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 de:Nadine Hwang to User:YodaYawn/sandbox

• Language: de:Nadine Hwang
• New name: User:YodaYawn/sandbox
• Note: You could also create a subpage called User:YodaYawn/Nadine_Hwang, if you think that is more appropriate. But it'd be fine if she can work on it in her sandbox. Requesting this import for a new user who has no computer at hand right now as she's travelling. Would be marvellous, if she could start editing in it at our next editing group meeting tomorrow. --Grizma (talk) 20:25, 1 March 2022 (UTC)
• Note by importing administrator:  Done Graham87 03:53, 2 March 2022 (UTC)

Import of de:Standard Motor Interface to Standard Motor Interface

• Language: de:Standard Motor Interface
• New name: Standard Motor Interface
• Note: Translation to the english language--Geschäftsstelle SMI (talk) 09:33, 8 March 2022 (UTC)
• Note by importing administrator:

Not done; we can't import non-English articles straight into the article namespace. I wouldn't do it anyway though because you appear to have very little experience on any Wikipedia project, thus strongly indicating that you have a conflict of interest. Graham87 15:05, 8 March 2022 (UTC)

Hello Graham, i am the office of the association. Who else than me can give information? Its no conflict of interest. Geschäftsstelle SMI (talk) 21:31, 14 March 2022 (UTC)

That is the very definition of a conflict of interest on Wikipedia]]. We need to wait until an established Wikipedia editor thinks it's worthy of an article here, using indendependent reliable sources. Graham87 14:05, 15 March 2022 (UTC)

Import of de:Themis Rechtswissenschaft to [[]]

• Language: de:Themis Rechtswissenschaft
• New name: [1]
• Note: --GTCJ (talk) 14:40, 9 March 2022 (UTC)
• Note by importing administrator: Not done; malformed request. I wouldn't have done the import anyway because you are far too inexperienced on any edition of Wikipedia and because you probably have a conflict of interest. Graham87 03:21, 10 March 2022 (UTC)

  Thank you for answering. You are right, I have little experience. I am interested in getting a German article translated into English. What can I do to proceed? I am thankful for any kind of help. GTCJ (talk) 08:52, 23 March 2022 (UTC)

  My best advice would be to just wait for an established user to do it. You could add it to a requested articles list, but that's unlikely to be helpful. Graham87 15:14, 23 March 2022 (UTC)

Import of de:Exzellenzcluster MATH+ to User:MathInBerlin/Exzellenzcluster MATH+

• Language: de:Exzellenzcluster MATH+
• New name: User:MathInBerlin/Exzellenzcluster MATH+
• Note: I have seen the page once but it is not there anymore. I would like to create it again.--MathInBerlin (talk) 09:36, 19 March 2022 (UTC)
• Note by importing administrator: Not done; you are not experienced enough on any version of Wikipedia to create an article here, leading me to believe you have a conflict of interest. Also, the German Wikipedia article was created by a user with a blatant conflict of interest. For the record, here's the deletion log entry for the English article about the institute. Graham87 14:50, 19 March 2022 (UTC)

  What makes me more experienced from your point of view? What do I have to do for that? Because if I'm not even allowed to translate this article, how am I supposed to gain experience? Thank you for your time. MathInBerlin (talk) 11:44, 25 March 2022 (UTC)

  Making several dozen edits outside of the subject area of this import request. There are many, many tasks on Wikipedia besides translating articles. I honestly don't think that'd help too much here; the conflict of interest editing around this subject is a huge red flag. I'd very much prefer to wait until an established Wikipedia editor is interested enough in this subject to write about it. Graham87 14:47, 25 March 2022 (UTC)

Import of de:Voicification to Voicification

• Language: de:Voicification
• New name: Voicification
• Note: Translation of German page into English — Preceding unsigned comment added by Amazingberlin (talk • contribs) 06:56, 21 March 2022 (UTC)
• Note by importing administrator: Not done. We don't import non-English articles straight into the article namespace. I would not do this import regardless, because you do not have enough experience in any wiki to write articles from scratch and you appear to have an extreme conflict of interest regarding this subject. Graham87 15:24, 21 March 2022 (UTC)

Import of simple:Bound for Glory to Bound for Glory (band)

• Language: simple:Bound for Glory
• New name: Bound for Glory (band)
• Note: Somers-all-the-time (talk) 00:15, 28 March 2022 (UTC)
• Note by importing administrator: Not done; I'm not really comfortable doing things this way. The correct venue for the original English artticle to be undeleted is Wikipedia:Requests for undeletion, and I technically could undelete it now ... but I don't wanna touch it because of the subject matter and the length of time it's stayed deleted here. If another admin wants to deal with it here, feel free. FWIW the article on enwiki and the article on the Simple English Wikipedia were created by the same person. Graham87 00:47, 28 March 2022 (UTC)