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This page is intended to inform briefly about how to '''split and merge''' articles.
== Licencing requirements ==
Contributors to the SDIY wiki are not asked to surrender their copyright to the material they contribute. Instead, they are required to co-license their contributions under the copyleft license [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License] (CC-BY-SA). This licenses allow reuse and modification, but reserves the right to attribution.<ref>
== Splitting articles ==
Splitting is a manual process by which the contents of a page are split into two or more pages. There are two main reasons for splitting content: size and content relevance. For uncontroversial splits, no permission is needed to split; just do it. If unsure, start a discussion on the talkpage.<ref>Wikipedia:[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Splitting#Procedure Splitting]</ref>
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This is to indicate where the CC-BY-SA attribution to the contributors can be found. Notes also need to be put in edit summaries of both articles, eg. Split to <nowiki>[[destination article name]]</nowiki> and Split from <nowiki>[[source article name]]</nowiki>.
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A merging of articles is a manual process, cut and pasting text from one article into another.<ref name="whm">Wikipedia:[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Merging Help:Merging]</ref>
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In the talk page of the destination article insert the ''merge from'' template, ie. <nowiki>{{Merge from|page=[[source]]|date=dd Month yyyy}}</nowiki>.
=== Article history ===
If the two pages have separate parallel histories before they were merged, they should '''not''' be history-merged, as that would shuffle the parallel editing histories together into one and make a mess.<ref>Wikipedia:[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_fix_cut-and-paste_moves#Parallel_versions How to fix cut and paste moves]</ref>
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*[[Help:Reusing content from other wikis]]
== References ==
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*Wikipedia:[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Splitting Help:Splitting]
*Wikipedia:[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Merging Help:Merging]
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