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:Boris Bakow to User:TulioEvt/Boris Bakow

• Language: de:Boris Bakow
• New name: User:TulioEvt/Boris Bakow
• Note: Request for page import for translation. (Into my user space) --TulioEvt (talk) 20:26, 4 June 2022 (UTC)
• Note by importing administrator:  Done Graham87 05:30, 5 June 2022 (UTC)

  Thank you! TulioEvt (talk) 09:22, 6 June 2022 (UTC)

  Above I just see this Massimo Drechsler (above). Interesting biography! Can I possibly take it over? TulioEvt (talk) 09:25, 6 June 2022 (UTC)

  @TulioEvt: Sure, it's at User:TulioEvt/Massimo Drechsler. Graham87 14:28, 6 June 2022 (UTC)

  Thank you ! TulioEvt (talk) 07:46, 7 June 2022 (UTC)

Import of de:Carola Lentz to User: Einszweidreivier2022/new_article_Carola Lentz

• Language: de:Carola Lentz
• New name: User: Einszweidreivier2022/new_article_Carola Lentz
• Note: --Einszweidreivier2022 (talk) 10:11, 8 June 2022 (UTC)
• Note by importing administrator: Not done; you are not experienced enough on any Wikipedia to create articles; you therefore appear to have a major conflict of interest. Graham87 15:12, 8 June 2022 (UTC)

  I am the person who edited the German article on Carola Lentz. Now I would like to edit an English translation of the article. I do not see a conflict of interest here. Einszweidreivier2022 (talk) 04:55, 9 June 2022 (UTC)

  You have never edited that article under your current account. What was the name of your previous account, if any? Do you have a close personal connection to Carola Lentz (i.e. an employee, a promoter for her university, etc.)? In other words, do you stand to gain anything either personally or monetarily by her having an English article here? Graham87 15:14, 9 June 2022 (UTC)

Import of de:Deniola Kuraja to User:WoTerHB/Deniola Kuraja

• Language: de:Deniola Kuraja
• New name: User:WoTerHB/Deniola Kuraja
• Note: Request for page importation, Albanian conductor Deniola Kuraja, purpose: translation--WoTerHB (talk) 21:08, 12 June 2022 (UTC)
• Note by importing administrator: Done, after reviewing the conversation at your German talk page via Google Translate (I don't know German, but I think it's translation is good enough for a case like this). Graham87 08:54, 13 June 2022 (UTC)

  Thank you so much! WoTerHB (talk) 18:22, 13 June 2022 (UTC)

  Ready. Please move into article space. WoTerHB (talk) 19:23, 13 June 2022 (UTC)

• Done. Only because that's the easiest thing to do here right now. For any future requests, please do this yourself. See Wikipedia:Moving a page. Graham87 09:32, 14 June 2022 (UTC)

  Thank you. Ok, of course. WoTerHB (talk) 19:14, 15 June 2022 (UTC)

Import of de:Stefan Stürmer to Stefan Stürmer

• Language: de:Stefan Stürmer
• New name: Stefan Stürmer
• Note: --Fernunihagen (talk) 12:07, 20 June 2022 (UTC)
• Note by importing administrator: Not done, you do not have enough experience in any version of Wikipedia to create articles. Also, per your German user page, you appear to have an extreme conflict of interest. Graham87 14:20, 20 June 2022 (UTC)

Import of de:Giacomo Balzarini to Giacomo Balzarini

• Language: de:Giacomo Balzarini
• New name: Giacomo Balzarini
• Note:Request for page import for translation--Fittizo (talk) 11:25, 30 June 2022 (UTC)
• Note by importing administrator: Not done; you don't have enough experience on any wiki to create articles here. Also, it seems that you probably have some sort of conflict of interest. Graham87 15:50, 30 June 2022 (UTC)

Import of de:Kohei Saito to Kohei Saito

• Language: de:Kohei Saito
• New name: Kohei Saito
• Note: Its a translation from the german wikipedia. --Louis Wu (talk) 13:17, 14 July 2022 (UTC)
• Note by importing administrator: