:53, 19 December 2011 (UTC)
La Favorite and Talk:La Favorite. This is a bit complicated. An editor made cut and paste moves from
La favorite and
Talk:La favorite with no discussion after the pages had been at their original location for years This was not an uncontroversial move even if it had been done properly. It needs an admin to move them back over the redirects to
La favorite and
Talk:La favorite so that a requested move discussion take place.Voceditenore (
talk) 19:03, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
Discussion is not possible with the editor who made the cut and paste move,
User:Dodecalog, as they have redirected their talk page to their user page.
Voceditenore (
talk) 19:09, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
Note: Disregard, now fixed by another admin.
Voceditenore (
talk) 19:34, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
White British needs its history restoring, after a disputed move and apparently a cut and paste attempt at restoration of the original name and content. -
David Biddulph (
talk) 12:34, 16 December 2011 (UTC)
"Shark Island, German South West Africa" was first renamed (by
User:Itsmejudith) to "Shark Island Concentration Camp". This renaming was inappropriate and inaccurate, as Shark Island was actually an Extermination Camp. (Big difference; see
extermination camp versus
concentration camp.) Another editor,
User:Maunus tried to help by renaming the article "Shark Island (Extermination camp)", but other articles in this series do not use parentheses in their titles; for example, Okahandja Concentration Camp, Swakopmund Concentration Camp, Windhoek Concentration Camp. (These articles really are about Concentration camps, so they are named accurately.) I sought to remove the parentheses from the title of this article and did not realize I was empowered to actually MOVE the article, and that in fact it was undesirable to do as I had, since now the history for Shark Island (Extermination camp) will not be attached to the new Shark Island Extermination Camp.
I found out the correct way to do this, after I had already made the cut-and-paste.
Please, someone, fix what I erroneously created! Please convert the former Shark Island (Extermination camp) into Shark Island Extermination Camp (sans parentheses, plus history).
Sorry for the error,
Virago250 (
talk) 22:15, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
Would some kind admin detangle two files please? I want to include
this commons image in an article, but an image of the same name exists on Wikipedia
here. Same problem with
this image and
this image Thanks in advance.
Sctechlaw (
talk) 08:23, 19 November 2011 (UTC)
Talk:Boltzmann_constant is severely messed up. Recently, a user "archived" the talk page by renaming it and creating a new talk page. (The purpose was to cut off the current discussion and was done without discussion or consensus.) One of the frequent editors copied the original talk page back the the new one.
This is the second time that SpinningSpark has created an archive this way. I request that the 2 archives be restored to the talk page and that proper archives be made of any talk more than 100 days old.
At 22:47, 18 September 2011,
The Verge was cut and pasted to
The Verge (disambiguation), and
The Verge (website) was cut and pasted to
The Verge. Please merge the edit history of "The Verge (website)" to "The Verge", and, if possible, please also merge the edit history of "The Verge" before 22:47, 18 September 2011 to "The Verge (disambiguation)". Thanks. --
Pengyanan (
talk) 01:18, 2 November 2011 (UTC)
Hong Taiji was cut and pasted from
Huang Taiji at 13:21, 6 October 2010. Please merge the edit history.--
Pengyanan (
talk) 07:37, 1 November 2011 (UTC)
Brigitte Barclay and
Brigitte Grant. An editor has tried to change the title of the article by doing a cut and paste move from Grant to Barclay, as a result losing the edit history of the page. There have been subsequent edits to both, so I believe an admin is required to fix things. Thanks,
Sparthorse (
talk) 07:14, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
Please merge {{
disambig0}} into {{
refer}}. Refer is fully protected, so I can't add the histmerge template. disambig0 has been replaced in all instances by refer. There is no overlapping edit history, the latter is a functionality improved version of the former.
