Wikipedia:Requests for page importation

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Requests for page importation

This is a place to request that pages be imported with history of pages from other Wikimedia Foundation wikis to here. This might be done if a page was copied and pasted from a WMF wiki to here, or, in the case of the Nostalgia Wikipedia, to make very old revisions accessible. Administrators can import pages from Meta, Commons, the Outreach Wiki, the Test2 Wikipedia site, and the German, Spanish, French, Italian, Polish, and Nostalgia Wikipedias to the English Wikipedia (see Phabricator task 22280 for relevant shell permission requests, and to request permissions for importing from more projects). It is also possible to indirectly perform a transwiki import from other projects by using step-wise process through a third project that has a project mapping already created, although using the export/import process may be simpler.

Guidelines for admins

Check the history of the source page before importing. If there are overlapping edits between the source and destination page, import the edits into the MediaWiki talk namespace, since it is very rarely used. Follow this procedure, where "foo" is the title of the page in the English Wikipedia and "bar" is the title of the source page:

1. Import "bar". When asked for the namespace, select "MediaWiki talk".
2. Move "foo" to "MediaWiki talk:bar". When asked whether you want to delete the page, answer yes.
3. From the "move succeeded" window, there is a link to the page history at "MediaWiki talk:bar". Activate it, perhaps in another tab or window, and there will be some text in the form "View or restore xxx deleted edits?". Activate the link associated with that text and undelete the imported edits that you need. The remaining edits will stay safely deleted in the MediaWiki talk namespace.
4. Revert the move you made in step two. Uncheck the box that says "Leave a redirect behind", since redirects from the MediaWiki talk namespace are useless. If you want, you can use the "revert" link in the "move succeeded" window. The page move should go without a hitch.

The same procedure can be used when there are no overlapping edits, but in this case, it's best to move the page first, so the import appears in the page history.

In general, do not use the "assign edits to local users where the named user exists locally", leaving this off will indicate in the history the project the edits came from and you won't have to worry about non-created accounts here.

See User:Graham87/Import for guidelines on importing from the Nostalgia Wikipedia. There is a log of all page imports at Special:Log/import.

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Import of de:Jürgen Wieshoff to Juergen Wieshoff

• Language: de:Jürgen Wieshoff
• New name: Juergen Wieshoff
• Note: --Jayhalderman (talk) 14:50, 11 March 2025 (UTC)
• Note by importing user: Not done; (a) we don't import untranslated articles straight into the article namespace, (b) you don't have much experience with Wikipedia so you have a probable conflict of interest (as shown by your focus on this person's article in the German Wikipedia), and (c) we mostly use diacritics in article titles. Graham87 (talk) 23:05, 11 March 2025 (UTC)

  a) Sorry, the translated version is in my sandbox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jayhalderman/sandbox, I thought that would be available

  b) yes, I am working on that;-), and there is a interest, because of course I do know him, but to my opinion not a conflict of interest, because he is more activ on the US market now (espcecially because of his Trump book) and that was the reason for the request

  c) if diacritics are used normally: of course;-)

  Thanks for your comment! Jayhalderman (talk) 11:35, 12 March 2025 (UTC)

  I think it'd be better if someone else who doesn't know him personally would write the article on Wikipedia. I'd be OK with other importers/passers-by chiming in here. Graham87 (talk) 11:57, 12 March 2025 (UTC)

  But to my understanding it is not about writing the article but only the translation into another language?? 2003:C2:B707:600:2C9E:68FD:46B5:215B (talk) 13:12, 12 March 2025 (UTC)

   On hold Perhaps if User:Jayhalderman/sandbox was even somewhat ready for publishing I'd consider the import to the sandbox - however it is not. I'm going to put this on hold for now. If you finish the basic work on that sandbox, reply back to me here. If there is no response after a short while, we will close this as not done - and it may be requested again in the future. — xaosflux ^Talk 13:53, 12 March 2025 (UTC)

  Thank you so much, I would be very happy to do so, but can you pls give me a hint what else to do? I already have translated the article? Jayhalderman (talk) 15:29, 12 March 2025 (UTC)

  I think what xaosflux is referring to is that the version in your sandbox is completely unformatted, and would not be ready to be moved to the main namespace. The prose itself in the translated version also needs work, and there are no references attached. That said, it's not beyond fixing with some basic work, and I don't see any problems with importing the dewiki revisions once the sandbox draft is ready for a move to mainspace. EggRoll97 ^(talk) 06:20, 13 March 2025 (UTC)

  Thanks a lot! The German version will have some changes, I will wait for the confirmation and update the sandbox asap! Jayhalderman (talk) 14:26, 13 March 2025 (UTC)

  Thanks for waiting, it should be ready in my sandbox now, hopefully everything is correctly formatted;-) Jayhalderman (talk) 00:00, 26 March 2025 (UTC)

  I've had a look, and it seems fine overall. I could nitpick and say it probably needs more sources, but in general it seems to be alright. I'll leave this for a little bit just to ensure no one has any lingering objections, but otherwise I'll import when I'm off work tomorrow if someone hasn't done so by then. EggRoll97 ^(talk) 04:36, 26 March 2025 (UTC)

  Update:  Done EggRoll97 ^(talk) 01:19, 27 March 2025 (UTC)

  Thank you so much! Jayhalderman (talk) 10:00, 27 March 2025 (UTC)

Import of de:Music Awards Japan 2025 to 2025 Music Awards Japan

• Language: de:Music Awards Japan 2025
• New name: 2025 Music Awards Japan
• Note: Please import the version history. Thank you! :-) --Goroth (talk) 18:06, 24 April 2025 (UTC)
• Note by importing user:  Done * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 18:13, 24 April 2025 (UTC)

Import of de:IDS Imaging Development Systems to IDS Imaging Development Systems

• Language: de:IDS Imaging Development Systems
• New name: IDS Imaging Development Systems
• Note: Translation of the page from German into English, as the page is for an international industrial camera manufacturer. — Preceding unsigned comment added by MarketingDevisionIDS (talk • contribs) 11:29, 28 April 2025 (UTC)
• Note by importing user: No, because of your obvious conflict of interest from your username. And you created the article about the organisation on the German Wikipedia. They tolerate that sort of thing (even after two deletion nominations); we don't. Graham87 (talk) 14:31, 28 April 2025 (UTC)

Import of de:Elias Snitzer to Elias Snitzer

• Language: de:Elias Snitzer
• New name: Elias Snitzer
• Note: First time I'm doing this, hope I'm doing it right--a bunch of penguins (talk) 09:23, 29 April 2025 (UTC)
• Note by importing user:  Done * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 14:06, 29 April 2025 (UTC)

Import of de:IDS Imaging Development Systems to IDS Imaging Development Systems

• Language: de:IDS Imaging Development Systems
• New name: IDS Imaging Development Systems
• Note: Imported from the German page, as this is an internationally operating industrial camera manufacturer. — Preceding unsigned comment added by IndustrialView (talk • contribs) 10:11, 29 April 2025 (UTC)
• Note by importing user:  Not done per two sections above. And we don't import untranslated articles into mainspace anyway -- if an article on this topic somehow ends up existing then we will be willing to import. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 14:07, 29 April 2025 (UTC)