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Below is a list of duplicate articles that have been created mostly by mistake. They have to be merged into a single piece of work, and one title has to be redirected to the other (or a completely new page must be created) in accordance with Misplaced Pages:Naming conventions and Misplaced Pages:Canonicalization.

If you disagree with a 'merge' indication then change the template from {{Merge}} to {{MergeDisputed}} and discuss it on this page until consensus is reached.


Proactive action: avoiding duplicates

The creation of duplicate articles, and the wasted effort this causes, can be avoided by creating lots of redirects. Also, when creating new articles, search for existing articles on the same subject (when search is enabled).

Misplaced Pages:Orphaned Articles lists articles that aren't linked to, and may have been created when a new article was created without having searched for a previously existing article.

Mark current duplicates

If you find an article which appears to be the duplicate of another article, place the template {{Merge}} followed by a link to the duplicate article. It will read:

It has been suggested that this page be merged with a page that has not been specified. If you are the editor who added this template, please specify. (Discuss)
Peer-to-peer.

This marks the page so that future viewers will see that it needs to be merged.

Help with the clean-up

To merge articles, follow the advice on the list below. Usually, an experienced user will suggest that one article be absorbed into another. Read both articles carefully and decide which article has the more appropriate title and content. Merge the content by copying/pasting from one window to another. Be sure not to allow any of the good content to be lost in the transfer. Upon completion, it is critical to place a redirect on the page that the content has been moved from. (i.e.- If you move the content of "Doe, John" into "John Doe," you would put a redirect on "Doe, John.")

Alternatively, you could also leave the two pages distinct (without a redirect), but complete the text of one of the pages so that it is no longer a duplicate, incorrect, or a stub. For example, someone might suggest that the "Cinema of India" and "History of Indian Cinema" be merged, as they contain mostly duplicate information. It would be good to move any general information to the "Cinema of India" page, while writing an article on how the Indian Cinema came to its current state of being on the current "History of Indian Cinema" page.

After a pair has been merged, please remove them from the list below. If you want to show off your work, use the Talk Page.

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See also: Special:Whatlinkshere/Template:Merge

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  • A simple proof that 22/7 exceeds Pi should be merged into pi. Neutrality 23:14, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)
    • Neutrality: The merge tag is intended for duplicate articles, in order to eliminate redundency. These articles are not duplicates, and contain no redundent material. So I think the merge tag should be removed. If what you mean is that the article about the proof, should be incorporated into the article pi, perhaps discussing this on the talk pages for the two articles would be best? Paul August 20:13, Jul 23, 2004 (UTC)
    • I cannot agree that the article should be incorporated into pi. One should not have to read everything about pi in order to read something like this. There can and should be lots of articles about various aspects of pi. Michael Hardy 22:09, 23 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • Agile Methods and Agile methods. Ouch. Neither look particularly clean, either. - Fennec

(はさばくのきつね) 23:09, 10 Jul 2004 (UTC)

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  • Hammer Films and Hammer Horror
    • Both have a right to exist, but someone who knows the subject should work out which information belongs in which article
  • Health and Wellness
  • Heat and Heat transfer? They have a bit of overlap.
  • Helical pump should be merged into progressive cavity pump. The pump my father brought home was made of hard metal inside a rubber-lined metal tube, as described. -phma 20:57, 4 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • Hemp should be merged into Cannabis
    • Hemp is a plant, Cannabis a drug. Those are two completely different categories of things, and although there is some degree of overlap there is sufficient difference to have separate articles
      • Sorry to correct you but, that is outright wrong. Cannabis is not the drug, it is the scientific name of the plant. The two articles should be merged and a separate article about the drug should be at Tetrahydrocannabinol with redirects from Hashish, Marijuana, etc. Kosebamse
      • It seems appropriate to have one article Hemp on the plant and its use for purposes not related to THC, one article on the chemical aspects of Tetrahydrocannabinol (as it is now), and one article at Cannabis on the variety of drugs that are based on THC and carry various names according to production method, consumption method, and/or community. Unfortunately I lack the technical knowledge on the drugs to shift the respective parts between Hemp and Cannabis. -- Gauss 17:05, 12 May 2004 (UTC)
      • Generally, articles on species, genera, etc. are at the common name, with a redirect from the scientific name. The article should therefore be at hemp with a redirect from Cannabis. -phma 07:01, 4 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • Hogen disturbance and Hogen Rebellion --Nanshu 02:37, 19 Jun 2004 (UTC)
  • Hyper-reality and Hyperreality may need to be merged; the information in the short Hyper-reality article varies slightly from that in the longer Hyperreality article. -RedWordSmith 07:19, 23 Jul 2004 (UTC)

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These are 3 different concepts. Elf | Talk 22:11, 25 May 2004 (UTC)
Perhaps we need links between colloquialism and idiom, though (are similes idioms?), and there is some overlap. Slang is entirely different, though. --Elektron 13:22, 2004 May 26 (UTC)
The latter is sufficiently different to merit a separate article (though right now both pages are just lists...) -Sean Curtin 07:57, 16 Jun 2004 (UTC)
The point is, they are NOT different. There is no "Polish mythology", it was just a west-slavic variant of the Slavic mythology. It's just the impression this article gives. Ausir 18:28, 4 Jul 2004 (UTC)

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    • These should remain separate. Tokugawa shogunate should be about government, a specialized and extensive subject. Institutions. Relations between shogunate and han. In contrast, Edo period should be about other aspects of history during the period (culture, economy, etc.) as well as regional and han issues.

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U.S. Open (Tennis) should be merged into US Open (tennis). Niteowlneils 03:36, 21 Jul 2004 (UTC)

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  • War of Independence of 1857 and Indian Mutiny deal with the same topic. The former was started independently of the latter, which existed already. However, there is an ongoing discussion regarding the title of the article (which can be used to merge the contents of both). Any help in resolving this would be greatly appreciated. Chancemill 08:37, Apr 23, 2004 (UTC)

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