70.24.251.158 (
talk) 05:04, 20 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi, although this isn't a clear case of a cut and paste move I thought I'd post a message here because they probably should be merged anyway. I was just about to move
Nickelodeon Land, Pleasure Beach Blackpool to
Nickelodeon Land when I realised they were two different articles at different points (with the latter now being a redirect). I was wondering if it was possible to have the history of both articles merged, and the resulting article be placed at
Nickelodeon Land. Kind regards Themeparkgc Talk 05:07, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
Shekhawati dialect was apparently created in January 2008 by copying the content of
Shekhawati language, without acknowledging the source of the move and leaving the latter page in place. In November 2008 another user proposed merging the former to the latter, but never initiated a discussion on the talk page. The content of the two pages is essentially identical. I personally think that "Shekhawati language" is the correct title for this article, but there is room to disagree; see
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Linguistics#Shekawati.
Cnilep (
talk) 11:55, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
All that needs to be merged are the first two or three edits. The only edits to
Template:5th Cell after the 2009 redirect were broken attempts to move
Template:5TH Cell back there, and what appears to be vandalism (Lemmings: Drawn to Life). They were never useful edits and never merged into Template:5TH Cell, so it doesn't seem useful to keep those edits if it prevents a history merge from occurring.
Reach Out to the Truth 00:19, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
Not done Nothing worth histmerging there.
Anthony Appleyard (
talk) 22:52, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
Mona Kane and
Mona Kane Tyler should merge history logs together, although many logs are inaccessible due to copyright violations. --
Gh87 (
talk) 15:22, 14 November 2011 (UTC)
There were no parallel edits prior to Feb 6 2008 and those edits should remain with the surviving page. The pages were incorrectly split when DISH was spun off from Echostar. The unnecessary page was then properly merged with Dish Network on Feb 13 2009. Echostar should include its entire edit history.
Cmjc80 (
talk) 23:25, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
If this cut-and-paste was from page
Dish Network Corporation: the edit history of
Dish Network Corporation seems to be continuous across the supposed cut-and-paste point, running at about 7,800 bytes; that, plus
Dish Network Corporation's edit comments around 16:31, 6 February 2008 by
User:Biscit, look more like that page
EchoStar's start (at 16:21, 6 February 2008 by
User:Biscit) (6,080 bytes) ("Added stub.") was partly a small partial cut-and-paste and partly a copy-and-paste.
Anthony Appleyard (
talk) 06:00, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
The page should have been moved to its new name and edited to refelect the changes without a new page being created. Moving the history at Feb 6 2008 will correct this error and keep the history of the page properly attributed instead of being lost on a redirect to another company.
Cmjc80 (
talk) 20:51, 14 September 2011 (UTC)
Again, there seems to have been no total cut-and-paste move of A to B, but what looks like a COPY-and-paste, and I see no point in breaking one history to reassemble another history. History attribution dilemmas happen with any text-merge and any text-split and any text-duplication. Sorry. I have put in
Talk:EchoStar a history note about this copy-and-paste.
It may be regrettable that someone started a second parallel article on the same subject, but he did, and that action is part of history.
Anthony Appleyard (
talk) 05:47, 15 September 2011 (UTC)
Not doneKPSL (FM) to
KPSL-FM (asked for by {{db-histmerge}}): nothing to histmerge:
KPSL (FM)'s history is 2 redirects & a blanking.
Anthony Appleyard (
talk) 09:59, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
Can you please fix the mess I made on
Kogis? Thanks!
Yopienso (
talk) 23:49, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
Oh, never mind--
R'n'B kindly fixed it for me.
Yopienso (
talk) 03:28, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
Not done request cancelled by requester. (
Anthony Appleyard (
talk) 05:42, 9 September 2011 (UTC))
Johannes von Rönge,
Johannes von Ronge,
Johannes Ronge - Several editors, mainly IPs, moving stuff around. Ended up protecting all to stop the endless changing of redirects from one page to the other. Editors were trying to have
Johannes von Rönge as the article, but that has the shortest history, so is not correct. Ronhjones (Talk) 00:25, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
Not done Page
Assistant referee before it was redirected is partly about assistant referees/linesmen in
ice hockey. It was a page-split by partial cut-and-paste.
Anthony Appleyard (
talk) 22:21, 3 September 2011 (UTC)
This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the
current talk page.
Newsstand was cut and pasted to
Newsagent at 20:56, 17 June 2006 (and then was moved to
Newsagent's shop at 21:53, 18 September 2010). Please merge the edit history. Thanks. --
Pengyanan (
talk) 03:22, 19 December 2011 (UTC)
The revisions of
Halifax, Nova Scotia before 01:25, 11 May 2007 (UTC) belong to the
City of Halifax article, however City of Halifax was created a month prior, creating an overlapping history which I don't know how is dealt with.
