@Zxcvbnm: Page Universe of The Legend of Zelda seems to have undergone steady development from a stub at 00:58, 28 September 2001. I have not found in its history any complete cut-and-paste event that would warrant splitting its history. It starts as a short article about the land of Hyrule, and at the end it still contains much matter about the land of Hyrule. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 12:11, 31 August 2020 (UTC)
@Anthony Appleyard: The article started out solely about Hyrule, and underwent a post-move subject change in 2008 to the entire Zelda universe, including other realms that aren't Hyrule, like Termina for example. That should really have been created as a new article, and Hyrule merged into it, rather than being totally moved. That is because Hyrule does not encompass the entire Zelda universe and while many games are set in Hyrule, others are not, or partially take place somewhere else.ZXCVBNM (TALK) 15:50, 31 August 2020 (UTC)
@Zxcvbnm: "That should really have been created as a new article" :: but "should have" is not "actually happened", and we cannot change the past. Topic sometimes changes in a gradually-developing gradually-lengthening article. The change of topic was gradual, and I see no place to cut the history. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 16:53, 31 August 2020 (UTC)
@Anthony Appleyard: Okay, feel free to close this request then. It seems like it's not a candidate for such a thing.ZXCVBNM (TALK) 07:33, 1 September 2020 (UTC)
@Anthony Appleyard: My main point was to hide my IP addresses for privacy reason without losing the history. Any advice how best to proceed? Abcmaxx (talk) 15:07, 30 August 2020 (UTC)
@Abcmaxx: "Wkład użytkownika" is Polish for "User contribution". I have power to delete pages in the English Wikipedia and nowhere else. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 15:14, 30 August 2020 (UTC)
@Anthony Appleyard: My main point was to hide my IP addresses for privacy reason without losing the history. Any advice how best to proceed? Abcmaxx (talk) 15:07, 30 August 2020 (UTC)
@Abcmaxx: "Wkład użytkownika" is Polish for "User contribution". I have power to delete pages in the English Wikipedia and nowhere else. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 15:14, 30 August 2020 (UTC)
Re: Thomas Edward Wilkinson. Until a few days ago, this was a stub article named "Thomas Wilkinson (Bishop of Zululand)." "Thomas Edward Wilkinson" existed as a redirect page. I had created an expansion of the page in userspace, and had discovered that he was always referred to formally as Thomas Edward (not Thomas). So Thomas Edward Wilkinson was the better page name. I attempted to do a page move to Thomas Edward Wilkinson, but the system would not work as Thomas Edward Wilkinson already existed as a redirect. Not realising the implications for page history, I cut and pasted the stub article into Thomas Edward Wilkinson, made Thomas Wilkinson (Bishop of Zululand) a redirect, and corrected all the What Links Here links on the linked pages. I then replaced the stub with my expansion cut and pasted from userspace. I should add that Thomas Edward Wilkinson remains the better article title because (1) he was only six years bishop of Zululand, but was 25 years coadjutor bishop of London for North and Central Europe; and (2) he was known informally as Edward, not Thomas (I have yet to add that bit to the page, with ref). So please could someone kindly merge the history? My apologies for not realising that there was a history problem until I received a notice about it. I did not realise, because the article history still shows on the article history page as from 2011. Storye book (talk) 08:51, 30 August 2020 (UTC)
@Sawol: Of page Draft:Mike Siegel (politician), the edits 20:34, 23 August 2020 and older seem to be partly about Mike Siegel and partly about Swearengin. The page changes gradually with time and I cannot find a distinct sharp cut-and-paste point. It is WP:Parallel histories with page Paula Jean Swearengin. It seems that Draft:Mike Siegel (politician) has been used as a scratch pad for working on text about Mike Siegel and for working on text about Paula Jean Swearengin. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 14:41, 24 August 2020 (UTC)
Article author here. Suggest you perform history splitting such that history begins at version dated 22:15 23 August 2020. At this point, all information from the template article on Swearengin had been replaced by information on Siegel. And thanks for all your help. Gnaanamurthy (talk) 02:14, 25 August 2020 (UTC)
@Anthony Appleyard: Further information: I made several updates to the Swearengin article on August 15. I then copied the source as a template for the Siegel article.
