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.

If you disagree with a 'merge' indication then change the template from {{Merge}} to {{MergeDisputed}} and discuss it on this page until consensus is reached.

Proactive action: avoiding duplicates

The creation of duplicate articles, and the wasted effort this causes, can be avoided by creating lots of redirects. Also, when creating new articles, search for existing articles on the same subject (when search is enabled).

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, 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 "automagically," and its entries must be added by hand.

Help with the clean-up

To merge articles, follow the advice on the list below. Usually, an experienced user will suggest that one article be absorbed into another. 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. 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 them from the list below. 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

• 1993 Stanley Cup Playoffs and 1992-93 NHL season - the former should exist as a section of the latter. kelvSYC 00:36, 2 Sep 2004 (UTC)

A

• Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 with Agricultural Adjustment Act – Quadell ^{(talk) (quiz)}[[]] 16:54, Sep 17, 2004 (UTC)
• Ammunition for infantry
  • Some wiki-links but desperately dull. Should it be incorporated into Ammunition? --Phil 10:55, Mar 4, 2004 (UTC)
  • I think so- Thus, I added merge and mergefrom tags on both pages, so we'll see what the consensus is. --Rossumcapek 05:48, 8 Aug 2004 (UTC)
• Incidents in Aviation should probably be merged into List of years in aviation, as should some of the content on Aviation history.
  • Not sure I agree. Incidents in Aviation looks more like a history page for the Air safety article. Personally I think it's an interesting article. RJH
• 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)
• AutoVAZ and Lada (a car manufacturer and its brand) contain a lot of overlapping information --Rustam 06:21, 20 Jul 2004 (UTC)
• Androgenic into Androgen --Fenice 15:39, 16 Sep 2004 (UTC)

B

• Badrinath merge with Hinduism rhyax 08:25, 31 Aug 2004 (UTC)
• Biped and bipedal locomotion. I cannot see a good reason for keeping these articles separate. Livajo 01:23, 10 Sep 2004 (UTC)
• Blue Midget -> Red Dwarf per vfd
• Brainwashing and mind control -Sean Curtin 05:44, 30 Jun 2004 (UTC)
  • Different ideas, but both have sections on cults that could be merged somewhere, perhaps a separate article? Gdr 18:12, 2004 Jul 4 (UTC)
    • Even accounting for the overlap on cults, there's a lot of duplication between the two articles. -Sean Curtin 05:03, 8 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • May be there should be a general article on the neverending controversies on conversion to new religious movements. The concept of brainwashing differs from that of mind control. I will try to check whether this is sufficiently clear in the articles. I oppose to merging now. StopCultPropaganda 19:44, 21 Aug 2004 (UTC)
• Burning Times and witch trial into witch-hunt. -Sean Curtin 04:30, 13 Jul 2004 (UTC)
• Butlerian Jihad and Dune: The Butlerian Jihad. Lupo 12:10, 3 Sep 2004 (UTC)

C

• Chromatography merged with Paper chromatography of amino acids - rhyax 21:42, 4 Sep 2004 (UTC)
• The categories Cities in the Netherlands and Dutch cities deal with the same subject. I suggest moving the content of Cities in the Netherlands to Dutch cities, since the latter contains more articles than the former. Cities in the Netherlands could then be deleted. (hyperlinks don't seem to work here) Aecis 16:55, 30 Aug 2004 (UTC)
• Chroma key and Bluescreen -- the former isn't always synonymous with the latter, but the article on it actually contains more information on bluescreening than on the old-style chromakey process. The respective scope of the articles overlap, and as it stands they subtly contradict each other on numerous points. Austin Hair 09:34, Jul 31, 2004 (UTC) I removed all irrelevant information. Now is the time to re-write the two ill-defined articles. -- Toytoy 17:56, Aug 24, 2004 (UTC)

D

• Dartmouth College Delta Beta -> Sigma Nu (per VfD)
• Dartmouth College student life -> Dartmouth College per VfD
• Committee of Diplomats & Commanders for Change into Diplomats and Military Commanders for Change [[User:Neutrality|Neutrality (talk)]] 21:09, 30 Aug 2004 (UTC).
• 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)

E

• Erdmessung -> Geodesy into History of Geodesy: the German word "Erdmessung" is translated in Langenscheidt Großwörterbuch 2004 as "Geodesy".
• Lumbricus:Earthworms should be merged with Earthworm
• Epidural should contain epidural anesthesia, epidural analgesia and spinal anaesthesia – I'll work on the article once combined. violet/riga (t) 21:32, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC)

F

• Far East Air Force, USAFFE, Philippine Army Air Corps, Philippine Department, Offshore Patrol -- need to be rationalised somehow
• Felis sapiens -> Red Dwarf, per VfD
• F/A-18 Hornet has some overlap with F/A-18E/F Super Hornet. Not sure how much needs to be done. Thue | talk 23:59, 20 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • and F-18 Hornet tooto
• Flag of India and Tiranga

