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Merge error

Trying to merge Q21437715 and Q15981101, obtaining error: "Error while "Merge with: Q15981101": Attempted modification of the item failed. (The two items cannot be merged because one of them links to the other using property P360)". Please help. --Niklem (talk) 10:11, 4 May 2017 (UTC)

Wikimedia lists shouldn't be merged with for example an subclass of a national monument, the error is legitimate. Sjoerd de Bruin (talk) 10:14, 4 May 2017 (UTC)

But there're lists in every single article in both items, I've checked them all. --Niklem (talk) 10:25, 4 May 2017 (UTC)

 Done. ‎Merged by User:Nouill (06:20, 11 July)‎. -- -- -- 01:51, 17 January 2018 (UTC)

Merge of Q27038733 and Q1235670

The topic is the same, Spanish cheeses. Please fix. Thank you Triplecaña (talk) 23:42, 4 May 2017 (UTC)

The merge is wrong in this case, they are different kind of items: one is an item about list of cheeses, the other is about the cheese. If you found error, you can move sitelink, but don't merge them --ValterVB (talk) 06:27, 5 May 2017 (UTC)

merging Q17458283 and Q4282148 failed

Attempted modification of the item failed. (The two items cannot be merged because one of them links to the other using property P527). Can someone fix this? DirkVE (talk) 14:08, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

One is an Rijksmonument complex (Q13423591) while the other is a normal Rijksmonument (Q916333). Sjoerd de Bruin (talk) 14:57, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

Hotlinking the merged item

I think it would be nice if the description that left by the tool provides a direct link to the other item. ChristianKl (talk) 11:22, 16 May 2017 (UTC)

• See also phab:T69281. --XXN, 13:20, 16 May 2017 (UTC)

Note: the first part in summary is generated by wikibase, so it can't be changed here, I think.

As the associated patch is blocked in gerrit, creating a local gadget (which will change HTML of the page) for this need is welcome. It shouldn't be too dificult. --XXN, 19:23, 23 May 2017 (UTC)

Merge Q27306126 and Q28934653

Both items refer to the exact same person, but I couldn't merge them for some reason. Victor Lopes (talk) 03:07, 18 May 2017 (UTC)

Because the latter links to the former: Vintage Culture (Q28934653)has part(s) (P527)Vintage Culture (Q27306126). I don’t know whether it’s good, but if they are really the same, you should remove this statement before merging them. (This problem is cleared in the merge dialog.) --Tacsipacsi (talk) 06:31, 18 May 2017 (UTC)

Done, thanks for the help. I noticed they linked to each other, I just wasn't sure if I could proceed to remove the link myself. Victor Lopes (talk) 15:48, 18 May 2017 (UTC)

failed merge - unique ids

tried to merge Q29839969 with Q29839969, error message "Error while "Merge with: Q29839969": You must provide unique ids"

It's correct, you want merge an item with himself :) --ValterVB (talk) 13:21, 3 June 2017 (UTC)

Rappaport/Rappoport

Q2131590=disambiguation page for people named Rappaport/Rappoport.

Q15539460=article about the family Rappaport/Rappoport.

Q21469784 should be merged with Q15539460. thank you, -- -- -- 23:39, 8 June 2017 (UTC)

 Not done Rappoport (Q2131590) is a disambiguation, Rappoport (Q15539460) and Rappaport (Q21469784) are surnames but with different spelling. No merge should take place. Matěj Suchánek (talk) 06:41, 9 June 2017 (UTC)

Please look at the articles in item Q15539460 (dewiki Rappoport; hewiki רפפורט (שם משפחה) ; ruwiki Раппопорт (фамилия)) and at the single article in item Q21469784 (enwiki Rappaport) and you will see that they are about the exact same family (same coat of arms, etc.) . The lead of the English wiki article starts with: Rap(p)aport, Rap(p)oport or Rapa Porto. They should all be merged into one item. -- -- -- 20:21, 9 June 2017 (UTC)

err Q21564063

Error while "Merge with: Q911397": Attempted modification of the item failed.

Please report above error here with source and destination of merge.

 Done. Mdupont redirected Q21564063 to Q911397 (15:27, 1/Jul/17)‎. Thanks, -- -- -- 03:56, 24 November 2017 (UTC)

editprotected

{{editprotected}}

      'zh-hans': {
        conflictMessage: '存在跨语言冲突：',
        conflictWithMessage: '和',
        createRedirect: '创建重定向',
        creatingRedirect: '创建重定向中…',
        errorWhile: '"$1"时出错：',
        invalidInput: '目前只有一个Qid是有效的',
        loadMergeDestination: '成功加载目标项',
        loadingMergeDestination: '正在加载目标项……',
        lowestQid: 'Always merge into the older item (uncheck to merge into the "要和此项合并的数据项" item)',
        merge: '合并',
        mergePendingNotification: 'Merge.js已经运行，请前往其他需要合并的项。',
        mergeProcess: '开始合并',
        mergeSummary: '将以下文本添加到自动生成的编辑摘要中：',
        mergeThisItem: '合并此项',
        mergeWithInput: '要和此项合并的数据项：',
        mergeWithProgress: '合并',
        mergeWizard: '合并数据项',
        pleaseWait: '请稍候……',
        postpone: '和其他项合并',
        postponeTitle: '储存此项编号以和其他项合并',
        reportError: '请将上述错误报告到[[这里]]，包括合并的来源及目的地',
        selectForMerging: '选择合并项',
        selectForMergingTitle: '记住这个项目是要合并的两个项目中的第二个项目。',
        unwatchOption: '若可能，从监视列表移除重复项',
        unwatching: '正在从监视列表移除重复项……'
        unwatchOption: '将已经合并的项移除你的监视列表（如果被监视）',
        unwatching: '正在从监视列表移除……'
      },

更新中文翻译。此外也请同时加入繁体中文翻译。--SolidBlock (talk) 08:28, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

 Done - One detail: the last two rows are duplicate for the variables. Hope I kept the correct ones. Mbch331 (talk) 12:28, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

Merge of Q512550 and Q23753275

Favrskov Municipality (Q512550) and Favrskov Municipality (Q23753275) - same municipality municipality of Denmark (Q2177636). Same problem with Allerød Municipality (Q499479) and Allerød Municipality (Q23750293). Steenth (talk) 10:01, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

The problem is Favrskov Municipality (Q23753275)located in the administrative territorial entity (P131)Favrskov Municipality (Q512550) and Allerød Municipality (Q23750293)located in the administrative territorial entity (P131)Allerød Municipality (Q499479). Mbch331 (talk) 17:25, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

Done, thanks for the help. --Steenth (talk) 12:56, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

Historical Monument (Q916475) and classified historical monument (Q10387684)

Not able to merge. d1g (talk) 13:19, 13 July 2017 (UTC)

 Not done One is subclass of the other one, shouldn't be merged. Matěj Suchánek (talk) 12:16, 19 July 2017 (UTC)

Q20516868 into Q81046

These two items are about the same city (same name in Armenian). I could not merge these two items. BrightRaven (talk) 11:30, 19 July 2017 (UTC)

 Merged Two items shouldn't link to each other if they are to be merged. Matěj Suchánek (talk) 12:16, 19 July 2017 (UTC)

Merge Q30525718 and Q944281

The topic is the same --YarikUkraine (talk) 15:48, 19 July 2017 (UTC)

 Not done The topic looks the same, but it isn't. One is an item for a last name and the other is an item for a disambiguation page. Mbch331 (talk) 17:41, 19 July 2017 (UTC)

 Not done Q30525718 is an item about surname, Q944281 is an item about disambiguation, (I moved uk sitelink from the first to the second). You can check this because the fist ins't in "Special:DisambiguationPages", instead all the sitelink of the second item are in "Special:DisambiguationPages" of their respective Wiki. --ValterVB (talk) 17:46, 19 July 2017 (UTC)

trying to merge Q33012821 into Q6582964 failed

When trying to make this merge i got a failure message:

Attempted modification of the item failed.

besst regards --Robby (talk) 06:30, 21 July 2017 (UTC)

The problem is there are 2 categories for 1253 deaths on lbwiki. An item can have only 1 sitelink per wiki, so there have to be 2 items linking to each other. Problem should be solved on lbwiki, by merging the categories there. Then the items can be merged (after moving the links to each other on both items). Mbch331 (talk) 14:45, 21 July 2017 (UTC)

@Mbch331: try it (again) now. The software still won't allow it for some strange reason. Jared Preston (talk) 17:56, 21 July 2017 (UTC)

@Jared Preston: Not so strange. On Category:1253 deaths (Q6582964) there was a statement Category:1253 deaths (Q6582964)said to be the same as (P460)Category:1253 deaths (Q33012821). After removing that, merge was no longer an issue. Mbch331 (talk) 18:03, 21 July 2017 (UTC)

@Mbch331: I completely missed that statement, hahahaha! Thank you so much! Jared Preston (talk) 18:05, 21 July 2017 (UTC)

