Talk:List of Michigan State Historic Sites

Move?

The request to rename this article to List of Michigan State Historic Sites has been carried out.

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User:Dudemanfellabra/Sandbox → List of Michigan State Historic Sites –

I found this following histmerge request in Wikipedia:Cut and paste move repair holding pen#New requests, but the history-merge is not practicable because WP:Parallel histories, so it will have to be a plain move and first the existing List of Michigan State Historic Sites will have to be moved to List of Michigan State Historic Sites/version 2 or somewhere. (I have history-merged the first 27 edits of User talk:Dudemanfellabra/Sandbox to Meridian race riot of 1871, which they were a start of.) See also discussion in Talk:List of Michigan State Historic Sites#note. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 21:58, 4 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- 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)[reply]
Can we not just delete the history of the existing List of Michigan State Historic Sites article? As I said in the original request, the entire edit history there is basically Doncram creating an extremely short stub (that shouldn't have been created IMO, but that's beside the point)... then me trying to get it deleted because I planned to move this out.. then just minor bot edits and other stuff since then. Why does this history need to be saved? Why not just delete that page and move this entire history there?--Dudemanfellabra (talk) 22:08, 4 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Can we not just delete ...: This will result in the visible edits of List of Michigan State Historic Sites sitting over a deleted parallel history. This is unadvisable, because it is liable to accidents if the page later needs to be temporarily deleted: see WP:Parallel history. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 22:20, 4 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Ok, so can we move the existing List of Michigan State Historic Sites to a Talk space page, move User:Dudemanfellabra/Sandbox to List of Michigan State Historic Sites, and delete the Talk space page afterwards? Then I guess we can merge the two talk pages.--Dudemanfellabra (talk) 22:55, 4 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Comment the current/old list which contains only one entry could be moved to List of michigan state historic sites (note the bad capitalization). 65.95.15.60 (talk) 06:14, 6 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]