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This page is an incomplete list of proposed mergers. Anyone may list any article merger proposal here. This is optional, and it does not replace any of the other steps in the merger process. Please add the appropriate merger tag(s) to the articles before listing them here. See Category:Merge by month for all pages needing to be merged.

Contents 1 Guidelines 2 Current listings 2.1 July 2009 2.2 June 2009 2.3 May 2009 2.4 April 2009 2.5 March 2009 2.6 February 2009 2.7 January 2009 2.8 2008 2.8.1 December 2008 2.8.2 October 2008 2.8.3 January 2008

[edit] Guidelines

In general, this page should be used primarily to solicit outside feedback regarding mergers (particularly those of a controversial nature), or assistance with difficult or complicated mergers. Brief replies may be posted here, but lengthy discussions should be confined to the talk pages of the articles involved. After articles are merged (or a consensus that the articles should not be merged is reached), please remove them from the list below.

• If you want to show off your work, use the talk page.
• Category mergers should not be proposed here. Please see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion.
• For a complete list of articles with current merger proposals, please see Category:Articles to be merged.
• If you need help with renaming or moving, consult Wikipedia:How to rename (move) a page.
• For guidance on merging, consult the Integration WikiProject.

Cut and paste move fixes: To request page histories to be merged, list them at cut and paste move repairs.

[edit] Current listings

Please list new proposals at the top of this month's section. Sign each listing or comment by typing: ~~~~

[edit] July 2009

• I have proposed that Sub-Saharan DNA admixture in Europe be merged into Genetic history of Europe. In practice this article is working as a WP:POVFORK as I have explained on the talkpage.--Andrew Lancaster (talk) 05:58, 4 July 2009 (UTC)
• I am proposing that Ludgate Circus tube station be merged in to City Thameslink railway station, given that the former was/is a proposed station on the site of the existing City Thameslink station, and if it were to ever be built would exist as part of the same station complex. Grunners (talk) 17:50, 2 July 2009 (UTC)
• Proposed merging of Football Time in Houston into Houston Texans. It would be better for the song to be included in the Texans' page to make it a part of the article rather than leaving as an independent page. --Bjrbbhaw81 (talk) 16:23, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

[edit] June 2009

• Proposed merging of Cheesesteak, Italian beef, and French dip into Steak sandwich. All essentially the same thing. BillyTFried (talk) 04:35, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
• Proposed merger of Golden Era Records into Hilltop Hoods - see Talk:Golden Era Records VoltageX (talk) 13:33, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
• Proposed merger of Script-Fu into GIMP. --60.241.85.126 (talk) 15:26, 20 June 2009 (UTC)
• Proposed merger of Kingwood (wood) and Dalbergia cearensis for describing the same species of wood. 98.71.248.183 (talk) 20:16, 19 June 2009 (UTC)
• Merge Westwood College Online into Westwood College. —(Discuss)— Jafeluv (talk) 21:41, 18 June 2009 (UTC)
• Proposed merger of VISOR into Geordi La Forge and related science articles. Discuss at Talk:Geordi_La_Forge#Merge_VISOR. MickMacNee (talk) 14:59, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
• Proposed merger of Tone (linguistics) and Tonal language, as their topics seem to overlap either completely or almost completely (expert opinion and citation is welcome on this). Discuss at Talk:Tone (linguistics)#Article split /Merge. LjL (talk) 01:46, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
• Proposed merger of Reynard cycle and Isengrim into Reynard, as the two articles about the charcters have very little content and the whole thing would be better covered in a single article. Discuss at Talk:Reynard.--Michig (talk) 10:49, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
• Proposed merger of Private military company into mercenary. Discuss at talk:mercenary#Merger_proposal. Pustelnik (talk) 17:58, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
• Proposed Merger Of Familiar spirits in popular culture into Familiar spirit, discuss at Talk:Familiar_spirit#Merger_proposal. Casliber (talk · contribs) 03:52, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
• Proposed Merger Of User:Compression09King/Book and Journey To The River Sea. I believe the former will greatly improve the latter , as the former is an edited copy with more information than the latter. Comments to be posted at User Talk:Compression09King/Book/Merger
  Compression09King-Extreme Wikipedian (talk) 22:52, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
• A merge of Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth into 9/11 Truth movement has been proposed. Opinions about the proposed merge are divided, and comments are welcome!  Cs32en  06:47, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

