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Daisy (1988 film) & Daisy (Malayalam film) -- Not actually a cut & paste issue, this is really a merge request which needs some admin assistance (I'm not sure where else to go with this). These two articles are for the same film; the former article has the correct title and has been around longer, but the latter has the better content (such as it is). What I want to do is move Daisy (Malayalam film) to Daisy (1988 film), as there doesn't seem to be any content worth merging, but presumably the edit history of that page will need to be retained somewhere? Thanks in advance for any assistance. PC78 (talk) 12:40, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
These cut-and-pastes were apparantly done to circumvene an approved set of page moves discussed here. The articles should be moved to their former consensus titles (without diacritics) after the histories are restored:
Hello - I cut and pasted Classical Indian dance to Indian classical dance (the term actually used in the article, far more common and more sensible), since the latter was a unavailable for move (used previously?), but have left the history behind. Redheylin (talk) 03:34, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
Ha Seung-Moo & Ha Seung-moo -- former has the more extensive edit history (such as it is), but the latter is the prefered title with correct capitalisation. PC78 (talk) 15:57, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
Separate reality was an established article on the rock climbing route. This series of edits (not mine) from March 11 to April 1 overwrote the content with what is now Separate reality (music group). However, I did not look far enough back in the history to notice this, so I just moved Separate reality to Separate reality (music group) and quickly wrote a fresh article translating from the German article which interlinks here (w:de:Separate reality). Only then did I notice that Separate reality's history from before March 11 had the original climbing article! This means I have wrongly moved the history of those editors. I tried to undo my changes and revert back to the pre-March 11 revision (see [1], [2], [3], [4], and [5]), but have not succeeded. Could an admin help restore the old history of Separate reality (music group) to that of Separate reality? I can always merge my new changes later. I've saved my content and references in Separate Reality (climbing route). Sorry about the mess. 84user (talk) 02:39, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
Old Forge, Pennsylvania and Old Forge, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania have been cut-and-pasted back and forth several times; although I'm an administrator, I don't quite know how to fix this one. The proper title for this article is "OF, P", where it's currently located; "OF, LC, P" is currently a redirect, which it should ultimately be. Nyttend (talk) 16:55, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
Villarreal C.F. and Villarreal CF, could their histories be merged, could the user be notified about the copy and paste move, since this isn't the first the user has used it. Black'nRed 19:50, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
Chew Sin Huey has been copypasted to Shi Xin Hui by Jiande10, an editor redirected (well, tried) Chew > Shi, but the page history needs moving from Chew > Shi, I think. Thanks FoxyLoxyPounce! 05:24, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
Sherwood (band) was replaced with content about another band also called Sherwood, and has now been moved to Sherwood (UK band). The previous content was copied to Sherwood (US band), but most of the article's history is in the UK band article when it is about the US band. The problem is although all versions before this edit were about the US band, but because edits were reverted by XLinkBot (as they contained a link to Youtube) edits since then have contained content about the US band, the UK band, or parts of both articles - the older versions from before the edit I linked to can probably be moved without a problem but I don't know if the more recent history can be fixed. —Snigbrook 10:41, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
Cimber Air -> Cimber Sterling, done by moí - the humblest of appologies. The move in itself should be perfectly valid, and has already been initiated on :da, where the company is from. Company was renamed in summer 2008 after an acquisition. Sertmann (talk) 23:58, 17 March 2009 (UTC)
JJS was cut-and-pasted to Jack and Jill School back in November 2008, then turned into a redirect to the other. IT was just rebuilt as a dab page, so the edits in November should be moved to the latter article, while leaving the dab page behind at JJS. 76.66.193.90 (talk) 07:44, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
with all of these moves, I copied the article into my userspace, edited it up, then copypasted back into the main article a while ago. All the articles are very low traffic and I doubt if more than one or two edits (if any really) were made in the time that it was edited in my userspace. At least 20-30 edits were made in each article, so it would help transparency and the viewing of the history if they were merged together again. Thanks. FoxyLoxyPounce! 02:29, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
