Memory Gamma:Policies and Guidelines/Merge

Memory Gamma:Policies and Guidelines

Occasionally, a page needs to be merged with another one, for example, because two articles about the same topic exist. In these cases, you can follow this guideline to suggest and perform a proper page merge.


 * 1) A page merge should be suggested by adding the merge template to the page that should be merged with another one. For example, put on top of a page to suggest that it should be merged with "OTHER PAGE". This template will invite discussion about this suggestion on the talk page. As a courtesy, put "merge suggested" in the edit summary, to additionally make other users aware of this.
 * If, after seven to ten days, there's consensus, perform the merge by copying all information from that page to the new one. Note the source page of the new information in the edit summary, and leave a note about the performed merge on the talk page.
 * 1) As a last step, the page histories need to be merged. This can only be done by an administrator, because it involves temporarily deleting a page.