Wikipedia:Requests for history merge/Archive 34

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Rejected requests August 2019

@IJBall: Not done User:Amaury/sandbox/Gabby Duran & The Unsittables to Gabby Duran & the Unsittables WP:Parallel histories Anthony Appleyard (talk) 20:56, 30 August 2019 (UTC)
Draft:Jungkook (singer) & Jungkook. PC78 (talk) 17:31, 17 August 2019 (UTC)
- @PC78: Not done WP:Parallel histories Anthony Appleyard (talk) 05:41, 18 August 2019 (UTC)
Suga (singer), SUGA (rapper), Suga (musician) & Suga (BTS) – main article is at Suga (rapper), not sure if it will be possible to merge anything there but maybe useful to consolidate histories of these four redirects?
- @PC78: Not done WP:Parallel histories. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 05:31, 13 August 2019 (UTC)
@Jc86035: Not done Mascouche line and Template:Mascouche line and Template:Mascouche Line (AMT) (asked for by {{histmerge}}) WP:Parallel histories Anthony Appleyard (talk) 22:07, 10 August 2019 (UTC)
Draft:Wild Bill (TV series) into Wild Bill (TV series). Target was a redirect, and the AfC draft was copypasted into it, rather than histmerged or a delete-move performed. — Wylie pedia @ 14:58, 10 August 2019 (UTC)
- Not done @CAWylie: WP:Parallel histories Anthony Appleyard (talk) 22:01, 10 August 2019 (UTC)
  - @Anthony Appleyard: Not really. Draft creator stopped on June 25, 2019. Copy-paste occurred on July 2, with NO attribution to draft creator's work. Mainspace editing occurs after copy-paste on July 2, draft editing since was merely the copy-paster's declining AfC draft because "the mainspace article exists" after the fact. Warrants a closer look. — Wylie pedia @ 02:22, 11 August 2019 (UTC)
  - @CAWylie: Wild Bill (TV series) has edits 06:38, 2 July 2019‎ to 14:50, 10 August 2019 (12:02, 14 June 2019 is a redirect), and Draft:Wild Bill (TV series) has edits 05:24, 13 June 2019‎ to 14:08, 10 August 2019. That is a lot of time overlap. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 04:31, 11 August 2019 (UTC)
    - These 5 edits from June 13-25 at the draft are all that need merged into the mainpage history. — Wylie pedia @ 05:26, 11 August 2019 (UTC)
Draft:2019 Conference USA football season to 2019 Sun Belt Conference football season
- @CASSIOPEIA: There was no cut-and-paste event here. 2019 Conference USA football season (the newer page) is a new start from a stub. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 13:52, 6 August 2019 (UTC)
Draft:2019 Sun Belt Conference football season to 2019 Conference USA football season
- @CASSIOPEIA: There was no cut-and-paste event here. 2019 Sun Belt Conference football season (the newer page) is a new start from a stub. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 13:52, 6 August 2019 (UTC)
  - 3 Not done Anthony Appleyard (talk) 04:57, 10 August 2019 (UTC)
@PC78: Not done Mu Sang Sa to Musangsa (asked for by {{histmerge}}) WP:Parallel histories Anthony Appleyard (talk) 05:14, 9 August 2019 (UTC)
Charlie Chan in City in Darkness > City in Darkness – Not exactly a cut & paste, but there isn't much overlap and it might be best to keep the history in one place if possible. PC78 (talk) 12:54, 8 August 2019 (UTC)
- @PC78: Rejected: some WP:Parallel histories, and the 2 pages are very different at their supposed cut-and-paste point. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 16:13, 8 August 2019 (UTC)
Draft:Voice of Silence (2020 film) to Voice of Silence (2020 film). Meloras (talk) 10:21, 5 August 2019 (UTC)
- (asked in Category:Candidates for history splitting) (asked for by {{histmerge}}) WP:Parallel histories -->
- Not done, there is nothing in Draft:Voice of Silence (2020 film). Anthony Appleyard (talk) 15:10, 5 August 2019 (UTC)
@Onel5969: Not done Hard Working Class Heroes to Ireland Music Week WP:Parallel histories Anthony Appleyard (talk) 04:49, 3 August 2019 (UTC)
User:Jgstokes/Area (LDS Church) and Area (LDS Church). --Jgstokes (talk) 20:58, 1 August 2019 (UTC)
- Merge the edit history of those pages and the corresponding talk pages between 4 May 2019 @ 05:51 UTC and time of request.
- I dream of horses pinged as requested.
User:Jgstokes/List of general authorities of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints/August 2019 and List of general authorities of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. --Jgstokes (talk) 20:58, 1 August 2019 (UTC)
- Merge the edit history of those pages and the corresponding talk pages between 4 May 2019 @ 05:42 UTC and time of request.
- I dream of horses pinged as requested.
  - @I dream of horses: Both rejected WP:Parallel histories. Events seem to have been: X was copied to Y. X and Y were both edited in parallel by different people. Then Y was text-merged back into X. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 05:05, 2 August 2019 (UTC)
    - Anthony Appleyard, okay, thanks for the reply. Jgstokes may be interested as well. -- I dream of horses (My talk page) (My edits) @ 07:27, 2 August 2019 (UTC)
    - Thank you for your response to this request. I dream of horses, you are right that I am interested in this outcome. I want to understand more why the page history merge request was rejected. If interested admins were to go into the history of the List of general authorities article, they would find that the histories for such subpages were merged with the main page as a matter of routine for most of the last decade. It is Trödel who has helped me with those page merges in the past. I hate to put that user on the spot by pinging them into this conversation, but I am sure the page histories would not have been merged in prior years if doing so was as problematic as was implied with the rejection of these requests. That user can speak more to his/her own experience and why the page merges were done in the past. But in the meantime, what may not be understood is that the subpages are always created every year to allow space for changes in area leadership that become effective each year on August 1 to be made in advance. Having a record of the history of those changes is vital to the upkeep of the List of general authorities page. Without such a merge, there will be gaps in terms of what has changed, when it has changed, and why, as a result of the work on the subpage. And if it was able to be done in the past, why shouldn't it be doable now? Unless, of course, the user who helped me with this in the past did something that should not have been don, which I doubt is the case. The only reason I filed such requests here is because that user who helped me in the past, last I heard, had scaled back participation on Wikipedia, which makes asking for assistancefrom him/her problematic for this year. I have not reached out to that user this go-round because he/she scaled back participation on Wikipedia, as I have had to do, within the last couple of years. And the only difference this year is that I also had to create a subpage for the Area (LDS Church page due to the fact that the 10 North American Areas of the Church were consolidated down to 6 as of today (August 1). With this additional background in mind, any additional insight that can be provided on the rejection of these requests would be apprecated. And as I said, I hate to have to ping in Trödel here, especially if he/she is still on Wikipedia infrequently, but I really think it best for him/her to answer further questions as to why page history merges have been done in prior years. With that said, thanks. --Jgstokes (talk) 08:34, 2 August 2019 (UTC)
      - Not sure why this is controversial. You have an announcement on X that a change will be coming and is effective on Y - between X and y there are very few changes but updating the page early would be a violation of WP:Crystal so the editors edited on a users subpage and then the change is made. There have rarely been edits on article page between X&Y and the user page then has a good history of the changes that have been made and which authors have made those changes. --Trödel 00:29, 3 August 2019 (UTC)

