User talk:Jenks24

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Ikshvaku

Jenks24, the editor who requested that move has been topic banned for this sort of disruption. He had started a discussion at Talk:Ikshvaku dynasty which confused many articles and none of the participating editors were any the wiser. In the midst of it all he had moved some of the pages and then opened this discussion unnoticed. Some of those were reverted but this one apparently wasn't. I'm uninvolved and have been assisting in clean up of this mess (in addition to being involved in placing the AE topic ban). Could you please unclose the move and revert it pending a clean up discussion involving all the articles? cheers. —SpacemanSpiff 08:45, 13 October 2015 (UTC)

I've undone the close and given it a relist. Feel free to weigh in at the discussion there, as you've noted it was only closed as moved because no one had participated bar the nominator. Jenks24 (talk) 08:52, 13 October 2015 (UTC)

Thanks, I have no real opinion on the subject, just the issue of one editor causing so much work for others. I'll leave a note on the other talk page asking them to discuss the move. cheers. —SpacemanSpiff 08:58, 13 October 2015 (UTC)

Restarter

Do you object to resubmitting this RM as a multimove? In ictu oculi (talk) 05:22, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

No, that should be fine, it's been a long enough amount of time considering the last ended as no consensus and I assume this one will have a slightly different proposed outcome. By the way, any idea what happened in this diff? Jenks24 (talk) 10:01, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

Odd. Could be a keyboard code glitsch. Have been using non-Roman fonts on a touch sensitive mouse today. But haven't seen anything like that before. In ictu oculi (talk) 12:37, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

No worries. Like you I hadn't quite seen anything like it before. Jenks24 (talk) 15:56, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

I backtested today, and am now guessing it appears to have been caused by a coding on a non-Windows Sinhalese font. In ictu oculi (talk) 11:42, 16 October 2015 (UTC)

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Purpose (Justin Bieber album)

Hi Jenks, regarding your deletion of some of the entries at Purpose (Justin Bieber album). I've never seen that done before as the history may still need to be accessed at some point (whether it's a conduct issue or not). So I'm interested in your reasoning? Thanks, Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 11:21, 18 October 2015 (UTC)

It's junk history that can't be in the 'main' history because it would cause parallel histories and make the history pretty much unintelligible. Because it's basically fiddling with redirects and reverts to an old page history I judged it unimportant to keep visible. In histmerge cases if it's just a couple of edits like this they are almost always kept deleted, but when it gets a lot more they are sometimes moved out to a separate page, e.g. Talk:Purpose (Justin Bieber album)/other history (generally in the talk namespace because article subpages tend to get deleted eventually). That's something that can still be done in this case if you think it would be in any way beneficial and arguably the 14 edits here are above the arbitrary 'just a few' threshold. As ever with histmerge questions, I'll ping the guru Graham87 to see if he has anything to add. Cheers, Jenks24 (talk) 12:09, 18 October 2015 (UTC)

I agree with what you did here. I don't see the point of moving the edits to a talk subpage because they aren't significant enough to preserve, and none of their content was merged into the main article. Graham87 12:24, 18 October 2015 (UTC)