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Rejected requests December 2020

This was a previously declined request due to parallel histories. You then repurposed your draft to be about something entirely different. If you wish your draft to be about Flashdance the Willow history has to be terminated. And due to the parallel histories the options are either just delete the Willow history from Flashdance or recreate it. Rusted AutoParts 00:04, 2 December 2020 (UTC)
Upon closer inspection, the first edits on the draft from September, it began as a beginning to be about somewhere in China. You can’t make a draft about one thing, then go on to repurpose it later on. The draft should be reverted back to whatever you intended it to be in the first place and all non related history be deleted. Rusted AutoParts 00:14, 2 December 2020 (UTC)
 Not done. I have to agree with Anthony on this one (see further below): there are parallel histories and there's no clear indication that any thing was a true "copy/paste" move. That being said, I have deleted the older revisions of the Flashdance page so that the China and Willow histories are no longer present. Primefac (talk) 00:29, 2 December 2020 (UTC)

Rejected requests November 2020

@Anthony Appleyard: and in another six months, the draft is going to be G13'd again (there's pretty much nothing else that could happen) and will be gone. I'm probably being dense here, but to my understanding the aim is to be able to trace a given edit (i.e. the material I moved from the draft to the article) to the original author (the person who wrote the draft). That won't be possible anymore then. If that is either not required or can't be reasonably achieved by history manipulation - I'm unsure which is the case here - then fine by me! --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 13:44, 26 November 2020 (UTC)
@Anthony Appleyard: Huh. Is that something we do - having oddly named redirects in mainspace to preserve authorship? If necessary, I'll do that, but you make it sound as if it's optional. I gather the preservation of exact attribution is not as big a necessity here as I thought. Since you've been working in this area since forever, best tell me what you think is the standard approach here, and let's go with that :) --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 14:32, 26 November 2020 (UTC)
I'm shifting this down here because I fully agree with Anthony that merging is not really feasible here. I have redirected the draft to the article as a duplicate (putting {{r with history}} to indicate there is attribution to conserve). On the whole, though, I think this requestion for merging can be considered  Not done. Primefac (talk) 15:37, 26 November 2020 (UTC)
And for what it's worth, I disagree with the idea of creating some poorly-named redirect in the article space; draft space redirects work just fine. Primefac (talk) 15:38, 26 November 2020 (UTC)
Aah, {{R with history}}. Thanks! --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 16:07, 26 November 2020 (UTC)

Rejected requests October 2020

I object to this, the pages have parallel histories. The Willow (TV series) page may have existed earlier, but it existed in the wrong location, as it does not have a set title (calling it just Willow would be inaccurate). Rusted AutoParts 18:16, 21 October 2020 (UTC)
It was a temp name that I used. At the very least credit me with the edits. Starzoner (talk) 18:33, 21 October 2020 (UTC)
But I didn’t copy and paste anything from your version, I discovered it after I created the untitled one. Rusted AutoParts 18:43, 21 October 2020 (UTC)
@Starzoner:  Not done WP:Parallel histories Anthony Appleyard (talk) 22:11, 21 October 2020 (UTC)

Rejected requests September 2020

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