Wikipedia:Requests for page importation

Requests for page importation

This is a place to request that pages be imported with history of pages from other Wikimedia Foundation wikis to here. This might be done if a page was copied and pasted from a WMF wiki to here, or, in the case of the Nostalgia Wikipedia, to make very old revisions accessible. Administrators can import pages from Meta, Commons, the Outreach Wiki, the Test2 Wikipedia site, and the German, Spanish, French, Italian, Polish, and Nostalgia Wikipedias to the English Wikipedia (see Phabricator task 22280 for relevant shell permission requests, and to request permissions for importing from more projects). It is also possible to indirectly perform a transwiki import from other projects by using step-wise process through a third project that has a project mapping already created, although using the export/import process may be simpler.

Guidelines for admins

Check the history of the source page before importing. If there are overlapping edits between the source and destination page, import the edits into the MediaWiki talk namespace, since it is very rarely used. Follow this procedure, where "foo" is the title of the page in the English Wikipedia and "bar" is the title of the source page:

Import "bar". When asked for the namespace, select "MediaWiki talk".
Move "foo" to "MediaWiki talk:bar". When asked whether you want to delete the page, answer yes.
From the "move succeeded" window, there is a link to the page history at "MediaWiki talk:bar". Activate it, perhaps in another tab or window, and there will be some text in the form "View or restore xxx deleted edits?". Activate the link associated with that text and undelete the imported edits that you need. The remaining edits will stay safely deleted in the MediaWiki talk namespace.
Revert the move you made in step two. Uncheck the box that says "Leave a redirect behind", since redirects from the MediaWiki talk namespace are useless. If you want, you can use the "revert" link in the "move succeeded" window. The page move should go without a hitch.

The same procedure can be used when there are no overlapping edits, but in this case, it's best to move the page first, so the import appears in the page history.

In general, do not use the "assign edits to local users where the named user exists locally", leaving this off will indicate in the history the project the edits came from and you won't have to worry about non-created accounts here.

See User:Graham87/Import for guidelines on importing from the Nostalgia Wikipedia. There is a log of all page imports at Special:Log/import.

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Import of de:Ingbert_Naab to Ingbert Naab

Language: de:Ingbert_Naab
New name Ingbert Naab
Note: I would like to import this article about Ingbert Naab, a German Capuchin friar and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime, from the German Wikipedia. The article meets the notability criteria for the English Wikipedia as it covers a significant historical figure. I plan to translate and adapt the content for the English-speaking audience, ensuring all sources are properly cited and verified. --RememberingIngbertNaab (talk) 13:56, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Note by importing administrator: Not done; your lack of experience (not enough to create articles here) and your username indicate that you may have some kind of conflict of interest either relating to him or publications about him. Graham87 (talk) 14:47, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Indeed I have a lack of experience regarding Wikipedia but I guess I will be able to compose the english article based on the german wikipedia article, if I have the imported "german draft" (source code of the german wikipedia article) and can edit it and preview it, I guess this is how this works once it is imported.

Regarding a "conflict of interest" I am a private person and just created the "first best" username to specifically translate this article about Ingbert Naab and thought that "RememberingIngbertNaab" would be a fitting username for this purpose. Doing so seemed to be a good course of action IMHO. I dont understand what you mean by "conflict of interest" in this case, it is just a username which seemed appropriate to me.

Thanks and best regards :-) RememberingIngbertNaab (talk) 15:00, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- @RememberingIngbertNaab: You can just copy the source code from the edit field here. Honestly the fact that you can't figure that out yourself is just a further indication that you should learn to edit Wikipedia first before trying one of our hardest tasks, starting a new article. When you translate the page, use an edit summary like "Translated text from German article at de:Ingbert Naab, per our guideline on Copying within Wikipedia. Importation of the edit history is not strictly required; it's massively popular on the German Wikipedia but not so much here (this process only exists due to a bizarre series of coincidences). Re conflict of interest: I mean a close personal connection with one of the people who has written about the case or something like that. Re the username: just ... the more unusual the username, the more unusual the point of view ... that's been the general trend on the English Wikipedia. For more help, ask at the teahouse. Graham87 (talk) 04:38, 2 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Import of de:Institut_für_Föderalismus to User:ÖPublius/Institute_of_Federalism

Language: de:Institut_für_Föderalismus
New name: User:ÖPublius/Institute_of_Federalism
Note: translation will be based on German article — Preceding unsigned comment added by ÖPublius (talk • contribs) 08:12, 12 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Note by importing administrator: Not done; you don't have enough experience on any wiki to create articles, indicating that you probably have a conflict of interest about this subject (your |contributions on the German Wikipedia don't help allay this impression). Graham87 (talk) 15:46, 12 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Okay. Thank you. ÖPublius (talk) 05:13, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Import of de.wikipedia.org:"Alexander_Dannenberg" to "User:FILMGEEKINTERNATIONAL/Alexander_Dannenberg"

Language: de.wikipedia.org:"Alexander_Dannenberg"
New name: "User:FILMGEEKINTERNATIONAL/Alexander_Dannenberg"
Note: FilmGeekInternational — Preceding unsigned comment added by FilmGeekInternational (talk • contribs) 16:32, 18 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Note by importing administrator: Not done; you do not have enough experience to create articles and probably have a conflict of interest. Graham87 (talk) 18:10, 19 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Import of de:Megalithik in den Niederlanden to Megaliths in the Netherlands

Language: de:Megalithik in den Niederlanden
New name: Megaliths in the Netherlands
Note: This article is a translation of the German version. Please import history. --Einsamer Schütze (talk) 13:06, 28 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Note by importing administrator: Not done; I know I said I'd be doing the import but backed out when I discovered the English page's opening edit summary, which is a textbook example of how to attribute content per our standards listed at Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia. I know you're a major contributor to the article at the German Wikipedia, but importation isn't a standard procedure here and I don't want to encourage it in cases like this, particularly because there's an absolutely huge amount more where that came from. If another admin wants to do the import, that's fine with me, but it's not something I'm willing to do. Graham87 (talk) 14:53, 28 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Import of ja:Katsushi Ikeuchi to Katsushi Ikeuchi

Language: ja:Katsushi Ikeuchi
New name: Katsushi Ikeuchi
Note: This article was translated from ja:池内克史 but was wrongly posted on Japanese Wikipedia. Japanese editors reached a consensus to request importation (ja:Wikipedia:削除依頼/Katsushi Ikeuchi), and there seems to be 2 links to this page. It would be great if this page could be imported here. --YellowSmileyFace (talk) 05:14, 5 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Note by importing administrator: Doing... — xaosflux ^Talk 07:39, 5 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Done to Draft:Katsushi Ikeuchi. @YellowSmileyFace: (or possibly @もののふさんたろう:) should review that it is ready, then either move to article if you are sure, or submit to draft review. — xaosflux ^Talk 07:44, 5 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! --YellowSmileyFace (talk) 11:18, 7 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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