Wikipedia:Proposed mergers

This page is an incomplete list of proposed Merging and moving pages. Anyone may list any article merger proposal here. This is optional, and it does not replace any of the other steps in the Merging and moving pages#Proposing a merger. Please add the appropriate Template messages/Merging and splitting to the articles before listing them here.

Guidelines

In general, this page should be used primarily to solicit outside feedback regarding mergers (particularly those of a controversial nature), or assistance with difficult or complicated mergers. Brief replies may be posted here, but lengthy discussions should be confined to the talk pages of the articles involved. After articles are merged (or a consensus that the articles should not be merged is reached), please remove them from the list below.

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Category mergers should not be proposed here. Please see Categories for discussion.
For a complete list of articles with current merger proposals, please see Category:Articles to be merged.
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Current listings

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July 2006

Merge Okiku into Bancho Sarayashiki. Okiku is a character in Bancho Sarayashiki, but there is not enough individual information on the character to warrent an individual page. Everything contained on the Okiku page is duplicated on the Bancho Sarayashiki page, but in more detail. MightyAtom 12:57, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

Merge Italus and Italos. Seem to refer to same (semi-mythical) person, a user has placed the alternative in brackets on all relevant pages. I tagged these pages for merger last week, and no-one has commented one way or the other. I would do it myself, but I'm not sure which would be best to have the article under going forward, so I wanted to open it up for more discussion. David Underdown 12:38, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

Merge Beaver (band) and 13eaver - same band (Beaver is correct. Kidvicious 03:43, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

Merge J. Peter Lesley with John Peter Lesley. Uncertainty predominates in regards to his first name. He may have named himself "John" after he reached adulthood. Superslum 11:02, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

Merge Islamic apartheid into Gender apartheid as the former article is entirely about the latter topic and even uses the term "gender apartheid". The latter term is in wider use.Homeontherange 03:41, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

Merge Foursquare with Foursquare house as they are talking about the exact same thing. the illustration on Foursquare should probably be replaced, as it's not really a good example of the style. 74.135.213.61 19:35, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

Redirected and cleanup to Foursquare house. I didn't keep the illustration, it's not too good. Teke Teke 18:47, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

Merge Courage the Dog with Courage the Cowardly Dog and or List of Courage the Cowardly Dog characters as the stub article is completely duplicative of the more substantial articles. Bdelisle 07:46, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

Duplicate article redirected. Teke Teke 18:47, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

Merge Diamond of Death to diamond problem. I wrote the first article without realising we already had an article about it. JIP | JIP 16:48, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

Duplicate redirected, you may want to wiggle in the few tidbits that were not in Diamond problem; I'm unfamiliar with the concept so I left that part alone. Teke Teke 18:47, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

Merge John Davidson (popular singer) and John Davidson (game show host) - same person. Kirjtc2 16:03, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

Merge Hudson Canyon and Hudson canyon, as they are about the same thing. ErikNY 17:26, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

Merge Abington_Congregational_Church%2C_Pomfret_Center%2C_Connecticut and Abington_Congregational_Church. They're the same page, except one lists the church in Pomfret, CT, and the other in Pomfret Center, CT. I don't know the town well enough to know the preferred choice.Kahar5 16:39, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

Done. Teke Teke 18:48, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

Merge Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi and Abd al-Rahman al-Ghafiqi : this is the same individual. Raoul75 08:32, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

Merge Echoes of Faydwer into EverQuest II. Does an expension pack (one that even doesn't excist at the moment!) really need a page of it's own? Gnorn 19:53, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

Merge List of cults into List of new religious movements. Concerning POV problems in List of Cults, which have largely been avoided in List of New Religious Movements. 80.189.75.153 18:43, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

Merge Wonder weapons with Wunderwaffe. —The preceding Sign your posts on talk pages comment was added by Vic Fontaine (Vic Fontaine • Contributions/Vic Fontaine) 10:25, 9 July 2006 (UTC).

Merge List_of_world%27s_largest_lakes with Lakes. The list itself definitely does not qualify as an article in and of itself. —The preceding Sign your posts on talk pages comment was added by Hulces (Hulces • Contributions/Hulces) 06:04, 9 July 2006 (UTC).