Rejected requests July 2019

@LiberatorG: Not done Ben 10 (2005 TV series) to Ben 10 (2006 TV series) (asked for by {{histmerge}}) I can't operate on more than 5000 edits at a time; sorry
Template:2021 Africa Cup of Nations qualification Group A to Template:2021 Africa Cup of Nations qualification group tables. Sawol (talk) 12:20, 16 July 2019 (UTC)
- @Sawol: Not done These 2 pages are very different lengths. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 15:36, 17 July 2019 (UTC)
@Steel1943: Not done Draft:Hello Kitty Kruisers to Hello Kitty Kruisers (asked for by {{histmerge}}) WP:Parallel histories Anthony Appleyard (talk) 21:11, 13 July 2019 (UTC)
@ToBeFree: Not done User:MJM080808/sandbox to Draft:Rebecca May Bradford Diven (asked for by {{histmerge}}) WP:Parallel histories Anthony Appleyard (talk) 18:30, 12 July 2019 (UTC)
@173.63.43.27: Not done HBO Max to Draft:WarnerMedia streaming service (asked for by {{histmerge}}) WP:Parallel histories, & texts very different, & HBO Max has many incoming links Anthony Appleyard (talk) 21:56, 10 July 2019 (UTC)
@CASSIOPEIA: Not done Draft:2019 PSL All-Filipino Conference to 2019 PSL All-Filipino Conference (asked for by {{histmerge}}) WP:Parallel histories & unlikely there was a complete cut-and-past event between them. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 20:47, 9 July 2019 (UTC)
@Railfan23: Not done Great Lakes Field Service Council to Edward N. Cole Canoe Base (asked for by {{histmerge}}) WP:Parallel histories, and it was a copy-and-paste, not a cut-and-paste. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 05:14, 6 July 2019 (UTC)
@Railfan23: Not done Great Lakes Field Service Council to D-bar-A Scout Ranch (asked for by {{histmerge}}) WP:Parallel histories, and it was a copy-and-paste, not a cut-and-paste. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 05:14, 6 July 2019 (UTC)
@Aranya: Not done Draft:La Manga Club to La Manga Club (asked for by {{histmerge}}) WP:Parallel histories Anthony Appleyard (talk) 05:26, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

