Wikipedia:Proposed article mergers

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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 is created) in accordance with Wikipedia:Naming conventions and Wikipedia:Canonicalization.


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 an article which appears to be the duplicate of another article, place the template {{Merge}} followed by a link to the duplicate article. It will read:

Peer-to-peer.

This marks the page so that future viewers will see that it needs to be merged.

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 be lost in the transfer. Upon completion, it is critical to place a redirect on the page that the content has been moved from. (i.e.- If you move the content of "Doe, John" into "John Doe," you would put a redirect on "Doe, John.")

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. It would be good to move any general information to the "Cinema of India" page, while writing an article on how the Indian Cinema came to its current state of being on the current "History of Indian Cinema" page.

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.

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See also: Special:Whatlinkshere/MediaWiki:Merge

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  • Dormant Commerce Clause needs to be merged with Commerce Clause by someone with an interest in U.S. Constitution.
    • Though obviously connected, these are in fact separate legal topics. The Dormant Commerce Clause is a distinct legal doctrine in Supreme Court case law from its rulings on Congressional Commerce Clause power. The main problem right now is just poor writing in the Dormant Commerce Clause article...it's kind of incoherent. It looks like someone just pasted in their law school essay. Postdlf 9:57 AM 3 Apr 2004 EST
  • Orphan The depression and the new deal (it looks like a school report) into Great Depression and New Deal, if there's anything new in the former.

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  • Gender identity and sexual identity. I have always heard these terms used interchangeably though some academics prefer one over the other. Both have worthwhile content. I don't know the history of the two articles, but why not conflate them and post a redirect from the less-preferred term? Or perhaps the terms mean something different to some of the writers here? If the original writers or users wish to maintain the distinction, perhaps someone would be willing to write a brief explanation of the distinction and link the two to reduce confusion. See talk:sex for a little more on this. Alteripse 18:44, 12 Jun 2004 (UTC)
I completely disagree. The problem is how to talk about (and talk with) people who feel themselves to be men but have the genitalia of females and the people who feel themselves to be women but have the genitalia of males. See, for instance, one of many articles by Dr. Milton Diamond at http://www.hawaii.edu/PCSS/online_artcls/intersex/sexual_I_G_web.html. See also the writings of Dr. Anne Fausto-Sterling (Sexing the Human Body in particular), and Dr. John Money (Gay, Straight, and In-Between). For a real-world case see John Colapinto As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised As A Girl; Harper Collins; ISBN 0-06-019211-9 . Sexual identity is the observed "facts" (sometimes in dispute as in the case of a female Olympic competitor who was disqualified for having an XY chromosomal sex status). One's own "knowledge" of one's sexual identity may be different from the "knowledge" of other people, and the ways to clarify these issues are complicated and technical, so the subject deserves its own article. One's own belief about what one's gender identity is and/or should be ("I am a boy," in the case Colapinto describes) can be at complete variance with what people in the community understand that one's gender identity is or should be. Those issues center around the visible facts of external genitalia and the invisible facts of personal perception of "what I really am," and are also complicated and technical -- but in a much different way from questions of sexual identity. So gender identity (and gender role) need separate articles. P0M 15:49, 17 Jun 2004 (UTC)

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  • 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.
  • 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)

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These are 3 different concepts. Elf | Talk 22:11, 25 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
Perhaps we need links between colloquialism and idiom, though (are similes idioms?), and there is some overlap. Slang is entirely different, though. --Elektron 13:22, 2004 May 26 (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)
  • 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)
  • Steamship, steamboat, and redirect steamer (there's also a Paddle steamer which I think is OK as is): One article made a distinction between ship & boat but if you look at What Links Here for each of these, they're used interchangeably in many many articles. Need to be merged & terminology made consistent in all links probably
  • Streicher, Julius Streicher Charles Matthews 21:12, 17 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
  • Stuttering / stammering and Stuttering not the same text, but both treat the same subject. Someone with time could see if the first has anything that could be added to the second.
  • Synod and Ecumenical council
    • Ecumenical Council is a subgroup of Synod; not all conferences of religious are intended to be church- or sect-wide, while an Ecumenical Council is intended to apply to all churches. -- llywrch

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  • 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)

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List of English words of Yiddish origin duplicates part of the list at Yiddish language. Merge or move. Grendelkhan 05:16, 2004 May 12 (UTC)

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