Wikipedia:Cut and paste move repair holding pen

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This page was originally for listing cut and paste moves which could not be repaired due to a then-extant technical limitation. The limitation has since been removed, but this page is still available if you find a cut-and-paste move, and are not able to repair it yourself. (There is a procedure for doing it, but 1. only admins can do it, and 2. it's a bit tricky.)

Currently the only technical limitation is that category and image description pages can't be moved.

Admins: please read Wikipedia:How to fix cut and paste moves and Wikipedia:Moving guidelines for administrators.

Contents 1 The procedure 2 Repair requests 2.1 New requests 2.2 Completed requests 2.3 Requests which cannot be fulfilled 3 See also

[edit] The procedure

• Place a {{db-histmerge|NAME OF PAGE THE ARTICLE WAS CUT FROM}} template at the new location of the article which has been moved through cut and pasting, i.e. on the article where the pasting was done.
• If the issue is clear-cut (straight up cut and paste move to a better title), having this speedy delete tag on the page should be enough. In more complex cases (explained at Wikipedia:How to fix cut and paste moves), please leave a description of the problem under the "Repair requests" section.
• An admin will look the pages over and perform whatever tasks are necessary.
• Once this is done, the admin will post the result here.
• Old requests will be removed after 30 days.

[edit] Repair requests

Please add new requests to the top of the New Requests section. Thanks.

[edit] New requests

[edit] Completed requests

• Fleur de Lys (superhero) from Fleur de Lys. Recent C&P, shouldn't be complicated, it really just needs the original page restored and moved over what used to be a redirect. Talk page could be moved too. Gimmetrow 14:30, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
• Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games / Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games. - move war has resulted in a CPMV, histories need to be merged before a resolution. Chris cheese whine 04:53, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
• Ly Jonaitis - Not complicated, but it has been tagged db-histmerge for about 15 hours now, so I thought I would list it here. --After Midnight ⁰⁰⁰¹ 06:46, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
• This is another complicated case. A while ago, Sharon Marsh (South Park) was copied and pasted to Sharon Marsh. This page was subsequently merged into Randy and Sharon Marsh, along with Randy Marsh (South Park). I tagged the Sharon Marsh page to be history merged with Sharon Marsh (South Park), with the intention of keeping the history there to be accessed from Talk:Randy and Sharon Marsh. However, the Sharon Marsh history was merged into Randy and Sharon Marsh without being merged with Sharon Marsh (South Park). In summary, all history solely about Sharon Marsh should be moved to Sharon Marsh, which is kept as a redirect to Randy and Sharon Marsh.Atomic1609 23:22, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
  • I found about 10 edits at the beginning of the history of Randy and Sharon Marsh, so moved them over to Sharon Marsh (South Park). Is that what you wanted, or are there other edits missing? Cool Hand Luke 18:13, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
    • Thank you for sorting out the history. There are no further edits that need to be moved, but would it be possible to keep the history at Sharon Marsh? Atomic1609 19:07, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
      • I'm happy with where the history is now, but you could move it to Sharon Marsh. I prefer it with the parenthetical in the unlikely event that an unrelated Sharon Marsh is someday notable. Article naming conventions don't really apply since we're basically using this redirect as a storage bin for history. Cool Hand Luke 20:43, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

• This is a complicated case. Sheila Broflovski was copied from Shiela Broflovski, but the page has subsequently been merged into Gerald and Sheila Broflovski. Sheila Broflovski started as a redirect, then a separate page was started at Shiela Broflovski. This appears to have been subsequently cut and pasted to Sheila Broflovski, which has since been merged into Gerald and Sheila Broflovski. The histories should be merged, removing any redundant redirects, of which there appear to be a few. I have already made a note on the Gerald and Sheila Broflovski talk page that Sheila Broflovski has been merged into the page. Once merged, the page should be a redirect to Gerald and Sheila Broflovski.Atomic1609 17:33, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Update:The history of Sheila Broflovski has been merged with Gerald and Sheila Broflovski without the history of Shiela Broflovski being merged. However, my intention was that the histories be merged to Sheila Broflovski with the history of Sheila Broflovski being linked from Talk:Gerald and Sheila Broflovski. Atomic1609 23:22, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
    • OK. Completed. Similar to above (I hope!). Let me know if I made a mistake. The combined Sheila/Shiela content was about 45 edits and is now at Sheila Broflovski.. Cool Hand Luke 20:43, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

