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Before I knew about the move feature, I copied the content of the "Lego" page and pasted it into the "LEGO" page. I then changed the "Lego" page to redirect to the "LEGO" page. Could somebody fix this? I probably shouldn't attempt big edits on my first day on Wikipedia... —Preceding
unsigned comment added by
JamessterBot (
talk •
contribs) 20:43, 26 August 2010
Nothing to do. Someone reverted the copy-&-paste move after that 1 edit. The correct form is "Lego", as it is not an
acronym.
Anthony Appleyard (
talk) 22:25, 26 August 2010 (UTC)
W 24 Calbourne was created by an editor (I'm pretty sure it was
The busman1982 (
talk·contribs)), then edited by me; I also created a talk page; all this happened yesterday. Today, the original editor did a cut-and-paste move to
W24 Calbourne, and (presumably) blanked the original. The original was then speedied by
Athaenara (
talk·contribs) with edit summary "G7: One author who has requested deletion or blanked the page". I believe this to be erroneous: I made an edit, so it's not "one author". Please (a) recover the history of
W 24 Calbourne and merge it into
W24 Calbourne; (b) recover the deleted talk page
Talk:W 24 Calbourne, and reinstate as
Talk:W24 Calbourne. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 17:56, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
Actually easy but needs two steps:
WIBL's old history needs to be merged into the back of
WZNY, then the existing
WYST needs to be moved to
WIBL (its new callsign). --
Closeapple (
talk) 10:44, 20 August 2010 (UTC)
DoneRiver Calder to
River Calder, Yorkshire (asked for by {{db-histmerge}}) - retained older version as current as the new version cut all but lead section.
Keith D (
talk) 11:46, 13 August 2010 (UTC)
ETPtv was moved to
East Tennessee PBS as a cut-and-paste, but with a number of unspecified small changes to the article. I've never done a repair of a cut-and-paste move, so help is needed. --
Orlady (
talk) 22:56, 7 August 2010 (UTC)
Adam Carolla Podcast partially moved to
The Adam Carolla Show (podcast). Pages should be merged, but original versions of the second page incorporate much of the text from the original. Should have history merges. New article title is acceptable.
Shadowjams (
talk) 09:12, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
This was my bad. My goal was to make the entry for "The Adam Carolla Show" into a disambiguation page. The 2006-2009 Adam Carolla Show was effectively replaced by a show called The Adam Carolla Podcast. The latter show (2009-current) was then retroactively renamed The Adam Carolla Show.
Perhaps a better option: If the wikipage The Adam Carolla Show were to contain the text describing the current show only. (It should then retain the history of the wikipage that was originally The Adam Carolla Podcast.) A simple "not to be confused with" template could appear at the top of this page, redirecting to the page that began life with the title The Adam Carolla Show but which I have cut-and-pasted to new wikipage The Adam Carolla Show (terrestrial radio). I think this option suits
wp:notability better, because the 2006-2009 show is defunct. As of this writing, there exists only one show in production called The Adam Carolla Show.
Is everybody's head spinning now? :) It's simpler in reality than it sounds in writing. My thanks to whomever programmed the bot that kindly informs editors of the preferred procedure.
ManfrenjenStJohn (
talk) 09:52, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
I created an article with the name "
MWM GmbH" by copying and pasting from another article called "
MWM (Motoren Werke Mannheim AG)". I didn`t know about the possibility of moving pages then. So would any admin please be so kind to remove the article called "MWM GmbH"? I will now send another request for moving the "MWM (Motorenwerke Mannheim AG)" page because it needs to be retitled. Thank you 10:02, 7 July 2010
User:Iris Gerlach
Amy Mainzer was recently moved to
Amanda Mainzer. Per
WP:COMMONNAME the article should probably be at
Amy Mainzer. Someone appears to have copied and pasted the article back to that title, destroying the edit history and attempted to PROD
Amanda Mainzer. Thanks. –
ukexpat (
talk) 17:44, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
Moved, with the old page moved to the old title to preserve history. I put {{
mergedfrom}} on the talk page for the attribution.
Tim Song (
talk) 06:01, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
Moved, target page (pure dab) deleted. I put {{
mergedfrom}} on the talk page for the attribution. Please use
WP:RM next time.
Tim Song (
talk) 06:01, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
Moved, target page (pure dab) deleted. I put {{
mergedfrom}} on the talk page for the attribution. Please use
WP:RM next time.
