Naach (disambiguation) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) and, Naach (2004 film) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views), and Naach (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) have their histories jumbled up. The history currently at Naach (disambiguation) from creation to 2013 belongs to the 2004 film located at Naach. The history currently at Naach (2004 film), from creation in 2013 to 2020, belongs to the disambiguation page located at Naach (disambiguation). The history at Naach starts in 2013 with a cut and paste over a redirect from the history currently located at Naach (disambiguation). The disambiguation page history at Naach (disambiguation) starts in 2020 with a cut and paste over a redirect from the history currently located at Naach (2004 film) -- 67.70.26.89 (talk) 17:54, 27 December 2020 (UTC)
Done... ish. I fixed the original copy/paste but the newest one was just a dumb c/p so I swapped the pages and reverted the edits. Primefac (talk) 01:13, 28 December 2020 (UTC)
Clayton's (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) content from 2005 needs to be histmerged onto Claytons (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views); at the end of 2005 it was cut and pasted; after 2005 it became a disambiguation page -- 65.92.246.246 (talk) 04:00, 1 December 2020 (UTC)
Splice Nicole Garcia (Twin) to Nikki Bella (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views), an earlier by a decade version of the article exists at the redirect, which remained just a redirect since it was redirected. -- 65.92.244.147 (talk) 15:47, 18 November 2020 (UTC)
Splice Brianna Garcia to Brie Bella (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views), an earlier by a decade version of the article exists at the redirect, which remained just a redirect since it was redirected. -- 65.92.244.147 (talk) 15:47, 18 November 2020 (UTC)
Splice Brie bella to Brie Bella (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views), an earlier by 2 years version of the article exists at the redirect, which remained just a redirect after it was redirected. -- 65.92.244.147 (talk) 15:58, 18 November 2020 (UTC)
PHP Automobiles is a redirect with history to PHP Family. Please history-merge it into newly created page on same topic, PHP Automobiles Limited · ( talk | logs | links | watch ) · [revisions], then move the result back to the correct name, PHP Automobiles · ( talk | logs | history | links | watch | afd ) · [revisions]. Same for the talk pages: history-merge Talk:PHP Automobiles · ( logs | history | links | watch ) · [revisions] into Talk:PHP Automobiles Limited · ( logs | links | watch ) · [revisions] then move it back to Talk:PHP Automobiles. If this request is rejected because the articles were written independently (i.e. not a copy-and-paste-move), then swap them and fix up the redirect page so it points to the article about the company instead of PHP Family. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 16:46, 14 November 2020 (UTC)
Done the old way without using Special:MergeHistory Anthony Appleyard (talk) 23:43, 14 November 2020 (UTC)
Hi – histories looked unusual for both aubergine and courgette. They've both been redirected, but there appears to be fragmentation in their histories from before, some / a lot of back-and-forth, maybe edit warring. If someone could take a look and confirm that these are history merge candidates (or not), so that I learn something, that would be great. Thanks — TARDIS builder💬 | 08:17, 5 November 2020 (UTC)
@TARDIS Builder:aubergine was used as a scratch sheet for editing eggplant 3 times, and courgette was used as a scratch sheet for editing zucchini twice. In the oldest zucchini case, the only effect was to change "courgette" to "zucchini" twice, and in the other 4 times, at each time, aubergine or zucchini was reverted from redirect to its previous text. I see no need for history-merging here. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 13:30, 5 November 2020 (UTC)
Artvill, I do see in this edit summary that implies that the page was copied, but I cannot seem to find any direct copy/pasted material in the history of MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates. Simple page separation and/or renames do not necessarily require a histmerge, but if you have a specific diff at the old page that the new one was copied from, we can potentially merge things. Primefac (talk) 22:38, 4 November 2020 (UTC) (please do notping on reply)
Done. For the record, it helps to indicate that it's a histsplit, because I almost declined for not having any history to merge. Primefac (talk) 21:49, 13 October 2020 (UTC)
@ShelfSkewed: Please, which edits (specified by date and time) of which pages are now in wrong edit histories? Anthony Appleyard (talk) 21:10, 7 October 2020 (UTC)
Request split of The Darkest Day from this edit, as this has created a new article with an unrelated history of what previously existed. The original page (now a redirect) can be moved to The Darkest Day (novel). Thanks. StarcheerspeaksnewslostwarsTalk to me 23:13, 5 October 2020 (UTC)