Merge Public Address with Sound reinforcement system. I can't find the time to do it myself, tho it seems fairly straightforward. Martijn Hoekstra 21:31, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

Merge RuneScape Monsters with RuneScape. —The preceding Sign your posts on talk pages comment was added by Bdr9 (Bdr9 • Contributions/Bdr9) 15:29, 8 July 2006 (UTC).

Merge Ossian with Oisín or with James MacPherson. An anonymous IP has proposed that Ossian be merged with Oisín. I think it would be better merged with the article on James MacPherson or left alone so I made the alternative merge proposal.Filceolaire 12:50, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

Merge Znaju Ja (single) with Znaju Ja. The articles are entirely identical except for a semantic difference in their subjects: Znaju Ja is about a song, Znaju Ja (single) is about a single CD that it appears on. Also the articles could do with a clean-up, it looks like they're written by Ruslana herself, or more likely, her agent. JIP | JIP 08:54, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

18:34, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Merge at least most of Syndactyly into Dactyly. The former reads as if it should be at the latter title (it starts "In zoology, dactyly is...") and has lots of interesting information that is not relevant to the concept of syntactyly itself. Hairy Dude 18:26, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Merge Mii (now a mere redirection to Jungle de Ikou!, an anime in which Mii is a character) with MII Disabiguation page. The redirection is quite confusing - Ppchailley 14:56, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Merge Shi'a population with Demographics of Islam. Both pages provide statistics for the sects of Islam, by country. POV galore on both pages. -- Zzuuzz ^Zzuuzz 21:59, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Merge Saffuriya with Tzippori/Sepphoris. These are the Arabic, Hebrew and Greek names of the same site, despite attempts by the authors of the Tzippori page to claim otherwise. Please see: 1) discussion between Kathleen Christison (theology expert) and Benny Morris (Israeli historian)at and this brief from archaeologist Leroy Waterman in 1931[http://www.umich.edu/~kelseydb/Excavation/Sepphoris.html. Tiamut 08:39, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Merge Chaplet of Divine Mercy with Divine Mercy. The second is a shorter, abbreviated stub of the former. Also, merge these two with the article on Divine Mercy (painting), since the chaplet and the painting are both based on the same vision.--ettecum 10:56, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

June 2006

Merge Politicians of Croatian ancestry, Foreign Croatian Politicians, and World Politicians of Croatian ancestry, These three pages appear to be virtual duplicates of each other. --TommyBoy 19:27, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Ultimate Spider-Man (character) into Ultimate Spider-Man. This is a derivative character, based on Spider-Man, who already has his own entry. Additionally, the already existing Ultimate Spider-Man entry covers not just the comic book series of the same name, but also focuses a great deal on the character, even detailing his adventures in other "Ultimate" series. The "(character)" entry is largely an abridgment of the Ultimate Spider-Man series, a type of entry the Comics Wikiproject is currently trying to reduce in accordance with fair use prwctices. --ChrisGriswold 17:10, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Symbolist painters into Symbolism (arts). At one tine the main Symbolism page was focused chiefly on poetry; it no longer is, and now encompasses music, prose, and theatre. Not sure that the continued separation of the Symbolist painters into a separate page remains justified. Ihcoyc 15:48, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Floral Park Memorial High School, New Hyde Park Memorial High School, Elmont Memorial High School, H. Frank Carey Junior/Senior High School, and Sewanhaka High School are, like most school articles, fairly non-notable and major cruftmagnets; they should be merged into Sewanhaka Central High School District. PaulHanson 19:18, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Framing (communication theory) and Framing (psychology) should probably be merged; there was already a corresponding proposal on the talk pages, but apparently no-one felt competent to carry it out. Loaded language should also be considered, as it appears to be pretty much the same thing. The discussion is at Framing (communication theory). Joriki 06:47, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Production Units of the Indian Railways into Indian Railways. The former article isn't long or noteworthy enough not to be an individual section in Indian Railways. I think it would fit perfectly in the main article. -- Consumed Crustacean | Consumed Crustacean | 01:29, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Since April 11 National Origins Quota Act has been tagged by another user for merger into Immigration Act of 1924. However, there has been no corresponding tag on the other entry and the matter was not brought into this forum. As the existing discussion indicates, both articles are about the same legislation, which was known by more than one name. National is a stub containing a few additional details which can be tranferred. Conversely, Immigration had once been a fairly lengthy article, incorporating excerpts from congressional debate, but was severely reduced over plagiarism and POV issues. Even in its present shortened form, it is the distinctly more informative entry. --Romanspinner 05:30, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Community-supported/unopposed merger proposals

