WikiIndex:Merge policy

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WikiIndex: Merge policy — this meta page here on WikiIndex describes the policy of 'merging' articles (or categories, templates, etc). Its purpose is not to explain the mechanism, as that is built-in function (found at Special:MergeHistory) of the MediaWiki software we use to power this wiki website. The process of actually merging can only be carried out by administrators and higher. However, anybody is free to nominate or request articles to be merged, with the inclusion of our template: Merge on its respective page (ideally, both pages should have the merge template added).

Why merge?

Quite simply, it will have been discovered that there are two (or more!) article pages which refer to the seemingly identical wiki site (or other wiki-related subject). Fundamentally, this could simply be an innocent duplicate article page, created in good faith, by the same or different authors.

How to request a merge

Edit the proposed article by adding template: Merge, at the top of its edit box. The merge template requires a qualifier to indicate the intended target article (or category), and this is included after a 'pipe' within the double-curly brackets which are used to transclude templates.

The following example demonstrates how to use the merge template:

{{Merge| name of article to be merged with | reason for merge }}