Talk:Reactions to the 2008 Sichuan earthquake

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[edit] Merge

This article may require merged content from here. Previous discussions from the depreciated article are at Talk:International reactions to 2008 Sichuan earthquake.   — C M B J   22:09, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

So let me get this straight -- instead of just changing the name of "Intl Reactions..." to "Reactions...", TPTB merged the former into the latter, thereby losing all the history and talk of the former, which is where all the action was taking place? Man, I hate it when TPTB screw around with articles without giving any thought to what they are doing. Can someone with more juice than I have send a message to the right person to fix this? 68.73.94.131 (talk) 06:15, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

Hello, I am not sure who or what what you mean by 'TPTB' but it looks indeed like the content has been merged here. The name could not be simply changed to "Reactions...", since that was the older article with an edit history as well. nevertheless, the merge should not only have been highlighted more clearly within the edit history of this article (for attribution), but also been discussed before, since it isn't obvious what the consensus title would be and how best to go about this merger technically. While a merge with leaving a redirect and the edit history is possible, the articles had been created one after the other, so a history merge with subsequent move to the right place would have been possible and probably preferable. I might have better highlighted this upfront after the DRV. What seems best now might depend on the desired name. A history merge is still possible, just somewhat messier now. It would actually be necessary if you actually want to have "Intl Reactions..." as tittle. Otherwise if you want to keep this one here, one can just add a {{r from merge}} to the redirect and merge the talk pages as well. .--Tikiwont (talk) 08:05, 6 June 2008 (UTC)