Wikipedia talk:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Hitchhiker's Guide Merger
OK, it's languishing for lack of anyone understanding what needs to be done and it's WP:SNOW, if I merge the articles (there's no need for deletion and renaming - just merge WP:HHGTTG into the full name version with a complete overwrite), will you close out the discussion as "merged"?--Doug.(talk • contribs) 22:25, 27 September 2007 (UTC)


 * I don't know if you noticed in the deletion discussion, but I mentioned that I already performed the merger : )
 * At this point, all that needs to happen is to delete one (the spelled out name) and move the other (the abbreviated name - HHGTTG) to that name. - jc37 01:22, 28 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Huh? Am I completely lost?  You said you added the missing information to one of the projects.  The pages are both still there.  Can't this be done like an ordinary merger?  Open the two edit windows, cut everything from WP:HHGTTG, paste into the full name version writing over everything that's there, and leave a redirect in WP:HHGTTG.  Check for double-redirects, yadda yadda yadda.  There is no need to "delete" and "rename".  At least I don't see it, but maybe you can explain.--Doug.(talk • contribs) 01:49, 28 September 2007 (UTC)


 * The two projects were duplicative. I merged everything that wasn't at HHGTTG, but was at WikiProject Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, to HHGTTG. So now HHGTTG has all the information, which makes WikiProject Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy deletable as duplicative. What you're describing is a "copy-paste move", which is generally not done. At this point, maybe the best thing would be to drop User:xaosflux a note on his talk page linking to this discussion. If he agrees that there is consensus to delete WikiProject Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (especially now that it's now been merged) then he will, and then we can discuss moving the abbreviated named project to the spelled out name at our leisure : ) - jc37 01:57, 28 September 2007 (UTC)


 * OK, but I understood WP:MERGE, as I was describing, to be the preferred way to merge. --Doug.(talk • contribs) 02:03, 28 September 2007 (UTC)


 * I see. Well then under those terms I did WP:MERGE : )
 * We have a "move" tool as the preferred way for renaming/moving. - jc37 02:22, 28 September 2007 (UTC)


 * I left a notice on User:xaosflux's talk page. - jc37 02:43, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks everyone, the merges are complete, using full history merge (admin-only merge method). If there any issues please talk page me. Thanks again, —  xaosflux  Talk  03:09, 28 September 2007 (UTC)