Rejected requests June 2019

History-merge request by User:100.35.57.106 (who has made 3 edits, see Special:Contributions/100.35.57.106) to history-merge these 3 pages:
1. Draft:Trolls World Tour
2. Deleted edits of Draft:Trolls World Tour (upcoming film)
3. Trolls World Tour
- Page 1 has 2 parts:
  Edits at about 4900 bytes from 20:33, 22 July 2018 to 19:02, 14 March 2019‎
  
  Edits at about 9300 edits from 23:18, 19 June 2019 to 04:32, 20 June 2019‎
- Part 2 started as a copy of #1 at 13:13, 7 March 2019, runs to 23:15, 9 March 2019, all 7 edits by User:TheGreenTower (banned for sockpuppeting), deleted at 18:39, 14 March 2019, 7 edits
- Part 3 has 3 parts:
  16:29, 1 April 2017 to 04:22, 13 June 2018, length steadily increasing from 1747 to 3368 bytes
  
  11:43, 13 June 2018 to 17:55, 10 March 2019: redirects, often carrying Category: lines
  
  23:24, 19 June 2019 to 06:54, 20 June 2019, length about 9200 bytes
- Pages 1 and 3 are very WP:Parallel histories and cannot be history-merged completely. There seems to have been various copyings between these 3 pages.
- How well known is Trolls (film), or the Trolls dolls, anyway? This is the first that I have heard of this Trolls scenario. (I am in England.) Anthony Appleyard (talk) 10:59, 20 June 2019 (UTC)
  - Not done Anthony Appleyard (talk) 04:30, 28 June 2019 (UTC)

@Starcheerspeaksnewslostwars and JalenFolf: Not done (asked for by {{histmerge}}) WP:Parallel histories Anthony Appleyard (talk) 04:13, 28 June 2019 (UTC)
There are two articles on the same topic: Bhuj: The Pride of India and Bhuj The Pride Of India. According to the sources, there is a colon after the word Bhuj. And o of of should not be capitalised per WP:NCCPT. Merge the history of Bhuj The Pride Of India to Bhuj: The Pride of India. Mr. Smart LION 16:49, 26 June 2019 (UTC)
- Not done @Rickyurs: WP:Parallel histories. I have text-merged them. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 04:53, 27 June 2019 (UTC)
Done Majuwa, Nepal of 10:48, 19 March 2015 and before to User talk:Pitambar Bhattarai/Archive 1 (asked in Category:Candidates for history splitting) Anthony Appleyard (talk) 21:16, 21 June 2019 (UTC)
File:St Stanislaus Novitate Frederick Maryland.jpg with upload history from its English Wikipedia counterpart. Image was manually transferred to Commons. Ergo Sum 15:38, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
- @Ergo Sum: I cannot transfer history edits from one wiki to another. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 20:45, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
- @Ergo Sum and Anthony Appleyard: It would have been possible to copy the entire file with history from the English Wikipedia to commons, but now that it has been uploaded manually, getting a local admin to undelete the file here and a Commons admin to delete the file on commons so that it can be reimported with history is probably more trouble that it's worth. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 23:12, 21 June 2019 (UTC)
@Themane2: Not done Gross national product to Gross national product Wikipedia:Requested moves/Technical requests Anthony Appleyard (talk) 14:53, 8 June 2019 (UTC)

