User:Moonriddengirl/merge

More about merging

Hi. :) I note that you recently performed a merger of material to the article [[:{{{1}}}]], and I just wanted to drop you a note to point out a few things about the merge procedure. As Help:Merge sets out, when we merge material, we have to provide a direct link to the source article. This is necessary because Wikipedia's contributors do not release their material into public domain, but retain rights to authorship under the terms of GFDL. This wikilink satisfies that requirement by allowing readers to access the history and see who contributed what and when. Usually, we put into the edit summary something along the lines of "Merge from [[Sourcearticle]]". Then, we note the merger as well in an edit summary at the source article. That would read like "Material merged to [[:{{{1}}}]]", in this case. This helps make sure that the article is not later deleted, as it cannot be as long as the article to which the material has been merged remains. If the merge is complete and the article becomes a redirect, we add it to Category:Redirects from merges by placing the template {{R from merge}} on the page just to make doubly sure. :) I have fixed the problems with this merge, but I wanted to let you know for future use. Thanks, and if you have any questions about this, please feel free to leave a line at my talk page. --~~~~

Usage

Replace "Articlename" with the name of the article, being sure you have the | after merge.