User talk:Guy Harris/Archives/2017/02
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An apology and a request
Until now I "merely" owed you many a Thanks. Now I also owe you an apology. I had hoped to link the histories of BOTH the precursor IBM ESA/390 and IBM ES/9000 family articles into [[IBM System/390 ES/9000 Enterprise Systems Architecture ESA family]]. (Later on I looked: you made 25 of the 150+ edits in ESA/390)
The more I looked at Wiki help articles the more I realized that without ruining the histories of BOTH articles and the related COMPARE tools, this was unlikely.
Since {{merged|IBM ESA/390}} was placed atop the TALK page of the new article by someone,
I also added
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, but this is not using all of the tools/capabilities I hope are available.
My proposal/request is this: Since ESA/390 was both earlier and had substantially more edits, I'd like to propose that the history of ESA/390 be made the precursor of the current combo, BUT with some type of tag/flag appearing atop what is displayed when one clicks on "View history." about clicking on the other one for ES/9000, per the new article's talk page (on the bottom).
I do know that there are ADMIN-controlled tags for "Edit" (such as the one that shows up when an article with a "Harvard" style of footnoting, AN AREA FOR WHICH I OWE YOU THANKS, re the 3081 article).
Again, to repeat, I'm sorry, and hope you don't feel that I intentionally acted inappropriately. Admittedly, I failed to THINK (ahea)d. Pi314m (talk) 16:36, 16 February 2017 (UTC)