Draft talk:Gunggamarandu
Draft/article duplicate
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Hello! I'm not sure what to do in this situation — Draft:Gunggamarandu was created, then later Gunggamarandu was created in mainspace. The draft is much larger and more complete, but I can't publish it because there is already a mainspace article. I think the best solution would be to delete the mainspace article under speedy deletion criterion G6 and move the draft over it, but I'm not sure. Tol | talk | contribs 00:54, 17 June 2021 (UTC)
- Tol, how about histmerge? – robertsky (talk) 03:09, 17 June 2021 (UTC)
- @Robertsky: I'm not entirely sure how history merges work, but that could be a reasonable solution. Tol | talk | contribs 03:10, 17 June 2021 (UTC)
- Tol, just checked on histmerge further. may not be applicable since there is no copy & paste moves yet. – robertsky (talk) 03:22, 17 June 2021 (UTC)
- Yes — I thought it was mainly for that; I didn't know if it could be used for duplicate articles. Tol | talk | contribs 03:22, 17 June 2021 (UTC)
- Tol, however, I recently had requested for it for a draft/article. The rationale was the the original article had turned into redirect after AfD, and the author of the article had improved on the article in draftspace, and histmerge would preserve the editing history of both versions, especially since both are by the same author. – robertsky (talk) 03:34, 17 June 2021 (UTC)
- Ah; that makes sense — but in that case it's a redirect with history, then a subsequent draft with history (they weren't being edited at the same time). I see how it would work in that situation, but I don't think that it would in this situation. Tol | talk | contribs 03:53, 17 June 2021 (UTC)
- Tol, however, I recently had requested for it for a draft/article. The rationale was the the original article had turned into redirect after AfD, and the author of the article had improved on the article in draftspace, and histmerge would preserve the editing history of both versions, especially since both are by the same author. – robertsky (talk) 03:34, 17 June 2021 (UTC)
- Yes — I thought it was mainly for that; I didn't know if it could be used for duplicate articles. Tol | talk | contribs 03:22, 17 June 2021 (UTC)
- Tol, just checked on histmerge further. may not be applicable since there is no copy & paste moves yet. – robertsky (talk) 03:22, 17 June 2021 (UTC)
- @Robertsky: I'm not entirely sure how history merges work, but that could be a reasonable solution. Tol | talk | contribs 03:10, 17 June 2021 (UTC)
- A10 may apply as well, assuming Drafts are articles as well in A10's wording. – robertsky (talk) 03:13, 17 June 2021 (UTC)
Probably a better solution. I'll tag it for G6/A10 and leave a note.Tol | talk | contribs 03:15, 17 June 2021 (UTC)- It turns out that the creator of the article added more content that's not in the draft. Pinging: @Robert McClenon (the draft reviewer) & @Eotrachodon (the article creator) (and a talkback for @82.41.151.124, the draft creator). I've also left merge tags on the articles to try to direct people here. Tol | talk | contribs 03:29, 17 June 2021 (UTC)
- I will stop reviewing the draft to permit something to be done to add the information. I was trying to figure out how to do that best, and I will let someone else do the work of accepting the draft. Robert McClenon (talk) 04:29, 17 June 2021 (UTC)
Right, we'll go with the draft version.--Eotrachodon (talk) 12:48, 17 June 2021 (UTC)
- Just treat it as a merge. Copy the draft to the article, redirect the drat to the article and leave a note in edit summary and on the talk page where the content came from. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 04:03, 18 June 2021 (UTC)