Done (actually, edits from start to 02:34, 10 March 2011) Anthony Appleyard (talk) 22:21, 12 August 2020 (UTC)
User:Master of Time/Typhoon Yancy (1990) to Typhoon Yancy (1990). This is a draft article made by MoT three years ago, but was never completed since. This is an article that was requested six years ago, and eventually MoT did it but there is no work ever since. As such, i moved the contents of the article to the mainspace and changed the userpage into a redirect. I did this to lessen the draft logjam at WikiProject Tropical cyclones. Thank you. SMB99thxEmail! 06:07, 12 August 2020 (UTC)
Merge Draft:Jean Vodaine to Jean Vodaine — the article was draftified while I was editing it, splitting the history; the history of the draft needs to be merged to the mainspace article for proper attribution. Spicy (talk) 14:25, 28 July 2020 (UTC)
Hi there! I copied the material from Draft:Black Is King and pasted it into Black Is King, as I was not aware of the issue with attribution. I did so because another user wanted to create an article for Black Is King, but at the time Black Is King was a redirect and they did not know how to convert a redirect to an article, and so they created Draft:Black Is King through AfC. I then converted the redirect into an article and copied what was in the draft. There has since been edits made by others to the article. It was then raised to my attention that the histories need to be merged. I hope you can help with this! Thank you :) Bgkc4444 (talk) 00:19, 19 July 2020 (UTC)Bgkc4444
This is a rather complex one: versions of Anhangüera prior to May 2006 need to be merged with Anhanguera, Goiás. Then, the remaining history of Anhangüera should be merged with Anhanguera, which will be the disambiguation page at the end of the process (the tréma was abolished in the Orthographic Agreement of 1990, that went into full effect in 2016). —capmo (talk) 17:36, 4 July 2020 (UTC)
Undone, article was hijacked and a copyvio - offending hijack split off from original and deleted, article moved back to its original location at Kurt Lightner. Primefac (talk) 12:35, 20 June 2020 (UTC)
Minimum Evolution was newly created, while a "redirect with possibilities" already existed at Minimum evolution. The downcased version should be the article title. I would round-robin that out of the way and CSD the former redirect, but it has a non-trivial history. So I suspect that a move + histmerge is needed here? --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 16:27, 19 June 2020 (UTC)
City of Lions page seems to have started life as completely different subject - a drowned city off Cornwall (see Talk discussion) but was changed on 6 January 2013 by an anonymous IP to start a new article about a band (?) This was then added to over the years. I started off by trying to find links to this page as an Orphan but so far without success. Also no references and any links given are dead, so all needs verification: may fail WP:notability? May even be a disruptive edit that has taken on a life of its own...? Needs more experienced eyes!. Thanks. Crep171166 (talk) 01:32, 18 June 2020 (UTC)
Beeston Hill, Beeston Hill was about the area of Leeds until October 2011 when it was merged with Beeston, Leeds. In November 2011 it became a DAB page which it still is. The edit history of it being about the area of Leeds (and being a redirect) should be moved to Beeston Hill, Leeds with the edit history of the DAB from November 2011 staying at the base name. Links for the Leeds one can then be linked to the redirect per MOS:RDR. Crouch, Swale (talk) 21:49, 17 June 2020 (UTC)
Lady Wood, Lady Wood was about the area of Leeds which was merged. In August 2016 an article on the album was written. The edit history before 2016 should be moved to Lady Wood, Leeds (along with the talk page prior to 2016) and either the album can stay at the base name or a DAB could be created. Crouch, Swale (talk) 21:49, 17 June 2020 (UTC)
Newby Head, Newby Head was about the place in Cumbria untill it was hijacked to be about the place in North Yorkshire in February 2010. The edit history before February 2010 (along with the talk before March 2010) should be moved to Newby Head, Cumbria and redirected to Newby, Cumbria since as was noted in the AFD its not a separate village and probably isn't notable. Crouch, Swale (talk) 21:49, 17 June 2020 (UTC)
Lynn Anderson discography to Lynn Anderson albums discography...both articles are my requests. Originally, both articles were under the one single "discography" page. It was rather lengthy, especially being there were 73 singles and 35 albums. Therefore, I separated them into separate articles according to their albums and singles. ChrisTofu11961 (talk) 18:57, 25 May 2020 (UTC)
Bioconservatism (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – Originally a redirect to a section in techno-progressivism. Back in 2017 I copied that section from techno-progressivism into User:CJK09/sandbox/Bioconservatism, providing attribution in the edit summary. When I had finished drafting it I copied the contents of my sandbox into bioconservatism, replacing the redirect to techno-progressivism with the content I had written. A histmerge is needed here for proper attribution in the edit history. CJK09 (talk) 20:31, 23 May 2020 (UTC)
The history of UFC Fight Night: Smith vs. Teixeira currently contains a confusing mixture of edits about different subjects. To fix this, please do the following steps in order:
Not done, page was blanked before it was copied over, so only one contributor (no attribution issues) and parallel/convoluted histories following the copy/paste. I have redirected the second draft to the first as they are identical (barring differences in decline rationale). Primefac (talk) 21:14, 7 August 2020 (UTC)