• Last year, as a relative newcomer unaware of how to move pages properly, I redirected a lot of articles about rally races to page titles which didn't include the title sponsors. Since then, most of my moves have been fixed over time, and I can now only find three still outstanding. Two of them I've tagged as CSD G6, but the third one is a bit much for the {{db-histmerge}} (at least as far as I can see): I redirected the original Supermag Rally Italia Sardinia to Rally Italia Sardegna, then had a change of mind and redirected that to Rally d'Italia Sardegna, where it now resides. So, all three pages now need merged to undo my damage. No chronological overlaps or other complications, but I proffer my humblest apologies anyway, and assure you that I know better now. --DeLarge 15:09, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
  • No problem. They've all now been merged. Cool Hand Luke 17:39, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
• Herbert Garrison was cut from Mrs. Garrison. This should be easy to merge, but the redirects should be separated from the combined history (the most recent edit at Mrs. Garrison and the oldest edit at Herbert Garrison). Atomic1609 14:49, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
  • It's been done by User:Llama man. - Bobet 13:59, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
• Chef (South Park) was cut from Chef (South Park character). This should be easy to fix, but the oldest 3 edits from Chef (South Park) and the most recent edit from Chef (South Park character) are redirects so merging these edits would make the combined page history inconsistent. Atomic1609 10:53, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Done, the redirect histories are still there, inconsistent histories aren't really a problem. - Bobet 13:58, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
• Richard and Mrs. Tweek was cut from Mr and Mrs Tweek. This should be easy to merge, but the redirects should not be merged. Atomic1609 14:37, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
  • It's been done by User:Llama man. The redirect histories were merged there too, but it doesn't make much difference, since keeping those intact isn't very relevant (there's no creative process involved in changing redirect targets to point to the correct article) and having them kept separate isn't a big issue. - Bobet 13:51, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
• When someone merged Windows Update into Microsoft Update, it looked like a cut-and-paste move to me. However, a new article was started over the resulting redirect at Windows Update. Jesse Viviano 02:09, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
  • This is tricky. I understand wanting to have Windows update with its just own history, and it's certainly possible to selectively delete and just merge the pre-Dec 2006 Windows edits with Microsoft Update, but I'm not sure we'd want to do that. They were seperate articles at the time and had divergent history. Perhaps we could move the merged history out from Windows Update and into some thrid location? Cool Hand Luke 00:40, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
    • Not a cut and paste move, and I don't see anything that needs to be done. The page histories are kept for attribution reasons, and anyone looking at the history of Microsoft Update will see that there was a content merge from Windows Update and can find the relevant history at the latter article. - Bobet 13:37, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
• Plans (album) to Plans — So far as I can see, the article was originaly at Plans, then moved to Plans (album), then cut and pasted back to Plan sometime later. PC78 23:26, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Done. - Bobet 13:29, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
• On 5 March 2007, the contents of Ercole d'Este I were pasted into a new page, Ercole I, Duke of Ferrara. A redirect was placed at the top of the "Ercole d'Este I" page, but the contents of the page were not removed. On 7 March 2007, I cut and pasted the only contents of the "Ercole d'Este I" Talk page, a WPBio tag, to the new article, before I thought better of it, and realized that the article move had been a cut and paste that should be repaired. Please note, there is also an Ercole I d'Este page that redirects to Ercole d'Este I. I am not sure what the best choice actually is for the name of the article. I've taken a look at Wikipedia:Naming conventions (names and titles), "Other non-royal names"; that section might suggest "Ercole d'Este, <ordinal number> Duke of Ferrara", but as far as I know, the Dukes of Ferrara were not numbered in the same way that the British peerage is. 15th edition Britannica uses Ercole I d'Este. Articles on other members of the Category:House of Este are also titled using "<Given name> <Roman-style ordinal number> d'Este". So, by that logic, I would opt for Ercole I d'Este, which is currently one of the redirects.

