Forum:Mergefrom template help

I want to know the easy way how to merge pages on my wikia site? Sundogs 01:15, 13 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Usually you just blank one of the pages (say you want to merge "Foo" into "Bar") with a  #REDIRECT Bar  and an edit sumamry like "Merging with Bar ", and copy/paste the mergable content to Bar with an edit summary "Merging from Foo ".
 * If you want to merge the histories (rarely needed unless you plan to delete one of the two pages rather than redirect it), you delete the destination page "Bar", move "Foo" to "Bar", delete "Bar" again, and then undelete "Bar". NOTE that this will restore both sets of histories by revision date, and make it somewhat confusing when checking diffs in the future (often only specific revisions are moved over). Not advised except by advanced users. --Splarka (talk) 02:19, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
 * How would you merge only certain revisions. Which would mean splitting page histories. I can't think of a way to do that. Because a default functionality of move which only moves undeleted revisions could have a very, very bad outcome. That would only work with a special sysop checkbox to split. Compared to that, merging page histories to fix cut&paste mistakes is easy. 06:36, 13 March 2007 (UTC)


 * You just leave the chosen revision, that you don't want, as deleted when undeleting. --Splarka (talk) 07:27, 13 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Then doesn't that mean that if something is deleted all the deleted revisions stay under the same name even when a normal user uses the move page function. What if some old revisions of a page were deleted and the page was moved. Then wouldn't the deleted revisions become lost and not be found if someone went back to look for any revisions that may need restoring. 08:52, 13 March 2007 (UTC)


 * These reasons and possible confusions (as well as many others) are why it is for advanced users only. Read: so don't do it. --Splarka (talk) 21:53, 13 March 2007 (UTC)