Merge Meinar Loeis (Q21065109) and Meinar Loeis (Q21065109)

Please merge this two items. It's same person. I fix the redirect in ID wiki and tried to merge in Wikidata but it doesn't work --Beeyan (talk) 07:18, 29 July 2017 (UTC)

You mentioned the same item twice, but it looks like you managed to perform the merge yourself. Mbch331 (talk) 07:23, 29 July 2017 (UTC)

player (Q4197743) and competitive player (Q18536342)

Don't know what else should be done d1g (talk) 22:03, 1 August 2017 (UTC)

Why did you remove the sitelink? Sjoerd de Bruin (talk) 09:15, 2 August 2017 (UTC)

Error while trying to merge Q18577038 with Q19098531

Hello,

when I tried to merge Q18577038 with Q19098531 I got an error message inviting me to report the error here. The error message was: 'Attempted modification of the item failed.' who can help to merge these 2 items?--Robby (talk) 16:09, 5 August 2017 (UTC)

Wikisource DNB00 items shouldn't be merged with normal items about persons. They are 2 different concepts. Mbch331 (talk) 18:16, 5 August 2017 (UTC)

thanks for clarification. --Robby (talk) 20:13, 5 August 2017 (UTC)

updated lb-translation

{{Edit request}}

'lb: {
       conflictMessage: 'Et gouf e Konflikt fonnt op ',
       conflictWithMessage: 'mat',
       createRedirect: 'Eng Viruleedung uleeën ',
       creatingRedirect: 'Eng Viruleedung gëtt ugeluecht...',
       errorWhile: 'Feeler bei "$1":',
       invalidInput: 'Aktuell ass nëmme d'Qid e valabele Wäert.',
       loadMergeDestination: 'D\'Zilsäit vun der Fusioun luede wann et funktionéiert',
       loadingMergeDestination: 'D\'Zilsäit vun der Fusioun gëtt gelueden...',
       lowestQid: 'Ëmmer an dat méi aalt Element fusionéieren (net uklicke fir et an d'Element "Fusionéiert et mat" ze fusionéieren)',
       merge: 'Fusionéieren',
       mergePendingNotification: 'Merge.js gouf gestart.
Elo kënnt Dir Iech an Ärem Browser op dat anert Element konzentréieren.',
       mergeProcess: 'Maacht d\'Fusioun elo',
       mergeSummary: 'Setzt dësen Text hannert den automatesch generéierte Resumé vun der Ännerung derbäi:',
       mergeThisItem: 'Fusionéiert dëst Element',
       mergeWithInput: 'Fusionéiert et mat:',
       mergeWithProgress: 'Fusionéiert et mat...',
       mergeWizard: 'Fusiouns-Wizard',
       pleaseWait: 'Waart w.e.g....',
       postpone: 'Spéider maachen',
       postponeTitle: 'Dësem Element seng Nummer verhalen an d\'Fusioun op méi spéit verleeën',
       reportError: 'Mellt de Feeler hei driwwer w.e.g. [[hei] mat der Quell an dem Zil vun der Fusioun.',
       selectForMerging: 'Eraussiche fir ze fusionéieren',
       selectForMergingTitle: 'Dëst Element verhalen als dat zweet vun den Elementer déi fusionéiert gi sollen',
       unwatchOption: 'Fusionéiert Elementer vun Ärer Iwwerwaachungslëscht erofhuelen (wa se iwwerwaacht sinn)',
       unwatching: 'Vun der Iwwerwaachungslëscht erofhuelen...'

Many thanks in advance for your efforts --Robby (talk) 16:54, 5 August 2017 (UTC)

 Done - Mbch331 (talk) 18:14, 5 August 2017 (UTC)

Q20022806 and Q762548

I cannot merge those items. I do not understand why. Thanks for your help. BrightRaven (talk) 12:13, 9 August 2017 (UTC)

chocolaterie (Q762548) says it's an instance of the other one. I think it is nonsense. If you remove the instance of (P31) statement, you will be able to merge them. Matěj Suchánek (talk) 13:55, 9 August 2017 (UTC)

 Done. Thank you. BrightRaven (talk) 08:15, 10 August 2017 (UTC)

Attempt of merging Q16761630 with Q2303615 results in error notification

Both items refer to the masculine Russian surname Sorokin, so a merging would be plausible. Aarp65 (talk) 09:50, 21 August 2017 (UTC)

No. One is an item about the last name and one is about a DP with the same label. If sitelinks are wrong, they need to be moved, but the items shouldn't be merged. Mbch331 (talk) 10:26, 21 August 2017 (UTC)

Failed merge

While tryingg to merge Carningli Hillfort (Q15108634)    into Mynydd Carningli (Q8521592)    the wizard produced an error saying 'Error while "Merge with: Q8521592": Attempted modification of the item failed. Please report above error here with source and destination of merge.' Richard Nevell (talk) 11:04, 26 August 2017 (UTC)

Carningli Hillfort (Q15108634) is a fort that's on Mynydd Carningli (Q8521592). They need to be 2 separate items and shouldn't be merged. Mbch331 (talk) 12:03, 26 August 2017 (UTC)

Mbch331 So was the error message produced by the 'has part' statement, since merging them would have meant the new item was 'part of' itself? Richard Nevell (talk) 13:17, 26 August 2017 (UTC)

Yes. Because at least on of the items was linking to the other, merging is impossible. Mbch331 (talk) 14:16, 26 August 2017 (UTC)

merge fail

Actinodaphne confertiflora (Q3335439) and Parasassafras confertiflora (Q15554264) Charles Matthews (talk) 08:29, 31 August 2017 (UTC)

The former is a basionym (Q810198) of the latter, they shouldn't be merged. Matěj Suchánek (talk) 14:04, 31 August 2017 (UTC)

Error merging

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11678009 with https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q81 --Igel B TyMaHe (talk) 09:53, 4 September 2017 (UTC)

@Igel B TyMaHe:

carrot (Q81)
natural product of taxon (P1582)	Daucus carota subsp. sativus (Q11678009)

--Bigbossfarin (talk) 15:45, 8 September 2017 (UTC)

Same term

Q16314501 & Q16314501--Хомелка (talk) 08:21, 5 September 2017 (UTC)

@Хомелка: Of course, as it’s the same item twice. Probably you missed what ID you wanted to copy where? --Tacsipacsi (talk) 17:39, 5 September 2017 (UTC)

@Tacsipacsi: Q744738 & Q16314501, thanks :)--Хомелка (talk) 04:57, 6 September 2017 (UTC)

encyclopédistes (Q744738) was a specific group of encyclopedist (Q16314501)'s who made Encyclopédie (Q447). So no merge should take place. Matěj Suchánek (talk) 08:37, 6 September 2017 (UTC)

Error merging

Q2373031 Category:Years in Europe (Q8955679) --Bigbossfarin (talk) 15:35, 8 September 2017 (UTC)

The first item wasn't notable anymore, they should not be merged in the first place anyway. Sjoerd de Bruin (talk) 15:50, 8 September 2017 (UTC)

Merging Gülen (Q5626833) with Gülen (Q15818811)

Both items mostly collect lemmas with the Turkish female given name and surname Gülen meaning "laughing" (present participle of gülmek "to laugh")  – The preceding unsigned comment was added by Aarp65 (talk • contribs) at 13. 9. 2017, 14:22‎ (UTC).

See Wikidata:WikiProject Names#Basic principles. Matěj Suchánek (talk) 15:16, 14 September 2017 (UTC)

Merging of Q20641746 and Q1193018

Hi, the two items are about the same female name, in different languages.

The merging fails, I don't know why (I'm not an expert)

Thanks! --Purple74 (talk) 12:34, 14 September 2017 (UTC)

See Wikidata:WikiProject Names#Basic principles. Matěj Suchánek (talk) 15:15, 14 September 2017 (UTC)

cannot merge Q732795 and Q16860256

--Gamsbart (talk) 18:38, 15 September 2017 (UTC)

See Wikidata:WikiProject Names#Basic principles. Sjoerd de Bruin (talk) 18:50, 15 September 2017 (UTC)

error

Error while merging Q28038713 with Q26214577. How to proceed? --Metsavend (talk) 10:20, 20 September 2017 (UTC)

Don't merge them. Q28038713 is about Igor (Latin alphabet) and Q26214577 is about Игорь (Cyrillic alphabet). Those are 2 different concepts (for names a different spelling is a different item). Mbch331 (talk) 10:31, 20 September 2017 (UTC)

Error message with no reason specified

Hello,

I tried to use the Merge.js gadget on Tassaert, Jean Pierre Antoine (Q27598487), attempting to merge it into Jean-Pierre-Antoine Tassaert (Q51990). This resulted in the following error message :

Erreur durant "Fusionner avec : Q51990" : Attempted modification of the item failed.
Rapportez l’erreur ci-dessus ici avec la source et la destination à fusionner.