Bradney, the edit history up to 2013 was about a place in Somerset. In 2008 the article was merged, in 2013 the redirect was replaced with a DAB page. The version up to (and including) the 2008 redirection should be split to Bradney, Somerset. The version from 2013 and after should stay at the base name-Bradney. With respect to the talk page only the last version should be kept at the DAB page, the rest is for the place in Somerset and thus should be at Talk:Bradney, Somerset. Crouch, Swale (talk) 17:43, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
Given that Bradney, Somerset does not exist, do you feel that this is an attempt to back-door your way around your editing restriction? Primefac (talk) 21:17, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
@Primefac: the edit history of "Bradney" consists of it being about a place in Somerset and a DAB which shouldn't be the case. No new article is being created and the edit history of the place in Somerset will continue to be a redirect to Bawdrip as it previously was. I still have 19 unsubmitted AFCs so if you otherwise wouldn't feel comfortable preforming this I can count this as 1 of my one a week AFC submissions. Crouch, Swale (talk) 13:11, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
Thankyou Primefac that's a good outcome since I'm not restricted on the number of drafts I create, only the number I submit. I didn't hve any intention (at least in the near future) of it becoming a separate article but now that its in draftspace I'll improve it so that one day it might be able to be moved back to mainapace. Note that I was checking places without Commons categories when I checked the article's history. Crouch, Swale (talk) 14:03, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
An editor has performed peculiar actions on articles Kodikurichi and Sivaramapettai. K was moved to S. K became a ediect. They "fixed" that and K and S are now identical. K appears to be the correct article. S has all the revision history. I confiess to perplexity. I have messaged the editor, see User talk:Rishinataraj. I think this needs an admin to (a) help the editor and (b) work out what outcome is required. FiddleFaddle 10:48, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
Having accepted K at AFC I am as certain as I can be that K is the correct article title, albeit with the content/history from S. FiddleFaddle 11:03, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
Done, thanks for the extra explanation. Primefac (talk) 13:51, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
Primefac, very grateful for your work in there. Thank you FiddleFaddle 16:23, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
@Anthony Appleyard: All right, that makes sense. I went ahead and redirected all of the relevant pages in draftspace and userspace to Francisca Coya since there's a completed article in mainspace now so that's what should be focused on. Nathan2055talk - contribs 20:10, 28 September 2020 (UTC)
Notwithstanding my rejected request below, there were four deleted edits for John Papas that were also about the football coach. Please restore both edits made on 17 December 2007, as well as the edits made on 13 February 2008 and 24 June 2008, while leaving all the other edits deleted. GeoffreyT2000 (talk) 20:05, 18 September 2020 (UTC)
Done. Primefac (talk) 23:18, 18 September 2020 (UTC)
There is still a problem. Namely, in Special:Diff/247443741, it appears as though Geologik did more than just replacing a template tranclusion. To properly attribute the bot generated titles and the external link, you must undelete both DumZiBoT's 13 February 2008 edit and Paulmcdonald's 24 June 2008 edit for John Papas. GeoffreyT2000 (talk) 00:52, 19 September 2020 (UTC)
Done. While I don't think this is a direct copy/paste based on other creations by that editor, the leads are close enough it makes me think they started there. Primefac (talk) 21:01, 15 September 2020 (UTC)
Pppery, not really sure why these need to be merged - different editors and different content. Primefac (talk) 14:22, 11 September 2020 (UTC)
Because the /sandbox titles were moved to the /Chinissai titles, including the history of past tests by users other than Chinissai. * Pppery *it has begun... 14:36, 11 September 2020 (UTC)
Fair enough. Done. Primefac (talk) 15:14, 11 September 2020 (UTC)
PP Pandey (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) and P.P. Pandey (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) I do not think this is complicated but it is not a cut and paste move. Someone made the article in 2013 and I just recreated it. I only want both versions to be together in history because there is no reason to separate the concepts. I documented my request on the talk page at Talk:PP Pandey. Blue Rasberry (talk) 17:21, 28 December 2020 (UTC)
Not done. As you state, there is no copy/paste so there is no histmerge required. Since you are the only author of PP Pandey you are welcome to copy/paste that content into P.P. Pandey and convert the former into a redirect if you really want both versions of the page to be in the same place. Primefac (talk) 18:44, 28 December 2020 (UTC)
Technically speaking, Not done, this was a straight-up bad pagemove, which I fixed with a {{db-copypaste}}. Primefac (talk) 10:45, 11 December 2020 (UTC)
Draft:Flashdance (TV series) --> Draft:Untitled Willow television series. I am requesting a merger of all the history up to 18:12, 21 October 2020. This is because of this edit, where he wants the draft page deleted and recreated because his (younger) draft (the untitled page) is the one he created, and wants the edits to be deleted. I do not want to but want the historyo to be put in the "correct" place. Starzoner (talk) 23:57, 1 December 2020 (UTC)
This was a previously declined request due to parallel histories. You then repurposed your draft to be about something entirely different. If you wish your draft to be about Flashdance the Willow history has to be terminated. And due to the parallel histories the options are either just delete the Willow history from Flashdance or recreate it. Rusted AutoParts 00:04, 2 December 2020 (UTC)
Upon closer inspection, the first edits on the draft from September, it began as a beginning to be about somewhere in China. You can’t make a draft about one thing, then go on to repurpose it later on. The draft should be reverted back to whatever you intended it to be in the first place and all non related history be deleted. Rusted AutoParts 00:14, 2 December 2020 (UTC)
Not done. I have to agree with Anthony on this one (see further below): there are parallel histories and there's no clear indication that any thing was a true "copy/paste" move. That being said, I have deleted the older revisions of the Flashdance page so that the China and Willow histories are no longer present. Primefac (talk) 00:29, 2 December 2020 (UTC)
@Anthony Appleyard: my concern was that the draft is about to be CSD'd, so any note along the lines of "copied from" would refer to inaccessible material, and no indication of who wrote it (not me). Is that not a problem? --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 00:46, 26 November 2020 (UTC)
@Anthony Appleyard: and in another six months, the draft is going to be G13'd again (there's pretty much nothing else that could happen) and will be gone. I'm probably being dense here, but to my understanding the aim is to be able to trace a given edit (i.e. the material I moved from the draft to the article) to the original author (the person who wrote the draft). That won't be possible anymore then. If that is either not required or can't be reasonably achieved by history manipulation - I'm unsure which is the case here - then fine by me! --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 13:44, 26 November 2020 (UTC)
@Anthony Appleyard: Huh. Is that something we do - having oddly named redirects in mainspace to preserve authorship? If necessary, I'll do that, but you make it sound as if it's optional. I gather the preservation of exact attribution is not as big a necessity here as I thought. Since you've been working in this area since forever, best tell me what you think is the standard approach here, and let's go with that :) --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 14:32, 26 November 2020 (UTC)
I'm shifting this down here because I fully agree with Anthony that merging is not really feasible here. I have redirected the draft to the article as a duplicate (putting {{r with history}} to indicate there is attribution to conserve). On the whole, though, I think this requestion for merging can be considered Not done. Primefac (talk) 15:37, 26 November 2020 (UTC)
And for what it's worth, I disagree with the idea of creating some poorly-named redirect in the article space; draft space redirects work just fine. Primefac (talk) 15:38, 26 November 2020 (UTC)
As to the second request, no; there's parallel history and I don't see any obvious copy/paste from this draft (though there were some other c/p merges). Primefac (talk) 20:45, 27 October 2020 (UTC)
Not done, only a bot-created edit, which incidentally was later added to the actual user talk. No attribution (or really even "content") issues. Primefac (talk) 20:40, 27 October 2020 (UTC)
I object to this, the pages have parallel histories. The Willow (TV series) page may have existed earlier, but it existed in the wrong location, as it does not have a set title (calling it just Willow would be inaccurate). Rusted AutoParts 18:16, 21 October 2020 (UTC)
It was a temp name that I used. At the very least credit me with the edits. Starzoner (talk) 18:33, 21 October 2020 (UTC)
But I didn’t copy and paste anything from your version, I discovered it after I created the untitled one. Rusted AutoParts 18:43, 21 October 2020 (UTC)
Not done, only one editor so no attribution issues. Deleted as WP:G8 though. Primefac (talk) 20:50, 19 September 2020 (UTC)
The page K. S. Harisankar was deleted before a history merge from Draft:KS Harisankar could have been done, so merging now requires a few extra steps. Namely, all the non-redirect edits (look at the number of bytes, which should have four digits, not two) for "K. S. Harisankar" should first be restored, and then after that, the article's history should be merged into "Draft:KS Harisankar" by deleting, moving, and undeleting. After merging, the {{db-g11}} and {{histmerge}} tags should then be removed from the draft, and Talk:K. S. Harisankar should then be restored and moved to Draft talk:KS Harisankar. GeoffreyT2000 (talk) 20:23, 18 September 2020 (UTC)
Not done, unnecessary; single editor making a copy/paste page move with no significant changes between versions. Primefac (talk) 23:16, 18 September 2020 (UTC)
The history of John Papas currently contains edits that are about other people with similar names. Please do the following steps to split the page's history:
Delete "John Papas" (the page has no deleted edits, so there is no need to move it to a temporary title).
