Merge
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I tried to remove a stale merge tag but was reverted at Bishop (Aliens); as the merge discussion was many years old, and went stale without merger, it should be justified to delete the merge tag. Aside from that, the article is almost completely about something that the target article Aliens (film) is not about (ie. other films, Alien 3, Alien vs Predator, etc) 184.144.160.156 (talk) 05:23, 14 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I'm reviewing everything on the merges list and tagging the articles if not already tagged and removing from the list if already tagged. This is not helping anybody and needs to be phased out. It just makes the huge backlog more different to have to watch two different places. D O N D E groovily Talk to me 04:30, 9 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I've cleared them. The section is now repurposed as a place to get assistance in listing merges in the first place. It's now explicit that people listing there shouldn't expect that to get the merge completed. D O N D E groovily Talk to me 04:46, 16 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

What should we make of articles tagged for merging when the proposer doesn't actually create a discussion section? Occasionally the tag itself is self-evident, but often the proposer's rationale is unclear. And while someone can start a discussion with their support or opposition just based on the template, that seems unlikely. I'd like to start a policy of removing stale tags—I think removing them a week after tagging is plenty generous. Or do we purposely allow such proposals without rationale for some reason? --BDD (talk) 23:28, 27 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Well, this page specifically is for users seeking assistance with the process. Everyone who has proposed something on this page since I reset it has provided a reason for the merge. Creating the tags and talk sections is just doing the bureaucratic/technical legwork for them. On this page, I have been deleting tags and archiving the proposal if the original proposer doesn't perform the merge promptly. D O N D E groovily Talk to me 03:41, 28 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, so the only stale tags I should find on articles are months old, and you're monitoring current ones? Just wanted to make sure I understood that right. If so, do you follow a specific timetable before archiving? --BDD (talk) 14:46, 28 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

To clarify, I'm only monitoring this page, not the entire merge backlog (which is impossible to monitor). But here, if no one has commented after about two weeks, I send a talk page message to the proposer telling them to go ahead and merge - if they don't do that after two weeks, I archive as stale. D O N D E groovily Talk to me 00:13, 29 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note that I have moved this post to the main page Ego White Tray (talk) 17:45, 16 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

See the discussion at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Wikipedia "Merge" like WP:RM or WP:AFD -- PBS (talk) 21:56, 7 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

That discussion has been archived with a large consensus in favour of change. See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Merge/Archive 2#Automation of merge proposals for a discussion on how to implement the change. -- PBS (talk) 10:21, 15 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not going to read anything about the procedure I should use, but just ignore all rules and report it here: Geometric Shapes and Geometric Shapes (Unicode block) are duplicates, it would be nice if somebody who read about the way to merge to articles could merge them. Thank you. --Schnark (talk) 09:38, 6 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Putting this on the notice board page. GenQuest ^{"Talk to Me"} 02:09, 7 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

It looks like the last activity to actually merge pages happened in July 2013. Are there still Admins actively working on these cases? Or can any Editor take it on? I'm not sure if it's a matter of combining information or page history data. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 13:06, 3 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Liz, anyone can work the merger request board. The nominator is encouraged to complete the task if they are able too. I had been working the mergers, but since May of this year, I have been working 60-80 hour weeks at my real job. Thankfully, after this week, that situation will be resolving itself. However, if you would like to jump in and do some merging, I encourage you to do so, and I can answer your questions on procedure if necessary. There is also a backlog on AfD results "to merge" that we've been steadily working to reduce, and need a lot of help there. GenQuest ^{"Talk to Me"} 23:53, 3 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I have merged the following articles to List of Viz comic strips.

Their merger was proposed since November 2013.Most of the above have been made redirects after their important content was copied to the corresponding sections of the target List of Viz comic strips article.Skr15081997 (talk) 12:45, 13 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Great job! I was looking at those ones myself, and I was planning it as one of my rainy day projects. Thanks. --NickPenguin_(contribs) 17:11, 13 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]