Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-24409505-20150401141924/@comment-452-20150407153109

Ohmystars wrote: But if I copy over the thread, then all history of the page and the comments on the page will be erased (which is the main point)! Besides, it would give the wrong impression that I was the one who wrote the thread (even if I give the proper credits to the IP), because the thread is assigned to my account. I wish there was just a way to simply move it to a new thread in the forum without any of that. It is refreshing to find someone else who cares about such things.

You're correct in that if you copy/paste any content on Wikia without some indication as to the authors of the content, then you are technically violating the licensing conditions. (There are many admins who mistakenly believe that copy/paste archiving is acceptable, when instead they should be utilising the "Move" function to retain the edit history.)

In this case, it would satisfy the licensing terms if you listed the authors of the former page. You can get a list of all editors by adding ?action=credits to the end of a page url.

Unfortunately, this still doesn't help with the lost comments.

I've asked Staff about this sort of thing in the past, and it's not a high priority for them because few people care about it, and Wikia Staff have a "good enough" attitude when it comes to Wikia features.

If you would like to be able to move threads and comments in/out of Forum/Message Wall threads, then I suggest you, and everyone you know, make a feature request via Special:Contact.

Ohmystars wrote:

They are anonymous users (using IP addresses), so they can't have a User Blog. While anons can't create user blogs, I recently found out that you can move pages into an anon User Blog, so this might work for you in this case.

If you move my ideas to User blog:184.88.49.60/my ideas, it won't be listed on User blog:184.88.49.60, but it will appear in Blog:Recent posts and Category:Blog posts.