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href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%92%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%B9%CF%80%CE%B1%CE%AF%CE%B4%CE%B5%CE%B9%CE%B1:%CE%A3%CE%B7%CE%BC%CE%B5%CE%B9%CF%89%CE%BC%CE%B1%CF%84%CE%AC%CF%81%CE%B9%CE%BF_%CE%B4%CE%B9%CE%B1%CF%87%CE%B5%CE%B9%CF%81%CE%B9%CF%83%CF%84%CF%8E%CE%BD/%CE%9F%CE%B4%CE%B7%CE%B3%CE%AF%CE%B5%CF%82_%CE%B3%CE%B9%CE%B1_%CF%83%CF%85%CE%B3%CF%87%CF%8E%CE%BD%CE%B5%CF%85%CF%83%CE%B7_%CE%B9%CF%83%CF%84%CE%BF%CF%81%CE%B9%CE%BA%CF%8E%CE%BD" title="Βικιπαίδεια:Σημειωματάριο διαχειριστών/Οδηγίες για συγχώνευση ιστορικών – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Βικιπαίδεια:Σημειωματάριο διαχειριστών/Οδηγίες για συγχώνευση ιστορικών" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aide:Guide_des_administrateurs/Fusion_d%27historiques" title="Aide:Guide des administrateurs/Fusion d'historiques – French" lang="fr" 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For the guideline on shortcuts, see <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Wikipedia:Shortcut</a>.</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_history_merge" title="Wikipedia:Requests for history merge">Wikipedia:Requests for history merge</a></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1252059228">.mw-parser-output .module-shortcutboxplain{float:right;margin:0 0 0 1em;border:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1);background-color:var(--background-color-base,#fff);padding:0.3em 0.6em 0.2em 0.6em;text-align:center;font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .module-shortcutboxleft{float:left;margin:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .module-shortcutlist{display:inline-block;border-bottom:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1);margin-bottom:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .module-shortcutboxplain ul{font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .module-shortcutanchordiv{position:relative;top:-3em}.mw-parser-output li .module-shortcutanchordiv{float:right}.mw-parser-output .mbox-imageright .module-shortcutboxplain{padding:0.4em 1em 0.4em 1em;line-height:1.3;margin:0}</style><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:HM"></span><span id="WP:CUT"></span><span id="WP:HISTMERGE"></span><span id="WP:CUTPASTE"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcuts</a></div><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:HM&redirect=no">WP:HM</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:CUT&redirect=no">WP:CUT</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:HISTMERGE&redirect=no">WP:HISTMERGE</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:CUTPASTE&redirect=no">WP:CUTPASTE</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p>In the early days of Wikipedia, renamings took place manually, using <a href="/wiki/Cut_and_paste" class="mw-redirect" title="Cut and paste">cut and paste</a>, before the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_move_a_page" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:How to move a page">move page</a> function was <a href="https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2002-August/003722.html" class="extiw" title="mailarchive:wikipedia-l/2002-August/003722.html">enabled for non-administrators in August 2002</a>. </p><p>Cut-and-paste moves still occur today because of unfamiliarity with the move function, unawareness that <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:ATTREQ" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:ATTREQ">attribution</a> is necessary, or when the move function fails (e.g., because the target has history) and people don't know to use the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Requested_moves" title="Wikipedia:Requested moves">Requested moves</a> forum to start a move request. </p><p>When a cut-and-paste move is done, the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Page_history" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Page history">page history</a> of an article or talk page can be split among two or more different pages. This is highly undesirable, because we need to keep the history with the content for <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyright" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Copyright">copyright</a> reasons. (See <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Copying_within_Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia">Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia</a>.) </p><p>In some circumstances, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators" title="Wikipedia:Administrators">administrators</a> can fix this by merging page histories, using the procedure given below. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc"/> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="When_to_request_a_histmerge" data-mw-thread-id="h-When_to_request_a_histmerge"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-When_to_request_a_histmerge"></span>When to request a histmerge<span data-mw-comment-end="h-When_to_request_a_histmerge"></span></h2></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Copy_paste_page_move_example.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Copy_paste_page_move_example.png/220px-Copy_paste_page_move_example.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="160" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Copy_paste_page_move_example.png/330px-Copy_paste_page_move_example.