Wikipedia:Requests for page importation

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Page importation This is a place to request that pages be imported with history of pages from other Wikimedia Foundation wikis to here. This might be done if a page was copied and pasted from a WMF wiki to here, or, in the case of the Nostalgia Wikipedia, to make very old revisions accessible. Administrators can import pages from Meta, the Outreach Wiki, the Test2 Wikipedia site, and the German, Spanish, French, Italian, Polish, and Nostalgia Wikipedias to the English Wikipedia (see bug 20280 for relevant shell permission requests, and to request permissions for importing from more projects). It is also possible to indirectly import from Commons, Foundation-wiki, and the Czech-wiki (by first importing to Meta) and to import from En-wikibooks (via Commons). More languages (Danish, Dutch, Greek, Japanese, Norwegian, Portuguese, Swedish, Russian, Turkish, Ukranian, Hungarian, Chinese) are possible through another indirect import to the German Wikipedia. With the "importupload" feature, pages from all other wikis can be imported too. Guidelines for admins Check the history of the source page before importing. If there are overlapping edits between the source and destination page, import the edits into the MediaWiki talk namespace, since it is very rarely used. Follow this procedure, where "foo" is the title of the page in the English Wikipedia and "bar" is the title of the source page: Import "bar". When asked for the namespace, select "MediaWiki talk". Move "foo" to "MediaWiki talk:bar". When asked whether you want to delete the page, answer yes. From the "move succeeded" window, there is a link to the page history at "MediaWiki talk:bar". Activate it, perhaps in another tab or window, and there will be some text in the form "View or restore xxx deleted edits?". Activate the link associated with that text and undelete the imported edits that you need. The remaining edits will stay safely deleted in the MediaWiki talk namespace. Revert the move you made in step two. Uncheck the box that says "Leave a redirect behind", since redirects from the MediaWiki talk namespace are useless. If you want, you can use the "revert" link in the "move succeeded" window. The page move should go without a hitch. The same procedure can be used when there are no overlapping edits, but in this case, it's best to move the page first, so the import appears in the page history. Check the newly imported history for unregistered account names, which will not have a "contribs" link attached to them. Try to create those accounts to prevent impersonation. If you can't create a particular account due to unified login, it can't be impersonated so it's not a problem. See User:Graham87/Import for guidelines on importing from the Nostalgia Wikipedia. There is a log of all page imports at Special:Log/import. New Request

Import of de:Rochlitzer Berg to Rochlitzer Berg

• Language: de:Rochlitzer Berg
• New name: Rochlitzer Berg
• Note: I have translated the German text. --Schlosser67 (talk) 08:02, 27 October 2015 (UTC)
• Note by importing administrator: Not done, because there would be overlapping edits in the history. Graham87 14:52, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

Import of de:Eisenbahnunfall von Herceghalom to Herceghalom rail crash

• Language: de:Eisenbahnunfall von Herceghalom
• New name: Herceghalom rail crash
• Note: Translated by me --NearEMPTiness (talk) 05:53, 1 November 2015 (UTC)
• Note by importing administrator: Done Graham87 15:20, 1 November 2015 (UTC)

Import of de:Bahnstrecke Shixi–Huangcunjing to Jiayang Coal Railway

• Language: de:Bahnstrecke Shixi–Huangcunjing
• New name: Jiayang Coal Railway
• Note: Translated by myself --NearEMPTiness (talk) 15:12, 7 November 2015 (UTC)
• Note by importing administrator: Done Graham87 11:08, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

Import of de:Inga Sempé to Inga Sempé

• Language: de:Inga Sempé
• New name: Inga Sempé
• Note: During the next meeting of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikiproject_Women_Wikipedia_Design next weekend I plan to translate this article which I wrote in the German wikipedia. My first big step in this wikipedia here....--Reisen8 (talk) 05:14, 11 November 2015 (UTC)
• Note by importing administrator: Not done. I can't import a non-English article straight into the main namespace. @Reisen8:, either let me import it into your userspace, or let me know when the translation is done so I can import the article. Graham87 08:06, 12 November 2015 (UTC)

Sorry, Graham, my mistake! Please import it to my userspace as Reisen8/Inga Sempé in the English wikipedia, I will do the translation tomorrow or the day after and then transfer it into the name space. Thank you!--Reisen8 (talk) 15:59, 12 November 2015 (UTC)

@Reisen8: Done. It's at User:Reisen8/Inga Sempé. Graham87 05:26, 13 November 2015 (UTC)

Import of de:Hindenburgbrücke to Hindenburg Bridge

• Language: de:Hindenburgbrücke
• New name: Hindenburg Bridge
• Note: just discovered this nearly five-year-old translation. Lantus (talk) 12:08, 11 November 2015 (UTC)
• Note by importing administrator: I'm not really inclined to do this importation; I could, but it'd be a pain in the neck. the translation was a while ago and the first edit summary notes where the article came from. @Grahamec:, since you created the article on the English Wikipedia, what do you think of this request? Graham87 —Preceding undated comment added 08:16, 12 November 2015 (UTC)

  I do not see any fault to import, so why shouldn't it be done? Lantus (talk) 11:44, 17 November 2015 (UTC)

  @Lantus: Because it's adding hundreds of revisions to the English Wikipedia database for very little benefit (especially as the article was translated some time ago). Since my ping to @Grahamec: above didn't work, let me try it down here. Graham87 13:20, 18 November 2015 (UTC)

  I seem to not be very good at pinging people in this section. Let me try again, @Lantus:. Graham87 13:22, 18 November 2015 (UTC)

  I doubt that amending the current English article for any changes to the German article is particularly useful. I did a reasonably thorough translation then. There are many articles on German rail matters in English Wiki that need work and I don't think this one deserves more work at present.--Grahame (talk) 13:33, 18 November 2015 (UTC)

  • @Grahamec: No content would be changed; all that would happen would be that the edits to the German Wikipedia article from before your translation would be copied to the English Wikipedia. Graham87 14:01, 18 November 2015 (UTC)

    No worries then.--Grahame (talk) 14:08, 18 November 2015 (UTC)

    So? … That means …??? Lantus (talk) 20:49, 21 November 2015 (UTC)

    I don't see much point, but I don't object.--Grahame (talk) 01:57, 22 November 2015 (UTC)

Import of de:Joybrato Mukherjee to Joybrato Mukherjee

• Language: de:Joybrato Mukherjee
• New name: Joybrato Mukherjee
• Note: This looks nearly like a word by word translation to me. --NearEMPTiness (talk) 18:12, 13 November 2015 (UTC)
• Note by importing administrator: Done Graham87 07:54, 14 November 2015 (UTC)

Import of ro:Farul Genovez to Genoese Lighthouse

• Language: ro:Farul Genovez
• New name: Genoese Lighthouse
• Note: Just translated. Also, could the importing administrator patrol the page if they agree that it's worthy of inclusion in the encyclopedia? It's been waiting over 20 hours... --AnotherNewAccount (talk) 18:00, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
• Note by importing administrator: Done Graham87 13:16, 18 November 2015 (UTC)