Wikipedia:Requests for page importation

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 de:IDS Imaging Development Systems to IDS Imaging Development Systems

Language: de:IDS Imaging Development Systems
New name: IDS Imaging Development Systems
Note: Translation of the page from German into English, as the page is for an international industrial camera manufacturer. — Preceding unsigned comment added by MarketingDevisionIDS (talk • contribs) 11:29, 28 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Note by importing user: No, because of your obvious conflict of interest from your username. And you created the article about the organisation on the German Wikipedia. They tolerate that sort of thing (even after two deletion nominations); we don't. Graham87 (talk) 14:31, 28 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hello,

Thank you for your reply. I have now added a note to my user account. Please let me know if there is anything else I need to add.

Unfortunately, I don't know how to withdraw an important message, which is why there are currently two.

However, @Pppery has now responded to the other important note: “And we don't import untranslated articles into the main area anyway – but if there is an article on this topic, we are happy to import it.”

I thought an important note was about translation. Or should I just create a whole new article? IndustrialView (talk) 09:48, 2 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The only thing you should do is wait for someone independent from the company to create an article about it here ... however long that may take. We don't want content from people with a conflict of interest on this site. Graham87 (talk) 15:59, 2 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Okay, thanks for the feedback. We'll accept that and keep our feet still for now. IndustrialView (talk) 12:59, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Import of de:Elias Snitzer to Elias Snitzer

Language: de:Elias Snitzer
New name: Elias Snitzer
Note: First time I'm doing this, hope I'm doing it right--a bunch of penguins (talk) 09:23, 29 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Note by importing user: Done * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 14:06, 29 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Import of de:IDS Imaging Development Systems to IDS Imaging Development Systems

Language: de:IDS Imaging Development Systems
New name: IDS Imaging Development Systems
Note: Imported from the German page, as this is an internationally operating industrial camera manufacturer. — Preceding unsigned comment added by IndustrialView (talk • contribs) 10:11, 29 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Note by importing user: Not done per two sections above. And we don't import untranslated articles into mainspace anyway -- if an article on this topic somehow ends up existing then we will be willing to import. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 14:07, 29 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Import of de:Elisabeth Bauser to Elisabeth Bauser

Language: de:Elisabeth Bauser
New name: Elisabeth Bauser
Note: --a bunch of penguins (talk) 15:34, 30 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Note by importing user: Done * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 15:46, 30 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Import of de:Elisabeth Fischer-Friedrich to Elisabeth Fischer-Friedrich

Language: de:Elisabeth Fischer-Friedrich
New name: Elisabeth Fischer-Friedrich
Note: --a bunch of penguins (talk) 09:18, 1 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Note by importing user: Done Graham87 (talk) 14:33, 1 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Import of de:Hertha-Sponer-Preis to Hertha Sponer Prize

Language: de:Hertha-Sponer-Preis
New name: Hertha Sponer Prize
Note: --a bunch of penguins (talk) 10:25, 2 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Note by importing user: Done Graham87 (talk) 15:53, 2 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Import of de:Elizabeth_von_Hauff to Elizabeth_von_Hauff

Language: de:Elizabeth_von_Hauff
New name: Elizabeth_von_Hauff
Note: --a bunch of penguins (talk) 09:00, 3 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Note by importing user: Done Graham87 (talk) 15:11, 3 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Import of de:Fraunhofer-Institut für Elektronenstrahl- und Plasmatechnik to Fraunhofer Institute for Electron Beam and Plasma Technology

Language: de:Fraunhofer-Institut für Elektronenstrahl- und Plasmatechnik
New name: Fraunhofer Institute for Electron Beam and Plasma Technology
Note: --a bunch of penguins (talk) 14:16, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Note by importing user: Done Graham87 (talk) 05:21, 6 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Import of de:Elmar_Schreiber to Elmar_Schreiber

Language: de:Elmar_Schreiber
New name: Elmar_Schreiber
Note: --a bunch of penguins (talk) 08:45, 6 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Note by importing user: Done Graham87 (talk) 14:28, 6 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Import of de:Odette_Wegwarth to Odette_Wegwarth

Language: de:Odette_Wegwarth
New name: Odette_Wegwarth
Note: --a bunch of penguins (talk) 13:16, 7 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Note by importing user: Done Graham87 (talk) 14:14, 7 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Import of de:Elmar_Schrüfer to Elmar_Schrüfer

Language: de:Elmar_Schrüfer
New name: Elmar_Schrüfer
Note: --a bunch of penguins (talk) 19:54, 7 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Note by importing user: Done Graham87 (talk) 00:11, 8 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Werner E. Mosse

The contents have been translated mainly from the German Wikipedia article. The history of versions must be important. Unfortunately, I cannot do it by myself. Gabel1960 (talk) 13:22, 14 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Done * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 13:27, 14 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Import of de:Eli Rotenberg to Eli Rotenberg

Language: de:Eli Rotenberg
New name: Eli Rotenberg
Note: --a bunch of penguins (talk) 11:04, 17 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Note by importing user: Done * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 13:23, 17 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Import of de:Elena Hassinger to Elena Hassinger

Language: de:Elena Hassinger
New name: Elena Hassinger
Note: --a bunch of penguins (talk) 10:14, 20 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Note by importing user: Done * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 13:29, 20 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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