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How about the acknowledgment of the contributions of the people who drafted this article before it was split off from Eighty Years' War?
I recognised a lot in this article from the draft of Eighty Years' War I first contributed in 2009. However, when I checked the "View History" pages I couldn't find anything before July 2022. It used to be good practice when splitting or merging articles to preserve the preceding "View history" page. I would appreciate it if this was rectified. And not just on my own behalf. --Ereunetes (talk) 21:29, 31 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Ordinary editors cannot preserve the revision history of an article. Nobody can duplicate revision histories, it would be a quite undesirable database inconsistency. So nobody will comply with your request to duplicate those revisions in a technical sense. We can only provide an explanation of the WP:Content fork and a pointer to the original source. Elizium23 (talk) 21:58, 31 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Well, I have followed the trail you indicated, and I now see the Error of My Ways: it is indeed possible to find the original revision history. But it is a long and convoluted path. Without your help I would never have found it. And I am sure only someone well-versed in the Ways of the Wiki would have suspected that there even was a previous revision-history, and would have been able to discover it unaided. Thanks so much! I am only glad I now limit my contributions to the absolute minimum.--Ereunetes (talk) 22:25, 31 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry that I return once more to the subject. When I looked at Talk:Eighty Years' War I found this useful box at the top of that page :
I wouldn't dare put that box myself at the top of this page. Heaven forbid that I broke something. But I have to admit that if something like this had been on this page, you wouldn't have heard a peep out of me.--Ereunetes (talk) 22:50, 31 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]