DoneTwilight Time and Twilight Time (album): In July 2007, the album article was moved from Twilight Time to Twilight Time (album), and the former page was made a dab page. This was an appropriate move as there are three articles using the title, and the album is hardly the primary use of the term (both of the songs are far better known). On 1 October 2008 the material from Twilight Time (album) was cut-and-pasted to Twilight Time, and the (album) page was redirected to the plain title. The album article should be returned to Twilight Time (album), with merged history, and Twilight Time should again become a dab page.--ShelfSkewedTalk 14:58, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
As the argument above describes no primary usage, the disambig is now at Twilight Time, with Twilight Time (disambiguation) redirecting to it to capture intentional disambig mentions. bd2412T 15:45, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
Text cut-and-pasted from Precarity to Precarity (Social Christianity) and Precarity made into disambig page. Both pages have numerous subsequent revisions. Somno (talk) 02:51, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
I have just renamed Elle into Elle (magazine) and Elle (disambiguation) into Elle, and I've moved the double redirects. You can see what I've done by looking at my contributions which I have been kind enough to give you a link to via my signature. I'd like to request that the page histories be moved and that Elle (disambiguation) be deleted once the history has been moved into Elle. Thank you very much, O'delaquatique (talk) (contributions) (email) 16:20, 14 February 2009 (UTC)
This request concerns a biographical article for a twentieth century historical figure, Ernest de Silva (1887–1957), who was the wealthiest and most prominent philanthropist and personality of his time in his native Sri Lanka. In 1946, de Silva was knighted and, for the final eleven years of his life, was known as Sir Ernest de Silva, which is how the article about him was titled. A number of editors, including at least one administrator, moved the main title header from "Sir Ernest de Silva" to "Ernest de Silva", pointing out that according to Manual of Style WP:NCNT#British peerage#5.Titles of Knighthood, as well as honorifics, military ranks, academic titles, etc. are not utilized in main title headers. However, one or more local editors continued moving the title back to "Sir Ernest de Silva", insisting in his edit summary that the subject was "famously known as SIR Ernest de Silva". Finally, on November 18, 2008, unable to make the move from "Ernest de Silva" back to "Sir Ernest de Silva", the anonymous local editor, cut and pasted the contents of "Ernest de Silva" and transferred them to the redirect, "Sir Ernest de Silva", thus creating two edit histories. Other than five concurrent clean-up edits between November 18, 2008 and December 8, 2008, all of the subsequent thirty edits have been made to the "Sir Ernest de Silva" article. The December 8 edit blanked the contents of the concurrently-existing "Ernest de Silva" article and converted it into a redirect.
"Ernest de Silva", now existing as a redirect, was created on August 25, 2005 and has a much longer edit history than "Sir Ernest de Silva", which begins its edit history on September 30, 2008/November 18, 2008. I deliberately placed the "db-histmerge" template on the "Ernest de Silva" redirect, rather than on the "Sir Ernest de Silva" article because, ultimately, in addition to merging the edit histories, the article itself needs to be moved back to "Ernest de Silva".—Roman Spinner(talk) 15:38, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
Done Please merge all revisions prior to [12], not including that rev, into User talk:Thinboy00/Archive 6. I'd like to turn a poorly considered cut&paste archive into a move archive (this is my own talk page). --Thinboy00 @168, i.e. 03:02, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
Please merge telecommunications engineer into telecommunications engineering. (It appears to be a cut-and-paste move, and merging them will not cause their edits to be interleaved.) If possible, exclude the most recent "edit" to telecommunications engineer, which is actually just a move that is not relevant to the new title and should be discarded. –radiojon (talk) 00:42, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
Due to these moves the original history and particularly the first version of the article Thomas Bowyer (now Sir Thomas Bowyer, 1st Baronet) has been lost apparently - perhaps somebody can restore it and correct this confusion?
The original article existed at "Timeline of non-sexual social nudity".
The article was deemed to long and split into two pages (cut and paste) at "Timeline of non-sexual social nudity (prehistory - 1999)" and "Timeline of non-sexual social nudity (2000 - present)", with "Timeline of non-sexual social nudity" converted into a page disambiguating the two.
A lot of information in "Timeline of non-sexual social nudity (2000 - present)" was deemed to be poorly sourced and was removed.
The reduced content was merged (cut and paste) into "Timeline of non-sexual social nudity (prehistory - 1999)".
"Timeline of non-sexual social nudity (prehistory - 1999)" was moved to "Timeline of non-sexual social nudity (prehistory - present)".
"Timeline of non-sexual social nudity" was moved to "Timeline of non-sexual social nudity (history)" in order to preserve the original history of the page whilst allowing "Timeline of non-sexual social nudity (prehistory - present)" to be moved to "Timeline of non-sexual social nudity".