Rejected requests May 2019

@ElectroChip123: Not done Judicial murder to Wrongful execution (WP:Parallel histories after text-merge) Anthony Appleyard (talk) 05:04, 28 May 2019 (UTC)
@Christian75: Not done Miss Universe United Kingdom 2008 to Miss Universe United Kingdom 2008 (WP:Parallel histories) Anthony Appleyard (talk) 05:01, 28 May 2019 (UTC)
@ElectroChip123: Not done Jean-Marc Philippe to KEO (WP:Parallel histories due to text-merge) Anthony Appleyard (talk) 04:44, 28 May 2019 (UTC)
- @Anthony Appleyard: What does that mean? Is it ok as-is, or is there more I need to do on my end? I just want to be sure that I didn't cause a copyvio/attribution error when I moved the content over. ElectroChip123 (talk) 12:15, 28 May 2019 (UTC)
- @ElectroChip123: The two pages were text-merged, and thereby are WP:Parallel histories, and thus cannot be history-merged. For attribution, Talk:KEO#JMP Merger explains what happened. There is no copyvio in text-merging two Wikipedia pages. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 16:37, 28 May 2019 (UTC)
  - @Anthony Appleyard: The irony of that is that I am the one who carried out the text-merge and put that box on the talk page. Although I knew that I had attempted to follow the merge procedure as closely as possible (several months ago when I carried out the merge), my recent discovery of "Requests for history merge" had left me unsure of it, especially since the page is edited so infrequently (and thus I can't even "assume" that an admin had even looked over the merge in the months since I carried it out). Thank you for clarifying this. Sincerely, ElectroChip123 (talk) 23:12, 29 May 2019 (UTC)
  - @ElectroChip123 and Christian75: And see Talk:Carceral feminism#Page history. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 04:46, 30 May 2019 (UTC)
@Rusted AutoParts: Not done Draft:Akira (2021 film) to Akira (2021 film) (asked on my user talk page) (partly WP:Parallel histories, and the 2 pages are very different at the supposed cut-and-paste point.) Anthony Appleyard (talk) 22:23, 24 May 2019 (UTC)
@Renata3: Not done Stabbing as a terrorist tactic to Mass stabbing (asked for by {{histmerge}}) (The 2 pages are very different at the supposed cut-and-paste point. There was no single clean cut-and-paste move event here.) Anthony Appleyard (talk) 05:24, 17 May 2019 (UTC)
- Anthony Appleyard: the merge is supposed to be with user's sandbox (I did not propose it, so I am not 100%). I proposed an entirely unrelated content merger of two articles that cover very similar topics. Please take a closer look at article history. I am an admin and I could do the histmerger but I haven't done it in ages and I am sure I would mess smth up. Thanks, Renata (talk) 23:06, 17 May 2019 (UTC)
- @Renata3: Please, in more detail: (1) Do you mean text-merge or history-merge? (2) Which user's sandbox? (3) Which other page do you want it merging with? Anthony Appleyard (talk) 04:43, 18 May 2019 (UTC)
  - Anthony Appleyard: see this edit. Merge only from 2019-04-11T23:37:33, revision Special:PermanentLink/892065614 to today. Please ask ~ ToBeFree for more details if needed. Renata (talk) 00:46, 21 May 2019 (UTC)
    - Anthony Appleyard, please compare Special:Diff/897432020/897440640 (or rather the lack of noticeable differences) for a clear indication of a copy-and-paste move. I'd like to move the sandbox history into the mainspace article to show how the article was developed. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 00:57, 21 May 2019 (UTC)
- To avoid confusion, I have re-issued the request, and I have commented out the other, unrelated request for now. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 01:14, 21 May 2019 (UTC)
- @ToBeFree: That diff is between pages User:Justmeokie/sandbox and Mass stabbing. I presume that you want me to history-merge those 2 pages? Anthony Appleyard (talk) 04:52, 21 May 2019 (UTC)
- Done User:Justmeokie/sandbox to Mass stabbing (except 4 oldest edits) and (asked for by {{histmerge}}) Anthony Appleyard (talk) 05:01, 21 May 2019 (UTC)
  - Anthony Appleyard, thank you very much ~ ToBeFree (talk) 11:06, 21 May 2019 (UTC)
@PC78: Not done Overture (Def Leppard song to Overture (Def Leppard song) (asked for by {{histmerge}}) WP:Parallel histories Anthony Appleyard (talk) 04:59, 14 May 2019 (UTC)
@Dreamy Jazz: Not done Draft:ITC Fortune Pushpanjali Park to Draft:ITC Fortune Pushpanjali Hotel (asked for by {{histmerge}}) WP:Parallel histories Anthony Appleyard (talk) 04:55, 14 May 2019 (UTC)
