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== Moving a subsection of an article: creating a new topic == Apologies of this is covered elsewhere, but I haven't been able to find anything about this issue so far: the entry on "hermeneutics" has a subsection on "biblical hermeneutics". I would like to move that subsection out of the 'hermeneutics' article and create a new article on 'biblical hermeneutics', building on the existing material. (The German wikipedia does that as well.) So how do I do that? And is it fair to the original writers? --[[User:Szessi|Szessi]] 17:24, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC) :This is usually done when the article the section belongs to becomes too large. If you want to do it, be sure to summarize the section and leave a link saying <nowiki>"Main article: [[Biblical hermeneutics]]"</nowiki> at the top of the summarized section. Be sure to inform others on the talk page before you do it and do some expansion if you can after the move. [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm]]|<sup>[[User talk:MacGyverMagic|(talk)]]</sup> 09:27, Dec 22, 2004 (UTC) ::It's worth adding that there is no ''technical feature'' for this specific task, since "subsections" don't really exist as far as [[MediaWiki|the software]]'s concerned. To make sure the earlier editors of the section get due credit, it is recommended that you make prominent mentions of what you've done (linking to the other article) in the [[Help:edit summary|summaries of your edits]] and on the associated [[Help:talk page|talk page]]s (particularly that of the new page); that way people know to look up the history of the ''old'' page, as well the ''new'' one. ::In other words, just start the article, but leave lots of pointers to where you got the original content. - [[User:IMSoP|IMSoP]] 21:19, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)
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