The List of Irish playwrights may be merged into the somewhat better developed List of Irish dramatists. Many names on both lists are the same and the rest should be combined. While there is more than a semantic difference between a "dramatist" and a "playwright", all the other lists in that category use the word "playwright", so to avoid retitling, an argument can be made for a merge in the other direction. --Romanspinner 05:30, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Infobox Ferry and Infobox Ship, near duplicates. Captain scarlet Captain scarlet 22:01, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

Merge Wildcats v2 into Wildcats (comics). The main entry covers volumes one through three of the series; there's no reason for volume two to get an article to itself. Gabriel Roth 07:39, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Merge Worcester-Metrowest-Boston Airport and Worcester Regional Airport. Both articles describe the same airport. The destination article should be Worcester-Metrowest-Boston Airport. --Tckma 11:46, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

Merge Environmental design into Sustainable design, writing a new article for the former. Currently, the former is described as synonymous with the latter, which is actually a neologism (albeit a widespread one). An entirely different normantive meaning (also widespread) for "Environmental design" already exists, which is not given any coverage in its current article.Skybum 18:04, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

Merge Mental confusion into Delirium since the current Mental confusion article mostly describes specifically delirium rather than confusion in general. Create a new article Confusion (clinical) discussing the clinical sign of confusion and the differentiation between its acute cause (Delirium) and its chronic cause (Dementia).--Lpcollier 06:57, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

Condensed matter physics and Solid-state physics, this has been proposed for some time with no conclusion. This is about the article merge not the categories merge. Rex the first ^{Rex the first | Contributions/Rex_the_first} 23:56, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

Geosynchronous orbit and Geostationary orbit - Discussed and generally approved in 2004, but never implemented. --GW Simulations_{GW_Simulations | Contributions/GW_Simulations | Emailuser/GW_Simulations} 14:39, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

Hypernova is a very loose term, but it is produced by the much more well-defined object,collapsar. It would be made more obvious that they are the same thing if they were part of the same article (collapsar would be the more sensible choice to keep). Sharkbait784 15:00, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

Unholy Passion EP into Unholy Passion -- they're basically the same article - Mattbrundage 18:11, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Ancient Egyptian multiplication and Peasant multiplication. Egyptian multiplication redirects to the latter already; the mathematical technique discussed is identical. The Dogandpony 15:56, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

Middle_Eastern_deities and Meso myth, I believe should be merged as there is significant overlap, but I would like to see some discussion first. Harvestdancer 16:02, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

Quarter mile into dragstrip, lots of overlap. Cdh1984 12:35, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

Constant random variable and Degenerate distribution describe the exact same thing. Btyner 18:28, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedians North America and Category:Wikipedians in North America. It makes more sense as a category, and the two are currently not linked in any way. Batshua April 3, 2006

Ruputer into OnHand PC same products. RadioActive 13:47, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Voice organ and Phonation. I don't know which way to merge - the latter is the better article but the former is a more familiar term. -- Djbb2 19:31, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Having read Phonation, I think they should either be left seperate or phonation merged into voice organ, as the second includes the first. I'm no expert, though...Djbb2 19:37, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Debutante ball into Debutante. The former article currently describes only one type of debutante ball (the Irish one), while the latter article has details for the tradition in a number of countries. Mgcsinc 22:40, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Karachi Towns into Karachi. The first is a stripped down version of the second.CharacterZero 08:53, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

Biogeographic Regions into Ecozone — failing to see why these articles concern distinct enough topics to be separate (207.233.110.65 22:07, 23 March 2006 (UTC))

Hanja and Sino-Korean Appleby 06:50, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

Observations and explorations of Venus and Exploration of Venus - essentially the same topic, probably should be merged to the latter page. -- Stillnotelf Stillnotelf 23:18, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

Ternary search tries and Ternary search tree —The preceding Sign your posts on talk pages comment was added by 85.130.107.83 (85.130.107.83 • Contributions/85.130.107.83) 19:39, 11 March 2006 (UTC).

