Vicipaedia:Movere

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[recensere] Moving pages

  • Please do not simply blank a page when - in fact - you want to rename it.
  • Please do not copy a page when - in fact - you want to rename it.
  • Please do not mark a page for deletion (with {{delenda}}) when you could also use #REDIRECT [[target page]]. See Vicipaedia:Redirectio.

If you want to rename a page "A" to "B", you can "move" the page:

If you think, the content of page "A" should get the title "B", go to page "A" and click on "movere" (one of the buttons on top of a page). (You need to register or open an account before you can see the "movere" tab.) Then you will be asked for the new title for the content (here "B") and you should provide a reason for the movement.

Moving will do the following:

  1. It creates a page "B" with the content of "A", including its entire page history (all previous edits and their respective authors)
  2. It creates a new page at "A" with just the content "#REDIRECT [[B]]"
  3. If there exists a talk page of "A" it moves the content to the talk page of "B" and leaves a redirect on the talk page of "A".

It is usually not a good idea to do this manually (to create a new page "B" and to copy the content from "A" to "B"): That way, the page history (the previous edits and their respective authors) remains at "A", and people looking at "B" will not see the names of the authors that contributed to the content. Your move would most probably constitute a violation of the GFDL, which requires attribution to authors.

A moved page can be moved again, so moving is – technically – not a dangerous action. However, if you think the community will not like the new title, it is a good idea to ask before moving the page. If you think the move is ok … just do it.

[recensere] Needed rights for moving a page

Any logged-in user can move pages, this needs no administration rights.

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