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Copy_paste_page_move_example.png/440px-Copy_paste_page_move_example.png 2x" data-file-width="1680" data-file-height="1225"/></a><figcaption>An example of an inappropriate cut/paste pagemove</figcaption></figure> <p>A history merge is required for attribution purposes, as attribution is lost during a cut/paste page move where there are multiple editors at the old page. In the image shown, it appears as if the user Thegreatrebellion had created the entirety of the added text at <a href="/wiki/Syed_Saddiq" title="Syed Saddiq">Syed Saddiq</a>, when the reality is that there were contributions from over 200 editors at the previous page name of <a href="/wiki/Syed_Saddiq_Syed_Abdul_Rahman" class="mw-redirect" title="Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman">Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman</a>. </p><p>While this is not an exhaustive list, any pages meeting the below criteria may be eligible for a histmerge: </p> <ul><li>There are several editors in the page history at the original location</li> <li>The editor who blanked and/or redirected the page used an edit summary such as "move to <new page name>"</li> <li>The new page was originally a redirect and was overwritten by the "new" article</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="When_not_to_request_a_histmerge" data-mw-thread-id="h-When_not_to_request_a_histmerge-When_to_request_a_histmerge"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-When_not_to_request_a_histmerge-When_to_request_a_histmerge"></span>When <i>not</i> to request a histmerge<span data-mw-comment-end="h-When_not_to_request_a_histmerge-When_to_request_a_histmerge"></span></h3></div> <p>New editors are often unaware of the ability to move pages (or are unable because of new-account restrictions), and will thus copy/paste a draft they have been working on into the article space. Similarly, a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NPR" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NPR">New Page Reviewer</a> may move a new article to the Draft space and the original editor will simply recreate it in the Article space. In both of these situations, if the original editor is the only one that has contributed content to the pages, a history merge is not necessary because there are no attribution issues (only one editor has written all of the content). </p><p>If trivial edits are made by other editors, such as maintenance tags or categorisation, and these edits are <i>not</i> transferred over by the primary content author, a history merge is not needed. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Instructions_for_tagging_a_page_for_history_merging" data-mw-thread-id="h-Instructions_for_tagging_a_page_for_history_merging"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Instructions_for_tagging_a_page_for_history_merging"></span>Instructions for tagging a page for history merging<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Instructions_for_tagging_a_page_for_history_merging"></span></h2></div> <ol><li>Place <span class="nowrap">{{<a href="/wiki/Template:History_merge" title="Template:History merge">History merge</a>|NAME OF PAGE THE ARTICLE WAS CUT FROM}}</span> at the <i>new location</i>, where the <i>pasting</i> was done. The page will appear in the hidden category <a href="/wiki/Category:Candidates_for_history_merging" title="Category:Candidates for history merging">Candidates for history merging</a>.</li> <li>Consider notifying the user of the issue on their talk page, perhaps using {{<a href="/wiki/Template:Uw-c%26pmove" title="Template:Uw-c&pmove">subst:uw-c&pmove</a>}}.</li></ol> <p>In cases where additional edits were made to the original version after the copy-and-paste and which the additional edits can <b>all</b> be safely discarded (e.g. <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:WPAFC" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:WPAFC">WP:WPAFC</a>-related templates, edits which were reverted, etc.), place {{History merge|NAME OF PAGE THE ARTICLE WAS CUT FROM|reason=|details=}} at the <i>new location</i> as described above. Fill in the two parameters as needed for this particular situation (see <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:History_merge" title="Template:History merge">history merge</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> for an example). </p><p>If there are no changes since the copied-from revision in either the original page or the pasted-to page, consider tagging the pasted page for temporary deletion using <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Db-copypaste" title="Template:Db-copypaste">db-copypaste</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> (see <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Speedy_deletion#G6" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Speedy deletion">WP:Speedy deletion#G6</a>), and then do a proper page move. <a href="/wiki/Special:ComparePages" title="Special:ComparePages">Special:ComparePages</a> or a similar tool should be used to verify that no changes have been made. </p><p>In more complex cases (explained below), please leave a description of the problem at <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_history_merge" title="Wikipedia:Requests for history merge">Wikipedia:Requests for history merge</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Parallel_versions" data-mw-thread-id="h-Parallel_versions-Instructions_for_tagging_a_page_for_history_merging"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Parallel_versions-Instructions_for_tagging_a_page_for_history_merging"></span>Parallel versions<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Parallel_versions-Instructions_for_tagging_a_page_for_history_merging"></span></h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:PVER"></span><span id="WP:PHIST"></span><span id="WP:Parallel_histories"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcuts</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:PVER&redirect=no">WP:PVER</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:PHIST&redirect=no">WP:PHIST</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Parallel_histories&redirect=no">WP:Parallel histories</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p>The ideal situation for a history merge is when an editor copies and pastes all content from one page to a brand new page, and then the old page does not receive any more edits. In other words, where the first page's history stops, the second page's history begins, and there are no overlapping diffs. </p><p>Users sometimes send in an ill-advised history-merge request after the two pages involved have been <a href="/wiki/Help:Merging" class="mw-redirect" title="Help:Merging">text-merged</a>. If the two pages have separate origins and simultaneous separate parallel histories before they were text-merged, they should not be history-merged, as that would shuffle the parallel editing histories together in one list and make a mess. There is an example in <a href="/wiki/Special:PermanentLink/225136152" title="Special:PermanentLink/225136152">this edit</a> of page <a href="/wiki/Clemson_Tigers_football" title="Clemson Tigers football">Clemson Tigers football</a>. There is an example with 5 incoming pages