Wikipedia:Requests for history merge/Archive 10

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Completed requests August 2011

Done Bartolomeo Portugues to Bartolomeu Português (asked for by {{db-histmerge}}) Anthony Appleyard (talk) 05:40, 29 August 2011 (UTC)
Sir Edmund Backhouse, 2nd Baronet was cut and pasted from Edmund Backhouse, 2nd Baronet at 19:36, 9 October 2006. Please merge the edit history. Thanks. --Pengyanan (talk) 15:12, 27 August 2011 (UTC)
- Done Anthony Appleyard (talk) 22:26, 27 August 2011 (UTC)
Done Wikipedia:Article Incubator/The Great Gatsby (2012 film) to The Great Gatsby (2012 film) (asked for by {{db-histmerge}}) Anthony Appleyard (talk) 21:47, 25 August 2011 (UTC)
Double overhand bight to Double overhand noose. • Gene93k (talk) 18:57, 24 August 2011 (UTC)
- Already Done at 20:05, 24 August 2011 by User:The Earwig. (Anthony Appleyard (talk) 22:35, 24 August 2011 (UTC))
2011 Battle for Tripoli into 2011 Battle of Tripoli, look at the mess. I tried to nip it at the bud, but got reverted in spite of the explanation, and now the history is too complex in the redirect. --Cerejota (talk) 22:05, 22 August 2011 (UTC)
- Already Done around 22:24, 22 August 2011 by User:SoWhy. {Anthony Appleyard (talk) 06:05, 23 August 2011 (UTC))
Done Uncharted (series) to Uncharted (asked in my user talk page) Anthony Appleyard (talk) 06:12, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
Done User:GreatOrangePumpkin/Sandbox18 to Otis Redding (asked for by {{db-histmerge}}), & I moved a WP:Parallel history to Otis Redding/version 1. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 06:01, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
Seven (singer) to Se7en (singer). Cut-paste move by anons from de.Wikipedia on August 15. All edits on or after August 15 are the new copy, except for one attempt (in each article) to restore the status quo ante. No history in Se7en's before August 15 except for moving to Seven and reverting a cut/paste move. I'm an admin, but I haven't repaired one of these in years. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 17:17, 15 August 2011 (UTC)
- Done Anthony Appleyard (talk) 22:13, 15 August 2011 (UTC)
Done Battle of Az Zawiyah to First Battle of Az Zawiyah (move asked for, I found histmerge needed) Anthony Appleyard (talk) 05:17, 14 August 2011 (UTC)
Done Spy Kids 4 (old deleted edits) to Spy Kids: All the Time in the World (asked in my user talk page) Anthony Appleyard (talk) 05:28, 13 August 2011 (UTC)
Done User:Ordwayen/Sheekey Sandbox to Kevin Sheekey (asked for by {{db-histmerge}}) Anthony Appleyard (talk) 06:19, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
Kindle was cut and pasted to Kindle (disambiguation) at 22:01, 1 October 2009. Kindle then was redirected to Amazon Kindle. Please merge the edit history of Kindle and "Kindle (disambiguation)" and then redirect Kindle to "Amazon Kindle". Thanks. --Pengyanan (talk) 16:27, 11 August 2011 (UTC)
- Done; and deleted edits of Kindle to Amazon Kindle (found by me). I left the plain name as the disambig page, as to most people "kindle" first means "light a fire" and not yet another make of electronic device. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 05:58, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
Angels was a redirect to Angel that was then changed to an article about a Law & Order:Special Victims Unit episode by one editor. Angels was then moved to Angels (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode), containing the history of Angels, and Angels (Robbie Williams song) was moved to Angels by a second editor. I reverted the song back to its original dabbed title and made Angels a redirect again, but most of the history is sitting at the Special Victims Unit episode, which is currently prodded and could be lost. Aspects (talk) 03:12, 11 August 2011 (UTC)
- Done:
  Histmerged old edits of Angels (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode) to Angels (old redir edits carried across from Angels by an old move).
  Histmerged deleted edits of Angels and deleted edits of Angels (film) to Angels (2007 film).
  Anthony Appleyard (talk) 09:28, 11 August 2011 (UTC)
Oceans (film) was cut and pasted to Océans at 19:27, 21 April 2010 and then cut and pasted to Oceans (2009 film) at 22:15, 19 July 2010. Please merge the edit history. Thanks. --Pengyanan (talk) 11:45, 10 August 2011 (UTC)
- Done Anthony Appleyard (talk) 08:37, 11 August 2011 (UTC)
Done Path of exile to Path of Exile (asked for by {{db-histmerge}}) Anthony Appleyard (talk) 08:37, 11 August 2011 (UTC)
Done Fort George, George Town to Fort George, Grand Cayman (move asked for, I found histmerge needed) Anthony Appleyard (talk) 09:54, 10 August 2011 (UTC)
Done Cayman Islands Department of Commerce & Investment
Done What's on Your Radio? to What's on Your Radio (move asked for, I found histmerge needed) Anthony Appleyard (talk) 05:34, 10 August 2011 (UTC)
Done User:Bluelagoon33/Seajet to Seajet (move asked for, I found histmerge needed) Anthony Appleyard (talk) 08:34, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
Done I'm Into You to I'm into You (move asked for, I found histmerge needed) Anthony Appleyard (talk) 08:59, 7 August 2011 (UTC)
Seiichi hishikawa to Seiichi Hishikawa. • Gene93k (talk) 22:54, 6 August 2011 (UTC)
- Done Anthony Appleyard (talk) 06:24, 7 August 2011 (UTC)
Done Carrie M. Mclain to Carrie M. McLain (asked for by {{db-histmerge}}): Anthony Appleyard (talk) 20:11, 5 August 2011 (UTC)
Done Dave Taylor (musician) (asked for by {{db-histmerge}}): I moved its disambig edits to Dave Taylor. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 05:19, 5 August 2011 (UTC)

