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Moving a page means giving the page another name. The page history is then attached to a new name. Another page with the old name is created and automatically redirects to the new name. Pages in the file or category namespace cannot be moved. To change the name of a file, one needs to upload it again, and copy the file description. To change the name of a category, one needs to change all category tags, and copy the editable part.

Reasons for moving a page
There are several reasons why you might wish to rename a page:
 * The title has been misspelled
 * The title does not follow the Wikipedia's naming conventions
 * The scope of the article has been reduced, extended or otherwise changed
 * A Talk page may be moved as one of the methods of archiving discussion (see Help:Archiving a talk page)

Before moving a page
In several cases, you should list pages that you want to have renamed/moved at Requested moves, especially: In these cases, follow the instructions at Requested moves.
 * if you are unable to move the page because your account is too new (the account must be autoconfirmed)
 * if you are unable to move the page because the target page exists (and you need administrator help)
 * if you believe the move might be controversial
 * if you are unsure about the best page name

Do not move or rename a page by copying/pasting its content, because doing so destroys the edit history. (The GFDL requires acknowledgement of all contributors, and editors continue to hold copyright on their contributions unless they specifically give up this right. Hence it is required that edit histories be preserved for all major contributions until the normal copyright expires.)

If you find a cut-and-paste move that needs to be fixed, please follow the instructions at Cut and paste move repair holding pen to have an administrator take care of the problem.

If you need administrator help in a simple pagemove situation which is blocked by history at the target of the move, the easiest way is to tag the page that needs to be deleted to make way for the move (the target) with.

How to move a page
Note that in order to be able to move pages yourself, you must be logged in and you must have an autoconfirmed account (i.e. you must have had the account for four days and made at least ten article edits with it). Moreover the move will fail if a page already exists at the target name, unless it is simply a redirect to the present name that has never been modified (check the edit history).

The steps for moving a page are as follows:
 * 1) With the correct page displayed, click on the "move" tab near the top of the page (in default Monobook skin). You'll be asked for a new name for the page, and given the option to also move the page's talk page (this box should usually be left checked). Complete the "Reason for move" field (which is like an edit summary).
 * 2) When ready, click the move button and, if successful, the page will be renamed to the new title. The old title will become a redirect page, so any links to the old title will still go to the new page. However, note that double redirects (pages that redirect to the original page), will not automatically follow to the new page, so you will have to refer them manually (as explained at How to fix a double redirect and Checking for double redirects).
 * 3) After a successful page move, a page looking like this will be shown: MediaWiki:Movepage-moved.
 * 4) Open the what-links-here for that page (there may be a shortcut link on the page-moved summary screen to let you do this, but the what-links-here link will in any case be in the toolbox, which is near the bottom of the sidebar unless you've customized your skin away from the default Monobook).
 * 5) Open all redirect pages that are indented in the list, and make them redirect to the page you moved to (that is, without intermediate step). If you miss any out, they will be fixed by a bot shortly afterwards.
 * 6) If there are more than 50 pages listed on the "what links here" page, don't forget to navigate to all parts of the list using the "next 50" or other links available.
 * 7) Since the article name is reflected in the lead section, that section may need to be updated to be consistent with the new name.

Page histories
The "move page" function keeps the entire edit history of the page before and after the move in one place, as if the page had always been named that way.

The move itself is recorded in the edit histories of both pages. This feature was introduced in MediaWiki 1.5 and does not work retroactively: older moves are only recorded indirectly, in the page history of the old page name.

You should never just move a page by cutting all the text out of one page, and pasting it into a new one; old revisions, notes, and attributions are much harder to keep track of if you do that. (But you may have to if, for instance, you're splitting a page into multiple topics. If you do, please include a note in the new pages's edit summary and talk page stating where you took the text from.) Also see below.