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I'm mostly active on the English Wikipedia, so it's best to get in touch via my en WP talk page if anything arises. Schwede66 (talk) 23:05, 9 December 2017 (UTC)

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Wikidata merges edit

How to deal with merges of items that are duplicated on Wikidata? Take the example of Karamea River.

  • Main item at Q1718641; one of the duplicates is at Q32234207
  • For the duplicated, remove the ceb Wikipedia article:
  • click 'edit'
  • hit the 'rubbish bin' to remove the ceb Wikipedia article
  • click 'publish' so that these actions save
  • note that the unlinked ceb article will at some point be deleted; they are all useless bot-generated stubs
  • Now remove other unwanted data fields (so that during the merge this doesn't overwrite wanted data):
  • Description (edit, delete the English description, publish)
  • coordinate location (edit, remove)
  • elevation above sea level (edit, remove)
  • Now copy the QID (in this case Q32234207)
  • Go to the main item and execute the merge:
  • More
  • Merge with...
  • Paste the QID from the internal memory into the field 'Merge with' and check all the options available
  • Click 'Merge'

That's now done. Repeat with any other duplicates that exist for this item.

The process is slightly different for mountains. Let me know whether I should document that, too.