in <a href="/wiki/Special:PermanentLink/276468132" title="Special:PermanentLink/276468132">this edit</a> of page <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Emo" title="Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Emo">Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Emo</a>. The best thing to do would be to use the <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Copied" title="Template:Copied">Copied</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> template and place it on the source and/or destination's talk page, in order to meet the copyright attribution requirements of <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Copying_within_Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia">Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Repair_process_(for_admins)" data-mw-thread-id="h-Repair_process_(for_admins)"><span id="Repair_process_.28for_admins.29"></span><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Repair_process_(for_admins)"></span>Repair process (for admins)<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Repair_process_(for_admins)"></span></h2></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Using_the_MergeHistory_special_page" data-mw-thread-id="h-Using_the_MergeHistory_special_page-Repair_process_(for_admins)"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Using_the_MergeHistory_special_page-Repair_process_(for_admins)"></span>Using the MergeHistory special page<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Using_the_MergeHistory_special_page-Repair_process_(for_admins)"></span></h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:MERGEHISTORY"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcut</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:MERGEHISTORY&redirect=no">WP:MERGEHISTORY</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p>Administrators can use a special page, <a href="/wiki/Special:MergeHistory" title="Special:MergeHistory">Special:MergeHistory</a>, to perform history merges. It differs from the manual methods, as follows: </p> <ol><li>It automatically detects the latest version of the source page which is older than the oldest version of the target page, and won't allow the user to move later revisions. This feature is good if the source page eventually became something else, but can be bad if the target page had started out as a redirect to the source. When a redirect is blocking a full MergeHistory merge, the redirect and any older edits will need to be either deleted or merged to another redirect. Deletion and restoration of pages with lengthy edit histories is very time- and resource-intensive, and administrators are not allowed to delete pages with more than 5000 edits in their history. An easier option in these cases may be to history-merge the redirect and any earlier history to another redirect that was created later. See <a href="#Clearing_away_merge-blocking_redirects">§ Clearing away merge-blocking redirects</a>.</li> <li>The user can, however, tell it to only move earlier revisions than that – it is possible to select the latest revision it should move.</li> <li>It doesn't mix deleted and non-deleted versions of the target page.</li> <li>It retains any protection the target page may have.</li> <li>It doesn't create a new revision of the old page.</li> <li>If the user moves all non-deleted revisions of the source, a hard redirect is automatically created. This can't be overridden.</li> <li>The logs for this action aren't in the move log - they're in <a href="/wiki/Special:Log/merge" title="Special:Log/merge">a separate log</a>.</li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Clearing_away_merge-blocking_redirects" data-mw-thread-id="h-Clearing_away_merge-blocking_redirects-Using_the_MergeHistory_special_page"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Clearing_away_merge-blocking_redirects-Using_the_MergeHistory_special_page"></span>Clearing away merge-blocking redirects<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Clearing_away_merge-blocking_redirects-Using_the_MergeHistory_special_page"></span></h4></div> <ul><li>To clear a blocking redirect by deleting it: <ol><li>Check for deleted history at the target, and take note of all deleted edits there <ul><li>WARNING: Beware the <a href="#Revisions_with_same_timestamp">co-mingled revisions issue</a>. WORKAROUND: <ol><li>Move the page to draft: namespace before deleting it, with the rationale: "history-merging process".</li> <li>Restore the oldest (redirect) revision(s) – these would have been deleted by a regular move when it "moved over the redirect"</li> <li>Move the page with the oldest (redirect) revision(s) back to mainspace, then delete it (adding to the already existing deleted revisions)</li> <li>Restore the remaining history and move it back to mainspace</li></ol></li></ul></li> <li>Delete the target page with the rationale "setting up for a history merge"</li> <li>Restore all but the previously deleted edits and the oldest (redirect) revision(s) – these would have been deleted by a regular move when it "moved over the redirect" <ul><li>Deletion and restoration operations often time out with errors on pages with long edit histories. Simply try the delete or restore again; it virtually always succeeds on the second try</li> <li>Now MergeHistory can do the merge; this technique avoids making a new edit that needs to be reverted, which happens when the source is moved to the target</li></ul></li></ol></li> <li>To clear a blocking redirect by history-merging it: <ol><li>Find other redirects to the target page using <a href="/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere" title="Special:WhatLinksHere">Special:WhatLinksHere</a>, while hiding links and transclusions: <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AWhatLinksHere&target=&hidelinks=1&hidetrans=1">What redirects here</a> Example: <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AWhatLinksHere&target=Yasser_Arafat_International_Airport&hidelinks=1&hidetrans=1">Pages that redirect to "Yasser Arafat International Airport"</a></li> <li>Find an appropriate redirect, whose oldest revision (creation date) is newer than the most recent revision of the redirect history that needs to be cleared</li> <li>Merge the blocking redirect history to that redirect. Example: <a href="/wiki/Special:PageHistory/Gaza_Airport" title="Special:PageHistory/Gaza Airport">Special:PageHistory/Gaza Airport</a>. The April and July 2005‎ revisions were merged here from <a href="/wiki/Yasser_Arafat_International_Airport" title="Yasser Arafat International Airport">Yasser Arafat International Airport</a> (<a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Log?type=&user=Wbm1058&page=Yasser+Arafat+International+Airport&wpdate=&tagfilter=">log</a>) <ul><li>Now MergeHistory can do the merge; this technique avoids making a new edit that needs to be reverted, which happens when the source is moved to the target</li></ul></li></ol></li> <li>Instead of finding redirects, you can make a temporary page (for example, in draftspace), merge the blocking redirect history there, and then delete the temporary page when you're done.