Wikipedia:Proposed article mergers

Below is a list of duplicate articles that have been created mostly by mistake. They have to be merged into a single piece of work, and one title has to be redirected to the other (or a completely new page must be created) in accordance with Wikipedia:Naming conventions and Wikipedia:Canonicalization.

Categories that need merging can be listed [together] on Wikipedia:Categories for deletion where one category will be deleted after merging into the other.

Although this page does not automatically update as does Category:Articles to be merged, this page has nevertheless been kept because unlike the category page, this page allows editors to make comments about the articles to be merged.

If you disagree with a "merge" indication then you can remove it, or change the template from {{merge}} to {{MergeDisputed}} and discuss it on this page until consensus is reached.

Actively avoiding duplicates

You can help prevent the creation of duplicate articles (and the resulting wasted effort) by:

• Searching for existing articles on the same subject before creating any new articles.
• Creating redirects for every term that is synonymous with the article's name, provided that it doesn't have to be disambiguated.

Wikipedia:Orphaned Articles lists articles that aren't linked to, and may have been created when a new article was created without having searched for a previously existing article.

Mark current duplicates

If you find a pair of articles which appear to be duplicates, merge them! If you can't carry out the merge yourself, it is suggested that you put the following at top of each:

{{merge}} [[Other article]]

This marks the pages so that future viewers will see that it needs to be merged. If you know which way the merge should go, you can put the following at the top of the article where the merged material should end up:

{{mergefrom}} [[Other article]]

Please note that this list is not generated automatically, and its entries must be added by hand.

Many Wikipedia users prefer to avoid having tags at the top of articles, particularly if it's not relevant to the reader of the article. Consider using these tags sparingly, and use the discussion page to discuss how to merge articles where it's not obvious whether or how the article should be merged.

How articles should be merged

Before you begin with the process of merging the articles, it is recommended that you take these bits of advice into consideration:

• Usually, an experienced user will suggest that one article (the source) be absorbed into another (the target).
• Read both articles carefully and decide which article has the more appropriate title and content.
• Merge the content by copying/pasting from one window to another. Be sure not to allow any of the good content to be lost in the transfer.
• The articles don't necessarily have to be merged at once. You can let others collaborate with the merging process, by placing the {{merging|target=Target article name}} template on the page that you will merge from (the source page). In this way, confusion will also be avoided, as others will know that the source page is outdated, and that all further contributions should only be included in the target page.
• Upon completion, it is critical to place a redirect on the page that the content has been moved from. For example, if you move the content of "John Ronald Doe" into "John Doe" you would put a redirect on "John Ronald Doe". This helps people find the new article title and prevents others from mistakenly recreating the duplicate.
• If you copy material from one article to the other, you must explain in your edit comment that you have done so, giving the name of the source article, for example "Merged material from [[John Ronald Doe]] into section "Biography"." This is important so that all contributors to the article can be properly credited, as required by the GFDL.

Alternatively, you could also leave the two pages distinct (without a redirect), but complete the text of one of the pages so that it is no longer a duplicate, incorrect, or a stub. For example, someone might suggest that the "Cinema of India" and "History of Indian Cinema" be merged, as they contain mostly duplicate information. In this case "Cinema of India" should contain an overview of the subject, including a short summary of the history, with a link to "History of Indian Cinema" which should contain the detailed history.

After a pair has been merged, please remove it from the list below (both the source and target pages). If you want to show off your work, use the Talk Page.

Articles to be merged

See also Special:Whatlinkshere/Template:Merge and Category:Articles to be merged

0-9

• 12.7 mm caliber should be merged into .50 BMG. Gentgeen 23:59, 30 Dec 2004 (UTC)

A

• Age of Exploration and Early Modern Europe significantly overlap. Both are rather short for their topic, and could use much enhancement. -- RJH 20:58, 1 Nov 2004 (UTC) -- done already, when I checked. Ancheta Wis 02:25, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• There is great overlap between these two Afghanistan articles[:] Democratic Republic of Afghanistan and Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Worse, they do not agree with each other! TwoOneTwo 22:27, 14 May 2004 (UTC)

