i understand that you were obviously trying to do the right thing but in this case i would have advised against attempting to do the merge yourself solely on the basis of the need for a history merge due to multiple editors contributing to the article the best way to handle these kind of moves is through the cut and paste move repair holding pen i've listed in using the appropriate places and the admin staff will get to it in due course to make sure it's done properly the big issue here is about acknowledging contributions in accordance with the gfdl and there was a big blow up on this problem played out at wp bjaodn in the last few months which was fully written up on wp signpost with articles containing only you're own text a c p is fine to do but where others are involved there contribs need to be acknowledged so it's best left to the admins to take the appropriate action cheers talk