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Secretary of State for International Trade histmerge request[edit]
Completed discussion accompanying recent page moves / history splits & merges, moved to here for record.
A cut and past move repair needs to be carried out for Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and Secretary of State for International Trade. Jdforrester deleted the original Secretary of State for International Trade article and then moved the the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy to Secretary of State for International Trade. He then incorrectly created a new Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy page. The page current entitled Secretary of State for International Trade needs to be moved back to Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and restored to this version. I don't know if its possible to get the history of the original Secretary of State for International Trade article back but if it isn't then then it will need to be recreated from scratch as the content on the 'new version' of that page is also incorrect. Ebonelm (talk) 20:15, 22 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
@Anthony Appleyard:, exactly thats the problem. All that history belongs to Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. He has erased the original history of the Secretary of State for International Trade page and replaced it with the history which should belong to Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. Ebonelm (talk) 22:46, 22 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
01:34, 11 July 2016: Up to here the page gradually lengthens to 49,842 bytes.
19:23, 13 July 2016: Overwritten by 90.202.12.165 with new short page about "Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for International Trade (International Trade Secretary)".
20:52, 13 July 2016: Reverted to the full long text by 86.135.5.172 .
21:36, 13 July 2016: Overwritten by 81.100.202.214 with a short page about "Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for International Trade (International Trade Secretary)".
14:15, 14 July 2016: Reverted to full long text, about "Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, commonly known as the Business Secretary".
06:08, 15 July 2016: Start of a series of alternating periods of the full-length article and very short texts.
This may be the result of an edit war, or it may be the result of an unwise history-merge (not by me) between two pages with WP:Parallel histories.
@Ebonelm: From Secretary of State for International Trade, I have extracted all the intruding very short edits and moved them to Secretary of State for International Trade/short edits. Sampling through shows they seem to be about "Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for International Trade (International Trade Secretary)".
I presume that Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills is Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.