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Duplicate Articles

New Feature Addition · Articles & templates · Created by JeniferToksvig
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duplicate template articles article duplication

What functionality is missing? What is unsatisfying with the current situation?

Adding a new interconnected group of characters, eg: a family, means filling out every tag and family crest header and town they live in and so on. Likewise buildings in the same town, divisions in the same army, and so on.  

How does this feature request address the current situation?

Being able to create one 'template' article for the whole family and then duplicate it would save a ton of time, and ensure fewer things get missed out in some of the connected articles.  

What are other uses for this feature request?

More extensive revisions of articles could more easily be done by leaving the current version public, duplicating a private version, making the edits and then replacing the 'live' article with the revised one. This would allow for an easier way to make substantial changes after major played events like wars have a big impact on locations and communities.

The Team's Response

this has been previously discussed and answered.
Current score

6/300 Votes · +720 points

Votes Cast

  • -300

    by SoulLink
    on 2022-04-10 18:59
    Instead of adding cloning I'd rather see a better template system for this.
  • +10

    by A Glamorous Kitten
    on 2022-04-10 14:34
    I believe this is an already accepted feature for research by developers.   Clone Articles
  • +200

    by A Enfeebled Cthulhu
    on 2022-04-10 14:09
  • +200

    by Gills Guild
    on 2022-04-10 13:38
  • +10

    by VariableX
    on 2022-04-10 13:10
    I like the idea of being able to easily replace articles, but we can already make templates: https://blog.worldanvil.com/2019/12/07/custom-article-templates-what-are-they-and-how-can-they-help-you/
  • +300

    by cmmebstd
    on 2022-04-10 11:49
  • +300

    by JeniferToksvig
    on 2022-04-10 11:35