A history merge of "Timeline of non-sexual social nudity (history)" into "Timeline of non-sexual social nudity" should therefore unite all of the page's history apart from any changes made at "Timeline of non-sexual social nudity (2000 - present)" during the time it was split off. In lieu of this, the point where the information from "Timeline of non-sexual social nudity (2000 - present)" was readded to the page is mentioned in the article's edit history - with an appropriate link ([17]). Guest9999 (talk) 16:08, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
Flashlamp was moved to Xenon flash lamp in 2004 via cut and paste & rewrite. Article history stops at flashlamp before it starts at Xenon flash lamp. 76.66.198.171 (talk) 20:37, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
Comment I believe this C&P move was a circumvention of WP:RM to rename an article without consensus, since the articles have been sitting the way they were for years without a request to rename. 76.66.198.171 (talk) 20:52, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
A little complicated here so might be wise to read carefully. It appears the admin involved in an usurpation made a mistake and forgot to move the user talk page. So User talk:Lady Galaxy still exists when the user has moved to User talk:Dasani. Unfortunately, the user formerly known as Lady Galaxy now as Dasani did not realise this and copied and pasted the talk page onto User talk:Dasani (usurped). So what needs to happen (doesn't really matter what order). 1) Most of the history of User talk:Dasani (usurped) should be merged to User:Lady Galaxy. Note not all of the history from User talk:Dasani (usurped) should be merged. The history from here [18] onwards only, as the previous history belongs to the usurped user and should stay at User talk:Dasani (usurped). 2) User talk:Lady Galaxy needs to be moved to User talk:DasaniNil Einne (talk) 10:58, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
Downton, Wiltshire was moved in a cut and paste move to Downton Wiltshire, which does not comply with naming conventions, although its talk page was not moved. Can this be moved back to Downton, Wiltshire or should this be requested at WP:RM? —Snigbrook 23:21, 10 January 2009 (UTC)
Mutsuhito history into Emperor Meiji ; the history from the beginning to March 2003 needs to be merged into the second article; after March 2003 the Mutsuhito page became something else (a dab page) 76.66.198.171 (talk) 05:27, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
KALN to KIOL (a USA radio station that changed its callsign) (requested by {{db-histmerge}}): parallel versions. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 09:41, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
Not doneOld Man River (musician) to Old Man River (requested by {{db-histmerge}}) (There was nothing to histmerge. What happened there was a proper move taking all history with it.) Anthony Appleyard (talk) 06:22, 24 April 2009 (UTC)
Not done: See Wikipedia:Parallel versions. All matter in the rejected version is also already in the kept version :: there is nothing to text-merge. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 21:48, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
Queried, as the histories of these pages overlap in time and are very unlike at the supposed cut-&-paste point. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 00:38, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
Comment In some of these history merge requests a new article was created when a station switched call signs and was not necessarily cut & paste. But the WP:WPRS naming convention states that the the station article should be moved in such cases. I request history merges in these cases because both articles are indeed about the same exact subject, only with a different name (call sign change), and the station article history should not be split if we can help it. Thanks. RobDe68 (talk) 00:31, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
But also, those two pages were being edited in parallel from 20:17, 8 November 2007 to 01:40, 9 January 2008 and history-merging would interleave the edits of these parallel histories in the overlap period and thus make a mess: see Wikipedia:Parallel histories. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 06:54, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
Not done. I explained the situation with a note in their talk pages. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 05:20, 2 April 2009 (UTC)
Not doneKXOB to KHIT-FM (asked for by {{db-histmerge}}) distinct (but only slightly parallel) histories; about distinct (but related) topics, too unlike. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 07:12, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
Not done No resemblance between these 2 pages at the supposed cut-&-paste point. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 19:58, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
Merge Template:Protected2 and Template:Pp-protected together please. Protected2 was created in 2006 by myself and the history was cut away to the Pp-protected template in 2007, causing the history to be changed. I am unable to tag either template, as they are both protected. — Moeε 06:06, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
Parallel histories, and these two pages look very different at the supposed cut-and-paste point. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 07:32, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
No, the current template Template:Pp-protected was created as an alternative to what Template:Protected2 did. Since one template could accomplish the same thing as two different templates, Protected2 was essentially merged into the new creation of Pp-protected. In 2008, when all instances of Protected2 were replaced with Pp-protected and no inclusions remained, Protected2 was redirected to Pp-protected. Protected2 and Pp-protected act as the same template. — Moeε 19:27, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
The 26 April 2007 edit of page Davis Motorsports (the last edit which is not a redirect) has little continuity with the 29 April 2007 edit of page JD Motorsports.
The 26 April 2007 edit of page JD Motorsports has some continuity with the 29 April 2007 edit of JD Motorsports.
The 29 April 2007 edit of page JD Motorsports is a text-merge, where page Davis Motorsports was incorporated into it but massively reworded.
At 13:46, 6 October 2007 User:D-Day moved D.D.L. Motorsports to Johnny Davis Motorsports "Team's name has changed according to PR.", and in its next edit changed "D.D.L Motorsports (formerly Duesenberg & Leik Motorsports)" to "Johnny Davis Motorsports" at the start of the page.
I am tempted to leave these pages as they are. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 07:13, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
Not done People have had long enough to comment here. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 23:16, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
Not done: {{db-histmerge|List of Solar System objects by mass}} and {{db-histmerge|List of Solar System objects by surface gravity}}
: parallel versions. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 06:51, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
I revamped and expanded the table in my user space and then copied and pasted it into the article, so my understanding is that my user subpage has to be hist-merged to the main article. Otto4711 (talk) 07:56, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
Text-merge of parallel versions :: do not hist-merge, else that would shuffle together the parallel histories of the two pages and thus make a mess. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 17:23, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
Done Western Ring Road to M80 Ring Road, Melbourne (asked for by {{db-histmerge}}) Keith D (talk) 23:20, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
Not done Wikipedia:Parallel histories. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 08:36, 28 April 2009 (UTC)