I cannot see an obvious reason why this merge would not be possible. The message does not say much more. Can someone see the reason? Place Clichy (talk) 15:58, 21 September 2017 (UTC)

Obviously, you should not attempt to merge a biographical article (Q19389637) to an item about a human (Q5). In the background, the failure was caused by Tassaert, Jean Pierre Antoine (Q27598487) linking to Jean-Pierre-Antoine Tassaert (Q51990) using main subject (P921). Matěj Suchánek (talk) 16:10, 21 September 2017 (UTC)

@Matěj Suchánek: Can you please precise ? Wikipedia site links on Jean-Pierre-Antoine Tassaert (Q51990) are "biographical articles" on this person, and so is the ADB dictionary entry currently linked at Tassaert, Jean Pierre Antoine (Q27598487). Why should they be treated differently? Are you telling us that all biographical articles on Wikipedia should be linked to biographical article (Q19389637) items instead of human (Q5)? What do you mean by "you should attempt to merge..."? Place Clichy (talk) 09:58, 22 September 2017 (UTC)

I made a typo, there should have been not.

Wikipedia articles indeed are biographical articles but on Wikidata they are connected to items they describe. However, the Wikisource page holds a text that is characterized by different properties (for humans there is name, date of birth etc., for texts there is author, topic etc.). That's why they are kept separate.

Note that Wikisource can also hold pages about authors that correspond to Wikipedia biographies. If there was one for this person, how would manage sitelinks when you can have at most one link to one wiki? Matěj Suchánek (talk) 10:05, 22 September 2017 (UTC)

I think I see your point. Indeed, there can be several encyclopedic dictionaries having an article about the same topic available in the same wikisource project. In that case, nothing could determine which article to link to. Indeed, the best wikisource sitelink would probably be the Author or Creator page of the individual, when there is one. Place Clichy (talk) 15:09, 22 September 2017 (UTC)

Q15619176 and Q18195733

d1g (talk) 17:20, 25 September 2017 (UTC)

The second has a link to the first; which means that they are not the same. -- -- -- 04:22, 17 January 2018 (UTC)

Merge of Q779079 and Q25796237

--ElTres (talk) 10:21, 27 September 2017 (UTC)

One is a list and one is a position. Sjoerd de Bruin (talk) 10:46, 27 September 2017 (UTC)

Merging of items Q21451102 and Q762956

The two items seem to connect articles of lists of bearers of the same German surname Schirmer. Aarp65 (talk) 17:19, 30 September 2017 (UTC)

Schirmer (Q21451102) is an item about family name/surname, Schirmer (Q762956) is an item about disambiguation. They are different concept. I fixed some wrong sitelink. --ValterVB (talk) 19:28, 30 September 2017 (UTC)

Q1996198 and Q20732236

I think this two wikidata (Q1996198 and Q20732236) are about the same. Please can anybody merge this pages who know how to do it. Thanks a lot. --Unpocoloco (talk) 11:41, 1 October 2017 (UTC)

I don't see why they should be merged. Can you motivate your opinion? Sjoerd de Bruin (talk) 14:20, 1 October 2017 (UTC)

In my opinion there bouths are about administrative division of Trinidad and Tobago. Aren´t they? --Unpocoloco (talk) 05:14, 2 October 2017 (UTC)

One is a type of administrative division, the other is a subclass of administrative territorial entity of a single country (Q15916867) as definitions can differ from every country. For example, someone might create the former counties of the country so that'll made another type of administrative division. Sjoerd de Bruin (talk) 07:03, 2 October 2017 (UTC)

Well, what I sow is almoust the same table in bouths groups of articles in wikipedia projects. If you take a look for exemple to chinese and french articles - where is the diference? (Sorry for my English). --Unpocoloco (talk) 09:31, 2 October 2017 (UTC)

Maybe sitelinks should be moved then. Sjoerd de Bruin (talk) 13:48, 2 October 2017 (UTC)

So I moved the sisterlinks of wikipedia articles from Q1996198 to Q20732236. Hope that´s OK. --Unpocoloco (talk) 12:51, 3 October 2017 (UTC)

Merge failed on Q19838446

Error message (in Dutch): Fout tijdens "Samenvoegen met: Q10547460": Attempted modification of the item failed.

Quistnix (talk) 12:10, 2 October 2017 (UTC)

Fixed by moving sitelinks and explaining on IRC. Sjoerd de Bruin (talk) 13:47, 2 October 2017 (UTC)

Fault merging two items

"Fout tijdens "Samenvoegen met: Q3122347": Attempted modification of the item failed."

I tried merging Q4138690 with Q3122347 but got the above-mentioned error. Q.Zanden questions? 18:19, 3 October 2017 (UTC)

Guihomar IV of Léon (Q3122347)child (P40)Guihomar IV of Léon (Q4138690) - So either that statement is wrong or they shouldn't be merged. Mbch331 (talk) 18:26, 3 October 2017 (UTC)

merge failure

Tried to merge Q319582 to Q41650357 but received error message. --عمرو (talk) 09:30, 7 October 2017 (UTC)

Number vs. name for multiple numbers. Shouldn't be merged. Matěj Suchánek (talk) 14:35, 7 October 2017 (UTC)

Merge failed

Chyba při „Sloučit s: Q2298084“: Attempted modification of the item failed.

Prosíme nahlaste tuto chybu zde s původní a cílovou položkou ke sloučení.

Sokol (Q2298084) Sokol (Q21507676) --LiMr (talk) 16:41, 7 October 2017 (UTC)

I cleaned them up according to Wikidata:WikiProject Names#Basic principles. Matěj Suchánek (talk) 16:57, 7 October 2017 (UTC)

Merge failed

" Attempted modification of the item failed." while trying to merge Q28803776 and Q11531476. Steak (talk) 08:11, 8 October 2017 (UTC)

Pine Trees (Q28803776)part of (P361)Pine Trees (Q11531476) --Tacsipacsi (talk) 11:57, 8 October 2017 (UTC)

LUM

Lum (Q222813) Lum (Q587335) --92.78.202.124 08:22, 9 October 2017 (UTC)

I requested deletion for Q587335. -- -- -- 07:06, 11 October 2017 (UTC)

 Done. Q587335 was ‎redirected to Q222813 by Mbch331 (11:46, 11/Oct/17)‎. Thanks, -- -- -- 04:09, 23 November 2017 (UTC)

Merge failed

" Attempted modification of the item failed." while trying to merge Q7558985 and Q8193744. --Alberth2 (talk) 02:03, 12 October 2017 (UTC)

solutional cave (Q8193744)subclass of (P279)solutional cave (Q7558985) --Tacsipacsi (talk) 06:17, 12 October 2017 (UTC)

failed merge

attempted to merge Q28920918 with Q13055149. Slowking4 (talk) 12:35, 20 October 2017 (UTC)

Why are you trying to merge an item describing some painting into an item that is describing a human? Sjoerd de Bruin (talk) 13:02, 20 October 2017 (UTC)

Merge of Q3409635 and Q4794307

Pseudocalotes kakhienensis and Salea kakhienensis is the same species, see Pseudocalotes kakhienensis, The Reptile Database. --Nordelch (talk) 18:35, 24 October 2017 (UTC)

I moved the svwiki link. Wikidata:WikiProject Taxonomy says: Moreover, each (important/notable) taxonomic viewpoint can be stored, also historic ones. Matěj Suchánek (talk) 17:12, 25 October 2017 (UTC)

Q7177039 and Q27598736

Cannot merge these items.:(--Gamsbart (talk) 14:32, 29 October 2017 (UTC)

This is exactly as above. Matěj Suchánek (talk) 15:24, 29 October 2017 (UTC)

Q1711289 and Q1236324

They can't be merged with the gadget. --Millars (talk) 11:13, 2 November 2017 (UTC)

cantera (Q1236324)part of (P361)youth association football (Q1711289) --Tacsipacsi (talk) 21:41, 2 November 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata Q11194232 and Q407212 failed to merge

Popup said: "Error while "Merge with: Q407212": Attempted modification of the item failed. Please report above error here with source and destination of merge."

ArthurPSmith (talk) 19:59, 9 November 2017 (UTC)

I requested deletion for Q11194232. -- -- -- 04:11, 23 November 2017 (UTC)

 Done. Pasleim redirected Q11194232 to Q407212 (16:05, 25/Nov/17). Thanks, -- -- -- 05:11, 29 November 2017 (UTC)

Typo error in lb-translation of this Gadget

The lb translation for this Gadget has technical (typo error). Indeed for lb reportError: 'Mellt de Feeler hei driwwer w.e.g. [[hei] mat der Quell an dem Zil vun der Fusioun.', has to be replaced in the lb-translation with reportError: 'Mellt de Feeler hei driwwer w.e.g. [[hei]] mat der Quell an dem Zil vun der Fusioun.', It would be great if an admin could fix this. Many thanks for any help on this. Robby (talk) 20:35, 9 November 2017 (UTC)

 Done Thanks for spotting this! Matěj Suchánek (talk) 08:36, 10 November 2017 (UTC)

Italian Political Movement CasaPound: italian page merge fail.

