Wikipedia talk:Find or fix a stub/Work
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I certify that the combined contents of the two preceding versions of this sub-page consist precisely of
- initial and final headings written by me,
- possible differences in white space,
- the markup text of the 16:37, 2005 Apr 17 revision of Wikipedia talk:Find or fix a stub, up to a point where it appears to begin repeating itself (appearing in the older of the two previous versions of this page), and
- the remander of that revision (appearing in the newer of the two previous versions of this page).
Thus the diffs output between those versions, which is accessible from this sub-page's history (although the diff's URL will be changed by this edit), confirms that nothing got lost in my deletion of the apparent "first copy" of the page's mostly duplicated content.
The diff for the edit that preceded the doubling shows that
- E=MC^2's first of two edits added the "== Stub legnth ==" section that bears their sig.
I interpret the next difference output as showing that the second edit attributed to E=MC^2 replaced, with a complete copy of the immediately preceding revision (which included both the 2-month-old "==Move to Wiktionary==" section by BozMo and the roughly-1-minute-old one by E=MC^2), either
I was checking this in response to my fear that my quick-fix of discarding the "first copy" might have discarded something that wasn't a duplicate, and documenting it for anyone who shared that fear. But FWIW this shakes up my belief that i understood what happens in a page-doubling: i expected the second copy to replace only the section the edit added, not the preceding section as well.
I now assume that the system screwed up the resolution of what it inferred was an ed conf of E with themself (while E was editing the final existing section, or was implicitly inferred to be doing so while using "post a comment").
--Jerzy (t) 16:08, 2005 Apr 27 (UTC)
