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Merging items

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Hallo Volgar,

When you are merging items, please use the Merge.js gadget. It helps you nominating, gives the option to always keep the lower number (which is older, so preferable) and makes it a lot easier for the admins to process the requests.

With regards, -      - (Cycn/talk) 12:14, 11 December 2013 (UTC)Reply

merge.js and capitalization issues

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Hi! Please see https://www.wikidata.org/?title=Q155076&diff=next&oldid=118850087 . I never use merge.js . Please report a bug regarding capitalizations. merge.js should not overwrite lowercase spellings with uppercase spellings. Regards gangLeri לערי ריינהארט (talk) 22:09, 7 April 2014 (UTC)Reply

It looks like capitalization of other links is rather arbitrary but does it actually matter? I thought article names are case-insensitive in Wikipedia. —Volgar (talk) 07:43, 8 April 2014 (UTC)Reply
I spend a lot of time fixing these issues. Correct spelling is a main part of any language. Nouns are starting with capitals mainly in German and its dialects; the remaining languages - these are 98% of all languages - use lowercase letters for nouns. Regards gangLeri לערי ריינהארט (talk) 05:16, 9 April 2014 (UTC)Reply