The italian page which speaks about the far right political movement casaPound Q25648673 does not merge with the other internationals items Q528163.  – The preceding unsigned comment was added by TommyBorzy (talk • contribs) at 10. 11. 2017, 08:07‎ (UTC).

Because Q25648673 is a political party and it is part of (P361) Q528163 that is a Italian political movement of radical right. --ValterVB (talk) 12:35, 10 November 2017 (UTC)

d:Q24328821 and d:Q25321598

91.197.junr3170 (talk) 10:31, 11 November 2017 (UTC)

 Done. Q25321598 was redirected to Q24328821 by Sjoerddebruin (15:37, 11/Nov/17)‎. Thanks, -- -- -- 04:13, 23 November 2017 (UTC)

Q31928092 and Q45898

Same town, but unable to merge. --Civvì (talk) 10:11, 13 November 2017 (UTC) Mistake, different towns :-( --Civvì (talk) 10:13, 13 November 2017 (UTC)

Firsov

Hi, Q138347 and Q21487202 should be merged, but it gives me an error. Thanks, Renata3 (talk) 01:29, 15 November 2017 (UTC)

 Not done It does correctly. The former is a disambiguation spelled with w, the latter is a surname spelled with v. Let's not merge these. Matěj Suchánek (talk) 07:43, 15 November 2017 (UTC)

Failed merge

Matthew Dixon (Q18576742) into John Dixon (Q30020905). Charles Matthews (talk) 08:03, 19 November 2017 (UTC)

Resolved in the sense that Mary Edmond, Nicholas Dixon, limner, and Matthew Dixon, painter, died 1710, Burlington Magazine, 125 (1983), 611–12 is cited by the ODNB; which says that "John Dixon" never existed. Charles Matthews (talk) 08:10, 19 November 2017 (UTC)

Error merging

I got an error in mergimg backyard (Q16142287) with backyard (Q4839857). - PKM (talk) 00:51, 22 November 2017 (UTC)

backyard (Q16142287)said to be the same as (P460)backyard (Q4839857) I don’t know why are they just “said to be the same”, but this statement (and its pair on the other item) has to be removed before merging. —Tacsipacsi (talk) 16:16, 22 November 2017 (UTC)

 Done. Thanks for your helpful advice. -- -- -- 03:07, 23 November 2017 (UTC)

Failure of merging group (Q16887380) with class (Q17519152)

I wanted to use the merge gadget to merge group (Q16887380) with class (Q17519152) after finding consensus on the talk page. The merge gadget throws the error:

• Error while "Merge with: Q16887380": Attempted modification of the item failed.

Please report above error here with source and destination of merge.

This seems to be the page to report the error, so I do ;) ChristianKl (✉) 14:17, 24 November 2017 (UTC)

 Done. ChristianKl redirected Q17519152 to Q16887380 (13:39, 25/Nov/17). Thanks, -- -- -- 04:52, 29 November 2017 (UTC)

Failure of merging

President of Zimbabwe (Q19056184) to list of Presidents of Zimbabwe (Q407950) --Jey (talk) 16:18, 24 November 2017 (UTC)

list of Presidents of Zimbabwe (Q407950)is a list of (P360)President of Zimbabwe (Q19056184) --Tacsipacsi (talk) 16:39, 24 November 2017 (UTC)

"Attempted modification of the item failed."

The items Q1837664 and Q30056139 could not be merged. --Poliglott (talk) 20:23, 28 November 2017 (UTC)

One is a position, while the other one is a Wikimedia list? Sjoerd de Bruin (talk) 22:05, 28 November 2017 (UTC)

Sorry, this can't be the reason. This is a list as well. de:Liste der Botschafter der Vereinigten Staaten in Deutschland and en:United States Ambassador to Germany are in the same Wikidata element. Such are many lists of ambassadors, for example de:Liste der Botschafter der Vereinigten Staaten in der Schweiz or de:Liste der Botschafter der Vereinigten Staaten in Spanien. No, that can't be a reason. It makes no sense at all. --Poliglott (talk) 23:28, 30 November 2017 (UTC)

That some users chose to turn a list into a position item is very problematic. They mostly don't care about labels in other languages, creating problems. Let's not make a bigger mess. Sjoerd de Bruin (talk) 15:28, 1 December 2017 (UTC)

What do you mean, bigger mess? I want to combine two (or three) articles which contain the same content. This should be possible - and it is, as you can see in my examples. I just want to know why there is a failure notice displayed. --Poliglott (talk) 17:39, 1 December 2017 (UTC)

Merging doesn't work

Q629293 and Les Nouveaux Exploits d'Arsène Lupin (Q4326504) should be merged. Queryzo (talk) 12:32, 4 December 2017 (UTC)

Les Nouveaux Exploits d'Arsène Lupin (Q4326504)follows (P155)Q629293 —Tacsipacsi (talk) 13:31, 4 December 2017 (UTC)

Hungarian tranlation

{{Edit request}}

      hu: {
        conflictMessage: 'Ütközés észlelve ezen: ',
        conflictWithMessage: 'ezzel:',
        createRedirect: 'Átirányítás létrehozása',
        creatingRedirect: 'Átirányítás létrehozása…',
        errorWhile: 'Hiba miközben „$1”:',
        invalidInput: 'Jelenleg csak a Wikidata-azonosító (Qid) elfogadott érték',
        loadMergeDestination: 'Célelem betöltése sikeres összevonás esetén',
        loadingMergeDestination: 'Összevonás céljának betöltése…',
        lowestQid: 'Mindig a régebbi elembe vonjon össze (ajánlott; ha kiveszed a pipát, az „Összevonás a következővel”-nél megjelölt elembe von össze)',
        merge: 'Összevonás',
        mergePendingNotification: 'A Merge.js elindult.<br>Most menj a böngésződdel a másik elemre!',
        mergeProcess: 'Összevonás indítása',
        mergeSummary: 'Az automatikusan generált összefoglaló kiegészítése a következő szöveggel:',
        mergeThisItem: 'Elem összevonása',
        mergeWithInput: 'Összevonás a következővel:',
        mergeWithProgress: 'Összevonás…',
        mergeWizard: 'Összevonás-varázsló',
        pleaseWait: 'Kérjük, várj…',
        postpone: 'Később',
        postponeTitle: 'Elem azonosítójának megjegyzése, és az összevonás elhalasztása',
        reportError: 'Kérjük, jelezd a fenti hibát [[itt]] a forrás- és célelemmel együtt!',
        selectForMerging: 'Kiválasztás összevonáshoz',
        selectForMergingTitle: 'Elem megjegyzése mint második a két összevonandó elemből',
        unwatchOption: 'Összevont elem eltávolítása a figyelőlistádról (ha figyeled)',
        unwatching: 'Eltávolítás a figyelőlistádról…'
      },

Please, add the translations above. Thanks, Máté (talk) 06:43, 10 December 2017 (UTC)

 Done - Mbch331 (talk) 09:14, 10 December 2017 (UTC)

attempt to merge Q327723 with Q22808767

While trying to edit the interlanguage links on the en.wp article Christian Ranucci to include a link to fr.wp (via "Edit links"), I failed to merge that article (Q327723) into the other articles on the subject (Q22808767) (fr:Affaire Christian Ranucci). I am a very experienced editor who has nevertheless always encountered problems with the MediaWiki interlanguage link system. I find the guidance there, including on the Merge tool, rather lacking. Any ideas? Thanks in advance. Eric ^talk 16:02, 13 December 2017 (UTC)

Christian Ranucci case (Q22808767)participant (P710)Christian Ranucci (Q327723). It can be seen from the French article’s title: Affaire Christian Ranucci. So these should be kept as separate items, even if it’s inconvenient that there is no interlanguage link between the French and the other four. You can create an article about Christian Ranucci himself in French, which can be connected to Q327723. --Tacsipacsi (talk) 18:28, 13 December 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply, Tacsipacsi. Are you saying that for the Wikidata interlanguage link system, the literal translation of an article title is more important than the content of the article?