Requests rejected

Rejected requests August 2011

Hello I've found a problem with KOffice and Calligra Suite: the history of Calligra Suite before revision 400981283 belongs to KOffice. This has happend:
1. KOffice has been renamed Calligra Suite;
2. later, content of Calligra Suite has been copy-pasted to KOffice;
3. but Calligra Suite should have a different content, thus does not need the old history of KOffice...?
— 178.51.96.252 (talk) 17:16, 28 August 2011 (UTC)
- I had trouble identifying "revision 400981283". Please state its edit date and time and who made that edit. It is edit of Calligra Suite at 02:46, 7 December 2010 by User:KAMiKAZOW. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 06:04, 29 August 2011 (UTC)
- Not done: The edit history of page Calligra Suite astride the supposed cut-and-paste point is continuous: see this diff. A few small edits to the lede are not enough change to justify a history-split. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 06:15, 29 August 2011 (UTC)
Someone copied and pasted O Fantasma into The Phantom (2000 film) which later was copied and pasted into Phantom (2000 film). Needs history merging. Also, I have requested a move in Wikipedia:Requested moves#Uncontroversial requests. --Gh87 (talk) 02:28, 29 August 2011 (UTC)
- Not done: Afterwards, someone reverted Phantom (2000 film) to its text as before these cut-and-pastes, and changed O Fantasma and The Phantom (2000 film) to redirects to Phantom (2000 film), thus making the cut-and pastes into copy-and-pastes, with no effect on the text of Phantom (2000 film). Anthony Appleyard (talk) 05:49, 29 August 2011 (UTC)
Not done Ergenekon trials to Poyrazköy (asked for by {{db-histmerge}}): these 2 articles have very different running lengths and clearly one is not a total cut-&-paste move of the other, and their histories are somewhat parallel; there seems to have been a textmerge. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 05:57, 28 August 2011 (UTC)
Not done Jason Barr (actor) to (deleted edits of) Jason Barr (asked for by {{db-histmerge}}): WP:parallel histories: I moved the deleted edits of Jason Barr to Jason Barr/version 1. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 16:33, 24 August 2011 (UTC)
Not done University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire to The Singing Statesmen (a small text-split) Anthony Appleyard (talk) 22:24, 13 August 2011 (UTC)
Not done Jean Chouinard to Gene Chouinard: WP:Parallel histories (move asked for, I found histmerge needed) Anthony Appleyard (talk) 22:24, 13 August 2011 (UTC)
Not done Reboot Ralph to Wreck-It Ralph (asked in my user talk page): Reboot Ralph's history is largely redirects, and what edits are text have no apparent edit continuity with the start of the history of Wreck-It Ralph. And the history of Reboot Ralph (2012 film) complicates matters. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 05:31, 13 August 2011 (UTC)
Not done Rafa Alcántara to Rafa Alcântara {{db-histmerge}}): WP:parallel histories. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 05:10, 13 August 2011 (UTC)
Not done Thiago Alcántara to Thiago Alcântara {{db-histmerge}}): WP:parallel histories. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 05:10, 13 August 2011 (UTC)

