Template talk:Merge

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 * Merge
 * Merge to
 * Merge from
 * Merging

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Template-protected edit request on 17 August 2022

 * ==Preposition to merge an item==
 * It appears that the article List of Lithuanian monarchs (Wikipedia item ID: Q111379094), along with its counterpart in French, should be merged with another set of articles (Wikipedia item ID: Q2639920) where currently an article in English does not exist. --SeriousThinker (talk) 13:09, 17 August 2022 (UTC) SeriousThinker (talk) 10:12, 17 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: this is the talk page for discussing improvements to the template . Please make your request at the talk page for the article concerned. * Pppery * it has begun... 14:24, 17 August 2022 (UTC)


 * There is a redirect, Grand Duke of Lithuania, here in the English Wikipedia, so there is no need to merge. If there is material from another-language Wikipedia with which to create the Grand Duke article here that might be a good way to go.  P.I. Ellsworth &thinsp;, ed.  put'r there 14:31, 17 August 2022 (UTC)

Edit request 1 August 2023
Description of suggested change: make the example something normal — Preceding unsigned comment added by Michael21107 (talk • contribs) 16:36, 1 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Huh? You'll need to be much more specific about what exactly you want changed for this to get implemented. * Pppery * it has begun... 20:40, 1 August 2023 (UTC)
 * the example says a page that has not been specified. If you are the editor who added this template, please specify. ...would be good to have it a normal example Michael H (talk) 19:12, 3 August 2023 (UTC)
 * The example at the top is exactly what the template renders as when given no parameters. This is standard practice in template namespace and should not be changed without a good reason. * Pppery * it has begun... 00:37, 8 August 2023 (UTC)
 * apologies for not signing, i forget Michael H (talk) 19:13, 3 August 2023 (UTC)

Template:Merge to display issue
By default, produces output that reads " (|Discuss) " if you don't specify a discuss value;  doesn't have this issue. I'm guessing that we should have them do the same thing. I would surmise that the best thing to do in both cases (though it might use different code in the two templates) is include a link to the talk page of the merge-to target, since that is the default location to discuss any merge. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  14:55, 13 December 2023 (UTC)

Date display issue (in all these templates)
This whole family of templates are unhelpfully displaying " Proposed since . ", when no date value has been specified. This entire item should probably just be suppressed in such a case (and a bot will date-fix it later anyway; there's no reason for it to be ugly and confusing in the short interim). — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  14:59, 13 December 2023 (UTC)