Talk:Q209515

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description: Middle Eastern folk tale; one of the best-known tales associated with The Book of One Thousand and One Nights (The Arabian Nights), despite not being part of the original text
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Please facilitate merge with Wikidata item on same topic (by merging foreign-language articles).

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This item should be merged with the Wikidata item "Aladdin" (Q15605357).

Ostensibly, one of them is about the Middle-Eastern folk tale, while the other deals with the protagonist of that tale. In reality, some of the foreign-language articles collected under the label of the tale are stylized as to be about the protagonist and vice versa.

More importantly, the difference between the two is not as large as to merit two articles; a person occurring in just one tale could be dealt with in the article about that tale. This is reflected in the fact that only 2 out of the 53 different-language Wikipedias containing articles about one or the other (tale or protagonist) actually seem to contain separate articles for the two.

Unfortunately, two Wikipedias – Italian and Basque – actually contain separate articles about tale and protagonist. This made me unable to merge the two items. Therefore: could anyone active on the Basque and/or Italian Wikipedia please institute a merge of the respective two articles, so that a merge of the Wikidata items can subsequently be performed.

See talk at Talk:Q15605357 - Valentina.Anitnelav (talk) 08:02, 22 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]