Differintegral with Riemann-Liouville differintegral, will merge in a few days if no one objects. --Imjustmatthew 19:06, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

Landau notation and Big O notation. Both articles say they are sometimes called by the other's name. --Abdull 14:40, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Merger proposals presently under debate

Merge Binion's Horseshoe and Binion's Gambling Hall and Hotel. The same casino, just under different ownership. A section detailing the history and current status in one article should suffice. ⇔ EntChickie 04:19, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Merge 2014_Winter_Olympic_bids into 2014_Winter_Olympics. Same subject & material. --Rehnn83 14:05, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Merge Thomas Lowell Tucker and Kristian Menchaca into one article. These were two US Army soldiers who were captured during an attack in Iraq and killed. TomTheHand 21:34, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

Merge Messier Object 102 into Spindle Galaxy in Draco These two pages are both stubs and cover the same issue. WilliamKF 23:15, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Female suicide bomber into Suicide attack. There is nothing in the former that cannot be comprehensively covered in a general article Chancemill 11:30, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Redirect and Protect Sidhoji Rao Shitole to Yogiraj Gurunath Siddhanath. No need to merge, as YGS already has the same content plus some. Rationale: According the WP:Manual of Style for biographies, the article should go to the name by which the subject is most commonly known (Yogiraj Gurunath Siddhanath according to 2580 Ghits). The given-name article (20 Ghits) was up for AfD, but closed it ^* in order to resolve this issue here. -- Hamsacharya dan 00:50, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose - there is currently a concensus that Sidhoji Rao Shitole should be moved to replace Yogiraj Gurunath Siddhanath in order in end a content dispute. The requested move survey results can be found at Sidhoji Rao Shitole#Requested move. Hamsacharya dan has repeatedly tried to override concensus and even moderation as documented at Requests_for_comment/Hamsacharya_dan. Please implement the concensus. —Hanuman Das 15:18, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

There seems to be a case to be made for merging Workplace bullying into Bully--Zeraeph 20:27, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

Jehovah into Tetragrammaton#Jehovah --Rtc 22:05, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

Institute for Religion and Democracy into Institute on Religion and Democracy same think tank. --Rtc 15:08, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

Depersonalization disorder into Depersonalization—they both describe the same disorder in slighly different ways. They could possibly be made more separate, but each has so little content that I'm in favor of merging them. --Tifego 04:47, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

List of lifestyles into List of subcultures. Quite a lot of overlap here. Kevinmooney 01:27, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

Christian theological controversy into Christian theology. PhatJew 11:06, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

Pro-life into Anti-abortion, then turn pro-life into a redirect to anti-abortion. The latter is more accurate and NPOV. I am also Requested moves that Pro-choice be moved to Pro-abortion. --Cyde _{Two-millionth topic pool}^Cyde 19:43, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Seems iffy, but I think it could work. If possible, I'd like to assist with the categorization. -MegamanZero^MegamanZero 18:29, 16 January 2006 (UTC) \^Jtdirl 22:32, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

Shouldn't all the lawsuits on the Lowell page be on the San Francisco Unified School District page instead, since they're NAACP v. San Francisco Unified School District, Ho v. San Francisco Unified School District, and the Consent Decree applies to ALL schools in the San Francisco Unified School District, not just Lowell? --69.106.248.138 18:09, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Foreign relations between Japan and China & Sino-Japanese relations: I've unmerged these two because the previous merge was a simple copy-&-paste job, with no consideration of the content (How can the "Concluding Remarks" be in the middle and above the Table of Contents ?). Need someone familiar with the topic to incorporate the materials into one article that flows properly. -- PFHLai 14:29, 28 September 2005 (UTC)