Thanks for taking a look at this, and "fixing" it in whatever way can best be managed with the tools available. Lini 12:43, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

• • I moved the Ercole I, Duke of Ferrara page back to Ercole d'Este I and merged the histories there. I've no idea what the 'best' name for the article would be, but feel free to move it if you think the current title isn't it. - Bobet 13:24, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
• Buck the World (currently a redirect to Young Buck) has recently been recreated as Young Buck TBA. The article really should be at Buck the World. This edit states the redirect should stay in place until reliably sourced. The current Young Buck TBA provides no sources. --Geniac 15:45, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Oh, and now Buck the World(album). --Geniac 20:54, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
    • The move has been reverted a week ago, nothing else to do here. - Bobet 13:17, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
• Я Сошла С Ума to Ya Soshla S Uma was a cut-paste move. Will ^{(Speak to Me/Breathe)}_{(Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash)} 23:31, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Done. - Bobet 13:14, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
• Chang'e program to Chang'e 1 was a cut-paste move. Yao Ziyuan 06:42, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Done. - Bobet 13:11, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
• Don Sweet (football kicker) back to Don Sweet. The page was Moved, but then cut&pasted back over the redir and edited. :/

76.22.4.86 18:25, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

• • Actually, I don't see anything amiss. --Woohookitty^Woohoo! 09:55, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
    • Done. - Bobet 13:09, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
• Pasricha Satwant to Satwant Pasricha — cut & paste move. PC78 11:53, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

  Done. --Woohookitty^Woohoo! 09:58, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

• Template:Tolkien was nominated for deletion here. The consensus was that the family tree should be kept in article space, so I moved it into Tolkien family and replaced it with a navbox. Every revision of Template:Tolkien except the most recent one should be merged into Tolkien family. —dgies^t_c 17:16, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Done --Henrygb 00:26, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
• Nancy Cartwright (actress) was created (as Nancy Cartwright (actor)) via cut&paste from Nancy Cartwright a LONG time ago by User:AmarChandra. 76.22.4.86 23:56, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Should also consider moving it to Nancy Campbell Cartwright--a valid way to disambiguate people that avoids the whole 'actor versus actress' issue. 76.22.4.86 00:14, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

Seems like a sensible suggestion, but at least they're all merged in one article now (although I inelegantly forgot to siphon off the history of the disambig, which were only maybe ten in number). Cool Hand Luke 00:40, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

• Stephen and Linda Stotch appears to have cut from Chris and Linda Stotch a while ago. However, the page been cut and pasted since, but these page histories have been merged and it might be an idea to remove edits which are simply redirects, though some of these are mixed in the page histories rather than at the start or end. Atomic1609 17:09, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Done, with the redirect history siphoned off. Cool Hand Luke 00:40, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
• Aluminum nitride appears to have been cut and pasted from Aluminium nitride even though Aluminium nitride is the correct title per Wikipedia:Naming conventions (chemistry)#element names and should be moved back there. Note that the first edit on Aluminum nitride was a redirect to Aluminium nitride before the cut and paste move and that the most recent edit on aluminium nitride is a redirect to aluminum nitride. Atomic1609 11:42, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Was done by another admin. -Royalguard11(Talk·Desk·Review Me!) 05:19, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

• Someone cut-and-pasted Ray-Ban Wayfarer to Ray Ban Wayfarer back in July. The original title is the correct one; the page should be moved and histories merged. —pfahlstrom 19:28, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Done. -Royalguard11(Talk·Desk·Review Me!) 05:17, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

• In October 2006, Sir George Bowyer, 5th Baronet was incorrectly moved to George Bowyer, 5th Baronet. Seven ours later the content was copied back to Sir George Bowyer, 5th Baronet, while George Bowyer, 5th Baronet was redirected. In the meantime, there were some contribtuons; the history is now splitted between the two locations and should be repaired. The original title is the correct one. ~~ Phoe _talk 11:44, 3 March 2007 (UTC) ~~
  • Done. -Royalguard11(Talk·Desk·Review Me!) 05:13, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
    • Thanks for your effort. ~~ Phoe _talk 11:38, 4 March 2007 (UTC) ~~