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Manual_process" data-mw-thread-id="h-Manual_process-Repair_process_(for_admins)"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Manual_process-Repair_process_(for_admins)"></span>Manual process<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Manual_process-Repair_process_(for_admins)"></span></h3></div> <p><i><b>Warning</b>: this procedure may only be <b>undone</b> by spending quite silly amounts of time. To undo a merge, see <a href="#How_to_undo_a_history_merge">below</a>. Do not do this if you're not sure what you're doing.</i> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="An_easy_case" data-mw-thread-id="h-An_easy_case-Manual_process"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-An_easy_case-Manual_process"></span>An easy case<span data-mw-comment-end="h-An_easy_case-Manual_process"></span></h4></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Page_history_merge_Simple.png" class="mw-file-description" title="Steps for a simple case"><img alt="Steps for a simple case" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Page_history_merge_Simple.png/500px-Page_history_merge_Simple.png" decoding="async" width="500" height="413" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/68/Page_history_merge_Simple.png 1.5x" data-file-width="720" data-file-height="595"/></a><figcaption>Steps for a simple case</figcaption></figure> <p>The following procedure merges the page histories in the case of a hypothetical example: </p><p>Suppose <a href="/wiki/Alabama/History" class="mw-redirect" title="Alabama/History">Alabama/History</a> (old title) was the only article on that subject, and that the article developed in the course of a number of edits, until a decision that <a href="/wiki/History_of_Alabama" title="History of Alabama">History of Alabama</a> (new title) was a better style of name for the article. Suppose further that for whatever reason, the contents of the old article were </p> <ul><li>cut from the old article,</li> <li>replaced in it with a redirect to the new title, and</li> <li>pasted into a newly created article bearing the new title.</li></ul> <p>(That is, the move tool was not available or not used to simultaneously transfer the Wiki text and the history of edits to the new title.) And suppose this replacement (new-title) article develops further and reflects the new history of these further edits. Our goal is to graft the (old) edit history from <a href="/wiki/Alabama/History" class="mw-redirect" title="Alabama/History">Alabama/History</a> (article with old title) onto the new history in <a href="/wiki/History_of_Alabama" title="History of Alabama">History of Alabama</a> (article with new title) where those partial histories can complement each other. The process is as follows: </p> <ol><li>Move <a href="/wiki/Alabama/History" class="mw-redirect" title="Alabama/History">Alabama/History</a> to <a href="/wiki/History_of_Alabama" title="History of Alabama">History of Alabama</a>, using the move tool. The admin approves deletion of <a href="/wiki/History_of_Alabama" title="History of Alabama">History of Alabama</a> to allow the move. (Now the old versions are the whole of the new title's history.)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Viewing_and_restoring_deleted_pages_by_sysops" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Viewing and restoring deleted pages by sysops">Undelete</a> the <a href="/wiki/History_of_Alabama" title="History of Alabama">History of Alabama</a> article, by <ol><li>Viewing the Page history,</li> <li>Linking via "View or restore ... deleted edits?", and</li> <li>Clicking on "Restore". (Now the new title's history has both the old and new versions, including an extra copy of the most recent version of <a href="/wiki/Alabama/History" class="mw-redirect" title="Alabama/History">Alabama/History</a>, created by the move tool.)</li></ol></li> <li>At this stage, <a href="/wiki/History_of_Alabama" title="History of Alabama">History of Alabama</a> will only show the text "#redirect <a href="/wiki/History_of_Alabama" title="History of Alabama">History of Alabama</a>" (assuming a redirect was the most recent version of <a href="/wiki/Alabama/History" class="mw-redirect" title="Alabama/History">Alabama/History</a>, the <a href="/wiki/History_of_Alabama" title="History of Alabama">History of Alabama</a> page will now be showing whatever the most recent version of <a href="/wiki/Alabama/History" class="mw-redirect" title="Alabama/History">Alabama/History</a> was). The last step is to revert to the last version of <a href="/wiki/History_of_Alabama" title="History of Alabama">History of Alabama</a> from before the move, by <ol><li>Clicking "Page history" on <a href="/wiki/History_of_Alabama" title="History of Alabama">History of Alabama</a>.</li> <li>Make a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Bypass_your_cache" title="Wikipedia:Bypass your cache">hard reload</a> (Shift+Control+R in Mozilla or Opera, Ctrl+F5 in Internet Explorer, and Ctrl+R in Firefox) to see an up-to-date history reflecting the undeletion.<sup><a href="#Lost_history_bug">1</a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Reverting" title="Help:Reverting">Reverting</a> to the last pre-move version.