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{{Short description|Wikipedia information page}} {{Infopage|WP:MERGE}} {{broader|Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia}} {{for|the WikiProject|Wikipedia:WikiProject Merge}} {{Distinguish|text=[[Wikipedia:History merging|page history merging]] which only administrators and importers can do}} {{Redirect2|WP:DA|WP:Duplicate article|articles with duplicated content|WP:Content forks|the list of articles that have not been edited in the longest time|Wikipedia:Database reports/Forgotten articles}} {{pp-semi-indef}} A '''merge''', or '''merger''', is the process of uniting two or more pages into a single page. It is done by copying some or all content from the source page(s) into the destination page and then replacing the source page with a [[Wikipedia:Redirect|redirect]] to the destination page. Any editor can perform a merge. No permission or discussion is needed if you think the merge is uncontroversial; [[WP:DOIT|just do it]] (but it might get reverted). Otherwise, the merge should be first proposed and discussed, as detailed below. When performing a merge, one should remember to reconcile talk pages, and to attribute copied content, as [[Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia#Attribution is required for copyright|required by Wikipedia's license]]. At minimum, this means adding words "''Merged content to/from <nowiki>[[page]]</nowiki>''" to [[Help:Edit summary|edit summaries]]. See [[#How to merge|How to merge]] below for details.
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