G

• Geneseo, New York and Geneseo (village), New York need to be both merged and separated in various ways. (also added to PNA) --♬ bdesham
• German expulsion after World War II and Heimatvertriebene
• Global protests against war on Iraq and Global protests against war on Iraq (pre-war)
  • I'll do this, but I don't know how to credit all the editors of the article that is "eaten". Anyone? Anyone? -- Jeandré, 2004-04-11t14:43z
    • Easiest way to do it is to keep the "eaten" article as a redirect to the main article. The credits will then still be listed under the redirect for anyone who wants to see them. MK 17:14, 29 Aug 2004 (UTC)
      • That may not be a good way to do it on a permanent basis since it violates the spirit of GFDL. Davodd
    • Send a note to me (or any other admin) on my talk page after you've finished the merge. Admins can easily merge histories.Davodd
• Ge'ez language and Gi'iz language both look like the same thing to me.
  • Merged - now Gi'iz language has no links, should it be deleted? Key45 03:05, 9 Sep 2004 (UTC)
• Goodwill Industries and Good Will. - RedWordSmith DONE -- Toytoy 17:26, Sep 11, 2004 (UTC)
• genderfuck and genderqueer - isn't "genderfuck" simply the same thing as Genderqueer, just with obsanity tacked on for shock value? Arcuras 21:03, Sep 15, 2004 (UTC)
  • Not really the same thing, imo. genderqueer is generally about self identity, genderfuck is about using gender to mess with people's heads. The problem with many of these terms is that they're highly politicised and it's difficult to get two people to agree on definitions; I do think they're sufficiently different though. Rho 23:08, 16 Sep 2004 (UTC)

H

• Hammer Films and Hammer Horror
  • Both have a right to exist, but someone who knows the subject should work out which information belongs in which article
• Hawkish into Militarism since Hawk describes a militarist.
  • Nonsense. Hawk and Dove are primarily terms used to describe relative positions, in a particular military decision, within a commander-in-chief's advisers. Militarism's primary meaning is about the role of the military in a society, or about how much effort to give in the long term to military capabilities. In most states with a stable polity, both militarists and pacifists are outside the decision-making, and calling them hawks and doves respectively is just careless metaphorizing. --Jerzy(t) 04:55, 2004 Aug 14 (UTC)
  • QV Dovish, a redirect to Pacifism. Perhaps Hawkish should redirect to a different article? --Rossumcapek 05:07, 15 Aug 2004 (UTC)
• Heat and Heat transfer? They have a bit of overlap.
• Helical pump should be merged into progressive cavity pump. The pump my father brought home was made of hard metal inside a rubber-lined metal tube, as described. -phma 20:57, 4 Jul 2004 (UTC)
• Home rule should be merged into Devolution
• Human Face of Pedophilia & Lindsay Ashford

I

Interlaced scanning should be merged into Interlace, but a fact dispute between them whether odd or even lines are scanned first must be resolved. --Gary D 22:41, Sep 2, 2004 (UTC)

K

• Kedarnath merge with Hinduism. rhyax 08:24, 31 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • No, I do not agree that these should be merged. Hinduism has thousands of terms that can not go all into the Hinduism article. Andries 17:30, 11 Sep 2004 (UTC)
• Knowledge economy, Knowledge Economy and probably information economy too. Charles Matthews 08:26, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC) DONE, these vague concepts are boring, subjective and full of lies. I think I'll let other people to fix information economy. -- Toytoy 08:55, Sep 15, 2004 (UTC)

L

• Laurentius Valla and Lorenzo Valla: same person. olivier 03:50, Sep 5, 2004 (UTC)
• Letterbox and Widescreen (Pan and scan is an opposite)
  • Isn't letterboxing what happens because you're viewing widescreen on a non-widescreen TV (as in, it's a seperate phenomonon...)?. MikeX 01:27, Apr 2, 2004 (UTC)
  • All seperate concepts, all deserve own article. Alternatively, merge Letterbox and Pan and scan into Widescreen under Reformatting widescreen to full screen.
• Liberal bias and conservative bias should both be merged and then redirected to Media bias.
• List of pseudonyms and Stage name: not all pseudonyms are stage names, but all stage names are pseudonyms and some people are listed in one place and others in the other; because of the fact that one list shound be contained in the other rather than identity, one can't just do a redirect here. - BRG 18:59, May 1, 2004 (UTC)
• List of Japanese given names and Japanese name
• List of soccer positions, a badly-named article (it's not really a list) created by me, should perhaps be merged with the separate articles at defender (football), midfielder, striker, goalkeeper, fullback (and probably others that I haven't found). --Lancevortex 13:26, 20 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • It's now at football (soccer) positions and I've linked it from elsewhere to see how the other editors normally interested in football will react. Let's give it some time to work itself out now that it's actually noticable. --Joy [shallot] 12:38, 11 Sep 2004 (UTC)
• Loop quantum gravity and Loop gravity. These articles give two opposing views of the subject (in fact Loop gravity doesn't expose the subject at all but only the view), and should be merged into one NPOV article by a very bold and competent physicist. -- Pjacobi 11:17, 12 Sep 2004 (UTC)
• Loughborough Grammar School and Loughborough High School probably ought to be merged together into Loughborough Endowed Schools. First has content, second and third have no content, delete last, move first to last, fix redirs. Dunc_Harris|☺ 12:57, 31 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • Disagree. Suggest leaving first two alone, third is now a redirect to first anyway.