</li></ol></li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Merging_page_histories_of_pages_with_many_revisions" data-mw-thread-id="h-Merging_page_histories_of_pages_with_many_revisions-Manual_process"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Merging_page_histories_of_pages_with_many_revisions-Manual_process"></span>Merging page histories of pages with many revisions<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Merging_page_histories_of_pages_with_many_revisions-Manual_process"></span></h4></div> <p>Suppose that the page <a href="/wiki/History_of_Alabama" title="History of Alabama">History of Alabama</a> had too many revisions to be deleted or deleting it may cause other disruption. The following procedure can be used to merge page histories in this situation: </p> <ol><li>Move <a href="/wiki/History_of_Alabama" title="History of Alabama">History of Alabama</a> to <a href="/wiki/Alabama/History" class="mw-redirect" title="Alabama/History">Alabama/History</a> with a move summary like "history merge, will be back at correct title soon". Answer yes when asked to delete the Alabama/History page.</li> <li>Undelete the revisions of <a href="/wiki/Alabama/History" class="mw-redirect" title="Alabama/History">Alabama/History</a> containing the page history.</li> <li>Move <a href="/wiki/Alabama/History" class="mw-redirect" title="Alabama/History">Alabama/History</a> back to <a href="/wiki/History_of_Alabama" title="History of Alabama">History of Alabama</a>.</li> <li>If needed, undelete the remaining revisions at <a href="/wiki/Alabama/History" class="mw-redirect" title="Alabama/History">Alabama/History</a>.</li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="A_more_complex_case" data-mw-thread-id="h-A_more_complex_case-Manual_process"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-A_more_complex_case-Manual_process"></span>A more complex case<span data-mw-comment-end="h-A_more_complex_case-Manual_process"></span></h4></div> <p>Sometimes, after a cut-and-paste move is performed, the article at the old title is then edited for some other purpose (e.g., turning it into a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Disambiguation" title="Wikipedia:Disambiguation">disambiguation</a> page). That causes the article now at NewTitle to have part of its history there, and part at OldTitle, but the history at OldTitle also contains the history of NewMeaning. Use of the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Selective_deletion" title="Wikipedia:Selective deletion">selective deletion</a> function allows these to be repaired as well. </p> <figure class="mw-halign-right mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Page_history_merge_Complex.png" class="mw-file-description" title="Steps for a complex case"><img alt="Steps for a complex case" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Page_history_merge_Complex.png/500px-Page_history_merge_Complex.png" decoding="async" width="500" height="245" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Page_history_merge_Complex.png/750px-Page_history_merge_Complex.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Page_history_merge_Complex.png/1000px-Page_history_merge_Complex.png 2x" data-file-width="1009" data-file-height="495"/></a><figcaption>Steps for a complex case</figcaption></figure> <p><i>To select more than one revision for undeletion, click on the tick box of the first revision to be undeleted, then shift-click on the last revision to be undeleted. Every intermediate revision will then be selected.</i> </p><p>An example of this was <a href="/wiki/Military_of_Japan" class="mw-redirect" title="Military of Japan">Military of Japan</a>; the original was moved to <a href="/wiki/Japan_Self-Defense_Forces" title="Japan Self-Defense Forces">Japan Self-Defense Forces</a> with a cut-and-paste move, and the article <a href="/wiki/Military_of_Japan" class="mw-redirect" title="Military of Japan">Military of Japan</a> was then turned into a disambiguation page. This was repaired with the following procedure: </p> <ol><li><a href="/wiki/Military_of_Japan" class="mw-redirect" title="Military of Japan">Military of Japan</a> is deleted.</li> <li>Selective undelete is used to undelete only those versions of <a href="/wiki/Military_of_Japan" class="mw-redirect" title="Military of Japan">Military of Japan</a> which belonged to "Japan Self-Defense Forces".</li> <li>The versions of "Japan Self-Defense Forces" at <a href="/wiki/Military_of_Japan" class="mw-redirect" title="Military of Japan">Military of Japan</a> are moved to <a href="/wiki/Japan_Self-Defense_Forces" title="Japan Self-Defense Forces">Japan Self-Defense Forces</a>, using the normal page-move function. For this to happen, <a href="/wiki/Japan_Self-Defense_Forces" title="Japan Self-Defense Forces">Japan Self-Defense Forces</a> must be deleted, although this can be done as part of the move.</li> <li>Undeletion of <a href="/wiki/Japan_Self-Defense_Forces" title="Japan Self-Defense Forces">Japan Self-Defense Forces</a> restores the rest of the versions of that article to its history.<sup><a href="#Lost_history_bug">1</a></sup></li> <li>However, the most recent version in the history of <a href="/wiki/Japan_Self-Defense_Forces" title="Japan Self-Defense Forces">Japan Self-Defense Forces</a> is now the most recent version of the old history from <a href="/wiki/Military_of_Japan" class="mw-redirect" title="Military of Japan">Military of Japan</a> (it's a copy of that version, created by the page-move function). So, go into the history of <a href="/wiki/Japan_Self-Defense_Forces" title="Japan Self-Defense Forces">Japan Self-Defense Forces</a>, select the next-most-recent version, click on it, and when it appears, click on "Edit this page", ignore the "WARNING: You are editing an out-of-date revision" message, type something suitable (e.g., "restoring most recent version after merging histories") in the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Edit_summary" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Edit summary">edit summary</a>, and hit "Save page". That article is now restored to its condition prior to this procedure, and now also has its complete history.</li> <li>Step 3 above (the move) will have left a history containing just a redirect at <a href="/wiki/Military_of_Japan" class="mw-redirect" title="Military of Japan">Military of Japan</a>. Delete the redirect.</li> <li>Undeletion of all the <i>other</i> versions of <a href="/wiki/Military_of_Japan" class="mw-redirect" title="Military of Japan">Military of Japan</a> restores the more recent history of that article; no additional steps are needed, as the most recent version should now be the current version.