Wikipedia:Proposed mergers

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This page lists proposed article mergers as a supplement to the merge categories and templates; it does not replace any of the other steps in the merger process. Please add the appropriate merger tag(s) to the articles before listing them here.

Category mergers should not be proposed here. Please see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion.

Template mergers should not be proposed here. Please see Wikipedia:Templates for discussion.

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[edit] How to propose a merger

Proposing a merger can be done in three steps:

  1. Create a place for discussion. Go to the discussion page (also known as the talk page) of one of the articles and create a section to discuss the merger. If there's already a discussion on the talk page regarding the merger, you can omit this step. The section name can be anything, for example ==Proposed merger from Page1==.
  2. Put one of the merger tags at the top of the articles you wish to be merged. The templates {{merge}}, {{Merge from}} and {{Merge to}} are the most common ones. Remember to make sure that the Discuss link in each tag points to the section you've created in step 1 – this is to prevent having two separate discussions on different talk pages.
  3. If the proposed merge is controversial or potentially difficult to carry out, follow the directions under #Requests for assistance and feedback to add it to the list.

[edit] Automatically generated log

For each month, a list of up to 200 requests is generated by a bot. When the merge templates have been removed from the articles in question, they will be taken off the list.
Note: The bot may not be removing merged pages from the list/log in some cases. (note added: Dec. 16 2010)

[edit] Requests for assistance and feedback

In general, this section should be used to solicit outside feedback regarding mergers that are either tricky or of a controversial nature. Brief replies may be posted here, but lengthy discussions should be confined to the talk pages of the articles involved. You must tag the articles, as described above, as well. After articles are merged (or a consensus that the articles should not be merged is reached), please remove them from the list below.

[edit] Current requests

Please list new requests at the bottom of this section. Sign each listing or comment by typing: ~~~~

