Template:Merge/doc

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This is a documentation subpage for {{merge}}, {{mergefrom}} and {{mergeto}} (see that page for the template itself).
It contains usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page.

{{Merge/doc}} will add tagged pages to Category:Articles to be merged. If the date parameter is specified, pages are added to a subcategory of Category:Merge by month.

Contents

[edit] Usage

  • First parameter: name of page to be merged to (without square brackets)
  • Second parameter: location of merge discussion (without square brackets)
  • date parameter (optional): date, in "June 2008" format

To keep discussion of merges to one place, ensure the same location is specified on each page.

[edit] Examples

{{merge}}
  1. {{Merge | Article 1 | Talk:Article 1#Merge proposal |date=June 2008 }}
  2. {{Merge | Article 2 | Talk:Article 1#Merge proposal |date=June 2008 }}
{{mergefrom}} and {{mergeto}}
  1. {{Mergefrom | Article 2 | Talk:Article 1#Merge proposal |date=June 2008 }}
  2. {{Mergeto | Article 1 | Talk:Article 1#Merge proposal |date=June 2008 }}

[edit] See also

Further information: Wikipedia:Duplicate articles

[edit] Merging

[edit] Splitting

[edit] Redirects

[edit] Mergefrom

  1. {{Merge from}}
  2. {{Merge-from}}
  3. {{Include}}
  4. {{Mergrefrom}}
  5. {{Merging from}}

[edit] Mergefrom-multiple

  1. {{Mergefrommulti}}
  2. {{Mergefrommultiple}}
  3. {{Multimergefrom}}

[edit] Mergeto

  1. {{Merge to}}
  2. {{Merge-to}}
  3. {{Mergeinto}}
  4. {{MergePartial}}
  5. {{Merge into}}
  6. {{Mergesectionto}}
  7. {{MergetoCat}}
  8. {{Mergeto-disputed}}
  9. {{Merging to}}
  10. {{Mergedto}}