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How about the acknowledgment of the contributions of the people who drafted this article before it was split off from Eighty Years' War?

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I recognised a lot in this article from the draft of Eighty Years' War I first contributed in 2009. However, when I checked the "View History" pages I couldn't find anything before July 2022. It used to be good practice when splitting or merging articles to preserve the preceding "View history" page. I would appreciate it if this was rectified. And not just on my own behalf. --Ereunetes (talk) 21:29, 31 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Ereunetes: WP:Copying within Wikipedia applies. It is important to note that the first revision of this new article includes a hyperlink to the original Eighty Years' War, and that explanation seems enough (to me) to count for the attribution which is required when copying.
Ordinary editors cannot preserve the revision history of an article. Nobody can duplicate revision histories, it would be a quite undesirable database inconsistency. So nobody will comply with your request to duplicate those revisions in a technical sense. We can only provide an explanation of the WP:Content fork and a pointer to the original source. Elizium23 (talk) 21:58, 31 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Well, I have followed the trail you indicated, and I now see the Error of My Ways: it is indeed possible to find the original revision history. But it is a long and convoluted path. Without your help I would never have found it. And I am sure only someone well-versed in the Ways of the Wiki would have suspected that there even was a previous revision-history, and would have been able to discover it unaided. Thanks so much! I am only glad I now limit my contributions to the absolute minimum.--Ereunetes (talk) 22:25, 31 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry that I return once more to the subject. When I looked at Talk:Eighty Years' War I found this useful box at the top of that page :

I wouldn't dare put that box myself at the top of this page. Heaven forbid that I broke something. But I have to admit that if something like this had been on this page, you wouldn't have heard a peep out of me.--Ereunetes (talk) 22:50, 31 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]