• The English article Christian Ranucci is essentially the same article as the French Affaire Christian Ranucci; in fact, I think much or all of the en.wp piece was simply translated from fr.wp. I don't think there would be a separate bio on en.wp for him, and there is none on fr.wp (I checked this before I posted, as I noted the Affaire in the fr title).
• Note that on en.wp, we don't tend to use the word affair for a topic like this the way French does, though one could argue it would be more logical to do so. In the case of a murder where both perpetrator and victim would otherwise not meet Wikipedia's notability criteria, en.wp tends to title the article about the crime with one of their names (not ideal in my view).
• Would you say that policy-wise, if the en article were retitled Christian Ranucci Affair, or Christian Ranucci's murder of Marie-Dolorès Rambla, the merge of the two Q IDs would be appropriate?
• Note that the Wikidata Q ID page (what are these pages called?) for the fr article "Affaire Christian Ranucci" is titled simply "Christian Ranucci", without the "Affaire".
• A system question, aside from the criteria for merging Q IDs: Why do you think the merge tool did not work? Eric ^talk 19:16, 13 December 2017 (UTC)

Re system question: Christian Ranucci case (Q22808767)participant (P710)Christian Ranucci (Q327723), ie. one item links to the other one. Matěj Suchánek (talk) 19:19, 13 December 2017 (UTC)

Thanks, Matěj. I'm not sure I understand. I see that you changed the English label on 723, and that makes sense to me. But I still don't get why the en.wp article Christian Ranucci should not or cannot be equated with the fr.wp "Affaire" article, given that there will probably never be an en bio on him, and the fr Christian Ranucci simply redirects to the "Affaire" article. Would the proper approach be to change the title of the en article to "Christian Ranucci case", and have Christian Ranucci redirect to it? Eric ^talk 19:47, 13 December 2017 (UTC)

What you suggest would be perfect for moving the link to the other item (but this must allow the community of enwiki). Actually, you could move the link even now since you stated that the English article is about the case, not the person. However, after some time there may come a user who prefers treating articles by their title, not the content and they may move the link back and break the connection.

Still, there will stay two separate items on Wikidata, no matter whether they have any links or not since these are two different concepts (a person vs. a criminal case). Matěj Suchánek (talk) 19:54, 13 December 2017 (UTC)

(edit conflict × 2) No, the content is the more important. However, if I see the articles (I don’t speak French, so I haven’t read it through), the English one looks like a usual biography (e.g. Early life section), while – as much as I understand of it – the French is focused on the event. So renaming the articles would not modify the fact that their focus is different. (Of course, the item label didn’t contain “affaire”, as you added the label without it.) —Tacsipacsi (talk) 19:57, 13 December 2017 (UTC)

Thanks to you both for your input. Tacsipacsi, you're right about the early life section, but the bulk of the article is about the case, and I don't think there would be an article on him otherwise. So do you think it would be appropriate to do as Matěj mentions above -- just move the link? If so, I'm still not sure how to do it so the merge tool will work... Eric ^talk 20:15, 13 December 2017 (UTC)

I’m not sure about it, but I’m not definitely against. Moving the sitelink consists of simply removing it from one item and adding it to the other. --Tacsipacsi (talk) 21:30, 13 December 2017 (UTC)

Okay, for now I've removed the en sitelink from 723 and added it to 767. But if anyone thinks that's not the way to do it in the end, I have nothing against it being reverted. Eric ^talk 21:55, 13 December 2017 (UTC)

...and now the fr link appears as I would expect on the en article, but not vice-versa. Apparently I have more to learn... Eric ^talk 22:01, 13 December 2017 (UTC)

Now I'm thoroughly confused: After my changes to the Q pages were reverted by YMS, why is en:Christian Ranucci still showing the interlanguage link to fr:Affaire Christian Ranucci?? Eric ^talk 22:36, 13 December 2017 (UTC)

It seems like we have serious cache problems again (it often occurs): I’ve cleared the cache, and now it shows the correct languages. --Tacsipacsi (talk) 22:54, 13 December 2017 (UTC)

Okay, thanks. For now I've just added old-style interwiki links to those articles. Eric ^talk 15:36, 14 December 2017 (UTC)

Merge from Q1464559 and Q1223680

Ich can not Merge Best regards Michael--Hoefler50 (talk) 17:07, 20 December 2017 (UTC)

They aren't the same, so shouldn't be merged. One is by Mark Wills and the other by Cascada. Mbch331 (talk) 17:47, 20 December 2017 (UTC)

Q10477377 und Q51641

Hoefler50 (talk) 18:22, 20 December 2017 (UTC)

love for fellow humans (Q10477377) is more general and Great Commandment (Q51641) is the biblical concept on which Q10477377 is based. Mbch331 (talk) 18:56, 20 December 2017 (UTC)

failed: Q19071482 and Q1700559

--Gamsbart (talk) 09:52, 21 December 2017 (UTC)

The 1st is a dictionary entry and the second is a person (you could have different pages on Wikisource for several entries of different dictionaries) so they should not be merged. -- -- -- 18:39, 21 December 2017 (UTC)

Failed merging Q31513542 and Q30282295

One is a museum in Litovel and the other is the building of the museum, which I believe is the same. --Jan.Kamenicek (talk) 13:32, 23 December 2017 (UTC)

No, they aren't the same. The museum is what's in the building (the building is just the walls, floors, ceiling etc., not whatever the building is used for. If the museum would be closed and something else came in its place, the building would remain the same. Mbch331 (talk) 08:07, 26 December 2017 (UTC)

Well, before the museum closes, they are the same: when I go to the museum, I go to the building. I am not sure why should there be two separate items before the museum closes. Wikipedia has got an article which is about both the museum as an institution and the museum as a building. When the museum was renovated, it was the building which was being rebuilt by carpenters and bricklayers. Now there are two separate Wikidata items but only one of them can be connected with the encyclopedia article, although they both contain information concerning the subject of the Wikipedia article. So may I ask for advice how to deal with it? Jan.Kamenicek (talk) 19:17, 26 December 2017 (UTC)

The building is just the physical building regardless of what's in it. The museum is that what's in it. They are 2 different concepts. For Wikipedia it may be one article, but Wikidata doesn't make items per page, but per concept. For the wikilink, check what the article is mostly about (the building or the museum) and link the article to that item. The museum should have a P276 statement with the QID of the building. Check for example Rijksmuseum (Q190804) or British Museum (Q6373). Mbch331 (talk) 19:57, 26 December 2017 (UTC)

@Mbch331: Thanks, but your suggestions do not solve the problem. Both Wikidata items contain different kind of information. Wikidata serve as a basis for interwiki links and founding their items on different grounds than those on which Wikipedia articles are founded seems strange. If only one item is connected with the Wikipedia article, it means that the information in the other item is not accessible directly from the Wikipedia article, despite the fact that the Wikipedia article deals about the subject of both items. The article deals both about the institution and the building, it is impossible to separate it and decide which Wikidata item should be connected and which should be sacrificed. I noticed that the item on the institution contains the property "headquarter's location" which links it with the item on the building, but finding it is not as intuitive as a direct link from the Wikipedia article and not all unexperienced users may get it. --Jan.Kamenicek (talk) 21:23, 26 December 2017 (UTC)

Interwiki's is just one of the data you can add to an item. People tend to think that the base of Wikidata is the interwikis, but it's not. The base of Wikidata is the various concepts that exist. And Wikilinks is just one of them. Currently there's no solution to link two items to 1 Wikipedia article. Maybe in the future when it's technically possible to add redirect, a redirect can be the solution for the problem, but until then one of the items will lack an interwiki. Merging items because Wikipedia happens to have 1 combined article about 2 concepts is not the way to go. Mbch331 (talk) 21:40, 26 December 2017 (UTC)

Merger failed

Tried merging Q3708947 and Q25580506 but that failed and the tool asked me to report it here... .§§Dharmadhyaksha§§ {T/C} 04:15, 26 December 2017 (UTC)

Director (Q3708947)part of (P361)Q25580506, which means they shouldn't be merged. Mbch331 (talk) 08:04, 26 December 2017 (UTC)

Error

Cant merge Q169215 and Q27965845 --Andrew J.Kurbiko (talk) 00:58, 27 December 2017 (UTC)

According to the items they aren't the same. Zdravljica (Q169215) is the 7th paragraph of Zdravljica (Q27965845). Mbch331 (talk) 09:16, 27 December 2017 (UTC)

Merge error - Q12031574 & Q1241142

Kronika trojánská (Q12031574) & Historia destructionis Troiae (Q1241142) seem to be the same thing, but will not merge. --Tagishsimon (talk) 18:55, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

The one with a single sitelink is a translation (an edition). Matěj Suchánek (talk) 07:28, 5 January 2018 (UTC)

Q2065978 with Q22061533

"Attempted modification of the item failed." No further information given. --MB-one (talk) 21:54, 7 January 2018 (UTC)

Because you added Bayeux (Q22061533)said to be the same as (P460)Bayeux (Q2065978). (For improving the error message, see three sections above.) --Tacsipacsi (talk) 23:02, 7 January 2018 (UTC)

Note that one item is the municipality and the other one the seat of the municipality. Sjoerd de Bruin (talk) 23:17, 7 January 2018 (UTC)

@Tacsipacsi: thanks for the explanation. @Sjoerddebruin: In this case, both items are about the municipality (according to the sitelinks) and can be safely merged. --MB-one (talk) 10:47, 10 January 2018 (UTC)

merge of two reed categories

can reed (Q42890140) and reed (Q221455) be merged? I had problem of doing this, but cannot see why. I suppose this was caused by some German editors as both items only have German links in common--淺藍雪^❉ 00:27, 9 January 2018 (UTC)