C

• Christian year, liturgical year, and current content of religious festival; latter needs to become general article on the topic. Elf | Talk 00:25, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • I merged the first two together into liturgical year; the latter remains unmerged. -Aeinome 21:16, Nov 22, 2004 (UTC)
  • Christian calendar needs to be merged in there, too. Fishal 07:04, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)
• Connecticut River Valley, Pioneer Valley, Connecticut River overlap significantly. I suggest we merge all three into Connecticut River, but at a minimum the first two should be merged into Connecticut River Valley (and "Valley" lowercased). -- Rbellin 22:18, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Weakly agree re: Pioneer Valley into Connecticut River Valley, but disagree strongly about merging anything into Connecticut River. The river article is about the river, the valley article is more or less separate. We should also consider Western Massachusetts in this merge, somewhere. Rhobite 22:28, Oct 27, 2004 (UTC)
    • Actually I change my mind. Since the Pioneer Valley is a region of Massachusetts and is part of the template, it really can't merge into Connecticut River Valley, which encompasses areas outside of Mass. Western Mass is also larger than just the Valley, so none of these merges are justified. Rhobite 22:46, Oct 27, 2004 (UTC)
• Corpus Christianum and Christendom seem largely redundant to each other. I'd recommend that the two be merged in Christendom, that one being the English word. Smerdis of Tlön 14:42, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC). -- done Ancheta Wis 00:36, 13 Jan 2005 (UTC)

D

• District of Columbia (geography) should be merged with Washington, DC. It has very little content that isn't duplicative, and isn't really about geography, either. Postdlf 05:20, 14 Jul 2004 (UTC)
• Digital Audio Broadcast and Digital audio broadcasting
• Duchess of Malfi is newer than, and may contain no material not in, The Duchess of Malfi

E

• Epiphany (feast) & Three Kings Day
• Erdmessung -> geodesy into history of geodesy: the German word "Erdmessung" is translated in Langenscheidt Großwörterbuch 2004 as "geodesy".
• Effects of Isolation -> The Scarlet Letter. --Spangineer 16:36, Dec 15, 2004 (UTC)

F

• Far East Air Force (USAFFE), USAFFE, Philippine Army Air Corps, Philippine Department, Offshore Patrol—need to be rationalised somehow
• Femme Fatale: A Story of Mimicry and Murder When Night Falls into Firefly. Mostly bad prose but there is some useful stuff there. -- Graham ☺ | Talk 01:35, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Foreign exchange option and Foreign exchange options.-gadfium 01:14, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)

H

* Hugo Wolf and Hugo Wolf/temp. Martg76 05:47, 7 Jan 2005 (UTC) Ka-ching! --BenK 09:17, Jan 10, 2005 (UTC)

* Heat-shock protein should be merged into heat shock protein. --TenOfAllTrades 18:36, 10 Jan 2005 (UTC) -- Ancheta Wis 09:43, 13 Jan 2005 (UTC). But see the talk page for more work and references needed.

• History_of_Tonga should be merged into tonga

J

• John Prettyjohn should either be deleted or merged with John Prettyjohns- kaal 23:07, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Juan Verdera should be merged with The Muses Rapt. -Ld | talk 00:50, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)

L

• LASEK and Photorefractive keratectomy, cleanup needed for the latter (unwikified). -- Pjacobi 15:17, 26 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Don't forget to handle LASIK as part of this, should it happen. Not sure if the three need to be different. --Rossumcapek 03:39, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)
• Lawrence Barret and Lawrence Barrett, but I don't know which is the correct spelling. Gentgeen 01:06, 23 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Les Paul and Les Paul and Mary Ford. --Zigger 06:35, 2004 Oct 23 (UTC)
• Last stone game into Nim. Onebyone

M

• Marxian economics with Marxist school of economics --jni 20:21, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Merge completed. Sunray 07:41, 2005 Jan 15 (UTC)

Marxism is not the same as Marxian. Karl Marx himself said he was not a Marxist. Marxian economics is an attempt to find something valuable in Marx's analysis of capitalism without being encumbered by all the ideological baggage and associations of "Marxism". "Marxist" is a term which implies translation of economic analysis into (a particular kind of) political action; Marxian is purely analytical. Rd232 21:43, 13 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Yes, Rd232 has ably summarized much of the discussion on the talk page (Talk:Marxian economics). However, there is a page on "Marxism and the page that was merged (Marxist school of economics) contained little that wasn't duplicated elsewhere (mainly in Karl Marx). What remained has been incorporated into the Marxian economics article. I trust this works. Sunray 07:41, 2005 Jan 15 (UTC)

