Gerda Arendt

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--Ymblanter (talk) 14:03, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

Babel

As discussed, I've added a "Babel" box to your user page. Please remove it if you don't want it; or change/ add the languages and levels, per meta:User_language. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:30, 18 April 2015 (UTC)

How to Merge

Hello, Gerda Arendt, and thank you for your deletion request.

However, it was an easy merge, and below I will explain a merge.

What is a merge

A merge is when you copy all of the information from the first item and send it to the second item, deleting anything that is conflicting, such as exact duplicates. Then, the first item is cleared, and made into a redirect (if doing automatically).

How to merge

1. Use Special:MergeItems. Comes with the Wikidata (Wikibase) software, but will cancel if interwiki conflicts are found
2. Use MediaWiki:Gadget-Merge.js. This is the preferred method of merging. Enable at your Preferences.
3. Use the QuickStatements (Q20084080) tool, semi-automatically
4. Do it manually.

Thank you, --VIGNERON (talk) 12:46, 10 October 2019 (UTC).

VIGNERON, there is nothing to merge, the second item has no info we need. I requested redirect, not deletion. Can I do that? I am not familiar enough with wikidata. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:12, 10 October 2019 (UTC)

Just do a merge! There is obviously a lot of information in the second item (Flanders Arts Institute person ID (P5068) for a start) and even if there is no information to merge, a merge is still the way to go.

Cdlt, VIGNERON (talk) 13:14, 10 October 2019 (UTC)

Sorry, I am short on time right now (RL), and if I don't do it now I will forget. --

I did it for you this time, but you should really learn how to do it yourself, especially if you are short on time : with the gadget it take less than five second to merge items. Cheers, VIGNERON (talk) 13:30, 10 October 2019 (UTC)

Thank you! If it takes less than 5 seconds, you can do it a few 100 times during the many minutes it would take me to install the gadget and learn enough to be sure I do it correctly. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:32, 10 October 2019 (UTC)

Well, on short term maybe but on the long run it best if you know how to do it yourself.

In case you're interested : for the installation, it's really just 3 clicks : Special:Preferences#Gadgets then click on the first box to activate the gadget Merge and then save and that's done. Then, when you are on an item you want to merge, just click on the Merge tab and give the ID of the other item you want to merge. Again, that's quite straightforward. The hardest part is to find items to merge, and you already do it.

Cheers, VIGNERON (talk) 14:58, 10 October 2019 (UTC)