@PC78: Not done Mustard Bath (film to Mustard Bath (film) (asked for by {{histmerge}}) WP:Parallel histories Anthony Appleyard (talk) 21:29, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
@PC78: Not done One In A Million (songs to One In A Million (song) (asked for by {{histmerge}}) WP:Parallel histories Anthony Appleyard (talk) 21:29, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
@PC78: Not done JAL (compiler to JAL (compiler) (asked for by {{histmerge}}) WP:Parallel histories Anthony Appleyard (talk) 20:46, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
KCKN (defunct) into KDTD — The content in KCKN (defunct) has a long article history dating to 2009, and with the two articles merging (I brought over almost the entire text of KCKN (defunct) just now), I want their histories to be combined as well is possible. Raymie (t • c) 05:39, 28 April 2019 (UTC)
- @Raymie: Not done WP:Parallel histories Anthony Appleyard (talk) 05:00, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
All of the edits for Eminem albums discography from 15:20, 4 May 2018 and earlier should be merged back into the history of Eminem discography. This should be done with "MergeHistory" so that we do not have to ask a steward, and would resolve an archived request from last year at WP:AN. After doing that, all of the remaining deleted edits for Eminem albums discography should then be restored. GeoffreyT2000 (talk) 00:37, 19 April 2019 (UTC)
- @GeoffreyT2000: Although I am an admin, Special:MergeHistory refused this move request "Unable to perform history merge as more than the limit of Array revisions would be moved.". Trying to move the edits a batch at a time would not work, because I would have to move the newest batch first, which Special:MergeHistory will not do. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 04:27, 19 April 2019 (UTC)
  Per the suggestions at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive298#Request to an admin who has the power to delete pages that have over 3000 edits, maybe open a phab request? --DannyS712 (talk) 04:28, 22 April 2019 (UTC)
- @Raymie, GeoffreyT2000, and DannyS712: Any more suggestions here? Anthony Appleyard (talk) 04:32, 1 May 2019 (UTC)
  - Thanks for tagging me, but my case isn't related to the Eminem issue and I abandoned it, simply going for talk page attribution. Raymie (t • c) 04:49, 1 May 2019 (UTC)
  @Anthony Appleyard: Since stewards are the only ones that are technically able to do this, and since the number of revisions is so high, I suggest:
  - Making a copy (yes, copy-and-paste, with a note for attribution) of the current content of each as a backup
  - Filing a request at meta:Steward requests/Miscellaneous for a steward to carry out the merging
  - Filing a request on phabricator for database supervision while the merge is carried out, similar to phab:T169440
  Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 06:50, 1 May 2019 (UTC)
- @Raymie, GeoffreyT2000, and DannyS712: Why is the page to be split? This diff between edits before and after the desired split point (15:20, 4 May 2018) shows very little text difference in a long page. The page's edit history is continuous through this point. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 04:17, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
  No idea, I didn't ask for it to be split, just trying to help --DannyS712 (talk) 04:19, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
  
  Please don't tag me in any further replies on this matter, my case is not related at all. Raymie (t • c) 06:39, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
  - - @GeoffreyT2000: Not done This diff between edits before and after the desired split point (15:20, 4 May 2018) shows very little text difference in a long page. The page's edit history is continuous through this point. (In earlier edits, portions of the text were cut-and-pasted off to Eminem videography and Eminem songs discography.} Anthony Appleyard (talk) 05:00, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
@2001:16a2:4df6:1000:40da:dffc:ce9d:2589: Not done Ghain to Ghayn (move asked for, I found histmerge apparently needed) WP:Parallel histories Anthony Appleyard (talk) 21:28, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
@Faromics: Not done Draft:Helstrom to Draft:Marvel's Helstrom (move asked for, I found histmerge apparently needed) WP:Parallel histories Anthony Appleyard (talk) 21:17, 3 May 2019 (UTC)

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