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. This will place the request in Category:Candidates for history merging to be reviewed.
• 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.

Requests in categories

Candidates for history merging – No backlog currently

Candidates for history splitting – No backlog currently

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

Wikipedia files requiring splitting – No backlog currently

purge to update the counts

Complex repair requests

Pages tagged with {{history merge}} are reviewed above. You do not need to file a second request here.

Moved from WP:AN

At Palestinian expulsion from Kuwait, WP:RM discussions were held in 2013 and 2014, but opposed each time. In 2016, an editor unilaterally moved the page, there was an ensuing move war, and it all ended up very confused (note I have never edited these pages - this is a retrospective assessment).

The article was created in 2006[1], but the first ten years of its history from 2006-16[2] is, as a result of the move war, located at another article called Aftermath of the Gulf War.

Please could an administrator unwind this and fix the history problem? We can then open an WP:RM to resolve this matter properly. Onceinawhile (talk) 10:15, 17 December 2023 (UTC)

Looking. Primefac (talk) 13:16, 17 December 2023 (UTC)

Seems to be fixed now, a little less complicated than I thought so if you could double-check that would be great (I feel like I missed something). Primefac (talk) 13:37, 17 December 2023 (UTC)

Thank you Primefac. I think this works. Onceinawhile (talk) 14:55, 17 December 2023 (UTC)

See also

• Special:Log/merge
• {{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)