<sup><a href="#Lost_history_bug">1</a></sup></li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="A_troublesome_case" data-mw-thread-id="h-A_troublesome_case-Manual_process"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-A_troublesome_case-Manual_process"></span>A troublesome case<span data-mw-comment-end="h-A_troublesome_case-Manual_process"></span></h4></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:PV"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcut</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:PV&redirect=no">WP:PV</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">"WP:PV" redirects here. For pageviews, see <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Pageview_statistics" title="Wikipedia:Pageview statistics">Wikipedia:Pageview statistics</a>.</div> <p>However, the examples just described only work well if the two pieces of the history of one 'article' are disjoint; i.e. one ends before the other begins. These procedures are inadequate if this condition does not apply, e.g., if the copy of the article at the old title has been edited <i>after</i> the pasting of its contents into the new title. For example, it is not uncommon for: </p> <ol><li>an article at (old) page <i>A</i> to be cut and pasted into (new) page <i>B</i>, and</li> <li>page <i>A</i> later to be reverted to an article on the same topic, with a sequence of edits there as well.</li></ol> <p>In this case, the time periods of the two series of edits will overlap. </p><p>If someone then page-history merges pages <i>A</i> and <i>B</i> using the method described above, the result will sequence the versions of <i>A</i> and <i>B</i> strictly by time, with the result that various versions of <i>A</i> will be interleaved between versions in the page history of page <i>B</i> (and/or vice-versa). Inspecting this merged history without means of distinguishing between the two overlapping progressions (since nothing in this history indicates which version belongs to which sequence) invites severe confusion. </p><p>An appropriate procedure for such a case is to forego the history merge, and instead handle the situation much like a normal merge; put a note pointing to the other version of the page on the article's talk page. If it is inappropriate to leave the second copy in the main article space, you can archive the duplicate page to Talk: space (i.e. by moving it to some suitable title, such as Talk:RandomArticle/OldVersion). </p><p>The MediaWiki software does not allow page history to be publicly archived at a page title that does not host a live page or redirect. Therefore, if two pages with parallel histories are merged but it is undesirable to keep a redirect from the deprecated page title to the destination page title, the old page history needs to move. This is sometimes done by moving the page history to a subpage of the talk page of the destination page. An example can be found at <a href="/wiki/Talk:Compilation_of_Final_Fantasy_VII#Old_page_history" title="Talk:Compilation of Final Fantasy VII">Talk:Compilation of Final Fantasy VII#Old page history</a>. Use the <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Parallel_version" title="Template:Parallel version">Parallel version</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> template for tagging parallel versions found on talk pages. </p><p>Also, if page A is to be history-merged into page B, before the process, make sure that there are no deleted edits in page B, as then deleting B will shuffle the deleted and non-deleted edits attached to the page together. The deleted history should first be rescued from under B by some process such as this: Move B to some other name, say B_zxcvbnm (without making a redirect). Undelete B. Move B to some other name, say B/old_version . If necessary, re-delete B/old_version . Move B_zxcvbnm back to B (without making a redirect). </p><p>Likewise, if a page must be deleted and then partly undeleted for a history-split, first check in case it is sitting over a deleted parallel history. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="History_splitting" data-mw-thread-id="h-History_splitting-Manual_process"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-History_splitting-Manual_process"></span>History splitting<span data-mw-comment-end="h-History_splitting-Manual_process"></span></h4></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:HISTSPLIT"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcut</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:HISTSPLIT&redirect=no">WP:HISTSPLIT</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p>Over time, articles may change from one underlying topic to a completely separate topic. Normally this should be accomplished through <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Move" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Move">moves</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Disambiguation" title="Wikipedia:Disambiguation">disambiguation</a> pages. However, if a user is unfamiliar with those processes they may simply <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:AHIJACK" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:AHIJACK">change the topic of an article</a> (overwriting the old) and continue editing. If this is not caught immediately it is very easy for the new topic to build up a substantial edit history of its own. Admins can use the following steps to fix this problem and maintain separate histories for the separate topics: </p> <ol><li>Delete the article (original article name)</li> <li>Restore previous revisions up to (but not including) the point where the topic was changed.</li> <li>Move [without redirect] the restored versions (old topic) to a new name (see also <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Disambiguation" title="Wikipedia:Disambiguation">disambiguation</a>) <ul><li>If there is already an article under the new name and you wish to histmerge into it:</li></ul> <dl><dd>a) select the "delete the existing article" option, while moving;</dd> <dd>b) restore deleted revisions of new name.