Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Merge/AfD merge backlog elimination drive

This page is within the scope of WikiProject Merge, an attempt to reduce the articles to be merged backlog and improve the merging process. If you wish to help, you can edit the page attached to this talk page, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.MergeWikipedia:WikiProject MergeTemplate:WikiProject MergeMerge articles

This page was nominated for deletion on 15 February 2014. The result of the discussion was tag as historical.

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Apparently this backlog was temporarily eliminated on February 15, 2014, but currently there are 197 pages in Category:Articles to be merged after an Articles for deletion discussion. – Wbm1058 (talk) 18:59, 14 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Apparently there were 335 pages in this backlog when the project to eliminate it was initiated. Thus, the project to re-populate the backlog is now (197 ÷ 335) × 100 = 59% complete... or the project to eliminate the original 335 is now just 41% complete... thanks to the hard work of AfD !voters to repopulate this vital backlog. Wbm1058 (talk) 19:15, 14 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Potential problem with template

Currently, on the project page, the template is {{Copied |from= |from_oldid= |to= |diff= }} . I just attempted to use that template on this talk page: Talk:List of ships attacked by Somali pirates, but kept not getting the "this edit" parameter wrong. Looking at the other merge template on the same talk page, I substituted out the simple "diff=" with "to_diff=", which seems to have worked. Did I do something incorrect? Onel5969 ^{TT me} 21:37, 24 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]