Undelete the 23:45, 27 June 2008, 00:32, 28 June 2008, and 00:39, 28 June 2008 edits, and move those three edits to John Pappas (born 1916).
Undelete the rest of the edits for "John Papas".
Finally, delete the pages "John Pappas (student)", "John Pappas (goalkeeper)", and "John Pappas (born 1916)", which contain edits that were originally deleted at "John Pappas".
Also, the page John Pappas (currently a redirect) had some deleted edits that were about an actor. Please do the following steps after the above steps are done:
Move "John Pappas" to a temporary title (make sure that no redirect is left behind and the option to move the talk page is selected).
Undelete all of the deleted edits for "John Pappas", and move them to John Pappas (actor).
Undelete the edits for "Talk:John Pappas" from 2014 and later, and move them to Talk:John Pappas (actor).
Undelete the rest of the edits for "Talk:John Pappas", and merge them into the history of Talk:John Papas. This creates a redirect, which must then be deleted prior to doing the next step.
Move the temporary title back to "John Pappas".
Finally, delete the pages "John Pappas (actor)", "Talk:John Pappas (actor)", and "Talk:John Pappas (born 1916)".
Not done as a nonsensical set of requests. Yes, the old revisions of Papas should not have been restored, so I deleted them under the previous A7s to which they were deleted. There is no reason to split deleted history of pages. Primefac (talk) 20:00, 17 September 2020 (UTC)
@Yankees10: Asked in my user talk page "Can you please history merge Jazz Chisholm with Jasrado Chisholm? I'm not sure why the previous admin declined to do so with the history there.-- Yankees10 00:31, 3 September 2020 (UTC)". Anthony Appleyard (talk) 10:53, 3 September 2020 (UTC)
Not done: It is unlikely that there was a single direct total cut-and-paste event from the 2 edits in page Jasrado Chisholm to the 16 edits in page Jazz Chisholm. Extracting these 2+16 edits and chaining them together somewhere, would cut more history than it would rejoin. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 10:58, 3 September 2020 (UTC)
@Zxcvbnm: Page Universe of The Legend of Zelda seems to have undergone steady development from a stub at 00:58, 28 September 2001. I have not found in its history any complete cut-and-paste event that would warrant splitting its history. It starts as a short article about the land of Hyrule, and at the end it still contains much matter about the land of Hyrule. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 12:11, 31 August 2020 (UTC)
@Anthony Appleyard: The article started out solely about Hyrule, and underwent a post-move subject change in 2008 to the entire Zelda universe, including other realms that aren't Hyrule, like Termina for example. That should really have been created as a new article, and Hyrule merged into it, rather than being totally moved. That is because Hyrule does not encompass the entire Zelda universe and while many games are set in Hyrule, others are not, or partially take place somewhere else.ZXCVBNM (TALK) 15:50, 31 August 2020 (UTC)
@Zxcvbnm: "That should really have been created as a new article" :: but "should have" is not "actually happened", and we cannot change the past. Topic sometimes changes in a gradually-developing gradually-lengthening article. The change of topic was gradual, and I see no place to cut the history. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 16:53, 31 August 2020 (UTC)
@Anthony Appleyard: Okay, feel free to close this request then. It seems like it's not a candidate for such a thing.ZXCVBNM (TALK) 07:33, 1 September 2020 (UTC)