Draft:Zaleb Brown, Draft:Zaleb Brown (2), User:FAHADChughtai123/sandbox - Somehow this draft ended up copied across three different pages. I think they tried to make a draft, then copy-and-pasted to mainspace, then the mainspace copy got draftified to the (2) version, and then they made a separate userspace draft for some reason. Nathan2055talk - contribs 20:23, 4 August 2020 (UTC)
Not done, parallel histories. It looks like there was a merger between the two templates, so use {{Merged-from}} and {{Merged-to}}. Primefac (talk) 13:27, 7 August 2020 (UTC)
@Anthony Appleyard: the "Harleston, Norfolk" title was an article about the town from 2005 until it was merged in 2010. I created the "Harleston, South Norfolk" in 2020 and then moved back content from the Redenhall with Harleston article[2][3]. The history of "Harleston, Norfolk" and "Harleston, South Norfolk" do not appear to be parallel since they existed at different times. The only thing that is parallel is the content that was in the "Redenhall with Harleston" article which I'm not requesting for merging. Also in any case "Harleston, Norfolk" not "Harleston, South Norfolk" is the correct title per WP:UKPLACE since there is only 1 in Norfolk. I just used the other title for AFC. Crouch, Swale (talk) 20:44, 28 June 2020 (UTC)
@Crouch, Swale: Whereabouts in the histories of these 3 pages do you think that a complete cut-and-paste event happened? Anthony Appleyard (talk) 22:31, 28 June 2020 (UTC)
@Anthony Appleyard: due to the fact that some content from 2010 (such as the Georgian residences) is now in the current article. Both articles are on the same topic and have content from the other and aren't parallel. Crouch, Swale (talk) 19:42, 29 June 2020 (UTC)
Not done, only one editor so no attribution issues. Primefac (talk) 20:52, 26 May 2020 (UTC)
@Primefac: I’m going to delete User:PhilipTerryGraham/Commercial Crew Program for cleanup, but I don’t want the long and extensive edit history of the page to disappear. Can we make the merge anyways? I honestly don’t see the problem here; what Ill effects would it even have? – PhilipTerryGraham (talk·articles·reviews) 00:29, 27 May 2020 (UTC)
No, but I'll delete it under WP:U1. Primefac (talk) 16:11, 27 May 2020 (UTC)
@Primefac: Excuse me? I didn’t ask you to do that. I want my edit history back, please. I don’t understand why you’re giving me such a hard time over this... I’d like to ask @Anthony Appleyard: for some assistance here, and a proper explanation as to why the history merge can’t happen. I just wanted some help, not this... – PhilipTerryGraham (talk·articles·reviews) 17:11, 27 May 2020 (UTC)
History merges are done to preserve attribution. For example, let's say there is an article Example. Editor A copies Example to Draft:Example.
In scenario 1, editor A asks editors B and C to help improve the Draft, which after a few dozen edits is copied back to Example by editor A. In this case, the edits made by B and C need to receive proper attribution, so Draft:Example is merged into Example.
In scenario 2, editor A works on the Draft for a while, and then copies that finished product back to Example. They have done all of the work themselves, so there is no concern about attribution because (from the perspective of the Article) only one editor has actually changed the content.
@Primefac: I understand this, I'm moreso asking why it's this way. What are the ill effects of simply merging the original edit history into the mainspace article that prompts a denial of this kind of histmerge request? Hopefully my wording is much clearer now. At the very least, thankfully, I got the edit history back through an undeletion request, so I no longer need assistance in that regard. – PhilipTerryGraham (talk·articles·reviews) 18:47, 27 May 2020 (UTC)
@Primefac and PhilipTerryGraham: Let this happen: Page X is copied to page Y. User P edits X, and at the same time user Q edits Y. Then, these edited forms of X and Y are text-merged to make a new page Z. This text-merging cannot be followed up by a history-merging, for reasons explained at WP:Parallel histories. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 21:47, 27 May 2020 (UTC)
That is a waste of both your time and ours. Primefac (talk) 00:33, 28 May 2020 (UTC)
@Primefac and PhilipTerryGraham: The English Wikipedia has one information note about each edit that users have made. If page X is text-split into pages Y and Z, by cut-and-paste, and someone calls for history-merge of X to Y and of X to Z, the information note about each edit of X can be moved to Y's edit history, or to Z's edit history, but not to both. Moving it to both would need the information note to be duplicated. That is called "cloning". Cloning can be done in the German Wikipedia, but not in the English Wikipedia. All that can be done is to put edit history information sections in the end of Talk:X and in the starts of Talk:Y and Talk:Z . See WP:Parallel histories. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 04:41, 28 May 2020 (UTC)
Not done, parallel histories with only one editor in the timeframe mentioned. Primefac (talk) 14:17, 28 May 2020 (UTC)
The page Draft:Golden Sercet (Band) contains a typo in its title. Its edits from 25 May 2020 (but not the latest 27 May 2020 edit) should be merged into the history of Draft:Golden Secret, after which the page with the typo in its title should then be deleted. GeoffreyT2000 (talk) 05:23, 28 May 2020 (UTC)
Not done, only one editor. Primefac (talk) 14:23, 28 May 2020 (UTC)