No, they are about different things: reed (Q221455) is only for reeds of woodwind instruments (excluding free reed (Q9346712)), reed (Q42890140) is for all reeds (including free reed (Q9346712)). - Valentina.Anitnelav (talk) 09:51, 9 January 2018 (UTC)

so you are saying all reed (Q221455) links are for reeds of woodwind instruments and all reed (Q42890140) links are for all reeds? Fine if they are, but I really do not see the need of splitting them into two categories as the difference is way too subtle. Might only work for German Wikipedia. --淺藍雪^❉ 17:59, 9 January 2018 (UTC)

I would not call the difference between musical instruments parts producing sound by means of vibrating lamella(s) (which includes the ones of accordion (Q79838)) and "mouthpieces" (in a very general sense) consisting of lamella(s) subtle. The one is the superclass of the other. You would probably not try to merge reed (Q42890140) and free reed (Q9346712). - Valentina.Anitnelav (talk) 07:51, 10 January 2018 (UTC)

You have not answered how possibly you can guarantee articles in other languages work in the same way, and I think you are trying to mislead others, I have never said I am going to merge reed (Q42890140) and free reed (Q9346712). And yes, the difference between Q221455 and Q42890140 is very subtle, and I have no idea that based on what you can possibly split them into two categories so neatly. Is that just a complete coincidence that Q42890140 and Q221455 have no language in common expect German?--淺藍雪^❉ 14:12, 14 January 2018 (UTC)

I am sorry if the last sentence led to a misunderstanding: I never supposed that you would merge those two (and I didn't say so). I just took the relationship of reed (Q42890140) and free reed (Q9346712) to illustrate the relationship of reed (Q221455) and reed (Q42890140). You would not merge reed (Q42890140) and free reed (Q9346712) - why would you merge reed (Q221455) and reed (Q42890140)?

I don't know what you mean with "how possibly you can guarantee articles in other languages work in the same way"? What problem do you see exactly? Either an article is rather both about reed (Q221455) and free reed (Q9346712) - then it should link to reed (Q42890140) - or an article is rather only about reed (Q221455) or an article is rather only about free reed (Q9346712). Please note that I didn't create the German articles. I just set them in relation to each other and other items.

If you miss interwikilinks you can still set them locally on the article. If you think one of the articles linking to reed (Q42890140) should rather link to reed (Q221455) (or the other way round) you can move site links. I am really sorry if I somehow missed your point - Valentina.Anitnelav (talk) 09:12, 15 January 2018 (UTC)

Maybe it could help to draw the classification tree to illustrate the relationship between reed (Q42890140) and reed (Q221455):

• reed (Q42890140) (super class of free reed (Q9346712) and reed (Q221455)
  • free reed (Q9346712) (used for example in accordion (Q79838))
  • reed (Q221455) (super class of "mouthpieces" (in a vague sense) like single reed (Q42890968) and double reed (Q29811838))
    • single reed (Q42890968)
    • double reed (Q29811838)
    • quadruple reed (Q7268441)

If one or more articles don't fit into this, please tell me where and why. - Valentina.Anitnelav (talk) 09:31, 15 January 2018 (UTC)

Q11109963 & Q30450179

Merging is impossible. Otourly (talk) 19:52, 9 January 2018 (UTC)

According to the statements they aren't the same. Mbch331 (talk) 07:26, 11 January 2018 (UTC)

Памылка пры аб’яднаньні

Error while "Merge with: Q12106228": Attempted modification of the item failed.

Спрабаваў аб’яднаць Q12106228 і Q39486883. --Taravyvan Adijene (talk) 06:42, 11 January 2018 (UTC)

The items say that they are "said to be the same as" each other. You could only merge two items if they are "the same"; not if they are only "said to be the same". -- -- -- 23:40, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

Thanks, merging proceeded after the deletion of «said to be the same as» properties. --Taravyvan Adijene (talk) 09:41, 17 January 2018 (UTC)

Q43810881 and Q4113508

Sorry, I seem to have troubles with merging these two items Q43810881 and Q4113508, would be greateful for any help. --Helixitta (talk) 16:20, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

For some reason, the first is described as a surname and the second is described as a disambiguation page. You can't merge two items that have different descriptions because that would mean that they are not the same. -- -- -- 23:35, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

Q30095027 & Q1785683

Both are lists of people with surnames, their descriptions match, both are not disambigs. Moreover the pages for people from the lists are interwikied, e.g. pl:Wital Kowal from pl:Kowal (nazwisko) @ Q1785683 and uk:Коваль Віталій Миколайович from uk:Коваль (прізвище) @ Q30095027 have the same wikidata number. But the merge gives me error. I am so confused at this stage... --Helixitta (talk) 17:07, 18 January 2018 (UTC)

The difference is in the names. One is the spelling in the Latin alphabet, the other in the Cyrillic alphabet. For names it's important to keep that separated. Mbch331 (talk) 19:18, 18 January 2018 (UTC)

Merge failure

Merge of municipality of Angola (Q378508) with list of municipalities of Angola (Q22065638) failed with "Error while "Merge with: Q378508": Attempted modification of the item failed. Please report above error here with source and destination of merge." warning. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:31, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

municipality of Angola (Q378508)has list (P2354)list of municipalities of Angola (Q22065638). Mbch331 (talk) 19:48, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

Q118574 and Q14467478

Looks like they should be merged but cannot. --Traveler100 (talk) 13:26, 20 January 2018 (UTC)

Altiplano (Q118574) is divided (has part(s) (P527)) into Altiplano (Q14467478) and Altiplano, Peru (Q18176459). Why would you merge a part into the super concept while letting the second part untouched (you cannot merge both parts because of Wikivoyage)? Matěj Suchánek (talk) 16:23, 20 January 2018 (UTC)

Q567140 + Q21504543

Q21504543: Помилка при «Об'єднати з: Q567140»: Attempted modification of the item failed. --Leon II (talk) 17:21, 27 January 2018 (UTC)

The first is described as a disambiguation page and the second is described as a family name. -- -- -- 03:45, 29 January 2018 (UTC)

Q5401576 + Q35663473

"Attempted modification of the item failed." What can it be? --Ата ^(talk) 09:10, 31 January 2018 (UTC)

One is Latin while the other is Cyrillic. Sjoerd de Bruin (talk) 09:16, 31 January 2018 (UTC)

Q719143 + Q28540088

Merge with: Q719143 failed for Q28540088 Peaceray (talk) 00:08, 6 February 2018 (UTC)

 Not done Character vs. fairy tales (the character occurs in). Matěj Suchánek (talk) 09:24, 6 February 2018 (UTC)

Error „Merge to: Q3502546"

"Attempted modification of the item failed." From: Q47530495 --> To: Q3502546.--Kacir (talk) 23:52, 6 February 2018 (UTC)

For some reason, Q3502546 is listed as a subclass of Q47530495. -- -- -- 20:54, 8 February 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for the explanation, subclass is nonsense, crosswiki articles to en wiki are equivalent in content.--Kacir (talk) 07:54, 9 February 2018 (UTC)

• I don't see an advantage of mixing the two. Subclass relations should be fixed now. The enwiki article describes a specific function at a game. The item is used for the profession of the person of that function. Subclasses of "official" don't make much sense as subclass of the profession.
  --- Jura 14:03, 9 February 2018 (UTC)

• There is no mixing, en wiki describes an "officials in the categories of chair umpire, referee and chief umpire". And this is the exactly content of other 4 articles. As I said on talk page, such articles are connected through interwiki.--Kacir (talk) 17:16, 11 February 2018 (UTC)

• I think there are several questions:
  (1) is the occupation "tennis umpire" a different concept than the function of an "official" at a tennis tournament? We do have distinct items for the occupation politician or statesman and the functions of head of state of country x, member of parliament of z, etc.
  (2) Where should the sitelinks go? If there are two items, this doesn't necessarily answer question (2).
  (3) If there was just one item, should its label be "umpire" or "official".
  --- Jura 18:11, 11 February 2018 (UTC)

• I don't know how we can define "concept", but "tennis umpire" has the function of one of "officials" at the tournament, next to other "officials". It's the same situation like e.g. in ice hockey – ice hockey official (Q1757103). It means "tennis umpire" is a subset of official, like "referee", "linesmen" are subset of ice hockey official.--Kacir (talk) 10:51, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

Merge

I want to merge Q7216841 & Q30747696. BukhariSaeed (talk) 04:53, 18 February 2018 (UTC)

ruwiktionary is has a category for both... Matěj Suchánek (talk) 12:02, 24 February 2018 (UTC)

Merger error

Hi, please help to merge Q16305538 (originally "subtropics") into Q13994 ("subtropical climate"). I already merged the wiki articles into one item (no wiki had articles for both items), but there is still an error when merger is attempted. Thanks. --Concus Cretus (talk) 06:33, 18 February 2018 (UTC)

Ping @Andreasmperu: that add different from (P1889) om item. --ValterVB (talk) 09:59, 18 February 2018 (UTC)

I think there is a difference between a climate and a climatezone. Sjoerd de Bruin (talk) 10:07, 18 February 2018 (UTC)

"climate" and "climate zone" are not completely identical but they are basically the same topic. Climate zone is an area where a given climate is. Over 60 Wikis have an article about this and not a single Wiki has an article for both. How more clear can it be that this is the same topic?.--Concus Cretus (talk) 10:01, 21 February 2018 (UTC)

Duplicates

Unable to merge duplicates: Q48257893 and Q19423927

Could not save due to an error. [WovP@ApAAEkAABvISPMAAABD] Exception caught: Unresolved redirect to Q3161477

--Taterian (talk) 07:35, 20 February 2018 (UTC)  Resolved --Taterian (talk) 08:13, 20 February 2018 (UTC)

Merging the pages for Mazza

Hi, I attempted to merge Q1207114 and Q42968014, which both contain disambiguation pages for the word/name "Mazza", the first in several languages, the second only in English, but it failed. Cheers, --Amendola90 (talk) 09:34, 20 February 2018 (UTC)

The first is a disambiguation item, the second is a surname item --ValterVB (talk) 18:50, 20 February 2018 (UTC)

Error merging Q47492705 into Q42277567

Error while "Merge with: Q42277567": Attempted modification of the item failed. Source: Q47492705 Destination: Q42277567  – The preceding unsigned comment was added by Peaceray (talk • contribs) at 21 feb 2018 08:43‎ (UTC).