117Avenue (
talk) 04:53, 19 December 2011 (UTC)
La Favorite and Talk:La Favorite. This is a bit complicated. An editor made cut and paste moves from
La favorite and
Talk:La favorite with no discussion after the pages had been at their original location for years This was not an uncontroversial move even if it had been done properly. It needs an admin to move them back over the redirects to
La favorite and
Talk:La favorite so that a requested move discussion take place.Voceditenore (
talk) 19:03, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
Discussion is not possible with the editor who made the cut and paste move,
User:Dodecalog, as they have redirected their talk page to their user page.
Voceditenore (
talk) 19:09, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
Note: Disregard, now fixed by another admin.
Voceditenore (
talk) 19:34, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
White British needs its history restoring, after a disputed move and apparently a cut and paste attempt at restoration of the original name and content. -
David Biddulph (
talk) 12:34, 16 December 2011 (UTC)
"Shark Island, German South West Africa" was first renamed (by
User:Itsmejudith) to "Shark Island Concentration Camp". This renaming was inappropriate and inaccurate, as Shark Island was actually an Extermination Camp. (Big difference; see
extermination camp versus
concentration camp.) Another editor,
User:Maunus tried to help by renaming the article "Shark Island (Extermination camp)", but other articles in this series do not use parentheses in their titles; for example, Okahandja Concentration Camp, Swakopmund Concentration Camp, Windhoek Concentration Camp. (These articles really are about Concentration camps, so they are named accurately.) I sought to remove the parentheses from the title of this article and did not realize I was empowered to actually MOVE the article, and that in fact it was undesirable to do as I had, since now the history for Shark Island (Extermination camp) will not be attached to the new Shark Island Extermination Camp.
I found out the correct way to do this, after I had already made the cut-and-paste.
Please, someone, fix what I erroneously created! Please convert the former Shark Island (Extermination camp) into Shark Island Extermination Camp (sans parentheses, plus history).
Sorry for the error,
Virago250 (
talk) 22:15, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
Would some kind admin detangle two files please? I want to include
this commons image in an article, but an image of the same name exists on Wikipedia
here. Same problem with
this image and
this image Thanks in advance.
Sctechlaw (
talk) 08:23, 19 November 2011 (UTC)
Talk:Boltzmann_constant is severely messed up. Recently, a user "archived" the talk page by renaming it and creating a new talk page. (The purpose was to cut off the current discussion and was done without discussion or consensus.) One of the frequent editors copied the original talk page back the the new one.
This is the second time that SpinningSpark has created an archive this way. I request that the 2 archives be restored to the talk page and that proper archives be made of any talk more than 100 days old.
At 22:47, 18 September 2011,
The Verge was cut and pasted to
The Verge (disambiguation), and
The Verge (website) was cut and pasted to
The Verge. Please merge the edit history of "The Verge (website)" to "The Verge", and, if possible, please also merge the edit history of "The Verge" before 22:47, 18 September 2011 to "The Verge (disambiguation)". Thanks. --
Pengyanan (
talk) 01:18, 2 November 2011 (UTC)
Hong Taiji was cut and pasted from
Huang Taiji at 13:21, 6 October 2010. Please merge the edit history.--
Pengyanan (
talk) 07:37, 1 November 2011 (UTC)
Brigitte Barclay and
Brigitte Grant. An editor has tried to change the title of the article by doing a cut and paste move from Grant to Barclay, as a result losing the edit history of the page. There have been subsequent edits to both, so I believe an admin is required to fix things. Thanks,
Sparthorse (
talk) 07:14, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
Please merge {{
disambig0}} into {{
refer}}. Refer is fully protected, so I can't add the histmerge template. disambig0 has been replaced in all instances by refer. There is no overlapping edit history, the latter is a functionality improved version of the former.
