Forum:Lazy C + P-ing during mergers

Now when I merged the Mermaid Princess with Poseidon, someone unmerged because of missing information. I unddi the undo and put up a notice to just move the information across rather then unmerging because the two pages are basically the same. The result was that someone did a VERY lazy Copy and Paste of Mermaid Princess onto Poseidon instead of just moving the msissing information across like they should have done.

And now... I've found YET ANOTHER case. I do remember when we did away with unamed characters and I do remember Norland's King being merged with "Kinf os Liars Norland". But today I looked over the page and the merge seems to have missed a big oint that no one (not even I) pointed out at the time. The page about the book is about the book and not about the King, or Norland, its just telling about the book, its contents and history. In fact the King's merge was pretty much just another example of lazy C +P-ing from one page to another, although its not as bad as Mermaid Princess.

I know we have to merge pages sometimes but theres a good and bad way to do it. A merge should never be just a lazy C and P of one page onto another, its about taking one set of information from one page and filling in whats missing onto the other without moaking that page no longer fit its design. In other words, by merging the King with the book page, what happened was the page began to move away from just focusing on the book. Information about the characters belong on their respected pages about themselves, in the case of the King we don't know his name so therefore we can only acknolwegde he existed we can't create a page on him. I shouldn't be the one to lecture this because I'm not a admin, I'm just someone who knew how that page was set up because they had set it up in a percific way.

It was still mostly a mistake on my part, as I said on the discussion page I made the mistake of not adding a history section to the page which opened it up to this mistake. It also wasn't adapted to fit the rest of the wikia layout, which was corrected now. I don't know if this has happened elsewhere, we don't tend to merge that often from what I have seen, but can everyone make sure the mergers that do happen in future are no better. I might go through our merger history at some point in the next week and see how past mergers were handled to see if this happened elsewhere. One-Winged Hawk 11:25, February 10, 2012 (UTC)