 Done - Mbch331 (talk) 10:15, 21 February 2018 (UTC)

Not working

Hello,

Please proceed to the merging of the two following elements which was unsuccessful when I tried:

• Q7111053
• Q31362405

Many Thanks,

--Les Yeux Noirs (talk) 13:58, 22 February 2018 (UTC)

 Not done Please, distinguish Cyrillic and Latin scripts. Matěj Suchánek (talk) 15:47, 22 February 2018 (UTC)

merge error

Hello, there is merge mistake in Q12749177 + Q49883443.--Frettie (talk) 00:29, 23 February 2018 (UTC)

 Merged Matěj Suchánek (talk) 10:30, 23 February 2018 (UTC)

K-1

Source: Q26787631
Destination: Q339165

Error while "Merge with: Q339165": Attempted modification of the item failed.ShadessKB (talk) 16:18, 23 February 2018 (UTC)

One describes the sport type, while the other item the company around it. Emptying one of the items is considered vandalism. Sjoerd de Bruin (talk) 16:24, 23 February 2018 (UTC)

It is a company not a sport. The sport is kickboxing. It'd be like calling all MMA (mixed martial arts) UFC when UFC is just a promotion. Please do not accuse me of vandalism when all I do (new as I am here) on wikidata and on wikipedia is try and maintain some accuracy for articles.ShadessKB (talk) 10:57, 24 February 2018 (UTC)

Just leave the second item be. In Wikidata, we sometimes need more items because consistency. If there was only one item (say the instance of type of sport (Q31629)), we couldn't link to it using a property that requires the target to be an organization. Matěj Suchánek (talk) 12:00, 24 February 2018 (UTC)

There'd be just the sport kickboxing item and then K-1 organization item. But yeah okay.ShadessKB (talk) 18:24, 24 February 2018 (UTC)

Development of tool necessary to transfer part of a Q number to another

The policy of Wikidata is to connect a Wikinews category with an article on Wikipedia/Wikivoyage/etc. Wikinews articles are not connected, unless the same article exists in another language. In the table below, however, many Wikinews categories were connected to the category and not to the article. As far as I know, there is not yet a tool to correct that. And it's a lot of work to do it manually. Is it possible to advance the merge tool with an option to transfer a part of a Q number (Wikinews categories) to another Q number?

Tranferring the Wikinews links only

From	To
Category:Cambodia (Q7060103)	Cambodia (Q424)
Category:Chad (Q6985875)	Chad (Q657)
Category:Mozambique (Q6893962)	Mozambique (Q1029)
Category:Cameroon (Q6889384)	Cameroon (Q1009)

Ymnes (talk) 11:55, 24 February 2018 (UTC)

Use MediaWiki:Gadget-Move.js. Matěj Suchánek (talk) 11:56, 24 February 2018 (UTC)

@Matěj Suchánek: Do I need to click somewhere to run it? Or should I install something first? Ymnes (talk) 12:08, 24 February 2018 (UTC)

Go to the preferences. It's a gadget, just like this one. Matěj Suchánek (talk) 12:12, 24 February 2018 (UTC)

@Matěj Suchánek: I know, I had enabled it there yet. But I cannot find a link or button to click on in order to run it. Ymnes (talk) 12:16, 24 February 2018 (UTC)

But then you need to do all sitelinks manually, and for all wikinews categories, that are quite a lot. Isn't there a quicker method? Q.Zanden questions? 12:19, 24 February 2018 (UTC)

Notice the green arrows. Matěj Suchánek (talk) 12:20, 24 February 2018 (UTC)

Now I see what you mean. Thanks! (although it's still one for one indeed, like QZanden replies) Ymnes (talk) 12:22, 24 February 2018 (UTC)

It works well. Maybe it's an idea to introduce a green arrow for the whole group. Anyway, it remembers the Q number and it still is good to do. Thanks again! Ymnes (talk) 12:29, 24 February 2018 (UTC)

Impossible to merge 2 items

Need to merge Q37929617 with Q7735465 (same subject) and it's impossible to do it with the gadget. Thanks to do your possible. Mel22 (talk) 16:55, 24 February 2018 (UTC)

@Jane023: Can you tell why they shouldn't be merged? Mbch331 (talk) 20:40, 24 February 2018 (UTC)

No idea, so I merged them. Jane023 (talk) 22:18, 24 February 2018 (UTC)

Please help merge Q24831748 and Q50006159

The same object. One is an article in zh-wiki, the other one is a commons category.--そらみみ (talk) 17:16, 24 February 2018 (UTC)

The commons cat link should be on the first one and the latter should be deleted (which I've done now). The shouldn't be merged, since the second item was about a cat and those statements/descriptions and labels don't belong in the first one. Mbch331 (talk) 20:43, 24 February 2018 (UTC)

Thanks a lot.--そらみみ (talk) 04:40, 25 February 2018 (UTC)

Merge Q17346959 with Q1629605 failed

Please check why merge Q17346959 with Q1629605 fials. --Pugliak (talk) 13:57, 27 February 2018 (UTC)

Please tell why they should be merged. Sjoerd de Bruin (talk) 14:23, 27 February 2018 (UTC)

They deal with the same arguments: Legionary of ancient Rome. --Pugliak (talk) 14:47, 27 February 2018 (UTC)

"Roman legionary" is a kind of "legionary", the latter doesn't need to be always associated with the ancient Rome. Matěj Suchánek (talk) 15:37, 27 February 2018 (UTC)

Not sure. "Legionary" is a "Roman soldier" and, all articles of Q1629605 that I checked, deal with Roman soldier as articles of Q1629605. -- Pugliak (talk) 21:50, 27 February 2018 (UTC)

Then those "all articles" should be moved. I assumed that in spite of the fact that there can be "a legionary" and "Roman legionary". Matěj Suchánek (talk) 16:50, 28 February 2018 (UTC)

Merge error between Q212976 and Q23715018

Please check why merging between Q212976 and Q23715018 gives error. -- Pugliak (talk) 14:46, 27 February 2018 (UTC)

"middle Ages (XI-XV centuries)" consists of "High Middle Ages" and "late Middle Ages". Matěj Suchánek (talk) 15:37, 27 February 2018 (UTC)

Correct! Probably Q23715018 version need do be revewed. -- Pugliak (talk) 21:45, 27 February 2018 (UTC)

5025659 and 46388952

On Eudontomyzon graecus (Q5025659) I tried to merge with Caspiomyzon graecus (Q46388952). What is the problem? PMG (talk) 16:13, 27 February 2018 (UTC)

I see that the first gives taxon name Eudontomyzon graecus and parent taxon Eudontomyzon; and the second gives taxon name Caspiomyzon graecus and parent taxon Caspiomyzon. -- -- -- 04:04, 28 February 2018 (UTC)

Merge failed

Q47427026 and Q1089051, both are about the same thing. Ausir (talk) 10:21, 1 March 2018 (UTC)

 Merged and fixed issue --Kostas20142 (talk) 15:09, 1 March 2018 (UTC)

Q1693555 and Q21491121 Koulikov disambiguation pages

Attempted modification of the item failed ? --Vincent Simar (talk) 11:47, 2 March 2018 (UTC)

A last name and a disambiguation page aren't the same concepts so shouldntt be merged. Mbch331 (talk) 13:21, 2 March 2018 (UTC)

Unable to merge Q42286956 and Q546607

I was unable to merge Q42286956 and Q546607 Toresetre (talk) 00:00, 5 March 2018 (UTC)

You can't merge category item with "normal" item. I have moved sitelink in item. --ValterVB (talk) 19:00, 5 March 2018 (UTC)