  • Merge No. 664 Squadron RAF and No. 664 Squadron RCAF. I'm not sure which should be the target (probably, the former), but both seem to describe the same military unit, with some duplication, but unique information in both articles. Checking some online sources, there is also some confusion elsewhere as to the correct name. If nothing else, I think one should become a redirect to the other. Lynbarn (talk) 00:00, 16 January 2011 (UTC)
  • Merge Huissier de justice into Bailiff. Opposition long ago by 1 person and after 3 months without anyone else commenting, the merger tags had been removed without topic argumentation by a third person. Recently reactivated merger proposal strongly (and lately most impolitely) opposed by the person that had removed the earlier tags, because assumed 'differences' that are largely exaggerated and basically irrelevant. Necessary for sheer logic, for matching the 'Bailiff' articles' concept, as well as prescribed so as to follow WP article naming conventions. (Lengthy discussion at Talk:Bailiff#Merger proposal)▲ SomeHuman 2011-02-01 19:52 (UTC)
  • Merge Sub-Officer and Non-Commissioned Officer -The terms are identical and, I believe mainly different only because of an error in translating terms like Sous-Officier into the English Non-Commissioned Officer. The literal translation is [i]not[/i] the proper one. I started a discussion here: Talk:Sub-Officer. Can you help me in guiding this proposal? Korporaal1 (talk) 09:22, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
  • Merge doner kebab, shawarma, and al pastor into gyros. Content fork, maintained for ethnic reasons, which needs more neutral discussion; the different names are listed in the different articles, such as 'in country X a doner is called a shawarma'. There is a second question of naming: gyros is inappropriate (either plural or a homagraphic rare form); either gyro (food) (a common term) or doner (an older and ethnically neutral term) may be more appropriate. — kwami (talk) 20:37, 27 February 2011 (UTC)
  • Merge Spirits of hartshorn into Smelling salts. I don't really know anything about this topic, but the articles are about the same substance. The former is just a stub anyways. 3 June 2011 (UTC)
  • Merge Umai into Umay. This will be uncontroversial. The duplication must have come about because of two different ways of spelling the same name. The article Umay is longer than the other, has existed more than a year longer, and uses standard Turkish spelling (which, in the absence of any other spelling criterion, ought to prevail). Discuss. Johanna-Hypatia (talk) 03:46, 13 August 2011 (UTC)
  • Merge Pancreatic ductal carcinomaPancreatic cancer. These articles refer to the same thing. The contents of the origin article can be readily integrated to the destination article. A redirect of the current article's title to the destination article would also be appropriate. FeatherPluma (talk) 01:58, 29 August 2011 (UTC)
  • Merge Ages in Chaos into Immanuel Velikovsky. Former is mostly a recap of this, and related, books by the latter (whose article already contains his claims on the subject). I am proposing that the short 'Controversy and criticism' section (the only section containing third-party commentary) from the former be merged. Stalled proposal, seeking wider scrutiny. Discussion is at Talk:Immanuel Velikovsky#Merger proposal. HrafnTalkStalk(P) 04:56, 30 August 2011 (UTC)
  • Merge docufiction into mockumentary. The docufiction article is extremely obtuse and refers to nothing that mockumentary doesn't already cover. From its bibliography, it seems to refer to the term for "non-comedic mockumentary", but the term is ill-defined, exists very little outside of Wikipedia itself, and cites NO sources to its claim that it is a widespread term. The merge has been stalled, as the primary author of the article seems to erase all attempts at changing this, restoring the vague definitions and adding more befuddling details that prove nothing to its case. See also Talk:Docufiction#Merge proposal. 142.179.122.11 (talk) 20:13, 2 September 2011 (UTC)
  • Merge Muskerry into Muskerry GAA, discuss here. The contents are almost identical - this only contains a list of GAA clubs. Other historical stuff is best left to the other article or the Múscraige article. Laurel Lodged (talk) 13:34, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
  • Merge Hua-Yi distinction into Han chauvinism, discuss here. The Hua is the original term for the people and culture which later became Han; it's a special and historical case of the latter. Further, both pages suffer from a glut of useless unattached reference lists and poor formatting. Combining them would allow a single well-done page to be formed discussing the historic and present situation.
  • Merge List of automobile manufacturers into List of car brands. All info in List of automobile manufacturers is already present in List of car brands, which makes the former page obsolete I believe. There is no clear division between brands and manufacturers now. Maintaining two separate lists will only be confusing. Mark in wiki (talk) 11:17, 29 October 2011 (UTC)
  • Merge National Basketball League into NBL. We don't really need a disambiguation page when all its information were already contained in another simpler and more informative disambiguation page. 2sc945 (talk) 09:55, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
  • Merge North Harbour Heat into Harbour Heat as both articles are about the same team. I have already combined the useful information from both articles into one lot. 2sc945 (talk) 09:55, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
  • Merge Benny Anthony into BJ Anthony as both articles are about the same person. I have already combined the useful information from both articles into one lot. 2sc945 (talk) 09:55, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
    • For the bosses, here is another request. I think I am an experienced wiki editor now. Can I request an upgrade on my status so that in the future I can merge articles if they are deemed appropriate? 2sc945 (talk) 09:55, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
  • Merge District 2, Sirte into Sirte. The district is only notable as the place where Gaddafi made his last stand, and doesn't really need its own article, it can be described with enough depth in the Sirte article. Jeancey (talk) 18:32, 17 November 2011 (UTC)
But I'm not sure if certain WP:MOS policies apply to suggest a different article name. -- SchreyP (messages) 20:28, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
  • Merge Three-CCD camera into Dichroic prism: Both articles describe the same device. Material in the latter is duplicated in the former. Former article does not actually describe a camera but only the dichroic prism. 109.157.161.93 (talk) 17:20, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
  • Merge Roti and Chapati; same food with alternate names. Markook Might also merge into both of them forming a single article. --lTopGunl (talk) 13:49, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
  • Merge Indian subcontinentSouth Asia; neutral and common name, the article themselves already say and cite that they are interchangeable terms with the latter being a politically neutral one and the first being a historical one. --lTopGunl (talk) 13:49, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
  • Merge Hatf-VIII (Ra'ad)Ra'ad. I think it is the same missle as far as the article describes/cites. Should be given one final check before merger. --lTopGunl (talk) 13:49, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
  • Merge Belgian waffle into Waffle. Both the Belgian waffle article and the "Varieties of waffle" contain essentially the same information, and the Belgian waffle subsection of Waffle could be improved by conglomerating the information.TheOwlWBU talk 10:23, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
  • Merge Systems_visualization into Scientific_visualization. Both articles discuss the field of scientific visualization, and it seems most appropriate that systems visualization be listed as a subcategory in scientific visualization. Systems visualization does not have enough secondary sources to justify its own page. Imananteater (talk) 00:05, 10 December 2011 (UTC)
  • merge Pietro Bellotti with Pietro Bellotto. The right surname of this artist is probably "Bellotto" but I can't be 100% sure since I am not an expert of this subject. I should have put the correct tag on both pages, but I think it is necessary to inform the users who have edited the pages in the past years, and I am not an expert user on this wiki. Could someone complete my job? Thank you.--Alexmar983 (talk) 00:02, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
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