• Aluminum gallium nitride appears to have been cut and pasted from Aluminium gallium nitride even though that is the correct title per Wikipedia:Naming conventions (chemistry)#element names. Note that the first edit on Aluminum gallium nitride was a redirect to Aluminium gallium nitride and the most recent edit on Aluminium gallium nitride is a redirect to Aluminum gallium nitride. Atomic1609 11:48, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Was done by another admin. -Royalguard11(Talk·Desk·Review Me!) 05:09, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

• Talk:Your mom — Your Mom was moved to Your mom to standardize naming, but both talk pages had non-trivial edit histories. As a result, the talk page was not moved. I have performed a cut-and paste merge of the talk pages but need a history merge of Talk:Your Mom into Talk:Your mom. —Dgies^t c 03:43, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Done. -Royalguard11(Talk·Desk·Review Me!) 05:07, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

• Yuu Watase is a cut-and-paste move from Yu Watase, performed two weeks ago; the associated talk pages need to be fixed as well. —TangentCube /c /t  18:42, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Done. AmiDaniel (talk) 20:25, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

• User:WIKISCRIPPS 07 seems to be fond of moving via copy/paste for whatever reasons. Because of this I have 5 requests for history merges for certain radio station articles. They are as follows.
  • WKHQ-FM was copy/pasted from WKHQ (FM).
  • WSNX-FM was copy/pasted from WSNX (FM).
  • WKFR-FM was copy/pasted from WKFR (FM).
  • WYSS was copy/pasted from WYSS-FM.
  • WHTS was copy/pasted from WHTS-FM.
• Those are just the ones I've run into. Thanks.RobDe68 20:02, 18 February 2007 (UTC)Robde68
  • I've done the first. Kyle Barbour 20:42, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Done. Kyle Barbour 20:26, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
    • Thanks Kyle, Wknight94 , W.marsh and 〈REDVEЯS〉 for the help. RobDe68 00:04, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
      • No worries :) Kyle Barbour 00:25, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
• Jacksonville Municipal Stadium and Alltel Stadium. Moved from the latter to the former using cut&paste by User:Gundamforce on 7 February 2007. I don't have a strong opinion on which is better (maybe the question should be posted on WP:RM), but the histories need to be merged back together, perhaps with appropriate follow-up involving a wet trout. 76.22.4.86 00:56, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Done. Cool Hand Luke 01:55, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

• Someone cut and pasted Virgin Media Plc to Virgin Media Inc, after today's mergers of NTL and Telewest. As a result, the talk and page history is at the old page. If someone could sort out the database there. I have added the relevant dhhistmerge tag to the page but can't do the admin work because I am not an administrator. Thanks --tgheretford (talk) 13:00, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Done Cool Hand Luke 17:00, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

• There was some discussion at Wikipedia:WikiProject Magic: The Gathering to rename the MTG character articles from the convention MTG characters (A) to Magic: The Gathering characters: A, and so on, down through Z. Unfortunately, this was performed by cut and paste moves. If possible, it would probably be most efficient to have an admin move each article to the new convention, overwriting the cut and paste moves. All the affected pages show up at Category:Magic: The Gathering characters -- Norvy (talk) 18:19, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
  • This is a relatively large request, and as I don't have the time to do it all, I'll knock bits off of it at a time. Anyone else who wants to work on it, please feel free! A-D done. Kyle Barbour 18:51, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
    • Done. Kyle Barbour 04:18, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

• I copied and pasted List of vocational technical schools in Oklahoma into Oklahoma Department of Career and Technology Education I would like to move the edit history and erase the old page to remove redundancy. If someone smarter than I can can move the old information into the new information I would be very grateful Jzwei
  • Done. Snoutwood 21:42, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