• Medline from MedlinePlus; the latter is a subset of the former. --Christopherlin 03:18, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Miscarriage of justice and wrongful conviction
• Mode and modality—both disambiguation pages with some overlap. PenguiN42 04:34, Nov 17, 2004 (UTC)

Disagree that the pages should be merged. A mode has the connotation of something singular, where a modality has the connotation that the topic can be switched from one thing to another if needed. Thus the enjoyment of a chocolate ice-cream cone is a mode, whereas the possibility of selecting from chocolate, vanilla, strawberry, etc., is implied in a modality. Ancheta Wis 00:58, 13 Jan 2005 (UTC)

• Monetary policy of central banks and monetary policy --J heisenberg 21:56, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• The Mother and Talk:Mirra Richard/Original POV version -- Paddu 08:06, 22 Apr 2004 (UTC)
• multifunction printer and multifunctional -- JTN 22:23, 2005 Jan 6 (UTC)
• Mars: category "Category:Craters_on_Mars" has a list of craters on Mars, as does the "list of craters on Mars" page. The later should be authoritative, and the two are out of sync. So wouldn't a simple link on the category page suffice? Thanks. — RJH 22:49, 7 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Lists are necessary even when there is a category[;] for example they can include red links and alternate names. Kappa 07:11, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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• Nakba with Palestinian exodus (the former is the Arabic appellation for the latter). JFW | T@lk 22:14, 21 Aug 2004 (UTC)
• Nazarene Judaism; Nazarene; Talmidaism; Nazarene Jews; Jewish Christians have all been marked for merging into one article as they are all about the same subject matter. IZAK 14:13, 10 Aug 2004 (UTC)

O

• Octa- and octo- Contrary to what these articles say, which is that octa- is Greek and octo is Latin, elsewhere at Wikipedia, namely, at Talk:Octopus, somebody wrote that either prefix can be either language. 66.245.65.78 23:17, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)
• Omro (town), Wisconsin and Omro, Wisconsin I don't think there are any differences in the article itself. User:Perlman10s 23:14, 12 Dec 2004 (EST)
• Opossum and Virginia opossum—the same animals with a lot of text in each article

Hmm. The "Opossum" article seems to be entirely about the Virginia Opossum, and have nothing at all about the Opossum (which is a different species, and native to Australia and New Zealand). Perhaps it is a case of moving the info from Opossum to Virginia Opossum, then writing a new article at Opossum (complete with a "see also" message pointing to the other article). Note that there are also Water Opossums, Murine Opossums, and several other related species. Grutness|^hello? 07:17, 4 Jan 2005 (UTC)

P

• Pacifism and non-violent resistance and non-violence (debated)
  • I would say non-violence and pacifism should be merged, but non-violence should remain seperate. Superm401 21:09, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Papal election information in pope and the same in conclave
• Peer-to-peer and file sharing have some fairly significant overlap.
• Plecostomus and common pleco are essentially the same page by the same author.
• Precedent and stare decisis have some overlap, will move to my to do list in a few days. Alex756 06:19, 7 Sep 2003 (UTC)
• Pylon should have content merged into it from Support pylon. Thryduulf 00:37, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Q

• Quality engineering -> quality assurance & quality control

R

• Racial discrimination should be merged into racism. Ellsworth 17:19, 4 Sep 2004 (UTC)
• Ryukyuan songs should include material from Tinsagu nu Hana Asadoya Yunta Shima nu Hito Futami Jouwa Ninjoubushi Tanchamee Hana into one article that would not be a stub[;] Futami Jouwa was in VfD but no consensus[;] this merge should save them all. rhyax 18:56, 1 Sep 2004 (UTC)
• Raver, rave party, and rave music might all be merged to form rave culture.
  • Merging raver into rave party should probably be sufficient. -Sean Curtin 00:39, Oct 24, 2004 (UTC)
    • Shouldn't that go into Rave culture? - Ta bu shi da yu 06:08, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Rococo Furniture Style into rococo. --Whosyourjudas (talk) 03:39, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)
• Roller skating should contain the information from inline skating. -- Grunt 🇪🇺 04:40, 2004 Nov 14 (UTC) (already merged)

• We also have roller skate Joyous 03:21, Nov 16, 2004 (UTC)

But roller skate is a footwear used in roller skating, thus we should not merge. Przepla 22:08, 19 Dec 2004 (UTC)