[edit] May 2009

• Proposed merger of Zo (people) and Zou people (India), discuss at Proposed merger Zo/Zou. A new name may be needed. --Bejnar (talk) 17:23, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
• Constitutional status of Cornwall into Cornish_self-government_movement. They deal with pretty much the same subject, there is only a small quantity of original content on the status one that is not better covered in the latter or the history of Cornwall page.--Him and a dog 13:52, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
• Beyond Belief (symposium) into The Science Network. They are about the same organization. Both articles are struggling to survive as it is. Putting them together would help them gain notability.Steve Dufour (talk) 17:25, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
• Radical Islamism in Azerbaijan into Islam in Azerbaijan, any of two talk pages could be addressed. brandспойт 19:37, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
• I propose that Yellowtail_kingfish and Yellowtail amberjack are merged (Talk:Yellowtail_amberjack#Merger_proposal)--Lilyu (talk) 19:45, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
• Proposal to merge sirin into siren. Casliber (talk · contribs) 06:06, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
• Re-merge Cane toads in Australia back into Cane toad. Discuss at Talk:Cane_toad#Merger_proposal. Casliber (talk · contribs) 03:29, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
• Merge American Classic Races to United States Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing. Both articles refer exclusively to the same three races (Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, and Belmont Stakes), commonly known as the Triple Crown (Discussion) — Hippopotamus (talk) 20:00, 2 May 2009 (UTC)

[edit] April 2009

• This is a request to merge Seven Cities of Hampton Roads and Seven City into Hampton Roads. All 3 articles cover the same area. JeffConn (talk) 13:41, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
• Merge Labour Day (which is %90 a list of May 1 celebrations) with International Workers' Day (which also lists May 1 celebrations. Originally Labour Day included United States Labor Day, but that was split off. International Workers' Day is a split from May 1. The two need to find independent subjects or merge: uninvolved editors needed to decide which. T L Miles (talk)
• Merge taipa (building material) with rammed earth. Taipa is merely the Portuguese name for rammed earth. Discuss at Talk:Rammed earth. — AjaxSmack 23:36, 26 April 2009 (UTC)
• Merge Rod Blagojevich with duplicate articles Rod Blagojevich Gubernatorial administration and Rod Blagojevich controversies. See Talk:Rod Blagojevich for discussion. --TommyBoy (talk) 02:25, 26 April 2009 (UTC)
• Merge Acne scarring into Acne vulgaris. Proposed earlier, but confused dates because of a different merge.Gorton k (talk) 14:43, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
• Propose merger of Punch-Out!! (arcade game), Punch-Out!! (NES) and Punch-Out!! (Wii), into Punch-Out!! (video game) (over redirect) Punch-Out!!. These are are all versions of the same game produced by Nintendo (yes, even the arcade game) and they fail the Pokemon Test. The Punch-Out!! game itself is far more notable than any one of its versions, and these many short articles would better serve the reader as one article that discusses all these versions. Wilhelm_meis (talk) 11:34, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
• Please consider merging County Police into Sheriffs in the United States as they talk about the same subject, just under different names. It is no different than comparing a county to a parish in Louisiana they are about the same thing, slight diferences, but those diferences also exist between states that use the term county. The term Sheriff or Police are both law enforcement terms, and a county sheriff or a county police is pretty much the same thing.--Mrboire (talk) 21:44, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
• Please weigh in on a proposed merge of Holy Week and Holy Week (Catholic Church) at Talk:Holy Week. — AjaxSmack 02:31, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

[edit] March 2009

• Merge Don't_You_Want_Me, Don't_You_Want_Me_Baby_(Mandy_Smith_song) and Don't_You_Want_Me_(Alcazar_song) as same song (the latter two are covers of the former)

• Merge Hard and soft drugs into Drug policy - see discussion at Talk:Drug_policy#Merger_proposal Casliber (talk · contribs) 01:09, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
• I'm proposing a merger of Verdiacee Goston into Washitaw Nation. These articles are each so meagerly equipped with supporting reliable references, that it make more sense to me to simply merge them into one and focus on it, in terms of improvements. cheers Deconstructhis (talk) 23:28, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