Rejected requests July 2011

Comedy Central (UK) to Comedy Central (UK & Ireland) (asked for by {{db-histmerge}}), These 2 pages are partly WP:Parallel histories.
- Comedy Central (UK) has a continuous history throughout the period around 5 April 2009 at about 8500 bytes (except that someone redirected it and then someone reverted it to its full text).
- Comedy Central (UK & Ireland) was started at 17:12, 5 April 2009 by User:86.41.188.35 as 21,829 bytes. (It has one earlier edit: a redirect). It has had an eventful history since but never at anything near 8500 bytes.
  - I see no use for a history-merge here. There may have been various partial copyings between these 2 articles. Put a history note in its talk page? Anthony Appleyard (talk) 08:44, 23 July 2011 (UTC)
    - 86.41.188.35 created a mirror of Comedy Central (US version) over a redirect which Nua eire used to created a non-consensus fork of Comedy Central (UK) (then Paramount Comedy 1). The page was replaced with a redirect to the original article again within 24 hours by a member of the relevant project and nothing from the fork was added into the original article.[1] Between then and Nua eire's cut and paste move, the only edit was a bot fixing a double redirect. If Nua eire had carried out the move correctly, the page would have been deleted under CSD-G6. - Jasmeet_181 (talk) 22:22, 23 July 2011 (UTC)
- Not done Anthony Appleyard (talk) 09:22, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
Wheat Export Authority and Export Wheat Commission and Wheat Exports Australia. Before you do a thing, read the whole story here. Miracle Pen (talk) 21:38, 23 July 2011 (UTC)
- Not done: see discussion in User talk:Miracle Pen#Question for administrator. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 20:54, 24 July 2011 (UTC)
Demolition Masjid al-Dirar was properly moved to Masjid al-Dirar. However, Misconceptions2 (talk · contribs) then made a manual move from Masjid al-Dirar to Demolition of Masjid al-Dirar. Please merge histories. Al-Andalusi (talk) 01:24, 3 July 2011 (UTC)
- There is bad blood here, please note. The "Demolition" page, which has existed for a while, was moved, without consensus. Or indeed, without any kind of discussion as far as I can tell. This is all part of a wider disagreement - see Al-A's contributions [2] William M. Connolley (talk) 06:53, 3 July 2011 (UTC)
  - Not done: There is no cut history here. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 16:40, 3 July 2011 (UTC)
Not done Synechron* to Synechron (asked for by {{db-histmerge}}) (done as plain move) WP:parallel histories Anthony Appleyard (talk) 09:12, 2 July 2011 (UTC)

Rejected requests June 2011

Not done part of The Fighter to The Fighter (2010 film): (asked for by {{db-histmerge}}): The Fighter (2010 film) was a new start and no cut-and-paste happened. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 22:35, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
Not done User:Novice7/Irresistible (album) to Irresistible (Jessica Simpson album) (asked for by {{db-histmerge}}): WP:parallel histories Anthony Appleyard (talk) 08:21, 11 June 2011 (UTC)
I began working in my sandbox about 6 months ago, and at the time, I didn't think there would be hundreds of edits to that page before I moved it into mainspace, so I thought a copy/paste move would be ok. I also wasn't aware that if other people helped in the sandbox that me copy/pasting it would be against GFDL guidelines for attribution. Turns out, three editors have made nearly 300 edits to the page since then, starting from here. I would like for just the edits since that revision to be moved to List of Michigan State Historic Sites. User:Doncram already created that mainspace article a while back to support a disambiguation page he was working on, but I believe that the article can and should be deleted to make way for this move. There is a short edit history of the mainspace article, but most of it is basically me trying to get the article deleted right after it was created, and then occasional bot tasks afterwards. There is a discussion at Wikipedia:Help desk#Moving only part of a page's history right now in which Doncram opposes the deletion and supports a copy/paste move.--Dudemanfellabra (talk) 18:59, 4 June 2011 (UTC)
- Not done User talk:Dudemanfellabra/Sandbox to List of Michigan State Historic Sites (asked for by {{db-histmerge}}) (WP:parallel histories) Anthony Appleyard (talk) 22:05, 4 June 2011 (UTC)
Not done Hidase Dam to Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (asked for by {{db-histmerge}}): Page Hidase Dam was a new start, then page Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam was cut-and-paste textmerged into it, but this was reverted in both pages, with no effect to Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam except for spaces. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 08:33, 2 June 2011 (UTC)
Not done Vikingen (magazine) to Vikingen: WP:parallel histories after text-merge. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 05:19, 1 June 2011 (UTC)