• Rug making should be merged with Carpet, then there is Category:Rugs that is in the wilderness... it could be renamed Carpet making. If there is good cause to maintain Rugs separately from Carpets, then make that clear and institute it as a disambiguation page or prominent cross linking. Rug making & Carpets and particularly how they refer to each other is a bit sloppy, confusing and redundant. Also, rug redirects to "rug making" while rugs redirects to "carpet". --RoyBoy 03:48, 26 Dec 2004 (UTC)

S

• Samson et Dalila has less material than Samson and Delilah (opera). Should the original spelling be used or the Anglicization in the English Wikipedia?
  • Google seems to prefer the former title. -Sean Curtin 06:25, Jan 15, 2005 (UTC)
• School prayer into First Amendment to the United States Constitution Sander123 07:26, 3 Sep 2004 (UTC)

The USA isn't the only country that has school prayer. The two articles should be rewritten (the first so it's from a NPOV so as to not be USAcentric and the second to deal with the USA issues) sheridan 07:03, 2005 Jan 4 (UTC)

• Sea to Sea Cycle Route and NCN C2C --SPUI 07:45, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Cycle path debate into Segregated cycle facilities --SPUI 09:26, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Self-defense and self-defence (law). The former is more general, the latter specific to England. Christopherlin 18:28, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Self-harm to breasts and sexual organs into Self-harm. Rvollmert 11:13, 2004 Aug 28 (UTC)
• Support pylon should be merged into pylon. Both articles need clean-up. Thryduulf 00:34, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Spectrometer, spectrograph, spectroscope -- Pjacobi 20:13, 27 Sep 2004 (UTC)

T

• Taboo Tuesday into WWE (per VfD)
  • VfD decided, but I suggest perhaps merging with list of WWE Pay-Per-View events, all better yet leaving alone. Przepla 22:20, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)
• Television network and lists of television channels—substantial duplication
• Transmission (automobile)/automatic transmission/gearbox/transmission (mechanics)/manual transmission—some should be merged, others split off
  • I merged Transmission (automobile) into transmission (mechanics), before checking this page. Maybe it would be better to add automatic transmission and manual transmission back into Transmission (automobile). --Key45 20:58, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Travel literature and Travelogue one historical one modern. MeltBanana 01:13, 14 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• I think toxicity, toxin should be merged. Perhaps also poison, so that the subtle difference between a "toxin" and a "poison" can be explained on the merged page, rather than duplicated on both pages. (toxic already redirects to toxin). --DavidCary 19:24, 1 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • It seems to me that the merge needed is more between poison and toxin as the distinction is subtle and toxins being a subset of poisons. Toxicity is a discussion of how potent poisons and toxins are and could be a section on that page but seems also fine as its own page.

W

• Witch trial and Burning Times into witch-hunt. -Sean Curtin 05:31, 8 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • hmm... Witch-hunt is used as a verb and still goes on. there needs to be some type of differentiation. maybe witch-hunt separate from the other 2 Williamb 06:39, 15 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • "Witch hunt" is the more common term. For example, Burning Times refers exclusively to "witch hunts", not once to "witch trials". Google hits for "witch trial": 11K; for "witch hunt", 271K; for "witchcraft trial", 2K; for "Burning Times", 26K. Uses of the term "witch-hunt" in reference to modern-day activities should be discussed in the article, not moved to a separate article. -Sean Curtin 00:07, 1 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • Leave them alone'. Someone already has merged Burning Times into witch-hunt. Witch trial is such a big page that merging it into witch-hunt would make witch-hunt too long. I have put into each page a pointer to the other. Anthony Appleyard 14:16, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC)
    • Although I could see making witch-hunt into an article about the social phenomenon and witch trial into an article about the trial itself, doing so would be a pretty arbitrary split. Both articles are still pretty redundant with one another. -Sean Curtin 04:02, Nov 29, 2004 (UTC)
• Wikipedia:Browser notes into meta:Browser issues with MediaWiki. --Zigger 12:28, 30 May 2004 (UTC)
  • there could be a case to leaving them separated[:] firstoff, the two projects use difrent[sic] character encoding[;] secondly the wiki one seems to be along the lins of, if you have x browere[sic], then you might have x problems, where[]as the meta one seems like, there are the known issues with meta. although i think that may just be a diffrence[sic] in style.
    • • They should be merged. Any "problems" that may be had using Wikipedia with a browser are bugs, and should be fixed. Some of the content on this page should also be merged into Wikipedia:Tools. JesseW 05:52, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)