Template:Being merged from
| File:Mergefrom.svg | To merge Example into this article follow the discussion. (October 2026) |
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| icon | This template is used in the standard installation of XFDcloser. If you plan to make breaking changes to it, move it, or nominate it for deletion, please notify XFDcloser's users and maintainers as a courtesy. Thank you! |
Usage
{{Being merged from| First article | Second article | ... | discussion=Example (2nd nomination) | date=October 2026}}
This template always needs to be applied after an AfD discussion has been closed with consensus to merge.
This template is used to add the article to the category Category:Articles with consensus to merge. This category can be suppressed by using |nocat=yes.
See also
| This page in a nutshell: Decisions are made by discussion, weighed by the strength of policy-based arguments, not by counting heads. If you are reverted, stop and discuss. Consensus cannot override policy. |
How it works
- Be bold, once. Make the edit you think is right. If nobody objects, that is consensus.
- If you are reverted, discuss. Don't restore your edit. Start a thread on the talk page, explain your reasons with sources and policies, and wait for replies.
- Arguments, not votes. Whoever closes a discussion weighs the arguments against policy. Comments that ignore policy, repeat others or come from connected or paid editors without disclosure carry little or no weight.
- Consensus cannot override policy. No local agreement can keep a non-notable topic, allow an unsourced claim or relax the rules for living people or paid work.
- It can change. A past decision can be revisited when there are new sources or arguments, but not by repeating the same request until people give up.
Edit warring
Undoing another editor's change more than once on the same page in 24 hours, without discussion, is edit warring (Wikipedia allows three reverts; we allow one). It may lead to protection of the page or a block. Exceptions: reverting obvious vandalism, removing BLP violations and copyright infringement, and reverting banned or blocked users. Report edit warring at the edit warring noticeboard.
Getting more views
If a talk page discussion is stuck, ask for a third opinion, raise it at the relevant noticeboard, or at the village pump for wider questions. Ask once, in one place, in neutral words. Discussions that need a formal close can be listed at Closure requests. There is no arbitration committee and no formal mediation: if discussion fails, an administrator decides on policy grounds.
Page moves
| This page in a nutshell: Decisions are made by discussion, weighed by the strength of policy-based arguments, not by counting heads. If you are reverted, stop and discuss. Consensus cannot override policy. |
How it works
- Be bold, once. Make the edit you think is right. If nobody objects, that is consensus.
- If you are reverted, discuss. Don't restore your edit. Start a thread on the talk page, explain your reasons with sources and policies, and wait for replies.
- Arguments, not votes. Whoever closes a discussion weighs the arguments against policy. Comments that ignore policy, repeat others or come from connected or paid editors without disclosure carry little or no weight.
- Consensus cannot override policy. No local agreement can keep a non-notable topic, allow an unsourced claim or relax the rules for living people or paid work.
- It can change. A past decision can be revisited when there are new sources or arguments, but not by repeating the same request until people give up.
Edit warring
Undoing another editor's change more than once on the same page in 24 hours, without discussion, is edit warring (Wikipedia allows three reverts; we allow one). It may lead to protection of the page or a block. Exceptions: reverting obvious vandalism, removing BLP violations and copyright infringement, and reverting banned or blocked users. Report edit warring at the edit warring noticeboard.
Getting more views
If a talk page discussion is stuck, ask for a third opinion, raise it at the relevant noticeboard, or at the village pump for wider questions. Ask once, in one place, in neutral words. Discussions that need a formal close can be listed at Closure requests. There is no arbitration committee and no formal mediation: if discussion fails, an administrator decides on policy grounds.
Page moves
Uncontroversial moves can be made by anyone. If a move is likely to be disputed, discuss it on the article's talk page first, and leave it open for seven days.
TemplateData
Template for use on pages that already have a consensus to be merged, but just need to be actioned on.
| Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Other page | 1 | This is the page with which this article should be merged. Note: 19 additional pages to merge can be added manually as optional parameters. | Page name | required |
| Second page | 2 | Second page to be involved in the merger | Page name | optional |
| Third page | 3 | Third page to be involved in the merger | Page name | optional |
| Destination page | target | When listing several pages being merged, name one destination page for the merger with this parameter (only works when no direction is specified). | Page name | optional |
| Month and year | date | no description
| Date | suggested |
| Discussion | discuss discussion talk | Discussion related to the merge proposal; typically on the talk page of the destination page. Insert the full page name (with namespace). | Page name | suggested |
| AfD discussion | afd | If the discussion occurred at Articles for deletion, use this parameter instead of discuss. Insert the name of the AfD discussion, without any prefixing.
| Page name | suggested |
| Is section? | section | If you are placing the template in a section, set this parameter to "yes".
| Boolean | optional |
| Page(s) namespace | nspace | Optional namespace of the pages involved in the merger (though not the destination page, if specified). Default is "all", which allows specifying pages across multiple namespaces for merge. Can be customized according to the accepted nspace values at Template:Pagelist. | String | optional |
| Override namespace | demospace | Trick the template into thinking it's in the specified namespace
| String | optional |
| Type of page being merged | spacetype | no description
| String | suggested |
| Exclude categories? | nocat | no description
| Boolean | optional |
| Direction of merge | dir | leave empty if the merge destination is not determined yet
| String | optional |