Talk:Timeline of Nancy

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[1] Please help me with the article Timeline of Nancy, France, which was moved to History of Nancy without discussion. I have restored the timeline but would like to show its history (begun November 2015).

[2] Also the new article History of Nancy looks as though I created it, which I did not. How to correct its revision history to show its creation on 22 January 2016 by User:Gryffindor?

M2545 (talk) 09:32, 22 January 2016 (UTC)


 * This is a misunderstanding of how page moves work. When a page is moved, its entire history is moved along - you can think of it as renaming the article. So you did create what's now at History of Nancy, just not under that title. The old name was turned into a redirect that pointed anybody still looking for "Timeline of Nancy, France" to the content's new location. In particular, there's no need to duplicate the page's content since people searching for either name would have ended up at the same page (under the new name) anyway. I'll thus restore the redirect. If you think the content should better be under the old name - I tend to disagree since we don't have Timeline of Paris, France but History of Paris, for example - I'd advise you to discuss the issue on the (new) talk page, Talk:History of Nancy. Huon (talk) 16:06, 22 January 2016 (UTC)


 * The timeline content should be moved back to its original namespace, Timeline of Nancy, France. If someone wants to expand the prose-format History of Nancy article, that would be great, but it is beyond my capacity at present. -- M2545 (talk) 16:36, 22 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Also, there is a robust distinction between Category:Timelines of cities in France and Category:Histories of cities in France (in both English and French Wikipedias). Combining them for the city of Nancy is unusual, and unnecessary. -- M2545 (talk) 16:41, 22 January 2016 (UTC)