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- Draft:New Ryan Field → Ryan Field (2026) – publishing as article, keeping draft history. Merging current version with draft started earlier (from which much of the existing article , recently published, seems to have taken its content). SecretName101 (talk) 03:37, 5 February 2026 (UTC)
Admitedly, attribution is not my area of expertise, but why can't you just edit the article that's already there? 162 etc. (talk) 04:45, 5 February 2026 (UTC)
@162 etc. no. The correct thing is to move a draft to the article space to preserve the earliest edit history.
the editor who recently published directly in the article space instead of doing this was errant. SecretName101 (talk) 04:48, 5 February 2026 (UTC)
In fact, those without permissions to overwrite are given a standard warning to request a move, being warned, “ Do not manually move the article by copying and pasting it; the page history must be moved along with the article” SecretName101 (talk) 04:51, 5 February 2026 (UTC)
Moving this to admin section; will defer to somebody experienced in WP:HISTMERGE. I've already made some edits to the article in question. 162 etc. (talk) 04:54, 5 February 2026 (UTC)
Maybe I'm missing something, but it looks to me like Ryan Field (2026) was copied directly from the mainspace article now at Ryan Field (1926) (permalink) rather than Draft:New Ryan Field. In that case a dummy edit for attribution would make more sense than a histmerge. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 07:12, 7 February 2026 (UTC)
Agreed. Unless I'm also missing something, running Special:ComparePages on the draft and the new article doesn't reveal any obvious similarities that couldn't be explained by copying from the (1926) article. I think this should just be a normal merge, as the first reply proposes. Rotideypoc41352 (talk · contribs) 03:00, 8 February 2026 (UTC)
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