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| Meant the main page. I've been doing the same for all the map talk pages. But thanks anyway, man. {{User:Misanthropy/Sig}} 23:26, 12 March 2010 (UTC) | | Meant the main page. I've been doing the same for all the map talk pages. But thanks anyway, man. {{User:Misanthropy/Sig}} 23:26, 12 March 2010 (UTC) |
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| == The art of the Demerge ==
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| Demerging pages in concept is simple; first, you divert as many incoming links as possible, then transfer the information to the individual pages. Of course, this is all pretty obvious, and not what you were looking for.
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| Anyways, I try to follow a process when doing this:
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| #Open the page you want to demerge.
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| #Open another tab to the "what links here" page. This will be your main work page.
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| #Type the page name in the "find" field (ctrl+f) and go down the links list, finding and removing any incoming links.
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| #*Example: you find a link to <nowiki>[[Suburb Schools#Apple School|Apple School]]</nowiki>. Shorten it to <nowiki>[[Apple School]]</nowiki>
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| #*Be careful when shortening; if the page's name is <nowiki>[[Suburb Schools#Apple School (Suburb)|Apple School]]</nowiki> and you reduce it to <nowiki>[[Apple School]]</nowiki>, you'll create a red link or disambiguation link- it must be named <nowiki>[[Apple School (Suburb)|Apple School]]</nowiki>. This is mainly a problem for multi-location names, coordinate locations, and those with "St/St." in them. If you are in doubt, just drop the "Suburb Schools#" piece.
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| #*Some links are written with underscores (like_this) instead of spaces. If a location is still showing up on the "what links here" list after de-linking, try replacing some of the spaces in your find field with underscores.
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| #there is not much you can do about user page or protected pages. If it's a matter of redirecting a link to an individual location then that's fine, but links referencing the page's creation/existence/deletion are best left alone or unlinked (In these cases I'll either leave it as a red link or replace the brackets with '''bold text''').
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| Once you have corrected all redirects and links, it is time to move onto the actual demerge.
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| #Click on one of the locations on the "What links here list".
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| #Copy the locationblock and information about the building from the merged page to the individual.
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| # Replace <nowiki>{{Locationblockmerge|</nowiki> with:
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| #:<nowiki>{{Locationblock|</nowiki><br>
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| #:<nowiki>location_type=Locationtypehere|</nowiki>
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| #Add a lv. 3 header (<nowiki>===header===</nowiki>) for Description, History, Barricade Plan, and Current Events if necessary.
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| #Put the following categories on the bottom of the page (don't use the stub template if the page is somehow acceptable):
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| #:<nowiki><br style="clear: both" /></nowiki>
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| #:<nowiki>----</nowiki>
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| #:<nowiki>{{locations-stub}}</nowiki>
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| #:<nowiki>[[Category:Building Type]]</nowiki>
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| #:<nowiki>[[Category:Suburb]]</nowiki>
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| #Tidy up any leftover junk and move onto the next location.
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| #Once you are done, the "what links here" page should only have a few User: or administrative pages left, if anything. Put the merged location page and any extraneous redirects up on [[A/SD]] and move on.
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| While most people aim at taking these on suburb by suburb, I've found that demerging by location type involves fewer variables. I recommend you find or create a page (like I did [[User:Red Hawk One/Sandbox|here]]) to store some of the common coding, as this can get extremely repetitive.
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| Good luck! You'll need it.
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| --{{:User:Red Hawk One/sig}} 23:08, 13 March 2010 (UTC)
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