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Dear John B123 and Primefac, here is another example for copy-paste of Wikipedia content from one page to other page. Can you guys just help in with the review/next step? A practical approach would help me to understand the process and it will also help me to replicate it with other pages (which had been found a couple of days ago). -Hatchens (talk) 06:17, 23 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Hatchens: Bofors 40 mm Automatic Gun L/60 and Bofors 40 mm Automatic Gun L/70 were originally contained in one article Bofors 40 mm gun. Part of the article was WP:SPLIT off to Bofors 40 mm Automatic Gun L/70 and the remainder moved to Bofors 40 mm Automatic Gun L/60. Blockhaj proposed this split in September 2018 now at Talk:Bofors 40 mm Automatic Gun L/60#Split article into the Bofors 40 mm L/60 and Bofors 40 mm L/70?. This discussion fizzled out but generally was supportive. Blockhaj has now boldly made the split. I don't see anything wrong so far, however the the requirements of WP:SPLIT to give attribution haven't been complied with. I'll add the required attribution (which is now more complicated as the original page has been moved and the original title made a dab page). --John B123 (talk) 11:33, 23 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I've now added attribution to Bofors 40 mm Automatic Gun L/70 [1] and {{copied}} to the top of this talk page. Normally you would add {{copied}} to the talk page of the source article, but as this has now been moved this could probably be more confusing than informative. Additionally I have also added Wikiprojects to this page and {{Uw-copying}} to Blockhaj's talk page. Hope this helps in similar situations in the future. --John B123 (talk) 12:06, 23 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Was it {{copied}} or a {{split article}}? It's probably a minor semantic point but if the content is no longer in the original article then the "split" variant would likely be more appropriate. Primefac (talk) 12:42, 23 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Primefac: Agree there, however the instructions at WP:PROPERSPLIT are to use {{copied}}. Perhaps that needs to be updated? --John B123 (talk) 12:56, 23 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you so much to both of you. Now, it's quite clear how to approach such pages. -Hatchens (talk) 05:24, 25 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]