70.24.251.158 (
talk) 05:04, 20 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi, although this isn't a clear case of a cut and paste move I thought I'd post a message here because they probably should be merged anyway. I was just about to move
Nickelodeon Land, Pleasure Beach Blackpool to
Nickelodeon Land when I realised they were two different articles at different points (with the latter now being a redirect). I was wondering if it was possible to have the history of both articles merged, and the resulting article be placed at
Nickelodeon Land. Kind regards Themeparkgc Talk 05:07, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
Shekhawati dialect was apparently created in January 2008 by copying the content of
Shekhawati language, without acknowledging the source of the move and leaving the latter page in place. In November 2008 another user proposed merging the former to the latter, but never initiated a discussion on the talk page. The content of the two pages is essentially identical. I personally think that "Shekhawati language" is the correct title for this article, but there is room to disagree; see
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Linguistics#Shekawati.
Cnilep (
talk) 11:55, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
All that needs to be merged are the first two or three edits. The only edits to
Template:5th Cell after the 2009 redirect were broken attempts to move
Template:5TH Cell back there, and what appears to be vandalism (Lemmings: Drawn to Life). They were never useful edits and never merged into Template:5TH Cell, so it doesn't seem useful to keep those edits if it prevents a history merge from occurring.
Reach Out to the Truth 00:19, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
Not done Nothing worth histmerging there.
Anthony Appleyard (
talk) 22:52, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
Mona Kane and
Mona Kane Tyler should merge history logs together, although many logs are inaccessible due to copyright violations. --
Gh87 (
talk) 15:22, 14 November 2011 (UTC)
There were no parallel edits prior to Feb 6 2008 and those edits should remain with the surviving page. The pages were incorrectly split when DISH was spun off from Echostar. The unnecessary page was then properly merged with Dish Network on Feb 13 2009. Echostar should include its entire edit history.
Cmjc80 (
talk) 23:25, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
If this cut-and-paste was from page
Dish Network Corporation: the edit history of
Dish Network Corporation seems to be continuous across the supposed cut-and-paste point, running at about 7,800 bytes; that, plus
Dish Network Corporation's edit comments around 16:31, 6 February 2008 by
User:Biscit, look more like that page
EchoStar's start (at 16:21, 6 February 2008 by
User:Biscit) (6,080 bytes) ("Added stub.") was partly a small partial cut-and-paste and partly a copy-and-paste.
Anthony Appleyard (
talk) 06:00, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
The page should have been moved to its new name and edited to refelect the changes without a new page being created. Moving the history at Feb 6 2008 will correct this error and keep the history of the page properly attributed instead of being lost on a redirect to another company.
Cmjc80 (
talk) 20:51, 14 September 2011 (UTC)
Again, there seems to have been no total cut-and-paste move of A to B, but what looks like a COPY-and-paste, and I see no point in breaking one history to reassemble another history. History attribution dilemmas happen with any text-merge and any text-split and any text-duplication. Sorry. I have put in
Talk:EchoStar a history note about this copy-and-paste.
It may be regrettable that someone started a second parallel article on the same subject, but he did, and that action is part of history.
Anthony Appleyard (
talk) 05:47, 15 September 2011 (UTC)
Not doneKPSL (FM) to
KPSL-FM (asked for by {{db-histmerge}}): nothing to histmerge:
KPSL (FM)'s history is 2 redirects & a blanking.
Anthony Appleyard (
talk) 09:59, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
Can you please fix the mess I made on
Kogis? Thanks!
Yopienso (
talk) 23:49, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
Oh, never mind--
R'n'B kindly fixed it for me.
Yopienso (
talk) 03:28, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
Not done request cancelled by requester. (
Anthony Appleyard (
talk) 05:42, 9 September 2011 (UTC))
Johannes von Rönge,
Johannes von Ronge,
Johannes Ronge - Several editors, mainly IPs, moving stuff around. Ended up protecting all to stop the endless changing of redirects from one page to the other. Editors were trying to have
Johannes von Rönge as the article, but that has the shortest history, so is not correct. Ronhjones (Talk) 00:25, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
Not done Page
Assistant referee before it was redirected is partly about assistant referees/linesmen in
ice hockey. It was a page-split by partial cut-and-paste.
Anthony Appleyard (
talk) 22:21, 3 September 2011 (UTC)