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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 {{histmerge}} 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:How to fix cut-and-paste moves and Wikipedia:Requested moves/Closing instructions.

The procedure

  • Place a {{histmerge|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.
  • If the issue is clear-cut (straight up cut-and-paste move to a better title), having the template on the page should be enough. 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.
  • Once this is done, the admin may post the result here.

Repair requests

Pages tagged with {{histmerge}} 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 – 5 items

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

Possible cut-and-paste moves – No backlog currently

New requests

Queried requests

Completed requests

Completed requests December 2016

Completed requests November 2016

Completed requests October 2016

Completed requests September 2016

14:44, 22 June 2016‎ 138.16.128.0 contains an edit about a person named "Liu" ;
22:15, 5 July 2015‎ Jerry Efobi contains an edit about a person named "Jerry Efobi" ;
These should be separated into two different draftspace articles. "Draft:Biography" should be considered for being salted to prevent people from writing biographies at a useless pagename, and jumbling multiple biographies together. -- 65.94.171.217 (talk) 05:16, 12 September 2016 (UTC)
  • DRAFT:Bio has the history of three separate biographies on it
14:47, 7 June 2016‎ Popular901 contains an edit about a person called "young cino"
15:33, 13 April 2016‎ 129.49.147.42 contains an edit about a person named "Dr. Srinivas Pentyal"
all other edits are about a person named "Dr. Jans Aasman"
These should be separated into three different draftspace articles. "Draft:Bio" should be considered for being salted to prevent people from writing biographies at a useless pagename, and jumbling multiple biographies together. -- 65.94.171.217 (talk) 05:24, 12 September 2016 (UTC)

Rejected requests

Rejected requests December 2016

Rejected requests November 2016

Rejected requests October 2016

Rejected requests September 2016

@Anthony Appleyard: It's the extensive history going back to 2005 now at Northern Giraffe that applies to the title Giraffa. I guess it's not strictly cut-and-paste, but I thought I'd indicated properly the direction for the history. There's a weird move followed by a cut and paste. History of Northern Giraffe up to this diff belongs with Giraffa. Plantdrew (talk) 21:15, 9 September 2016 (UTC)
@Anthony Appleyard: How would you recommend that I fix this? Don't want to spend a lot of time diffing and pasting, then get all my work reverted for policy reasons. Little Will (talk) 06:32, 9 September 2016 (UTC)

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