Talk:Hammer Films

I think you've done this wrong way round. It's not that I don't think "Hammer films" is a less appropriate title, but the vast majority of the editing was done on Hammer Horror - and after this change the edit history is now hidden away on a redir page. Merge the smaller hammer films article into the larger hammer horror and redirect it. We can always get an admin to sort out the naming if really necessary. - Motor (talk) 13:20:54, 2005-08-19 (UTC)


 * Good point - I didn't really think of the edit history when I made the move. How do we approach an admin to do this? (I'm not an experience Wikipedian...)Rayray 13:25, 19 August 2005 (UTC)


 * Start by undoing your recent edits... then merge the information from Hammer Films into the Hammer Horror article. Once you've done that and everyone is satisfied that we've covered everything and haven't lost any useful info from this article (we have a consensus in other words), edit Hammer Films to be a redirect to Hammer Horror (the other way around from what you've done here) and then we'll put Hammer Films up for speedy deletion and explain why (I'll do that if you want). Once Hammer Films has been deleted by an admin, we'll move Hammer Horror (with the move page options, which preserves the edit history and talk page) to Hammer Films. Let me know if I haven't been clear enough. BTW: The consensus is important... as someone in the edit history of Hammer Films notes... horror wasn't the only notable output of Hammer. So the Hammer Horror article will need work to be a more general one... and, of course, we'll need to ensure that people know the purpose of all this. - Motor (talk)


 * OK. I've reverted, merged Hammer Films into Hammer Horror and redirected Hammer Films. Phew. Grateful if you can check I've done everything properly.Rayray 14:25, 19 August 2005 (UTC)


 * It looks fine -- though you might want to make one more edit to Hammer Films (add a space or something) so that you can note in the edit history that anyone thinking of reverting the changes should read the talk page about the eventual page move and lodge any objections. Then, we'll wait a couple of days to see if anyone objects, and then put Hammer Films up for speedy deletion and do the move. - Motor (talk) 14:34:32, 2005-08-19 (UTC)

Speedy del request for Hammer Film Productions
Hammer Horror, Hammer Films, Hammer Film Productions Ltd. -- all deal with essentially the same subject. Only Hammer Horror has an appreciable edit history and so that is the one we plan to merge all the information into, but its name no longer accurately represents it. Hence the need to move it to: Hammer Film Productions -- which at present is just (and has only ever been) a redir page to Hammer Horror. Motor (talk) 18:31:41, 2005-08-19 (UTC)

Double redirects
Please note Special:Whatlinkshere/Hammer horror. All these articles need speedy fixing because Hammer horror is now a double redirect. -- RHaworth 13:24:23, 2005-08-20 (UTC)
 * Only Hammer horror needed fixing to avoid redirecting to Hammer Horror - it now goes direct to Hammer Film Productions. - Motor (talk) 13:46:51, 2005-08-20 (UTC)