</dd></dl></li> <li>Restore new revisions of new topic (still at original article name)</li> <li>Revert to latest good versions as needed</li> <li>Establish a disambiguation page for the different topics</li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="How_to_handle_the_left-over_redirect" data-mw-thread-id="h-How_to_handle_the_left-over_redirect-Manual_process"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-How_to_handle_the_left-over_redirect-Manual_process"></span>How to handle the left-over redirect<span data-mw-comment-end="h-How_to_handle_the_left-over_redirect-Manual_process"></span></h4></div> <p>In most cases, you will be moving all non-redirect versions of one page into the history of another and leaving a redirect. Please keep the following situations in mind when deciding what to do with the redirect: </p> <ul><li>Is the resulting redirect eligible for speedy deletion (see <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:SPEEDY#General" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:SPEEDY">WP:SPEEDY#General</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:SPEEDY#Redirects" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:SPEEDY">WP:SPEEDY#Redirects</a>)? As with regular page moves, consider waiting a few days before deleting the leftover redirect even if it is eligible for speedy deletion.</li> <li>Are all incoming links to the leftover redirect fixed? If not, don't delete the redirect until they are.</li> <li>Is it likely the most recent editors of the moved revisions are watchlisting the page? Consider notifying them of the change.</li> <li>Is the leftover redirect in User: or User_talk: space? If you do delete it, notify the affected user unless there is a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:IAR" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:IAR">good reason</a> not to. Consider leaving the redirect unless doing so would cause problems, such as in the case of: <ul><li>A redirect from the "main" user page or "main" user talk page to somewhere other than another page in that user's userspace.</li> <li>A redirect to another user's pages or non-user space in a way that may cause confusion or is otherwise inappropriate.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="History-merging_a_transcluded_page" data-mw-thread-id="h-History-merging_a_transcluded_page-Repair_process_(for_admins)"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-History-merging_a_transcluded_page-Repair_process_(for_admins)"></span>History-merging a transcluded page<span data-mw-comment-end="h-History-merging_a_transcluded_page-Repair_process_(for_admins)"></span></h3></div> <p>If page X is transcluded in page Y, and page X is marked to be the recipient in a history-merge, then page X and page Y will both appear in <a href="/wiki/Category:Candidates_for_history_merging" title="Category:Candidates for history merging">Category:Candidates for history merging</a>, and both pages will display the request to perform a history-merge. An admin should not try to perform a history-merge on page Y, but only on page X. This is most likely to happen if page X is a template, but it may happen to any page that is transcluded. To avoid this, <code>{{history merge}}</code> should be placed in <code><noinclude></code> tags on page X. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="How_to_undo_a_history_merge" data-mw-thread-id="h-How_to_undo_a_history_merge"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-How_to_undo_a_history_merge"></span>How to undo a history merge<span data-mw-comment-end="h-How_to_undo_a_history_merge"></span></h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:HMUNDO"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcut</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:HMUNDO&redirect=no">WP:HMUNDO</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p>If a history merge should not have been performed, then it may be undone. Note, however, that it can be quite tedious, especially if the article has a very long history. The following procedure is listed: </p> <ol><li>Suppose <i>A</i> has been history merged into <i>B</i>.</li> <li>We want to get <i>A'</i>s former history back into <i>A</i>.</li> <li>Delete <i>B</i>.</li> <li>Selectively undelete the revisions of <i>B</i> that made up the history of <i>A</i> before the history merge.</li> <li>Move <i>B</i> to <i>A</i>.</li> <li>Undelete the rest of the revisions of <i>B</i>.</li> <li>If <i>A</i> and/or <i>B</i> is now a redirect to itself or the other article, then revert or change the redirect target, as deemed appropriate.</li></ol> <p>An example of a successful history merge and undo is available at <a href="/wiki/User:King_of_Hearts/Sandbox/6" title="User:King of Hearts/Sandbox/6">User:King of Hearts/Sandbox/6</a> (the <i>A</i> article) and <a href="/wiki/User:King_of_Hearts/Sandbox/7" title="User:King of Hearts/Sandbox/7">User:King of Hearts/Sandbox/7</a> (the <i>B</i> article). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Bugs_and_problems" data-mw-thread-id="h-Bugs_and_problems"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Bugs_and_problems"></span>Bugs and problems<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Bugs_and_problems"></span></h2></div> <p><span class="anchor" id="Bugs"></span> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:History_merging/Old_bugs" title="Wikipedia:History merging/Old bugs">Wikipedia:History merging/Old bugs</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Revisions_with_same_timestamp" data-mw-thread-id="h-Revisions_with_same_timestamp-Bugs_and_problems"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Revisions_with_same_timestamp-Bugs_and_problems"></span>Revisions with same timestamp<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Revisions_with_same_timestamp-Bugs_and_problems"></span></h3></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1227084136">.mw-parser-output .tracked{float:right;clear:right;margin:0 0 1em 1em;width:12em;border:1px solid #72777d;border-radius:2px;background-color:var(--background-color-interactive,#EAECF0);color:var(--color-base,#202122);font-size:85%;text-align:center;padding:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .tracked-url{font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .tracked-closure{color:black;font-weight:bold;text-transform:uppercase}.mw-parser-output .tracked-resolved{color:green}</style><div role="note" class="tracked plainlinks mw-trackedTemplate">Tracked in <a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/" class="extiw" title="phabricator:">Phabricator</a><br/><span class="tracked-url"><a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T30819" class="extiw" title="phabricator:T30819"><span class="trakfab-T30819"> Task T30819</span></a></span><br/></div> <p>When a page is moved, two edits are