User talk:Qalb alasid

San Francisco fentanyl crisis and California Opioid Crisis

No one asked you to merge San Francisco fentanyl crisis and California Opioid Crisis. How did this idea cross your mind? I've looked at your edit history. Really sus. You only edit South Asian-related articles and now you randomly merge two obscure articles about drug deaths in California. Are you being paid? Did someone in the SF government pay you for them to use your account? Alexysun (talk) 09:04, 20 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Let me answer your questions:

1. "How did this idea cross your mind?" - It didn't. It was a backlogged merge proposal since April 2024 [1]; I regularly help close backlogged mergers. Someone didn't do their homework well enough.

2. "Are you being paid?" - Unfortunately, no. But that would be cool wouldn't it?

3. "Did someone in the SF government pay you for them to use your account?" - See question 2.

Next time, do your due diligence a bit better before coming at an editor. Thanks! Qalb alasid (talk) 22:41, 21 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You're not moving...

...you're copying and pasting. Please don't do that. Drmies (talk) 00:55, 2 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Drmies...the instructions found here, quite literally, says to copy-paste [2]. How do you propose the move should be done then? Qalb alasid (talk) 00:56, 2 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

That's merging. Drmies (talk) 00:59, 2 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yes there's a discussion on it, there is opposition to merge. I'm closing the discussion. Thanks.Qalb alasid (talk) 01:02, 2 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

OK where is the discussion, and the consensus, please? Drmies (talk) 01:04, 2 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Well I misspoke, the result is to merge. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Amman_Citadel

OK--you can revert me, but what you have to do is point at the diff of the merge closure in your edit summaries, and explain there was a discussion, so we can trace it back if we need to. Drmies (talk) 01:07, 2 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

For that matter, though, my understanding is that we don't actually copy over the contents of one talk page to another ([3], [4]); we merely tag them and move relevant templates, from what I see at WP:MERGETEXT. Am I wrong, @Drmies?

@Qalb alasid: thanks for the work so far! Let me know if you want any help with the remaining merge process; I had forgotten about the merge proposal but I have time to help now, as needed.

Thanks all, R Prazeres (talk) 02:01, 3 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@R Prazeres - you are correct, we can remove the talk page copy-paste. Thank you for catching that. Qalb alasid (talk) 02:07, 3 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]