M

• Many worlds and many-worlds interpretation. -Sean Curtin 03:55, Sep 11, 2004 (UTC)
• Maximum power theorem and Impedance matching
• The_Mother and Talk:Mirra Richard/Original POV version -- Paddu 08:06, 22 Apr 2004 (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)

N

• There's a lot of overlap between Dionysius, Damocles, Damon, and Pythias
  • They're all different people, so deserve seperate articles. Someone just needs to add more info on each that isn't just about this one story Lachatdelarue 19:27, 28 Jul 2004 (UTC)
• 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

• Occult and occultism (though both articles are a bit lacking) -Sean Curtin 00:14, 5 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • I merged the articles into Occult, but yes there is room for improvement. — RJH 03:23, 7 Sep 2004 (UTC)

• Osteology is a very sorry looking substub. Before adding information I was wondering whether to merge/take information from/redirect with Bone? CheekyMonkey 16:58, 12 Sep 2004 (UTC)

P

• pacifism and Non-violent resistance and Non-violence (debated)
• Papal election information in Pope and the same in conclave
• Peer-to-peer and file sharing have some fairly significant overlap.
• Polish mythology and Slavic mythology should be merged and put under Slavic mythology after some serious cleanup Ausir 08:22, 5 Jun 2004 (UTC)
• 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)
• List of Priomh Áireanna/Presidents of the Republic and the list in President of Dáil Éireann
• Protiviti into Robert Half International per vfd

Q

• Quality engineering -> Quality assurance & Quality control
• Queensbridge Houses and Queensbridge

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)

S

• sapient pearwood -> The Luggage ([Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/sapient pearwood|per vfd]])
• School prayer into First Amendment to the United States Constitution Sander123 07:26, 3 Sep 2004 (UTC)
• Self-harm to breasts and sexual organs into Self-harm. Rvollmert 11:13, 2004 Aug 28 (UTC)
• Slavic creatures of folklore needs to be merged into Slavic mythology.
• Slavic mythology needs to be merged with Polish mythology Ausir 08:22, 5 Jun 2004 (UTC)

The latter is sufficiently different to merit a separate article (though right now both pages are just lists...) -Sean Curtin 07:57, 16 Jun 2004 (UTC)

The point is, they are NOT different. There is no "Polish mythology", it was just a west-slavic variant of the Slavic mythology. It's just the impression this article gives. Ausir 18:28, 4 Jul 2004 (UTC)

• Slogan:Homosexuality is a choice.
  • This article was apparently supposed to be merged somewhere and deleted, but it was deleted without being merged, then undeleted. Should it be merged with Causes of sexual orientation, or should there be a single but separate article on the choice/no-choice debate? An argument against merger: VFD seems to be on the verge of deciding that the advocates of environmental and genetic causes for sexual orientation should have their own articles. In any case, there obviously needs to be choice/no-choice fairness. -- Beland 09:27, 16 Aug 2004 (UTC)
    • There is also Slogan:homosexuality is a choice I made it a redirect as it was almost identicle. MeltBanana 23:41, 24 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • No, this should be merged with Enviromental basis for sexual orientation. See WP:COTW#Environmental_basis_for_sexual_orientation. [[User:Neutrality|Neutrality (talk)]] 17:03, 12 Sep 2004 (UTC)
• Sonogram with spectrogram.
  • At least in N America, sonogram refers to the film of an ultrasound scan as often as it does sound spectrogram. Perhaps a dismbiguation sentence under sonogram and merge the current content into spectrogram? (I don't know anything about speech sonograms/spectrograms, so that is just a suggestion)
• Southhold and Southhold, NY into Southold (town), New York (actually, I believe the first article has everything the second does--I didn't make the latter a redir just in case someone thinks it's important to preserve that single entry in the history), then redir from the first two. Niteowlneils 21:55, 22 Aug 2004 (UTC)
• StarCraft needs around 60 pages to be merged INTO it, see Talk:StarCraft for details.
• Sturtian-Varangian and Varanger glaciation same subject, my english skill is a bit short to do correctly the job phe 09:16, 1 Sep 2004 (UTC)

T

• 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

W

• War of Independence of 1857 and Indian Mutiny deal with the same topic. The former was started independently of the latter, which existed already. However, there is an ongoing discussion regarding the title of the article (which can be used to merge the contents of both). Any help in resolving this would be greatly appreciated. Chancemill 08:37, Apr 23, 2004 (UTC)

According to the vote, Indian rebellion of 1857 seems to be the place where it should finnaly rest. 22:45, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)

• 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 with-hunt seperate 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)
• 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 character encoding, secondly the wiki one seems to be along the lins of, if you have x browere, 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 bee a diffrence in style.

X

• XM29 SABR and XM-29 OICW. —Stormie 01:19, Aug 20, 2004 (UTC)