Tim Song (
talk) 06:01, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
Merge history of
Politics of Bihar prior to May 2009 into
Bihar's Politics (created May 2009) - when the name of the article changed - history 2009 and later is just people messing with the redirect target, or nominating it for deletion.
76.66.193.224 (
talk) 01:45, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
WTOD (the Toledo station) to WWYC (new callsign) — not to be confused with
WHSC (Hartsville SC), which will eventually have to be moved to
WTOD, but can't until WTOD's edits are rescued/moved to WWYC. (It would be nice if there was a way to do a mass-relink of
WTOD to
WWYC before WHSC is moved to WTOD, but I'll bet that's asking too much.) --
Closeapple (
talk) 05:10, 2 May 2010 (UTC)
Curtiss Helldiver was moved to
Curtiss Helldiver (band); Curtiss Helldiver was prior and is currently a dab page. Band page was deleted, losing the history of the dab page prior to move on July 7, 2008. Note: since the edits are deleted, I cannot tell how many edits were lost or if it is even worth restoring them, so use your judgment.
64.85.223.15 (
talk) 09:16, 19 August 2010 (UTC)
Not doneVatul to
Vatul (city) (asked for by {{db-histmerge}}): this was a partial cut-and-paste, not complete.
Anthony Appleyard (
talk) 06:22, 8 August 2010 (UTC)
Methodist appears to be a c&p from
Methodism - one might consider it akin to a move-over-redirect. No opinion on the right name, but all the history needs to be at one name.
Something odd going on with
Doric, seems to have been created from
Mid Northern Scots - maybe a partially deleted redirect? Sorry, this is the closest place I could find to ask for help fixing it.
Jodi.a.schneider (
talk) 00:30, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
The histories of these 2 files look separate to me. (A long time ago some classically-minded man named a Scottish dialect of English after a dialect of Ancient Greek.)
Anthony Appleyard (
talk) 06:00, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
Why? What is there to discuss? It is a cut and paste
Wikipedia:POV fork that has no sensible use and that either needs to be deleted or merged with the already existing main article from which large parts of its contents were copied.
Josh Gorand (
talk) 15:11, 3 July 2010 (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.
Before I knew about the move feature, I copied the content of the "Lego" page and pasted it into the "LEGO" page. I then changed the "Lego" page to redirect to the "LEGO" page. Could somebody fix this? I probably shouldn't attempt big edits on my first day on Wikipedia... —Preceding
unsigned comment added by
JamessterBot (
talk •
contribs) 20:43, 26 August 2010
Nothing to do. Someone reverted the copy-&-paste move after that 1 edit. The correct form is "Lego", as it is not an
acronym.
Anthony Appleyard (
talk) 22:25, 26 August 2010 (UTC)
W 24 Calbourne was created by an editor (I'm pretty sure it was
The busman1982 (
talk·contribs)), then edited by me; I also created a talk page; all this happened yesterday. Today, the original editor did a cut-and-paste move to
W24 Calbourne, and (presumably) blanked the original. The original was then speedied by
Athaenara (
talk·contribs) with edit summary "G7: One author who has requested deletion or blanked the page". I believe this to be erroneous: I made an edit, so it's not "one author". Please (a) recover the history of
W 24 Calbourne and merge it into
W24 Calbourne; (b) recover the deleted talk page
Talk:W 24 Calbourne, and reinstate as
Talk:W24 Calbourne. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 17:56, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
Actually easy but needs two steps:
WIBL's old history needs to be merged into the back of
WZNY, then the existing
WYST needs to be moved to
WIBL (its new callsign). --
Closeapple (
talk) 10:44, 20 August 2010 (UTC)
DoneRiver Calder to
River Calder, Yorkshire (asked for by {{db-histmerge}}) - retained older version as current as the new version cut all but lead section.
Keith D (
talk) 11:46, 13 August 2010 (UTC)
ETPtv was moved to
East Tennessee PBS as a cut-and-paste, but with a number of unspecified small changes to the article. I've never done a repair of a cut-and-paste move, so help is needed. --
Orlady (
talk) 22:56, 7 August 2010 (UTC)
Adam Carolla Podcast partially moved to
The Adam Carolla Show (podcast). Pages should be merged, but original versions of the second page incorporate much of the text from the original. Should have history merges. New article title is acceptable.
