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: Import "bar". When asked for the namespace, select "MediaWiki talk". Move "foo" to "MediaWiki talk:bar". When asked whether you want to delete the page, answer yes. 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. 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 pl:Dzielnica Skłodowskiej-Curie to User:Karol739/Skłodowska-Curie District

• Language: pl:Dzielnica Skłodowskiej-Curie
• New name: User:Karol739/Skłodowska-Curie District
• Note: Please help with importing page history. Thanks in advance, Karol739 (talk) 16:32, 5 August 2024 (UTC)
• Note by importing administrator: Not done; the edit summary you wrote at the Skłodowska-Curie District article is completely adequate here; importation is not a standard procedure on the English Wikipedia. Graham87 (talk) 23:48, 5 August 2024 (UTC)

Import of de:Superjednostka to Superjednostka

• Language: de:Superjednostka
• New name: Superjednostka
• Note: Article is based on German article, please import revision history. --Gestumblindi (talk) 13:52, 8 August 2024 (UTC)
• Note by importing administrator:  Done Graham87 (talk) 15:05, 8 August 2024 (UTC)

Import of de:Bauhaus Luftfahrt to Malguck2/Bauhaus_Luftfahrt

• Language: de:Bauhaus Luftfahrt
• New name: Malguck2/Bauhaus_Luftfahrt
• Note: --Malguck2Malguck2 (talk) 08:24, 27 August 2024 (UTC)
• Note by importing administrator: Not done. You don't have enough experience to create articles here and therefore probably have a conflict of interest. Graham87 (talk) 14:13, 27 August 2024 (UTC)

Import of zh-yue:Poki Ng Po Ki to Poki Ng

• Language: zh-yue:Poki Ng Po Ki
• New name: Poki Ng
• Note: The article is based on written English language, and its Cantonese equivalent is currently on zh-yue:吳保錡. Please import the edit history and once imported and can copyedit them in more proper English Wikipedian format. --Shinjiman ⇔ ♨ 07:52, 30 August 2024 (UTC)
• Note by importing administrator: @Shinjiman: Done; it's still a redirect but you can retrieve the edit you need. I remember your edits on articles about Perth! Graham87 (talk) 14:53, 30 August 2024 (UTC)

Import of de:Ingbert_Naab to Ingbert Naab

• Language: de:Ingbert_Naab
• New name Ingbert Naab
• Note: I would like to import this article about Ingbert Naab, a German Capuchin friar and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime, from the German Wikipedia. The article meets the notability criteria for the English Wikipedia as it covers a significant historical figure. I plan to translate and adapt the content for the English-speaking audience, ensuring all sources are properly cited and verified. --RememberingIngbertNaab (talk) 13:56, 1 September 2024 (UTC)
• Note by importing administrator: Not done; your lack of experience (not enough to create articles here) and your username indicate that you may have some kind of conflict of interest either relating to him or publications about him. Graham87 (talk) 14:47, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

  Indeed I have a lack of experience regarding Wikipedia but I guess I will be able to compose the english article based on the german wikipedia article, if I have the imported "german draft" (source code of the german wikipedia article) and can edit it and preview it, I guess this is how this works once it is imported.

  Regarding a "conflict of interest" I am a private person and just created the "first best" username to specifically translate this article about Ingbert Naab and thought that "RememberingIngbertNaab" would be a fitting username for this purpose. Doing so seemed to be a good course of action IMHO. I dont understand what you mean by "conflict of interest" in this case, it is just a username which seemed appropriate to me.

  Thanks and best regards :-) RememberingIngbertNaab (talk) 15:00, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

  • @RememberingIngbertNaab: You can just copy the source code from the edit field here. Honestly the fact that you can't figure that out yourself is just a further indication that you should learn to edit Wikipedia first before trying one of our hardest tasks, starting a new article. When you translate the page, use an edit summary like "Translated text from German article at de:Ingbert Naab, per our guideline on Copying within Wikipedia. Importation of the edit history is not strictly required; it's massively popular on the German Wikipedia but not so much here (this process only exists due to a bizarre series of coincidences). Re conflict of interest: I mean a close personal connection with one of the people who has written about the case or something like that. Re the username: just ... the more unusual the username, the more unusual the point of view ... that's been the general trend on the English Wikipedia. For more help, ask at the teahouse. Graham87 (talk) 04:38, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

Import of de:Institut_für_Föderalismus to User:ÖPublius/Institute_of_Federalism

• Language: de:Institut_für_Föderalismus
• New name: User:ÖPublius/Institute_of_Federalism
• Note: translation will be based on German article — Preceding unsigned comment added by ÖPublius (talk • contribs) 08:12, 12 September 2024 (UTC)
• Note by importing administrator: Not done; you don't have enough experience on any wiki to create articles, indicating that you probably have a conflict of interest about this subject (your |contributions on the German Wikipedia don't help allay this impression). Graham87 (talk) 15:46, 12 September 2024 (UTC)

  Okay. Thank you. ÖPublius (talk) 05:13, 13 September 2024 (UTC)