Bureaucrats, checkuser, oversight, Administrators
61,871
edits
On November 27th, 2022, the 8,000th article was added to the SuccuWiki!
Help:Moving a page: Difference between revisions
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
m
→Fixing cut and paste moves
m (→Move vs rename) |
|||
| Line 97: | Line 97: | ||
==Fixing cut and paste moves== | ==Fixing cut and paste moves== | ||
Many past renamings took place before the move page function was created by our hard-working [[m:Developers|developer]]s, and others are done by people not aware of this function. Such manual moves were done using [[w:Cut, copy, and paste|cut and paste]]. As a result, the page history of an article or talk page can be split among two or more different pages. | Many past renamings took place before the move page function was created by our hard-working [[m:Developers|developer]]s, and others are done by people not aware of this function. Such manual moves were done using [[w:Cut, copy, and paste|cut and paste]]. As a result, the page history of an article or talk page can be split among two or more different pages. | ||
| Line 106: | Line 105: | ||
Follow this procedure to merge page histories: | Follow this procedure to merge page histories: | ||
# Suppose we wish to merge edit history from | # Suppose we wish to merge edit history from Alabama/History (old title) into History of Alabama (new title): | ||
# Delete | # Delete History of Alabama, with comment ''deleting to merge page histories - back soon''. | ||
# Move | # Move Alabama/History to History of Alabama, using the move tool. | ||
# | # Help:Administration#Restoring pages|Undelete the History of Alabama article. | ||
# Edit | # Edit History of Alabama to restore the most recent version (or use administrator rollback). | ||
Note that the page history will often look wrong until the last step here is carried out, because it doesn't update after an undeletion until the next time the page is edited. | Note that the page history will often look wrong until the last step here is carried out, because it doesn't update after an undeletion until the next time the page is edited. | ||