made, with consecutively numbered revision IDs and identical timestamps & edit summaries. In edit histories, the timestamps are usually shown to the minute (<code>17:47, 21 January 2008‎</code>), unless the <a href="/wiki/ISO_8601" title="ISO 8601">ISO 8601</a> date format preference is set; however, in the database they are recorded to the second, e.g.: </p> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>revid </th> <th>timestamp </th> <th>edit summary </th> <th>title </th> <th>bytes </th> <th>difference in bytes and page content </th></tr> <tr> <td>185912120 </td> <td>2008-01-21<br/>17:47:32 </td> <td>moved <a href="/wiki/%C3%89lie,_duc_Decazes" title="Élie, duc Decazes">Élie, duc Decazes</a> to <span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%C3%89lie_Decazes,_Duc_Decazes&redirect=no">Élie Decazes, Duc Decazes</a></span> </td> <td><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%C3%89lie_Decazes,_Duc_Decazes&redirect=no">Élie Decazes, Duc Decazes</a></span> </td> <td>8,304 </td> <td>0‎ — an edit is made on the target documenting the move in the edit summary, with no difference in page content </td></tr> <tr> <td>185912121 </td> <td>2008-01-21<br/>17:47:32 </td> <td>moved <a href="/wiki/%C3%89lie,_duc_Decazes" title="Élie, duc Decazes">Élie, duc Decazes</a> to <span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%C3%89lie_Decazes,_Duc_Decazes&redirect=no">Élie Decazes, Duc Decazes</a></span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/%C3%89lie,_duc_Decazes" title="Élie, duc Decazes">Élie, duc Decazes</a> </td> <td>40 </td> <td>‎ ‎-8,264‎ — the source page's text was replaced with <code>#REDIRECT <a href="/wiki/%C3%89lie_Decazes,_Duc_Decazes" class="mw-redirect" title="Élie Decazes, Duc Decazes">Élie Decazes, Duc Decazes</a></code> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Live edits are uniquely identified by their revision ID numbers, but deleted edits are referenced by their <i>timestamps</i>. As long as these two revisions are located on different titles, this isn't a problem. However, if the two edits are inadvertently histmerged to the same page, and then temporarily deleted, it is impossible to restore one of these edits without restoring both of them, because they share the identical timestamp which identifies which edit to restore. Thus care should be taken not to move or histmerge a page-move generated <code>#REDIRECT</code> edit off of the page it was made on. <code>#REDIRECT</code>s should stay on the page on which they were created, either as live or deleted edits. </p><p>These can, however, theoretically be separated using <a href="/wiki/Special:MergeHistory" title="Special:MergeHistory">Special:MergeHistory</a>, but in practice this is a particularly inelegant and tedious method for anything other than what it was designed for (i.e. history-merging). Here's a sketch of how it would need to be done: </p> <ol><li>Suppose we want to move revisions of <i>A</i> into <i>B</i>. We first delete <i>A</i>.</li> <li>After undeleting the revisions of <i>A</i>, we notice that extra edits with the same timestamp that need to remain on <i>A</i> have also been undeleted.</li> <li>Create a temporary empty userpage to hold the revisions while performing the split.</li> <li>Using <a href="/wiki/Special:MergeHistory" title="Special:MergeHistory">Special:MergeHistory</a>, if the first undeleted edits on <i>A</i> need to remain on <i>A</i>, merge those edits to the temporary userpage. If the first undeleted edits should be merged to <i>B</i>, then merge those edits to <i>B</i>.</li> <li>Repeat step 4 until <a href="/wiki/Special:MergeHistory" title="Special:MergeHistory">Special:MergeHistory</a> cannot be used anymore.</li> <li>If the remaining revisions on <i>A</i> still need to be merged to <i>B</i>, delete <i>B</i>, move those revisions to <i>B</i> (the revisions should not be mixed anymore after step 5), then undelete <i>B</i>.</li> <li>Delete the temporary empty userpage, and undelete all revisions to be moved back to <i>A</i> (so to exclude the revision of you creating the userpage)</li> <li>Delete <i>A</i> if there are remaining undeleted revisions on <i>A</i>. Move the temporary empty userpage to <i>A</i>. Undelete the other revisions on <i>A</i> and revert the latest move edit back to the previous latest revision on <i>A</i>.</li> <li>You should now end up with the correct edits merged into <i>B</i>.</li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Wikidata" data-mw-thread-id="h-Wikidata-Bugs_and_problems"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Wikidata-Bugs_and_problems"></span>Wikidata<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Wikidata-Bugs_and_problems"></span></h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1227084136"><div role="note" class="tracked plainlinks mw-trackedTemplate">Tracked in <a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/" class="extiw" title="phabricator:">Phabricator</a><br/><span class="tracked-url"><a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T75908" class="extiw" title="phabricator:T75908"><span class="trakfab-T75908"> Task T75908</span></a></span><br/></div> <p>Page moves and deletions are generally reflected on <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikidata" title="Wikipedia:Wikidata">Wikidata</a> as soon as they happen. After performing a history merge, it is a good idea to check your Wikidata contribs (<a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/special:mycontributions" class="extiw" title="d:special:mycontributions">convenience link</a>) and restore pages to their previous state if necessary. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Page_curation" data-mw-thread-id="h-Page_curation-Bugs_and_problems"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Page_curation-Bugs_and_problems"></span>Page curation<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Page_curation-Bugs_and_problems"></span></h3></div> <p>Similarly when a page is deleted and then undeleted, it is added to the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Page_Curation/Help" title="Wikipedia:Page Curation/Help">new pages feed</a> and is marked as unreviewed; it is also a good idea to check for this and manually review the page if necessary (<a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=Dragon+NaturallySpeaking">example log</a>). </p> <div 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