Wikipedia:Requests for history merge

This page is used for listing requests for history merges or history splitting of pages. For relatively simple cases where history merge is required, the destination page should be tagged with the {{history merge}} template. This page should be used for requesting very complex merges, merges involving more than two pages, history merges of deleted pages, or when the use of the template is otherwise inadequate or where its usage would cause problems.

This page was originally for listing cut-and-paste moves which could not be repaired due to a then-extant technical limitation. The limitation has since been removed, but this page is still available if you find a cut-and-paste move, and are not able to repair it yourself (there is a procedure for doing it, but only administrators can do it, and it is a bit tricky!).

Administrators need to read Wikipedia:Administrators' guide/Fixing cut-and-paste moves and Wikipedia:Requested moves/Closing instructions.

The procedure

• If the issue is clear-cut (straight-forward cut-and-paste move(s) to a different title), place a {{history merge|NAME OF PAGE THE ARTICLE WAS CUT FROM}} template at the new location of the article which has been moved through cut and pasting, i.e. on the article where the pasting was done.
• In more complex cases (explained at Wikipedia:How to fix cut-and-paste moves), please leave a description of the problem under the "Repair requests" section. An administrator will look over the pages and perform whatever tasks are necessary and update the request.
• Tasks that have been completed or do not need further discussion will be removed.

Repair requests

See also: Special:Log/merge

Pages tagged with {{history merge}} are automatically placed in Category:Candidates for history merging.

Please add new requests to the top of the New Requests section.

Candidates for history merging – No backlog currently

Possible AfC copy-and-paste moves – No backlog currently

Wikipedia files requiring splitting – No backlog currently

purge to update the counts

Answered requests

• Forgot if this is valid for the histmerge procedure or not, but was thinking if the October 16, 2019 revisions on one of my user draft pages, beginning with this revision and ending with this one, could be merged into the relevant article in question: Sleep in the NBA. Thanks for any help with this. Soulbust (talk) 03:08, 14 April 2023 (UTC)

  If you're the only content editor of a draft, then no, a histmerge is not necessary. Thanks for checking though. Primefac (talk) 09:11, 14 April 2023 (UTC)

  Thank you for the response. Soulbust (talk) 04:51, 16 April 2023 (UTC)

There is a bit of a mess at Snails as food, Escargot, and now Escargot (gene). Until about a year ago, Escargot was an article about snails as food. It was then "merged", as in cut and pasted into Snails as food and converted to a redirect. If this was recent, I'd just revert it, but a histmerge might be a better solution after this much time (except the original article titles were probably better, sigh). Incidentally, an actually merge was discussed (see Talk:Escargot, hopefully not moved again before you read this), with the only reply opposing the merge. Today, the Escargot redirect was overwritten with an article about a gene, then moved to Escargot (gene) because the gene isn't the primary topic. Escargot (gene) now has a lovely long history all about eating snails! I hope you can make sense out of this mess. Again, I'm half-tempted to just revert the whole lot. Lithopsian (talk) 14:58, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

Fixed the misplacement of the history on the gene page as a quick thing. Izno (talk) 16:22, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

Ok, the history for the two snail(s) as food articles is as fixed as it's going to get. Izno (talk) 16:26, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

I don't think it makes sense to history merge escargot and this snails as food article. Reason 1) DanCherek looks to have gotten the appropriate attribution into the target article's summary. Reason 2) there's enough overlap for WP:PARALLEL for me. Izno (talk) 16:31, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

See also

• {{subst:Uw-c&pmove}} – Warning template for cut-and-paste movers
• WP:EIW#Moving – entry in the Editor's index that lists several pages related to moving
• Wikipedia:WikiProject History Merge – bot-generated list of possible cut-and-paste moves
• Possible cut-and-paste moves (as detected by the abuse filter 164)