Rejected requests May 2011

Not done Fiber supplement to Fibre supplements (asked for by {{db-histmerge}}) WP:parallel histories Anthony Appleyard (talk) 05:47, 26 May 2011 (UTC)
Not done Thula thula to Thula Thula (asked for by {{db-histmerge}}): there was nothing in Thula thula except a redirect. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 13:26, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
Not done User:Andrewdoak/Sandbox to Sunlight Saunas asked for by {{db-histmerge}}: WP:parallel histories & likely more than one copy-and-pasting between them. I moved User:Andrewdoak/Sandbox to Sunlight Saunas/version 1. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 04:26, 19 May 2011 (UTC)
Not done Talk:Millinery to Talk:Hatmaking (asked for by {{db-histmerge}} after text-merge of their articles): WP:parallel histories. I text-merged them. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 12:17, 18 May 2011 (UTC)
user:Njbook created Lady of the Lake (ship), then recreated it at Lady of the Lake (1833). So the two should be histmerged together. "1833" is nonstandard disambiguation for ships (they are disambiguated by year of launch, not year of sinking), so the merger should take place at the original name. There are no substantive content edits between the end of one and the other article. 65.95.13.213 (talk) 04:30, 18 May 2011 (UTC)
- Not done. WP:parallel histories: the history of one is inside the history of the other. I tagged the 2 articles for text-merge. I moved Lady of the Lake (1833) to Lady of the Lake (sank 1833). Anthony Appleyard (talk) 06:10, 18 May 2011 (UTC)
Not done User:Liao12/Yu Minhong to Yu Minhong (asked for by {{db-histmerge}}) WP:parallel histories. See Talk:Yu Minhong#History of this article. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 16:25, 14 May 2011 (UTC)
Not done User:Liao12/Yu Minhong to Yu Minhong (asked for by {{db-histmerge}}) WP:parallel histories. See Talk:Yu Minhong#History of this article. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 14:13, 13 May 2011 (UTC)
Not done Shadows in Flight to Shadows alive (asked for by {{db-histmerge}}) WP:parallel histories, and they are not about the same work: one is a novel, the other is a short story.
Not done User:Amitch/Rozelle to Rozelle, New South Wales (asked for by {{db-histmerge}}) WP:parallel histories Anthony Appleyard (talk) 22:25, 7 May 2011 (UTC)
Not done Reading F.C. 2010–11 Season to Reading F.C. 2010–11 Season (asked for by {{db-histmerge}}): WP:parallel histories from text-merge. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 11:02, 7 May 2011 (UTC)
Not done User:Trogon/NathanielTarnDraft tp Nathaniel Tarn (asked for by {{db-histmerge}}) WP:parallel histories Anthony Appleyard (talk) 10:01, 2 May 2011 (UTC)
Not done User:Jasonspsyche/Jason V Brock to Jason V Brock (asked for by {{db-histmerge}}) (partly WP:parallel histories) Anthony Appleyard (talk) 20:11, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
Please incorporate User:Espanyol213/8ste_laan as a section into Otjomuise. This is not a repair request (it is not broken yet)--I checked that there are no parallel histories and thought attribution would be better preserved by histmerge than by a normal merger with template {{copied}}. Please let me know if this was a stupid idea. The documentation is somewhat difficult to understand. Thanks, Pgallert (talk) 11:37, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
- Not what histmerge is for. Done as plain text-merge. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 14:33, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
  - But now attribution is broken. I thought that's exactly what not to do (and have been notified for that in the past). --Pgallert (talk) 14:54, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
    - With a text-merge, that cannot be avoided. See Wikipedia:How to fix cut-and-paste moves#Parallel versions. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 15:43, 1 May 2011 (UTC)