• Merge Carriacou into Carriacou and Petite Martinique because of overlapping between two. Vanjagenije (talk) 01:59, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

• Merge SDRAM latency and CAS latency. They're heavily overlapping and basically the same subject matter. 71.41.210.146 (talk) 02:20, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

[edit] February 2009

• Europeanism and Pan-European identity seem to overlap, see this proposal YeshuaDavid (talk)
• Extension (telephone) and dial peer should be merged, see Talk:Dial peer. Arnomane (talk) 09:58, 23 February 2009 (UTC)
• Natural born citizen of the United States and Birthright citizenship in the United States of America a huge amount of overlap and some interesting issues, too. Roregan (talk) 02:01, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
• Theodore Roosevelt's Presidency and Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt. obentomusubi 01:48, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
• Merge Franklin Avenue (BMT Fulton Street Line) original station into the BMT Franklin Avenue Line platform chapter of Franklin Avenue (New York City Subway). ----DanTD (talk) 00:26, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

[edit] January 2009

• Merge Canada's Hundred Days into Hundred Days Offensive. The Canada's Hundred Days article places focus on Canada's participation in the Hundred Days Offensive of World War I. The page is largely uncited, strong on POV and contains largely duplicated material from Hundred Days Offensive and Military history of Canada during World War I. The importance of the battle is already emphasised in Military history of Canada during World War I and any unique battle information could easily be adopted into Hundred Days Offensive. Thoughts Labattblueboy (talk) 18:41, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

• Merge Bitmap into Raster graphics and make bitmap a disambig. “Bitmap” is quite ambiguous word, and the article is virtually about the same raster graphics. Incnis Mrsi (talk) 22:29, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

• Merge Theorica into Theoric fund. F.chiodo (talk) 21:34, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

• Merge User:Nousernamesleft/desk/qin (the user involved with it has left Wikipedia) into Qin Dynasty. Foxy Loxy ^Pounce! 12:28, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

• Merge the multiple stub articles on housecleaning, house work and household management into a single article, housekeeping. This merger will also require moving the current housekeeping disambiguation list to a new housekeeping (disambiguation) article. Any feedback is appreciated here. --ZimZalaBim ^talk 02:54, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

• Merge (multiple) articles for characters and other aspects of the Redwall series of books. There are dozens of individual character articles and lists of characters, most of which unreferenced, such as list of bird characters, etc... Trying to avoid deletion, but it really is way too much information, far exceeding encyclopedic content. Discussion for all articles and a listing of articles at Talk:Redwall#Merger proposal. Jo7hs2 (talk) 21:09, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

[edit] 2008

[edit] December 2008

• Merge Races of Underworld universe, William Corvinus, Viktor (Underworld), Michael Corvin, Selene (Underworld), Lucian (Underworld), Kraven (Underworld), Sonja (Underworld), and Raze (Underworld) into Underworld (film series) There's no need for what amounts to 10 different pages about the movie and movie characters, outside of the three major movie pages. One page is sufficient. AlessaGillespie (talk) 03:55, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

[edit] October 2008

• Merge Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography into Kunstkamera - the two articles refter to the same Russian Wiki article Кунсткамера and museum Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography: KUNSTKAMERA. -- 219.84.125.224, 20:00, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

• Merge Elegiac and Elegiac couplet into Elegy (discuss) to avoid unnecessary overlap of topics and content. Deor (talk) 14:11, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

• Merge Defensible space (environmental design) into Defensible Space Theory; there is also a disamb page for Defensible space that would have to be updated and some links fixed. Jgm (talk) 12:35, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

• Merge List of countries by number of total troops with List of countries by number of active troops. There is no need for having to seperate articles on practically the same thing. There should be a list of countries by total troops only with mentioning at each country how many of it's troops are currently active. -The Bold Guy- (talk) 13:39, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

[edit] January 2008

• Merge Official Sinn Féin to Workers Party of Ireland. Same party, just different names. --Soman (talk) 20:51, 2 January 2008 (UTC)