Merge failed

Q646347 and Q47154624. The second object is in English and linked to no other article. The first object has no article in English. Ydecreux (talk) 22:04, 20 March 2018 (UTC)

The first is about the bed. The second is about the concept of indoor tanning. -- -- -- 21:03, 28 March 2018 (UTC)

Q50824783 and Q30046400

Q50824783 and Q30046400 fail to merge without any real error message. Ahoerstemeier (talk) 11:19, 22 March 2018 (UTC)

Both elements have property different from (P1889) that connect one item to the other, this means that they are different item. --ValterVB (talk) 19:21, 23 March 2018 (UTC)

Would have been helpful if the error message would include that info. That statement was added in error before realizing that there is only one. Ahoerstemeier (talk) 09:36, 27 March 2018 (UTC)

+1. Same was on Q663353 and Q50935766. --Vladis13 (talk) 17:19, 28 March 2018 (UTC)

Merge Q44355674 and Q5456557 fails

when trying to merge this 2 items which according to my opinion deal with the same item fails Robby (talk) 22:56, 24 March 2018 (UTC)

Q44355674 (Fjordia lineata) has taxon name “Fjordia lineata” and parent taxon “Fjordia” while Q5456557 (Flabellina lineata) has taxon name “Flabellina lineata” and parent taxon “Flabellina”. Are you sure they are the same? -- -- -- 21:23, 28 March 2018 (UTC)

Error while "Merge with: Q44355668": Attempted modification of the item failed.

The gadget wouldn't let me merge Q48967098 with Q44355668. William Avery (talk) 23:39, 31 March 2018 (UTC)

Oh! They are diff names "Borealia" and "Borealea", one valid, one not. Good catch. William Avery (talk) 23:44, 31 March 2018 (UTC)

Merge failed

Merge failed while adding Q40885941 to Q41180. Your help please.--Zhxy 519 (talk) 00:05, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

La Marseillaise (Q40885941)edition or translation of (P629)La Marseillaise (Q41180) —Tacsipacsi (talk) 10:33, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

Merge error

Received the error "Error while "Merge with: Q2042919": Attempted modification of the item failed. Please report above error here with source and destination of merge." The two items are Q27044862 and Q2042919. -- irn (talk) 01:07, 6 April 2018 (UTC)

The Adventure of the Dancing Men (Q27044862)edition or translation of (P629)The Adventure of the Dancing Men (Q2042919) —Tacsipacsi (talk) 14:16, 7 April 2018 (UTC)

Failure to merge

I've tried to merge Q6403617 with Q4958787 and for some reason that failed. Schwede66 (talk) 21:05, 18 April 2018 (UTC)

The items say that they are "said to be the same as" each other. You could only merge two items if they are "the same"; not if they are only "said to be the same". -- -- -- 22:05, 18 April 2018 (UTC)

There's evidence that the items are the same; that's why I was trying to merge them. Schwede66 (talk) 02:38, 19 April 2018 (UTC)

I did some cleanup on both items but still they are different. Matěj Suchánek (talk) 07:23, 19 April 2018 (UTC)

Unidentified error

This Q30106386 should be merged with Q7694750, but there is an error message (not saying anything about the nature of the error). Skrinnare (talk) 21:11, 18 April 2018 (UTC)

The first is for (potential) articles about the family name. The second is for disambiguation pages. -- -- -- 22:12, 18 April 2018 (UTC)

Error - You must provide unique ids Please report above error here with source and destination of merge.

Source of merge - Q9972996 Destination of merge - Q6499653

Can someone explain why this merge is not working?

Soni (talk) 15:39, 19 April 2018 (UTC)

• Edit - I realised why. The merge was already completed when I was trying it. Soni (talk) 15:40, 19 April 2018 (UTC)

Q3058683 & Q41717186

Two items are about the same book. the fusion failed without explicit error.Popolon (talk) 22:19, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

The second is one particular edition of the first. Wikisource can (potentially) have several entries for different editions of the same book. -- -- -- 23:36, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

Q76666

Merge with Q23009870 does not work --Oursana (talk) 14:10, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

They aren't the same. The first is about "child of an uncle or aunt" (first grade), the second is about a more generic grade of parentel, example son of a cousin (frist, second third grade) --ValterVB (talk) 18:28, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

kingdom (Q28050776) and realm (Q1250464)

about realm. Simon Villeneuve (talk) 17:13, 1 May 2018 (UTC)

The first is a subclass of the second, so they aren't the same thing. --ValterVB (talk) 17:31, 1 May 2018 (UTC)

Merge error

I've tried to merge railway stop (Q55678) with Haltepunkt (train stop) (Q27996460) because the're same, but I have some problem. – balint36 ^{🚌 bus stop} 22:31, 4 May 2018 (UTC)

Haltepunkt (train stop) (Q27996460) is a subclass of railway stop (Q55678) so they aren't the same, but to be sure need someone who speaks german --ValterVB (talk) 07:48, 5 May 2018 (UTC)

The latter seems to be a concept specific to Germany. Matěj Suchánek (talk) 16:56, 6 May 2018 (UTC)

Q49137080 into Q15963338

error  – The preceding unsigned comment was added by Balint36 (talk • contribs) at 4. 5. 2018, 22:31‎ (UTC).

 Not done district × neighborhood. Matěj Suchánek (talk) 16:58, 6 May 2018 (UTC)

Q28792608 into Q2892841

 Not done butte (Q6554910) × South Dakota state park (Q37988610), let's not merge them. Matěj Suchánek (talk) 18:27, 7 May 2018 (UTC)

Merge Majin Tensei (Q42893863) to Majin Tensei (Q601336) failed

This one failed with:

Error while "이 항목과 병합할 다른 항목: Q601336": Attempted modification of the item failed.

Please report above error here with source and destination of merge.

Korean is "other item to merge".

Thanks for the investigation. — regards, Revi 16:25, 7 May 2018 (UTC)

I went ahead and moved the sitelinkfrom 42893863 to 601336, but I would like to create a redirect. — regards, Revi 16:26, 7 May 2018 (UTC)

Majin Tensei (Q601336) seems to be wrong, then. Sitelinks (at least enwiki) contain articles about series, whereas the item is about a video game (per instance of (P31)). Matěj Suchánek (talk) 18:29, 7 May 2018 (UTC)

It would be incorrect to create a redirect. I've moved all of the links to the series item since they all appear to cover the series rather than the particular (first) game. --Izno (talk) 03:04, 8 May 2018 (UTC)

Q14210792 into Q5069658

failed, is redirect on Wikipedia --Traveler100 (talk) 06:58, 8 May 2018 (UTC)

 Not done The items are connected to each other with has part(s) (P527)/part of (P361). Moreover, I can see different data in both items. Matěj Suchánek (talk) 08:04, 8 May 2018 (UTC)

Failed merge

Q27980709 and Q767003. Ary29 (talk) 07:14, 8 May 2018 (UTC)

@JavierCantero: Can you explain why you have added has part(s) (P527) in Q767003? --ValterVB (talk) 11:20, 8 May 2018 (UTC)

@ValterVB: Q767003 is an anthology book (a collection of stories), which contains among others the one titled Q27980709 (winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novella in 1994) --JavierCantero (talk) 17:51, 8 May 2018 (UTC)

@JavierCantero:}} Thanks, @Ary29: I have moved Italian sitelink from Q767003 to Q27980709, I think that Italian page is about the novella not the book. --ValterVB (talk) 18:39, 8 May 2018 (UTC)

Q34918903 into Q5408678

failed --Traveler100 (talk) 16:02, 7 May 2018 (UTC)

 Not done. They have separate articles in the en, es, & nl Wikipedias. -- -- -- 21:31, 11 May 2018 (UTC)

Q14924981 to Q4242054

failed --Traveler100 (talk) 17:55, 11 May 2018 (UTC)

The first is a disambiguation, the second no. --ValterVB (talk) 19:15, 11 May 2018 (UTC)

Failed merge

I'm trying to merge Q6065231 and Q46139331 since it's the same work but I keep getting an error message asking me to report the problem here. Thanks! Loenstock (talk) 18:30, 21 May 2018 (UTC)

Ipomadon (Q46139331) is a translation of Ipomadon (Q6065231), which makes them not being the same. Mbch331 (talk) 19:15, 21 May 2018 (UTC)

Failed merge

Between Q17646569 and Q2524183 (Framlingham Castle). Kelly (talk) 15:50, 22 May 2018 (UTC)

I see that Q2524183 is part of Q17646569 so probably they aren't the same. --ValterVB (talk) 18:50, 22 May 2018 (UTC)

Better error message

Currently the script says “Please report above error here with source and destination of merge.”. But in most cases, it’s not an error in the gadget itself, but the merge is not allowed. I suggest modifying the error message to for example “If you believe it’s a software error, please report it here with source and destination of merge.” —Tacsipacsi (talk) 14:21, 7 April 2018 (UTC)

Apparently is done now. Thanks! −ebrahim^talk 20:52, 23 May 2018 (UTC)