Shadowjams (
talk) 09:12, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
This was my bad. My goal was to make the entry for "The Adam Carolla Show" into a disambiguation page. The 2006-2009 Adam Carolla Show was effectively replaced by a show called The Adam Carolla Podcast. The latter show (2009-current) was then retroactively renamed The Adam Carolla Show.
Perhaps a better option: If the wikipage The Adam Carolla Show were to contain the text describing the current show only. (It should then retain the history of the wikipage that was originally The Adam Carolla Podcast.) A simple "not to be confused with" template could appear at the top of this page, redirecting to the page that began life with the title The Adam Carolla Show but which I have cut-and-pasted to new wikipage The Adam Carolla Show (terrestrial radio). I think this option suits
wp:notability better, because the 2006-2009 show is defunct. As of this writing, there exists only one show in production called The Adam Carolla Show.
Is everybody's head spinning now? :) It's simpler in reality than it sounds in writing. My thanks to whomever programmed the bot that kindly informs editors of the preferred procedure.
ManfrenjenStJohn (
talk) 09:52, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
I created an article with the name "
MWM GmbH" by copying and pasting from another article called "
MWM (Motoren Werke Mannheim AG)". I didn`t know about the possibility of moving pages then. So would any admin please be so kind to remove the article called "MWM GmbH"? I will now send another request for moving the "MWM (Motorenwerke Mannheim AG)" page because it needs to be retitled. Thank you 10:02, 7 July 2010
User:Iris Gerlach
Amy Mainzer was recently moved to
Amanda Mainzer. Per
WP:COMMONNAME the article should probably be at
Amy Mainzer. Someone appears to have copied and pasted the article back to that title, destroying the edit history and attempted to PROD
Amanda Mainzer. Thanks. –
ukexpat (
talk) 17:44, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
Moved, with the old page moved to the old title to preserve history. I put {{
mergedfrom}} on the talk page for the attribution.
Tim Song (
talk) 06:01, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
Moved, target page (pure dab) deleted. I put {{
mergedfrom}} on the talk page for the attribution. Please use
WP:RM next time.
Tim Song (
talk) 06:01, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
Moved, target page (pure dab) deleted. I put {{
mergedfrom}} on the talk page for the attribution. Please use
WP:RM next time.
Tim Song (
talk) 06:01, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
Merge history of
Politics of Bihar prior to May 2009 into
Bihar's Politics (created May 2009) - when the name of the article changed - history 2009 and later is just people messing with the redirect target, or nominating it for deletion.
76.66.193.224 (
talk) 01:45, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
WTOD (the Toledo station) to WWYC (new callsign) — not to be confused with
WHSC (Hartsville SC), which will eventually have to be moved to
WTOD, but can't until WTOD's edits are rescued/moved to WWYC. (It would be nice if there was a way to do a mass-relink of
WTOD to
WWYC before WHSC is moved to WTOD, but I'll bet that's asking too much.) --
Closeapple (
talk) 05:10, 2 May 2010 (UTC)
Curtiss Helldiver was moved to
Curtiss Helldiver (band); Curtiss Helldiver was prior and is currently a dab page. Band page was deleted, losing the history of the dab page prior to move on July 7, 2008. Note: since the edits are deleted, I cannot tell how many edits were lost or if it is even worth restoring them, so use your judgment.
64.85.223.15 (
talk) 09:16, 19 August 2010 (UTC)
Not doneVatul to
Vatul (city) (asked for by {{db-histmerge}}): this was a partial cut-and-paste, not complete.
Anthony Appleyard (
talk) 06:22, 8 August 2010 (UTC)
Methodist appears to be a c&p from
Methodism - one might consider it akin to a move-over-redirect. No opinion on the right name, but all the history needs to be at one name.
Something odd going on with
Doric, seems to have been created from
Mid Northern Scots - maybe a partially deleted redirect? Sorry, this is the closest place I could find to ask for help fixing it.
Jodi.a.schneider (
talk) 00:30, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
The histories of these 2 files look separate to me. (A long time ago some classically-minded man named a Scottish dialect of English after a dialect of Ancient Greek.)
Anthony Appleyard (
talk) 06:00, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
Why? What is there to discuss? It is a cut and paste
Wikipedia:POV fork that has no sensible use and that either needs to be deleted or merged with the already existing main article from which large parts of its contents were copied.
Josh Gorand (
talk) 15:11, 3 July 2010 (UTC)