• Bonaguil Castle was pasted to the new page Château de Bonaguil (correct title) when I did a major expansion of the topic, using the relevant French wikipedia article. I edited the Bonaguil Castle article to a redirect, but in my ignorance omitted to transfer the original history into the new page. (I know now, thanks to another user, that I should have MOVED the article.) Emeraude 16:01, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Done. Snoutwood 21:42, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

• NMDA Receptor Antagonists was cut and pasted to NMDA receptor antagonist, and that should be uncomplicated to fix. But Talk:NMDA Receptor Antagonists was not moved, and new material was added to Talk:NMDA receptor antagonist before it was noticed. I figured I'd mention that here so both things could be taken care of at one time. delldot | talk 16:34, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Done by User:Cool Hand Luke. Snoutwood 21:42, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

• OK, so I totally screwed up a move, and while I have the text fixed, I don't have the history fixed. We are straightening out three articles. Sparing you the gory details, I created a new article called bit (horse). It's OK, it can stay, along with its history. However, there temporarily was an article created called bit (horse --note that there is a parentheses missing in the title, and that article happens to be a move of the article bit mouthpiece. Well, I realized that it was a mistake to do this and yet I couldn't move the article back to its original title (I did an intermediate edit of the redirect...arrgh!). So, I did a raw cut and paste of the text back into bit mouthpiece so it was back to its original form, save for a minor wikilink edit.

• Long story short, the history of bit mouthpiece needs to be put back too. Thanks. Montanabw 07:43, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Easily done, thanks for catching your mistake and reporting it! No worries, I've done the same thing (many times) myself. All done! Snoutwood 09:35, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

• The following cut and paste moves were performed in the past few weeks by User:Smcafirst (talk • contribs • RFA (!)).
  • Essex County roads (Ontario) → List of Essex County Roads
  • Lambton County, Ontario roads → List of Lambton County Roads
  • Norfolk County, Ontario roads → List of Norfolk County Roads
  • Elgin County, Ontario roads → List of Elgin County Roads
  • Chatham-Kent, Ontario roads → List of Chatham-Kent Roads
  • Middlesex County, Ontario roads → List of Middlesex County Roads
  • Halton Region, Ontario roads → List of Halton Regional Roads
  • Niagara Region, Ontario roads → List of Niagara Regional Roads
    • Note: For what it's worth, the former titles were better than the ones chosen by this user (because "roads" should not be capitalized), but they should probably be listed at WP:RM. Something else worries me even more. After destroying the edit histories of several articles, he credits himself as the sole author of them, see [1].
  • Template:Regional Roads/Highways → Template:Regional Roads/Highways-Class
  • Kennedy Road (Ontario) → Kennedy Road (Toronto)
    • For Kennedy Road, he copied it from "(Ontario)" to "(Toronto)" and then wrote a disambiguation page over top of the existing article. — CharlotteWebb 06:29, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
      • I'll deal with this request when I have more time, but for now I just wanted to comment that "pages I created" doesn't necessarily imply "sole author". Anyhow, as always, thanks for bringing this here and I'll try and get to it soon (if no-one else does before I get around to it). Snoutwood 07:29, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
      • Here's what I've done: Essex County roads (Ontario) through Niagara Region, Ontario roads: cut and paste page redirected to old page, old page reverted to pre-cut-and-paste-move version. (As an aside, they should all be in the form of List of roads in [place] (per WP:NC#Lists and Wikipedia:Lists (stand-alone lists)#Naming conventions, I believe, and I may fix that after I finish this. They're definitely wrong at the moment, but their histories are merged :).) Template:Regional Roads/Highways: I merged it to his new title, as he's the only editor and because it's a template and not an article (which would make it have more stringent naming rules). Kennedy Road (Ontario): merged to Kennedy Road (Toronto). Let me know if that works. Snoutwood 21:42, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

• Miriam (actor) → Miriam Rivera: Cut and paste move from April 2006. PC78 13:10, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Done. - Bobet 13:43, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

• Alan Webb (athlete) was cut and pasted from Alan Webb to make way for a disambig page - AKeen 18:32, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Done. - Bobet 13:38, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Requests which cannot be fulfilled

[edit] See also

• Warning template for copy and paste movers