Wikipedia:Talk page redirects

This is a report of redirects in the Talk: namespace that appear to be incorrect. This report was generated from the database dump of March 6, 2009. You can help clean up these redirects by following the suggestions below. Pick a subpage to work on, and as you fix the problems, please remove the corrected entries from that subpage.

Article page is not a redirect
For example, Talk:Article-1 is a redirect to Talk:Article-2, but Article-1 is not a redirect. In practice, there appear to be a few different ways this can happen, and the solution differs depending on the cause.


 * 1) Article-2 exists and is about a distinct subject from Article-1 .  This usually occurs when an editor moved Article-1 to Article-2 in order to make room for a new article at the previous title on a different (but usually somewhat related) subject.  Solution: Delete Talk:Article-1 ; if you are not an admin, you can tag it with.
 * 2) Article-2 exists but is about essentially the same subject as Article-1 ; i.e., a content fork.  Solution: merge the two articles at the title Article-1 (and then move both the article and the talk page to another title if desirable).
 * 3) Article-2 is a redirect to Article-1 and has no history other than redirects.  At some time in the past, Article-1 was moved or redirected to Article-2 . An editor later moved Article-2 to Article-1 over the existing redirect using the Move function, but either was unable or neglected to move the talk page at the same time. Solution: Just move Talk:Article-2 to Talk:Article-1 ; this can be done by any auto-confirmed user if Talk:Article-1 has never been edited, but will require an administrator if it has been edited. In the latter case, non-admins can tag Talk:Article-1 with.
 * 4) Article-2 is a redirect to Article-1, but has history showing that earlier versions were not redirects.  This can have two causes:
 * 5) At some time in the past, Article-1 was moved or redirected to Article-2 . An editor later tried to reverse this by a "cut-and-paste move"; that is, taking the text out of Article-2, replacing it with a redirect and pasting the same (or somewhat edited) text into the body of Article-1 . Solution: this will require a history merge, which can only be done by an administrator.  If you are not an admin, please tag Article-1 with Article-2.
 * 6) Or, the text in Article-2 was at some point merged into the article at Article-1, leaving behind a redirect to preserve the edit history. Solution: move Talk:Article-2 to Talk:Article-1 as in case 3, above.
 * 7) Cases not falling within the previous 4 categories are rare, but if you come across one, it is important to review the edit histories of both articles carefully to determine what to do with the redirected talk page.

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Article page is a redirect to a different title
For example, Talk:Title-1 is a redirect to Talk:Title-2, but Title-1 is a redirect to Title-3. In this case, Talk:Title-3 does not exist (if it did, a bot would have retargeted the redirect automatically). These cases generally fall into the following categories:


 * 1) Title-2 is a redirect to Title-3, and has no edit history other than redirects.  Solution: Move Talk:Title-2 to Talk:Title-3 (and silently ask yourself why this wasn't done before).  Then either fix the resulting double-redirect of Talk:Title-1 , or let a bot do it.
 * 2) Title-2 is a redirect to Title-3, but the edit history shows earlier versions that were not redirects. This can be because:
 * 3) Two separate articles were text-merged; solution: move Talk:Title-2 to Talk:Title-3
 * 4) One article was cut-and-pasted from the old title to the new one.  Solution: Needs a history merge; see case 4(2) in the previous section.  After that is done, you can move Talk:Title-2 as in the previous case.
 * 5) Title-2 is an article on a distinct topic from Title-3 .  Solution: Delete Talk:Title-1 as it serves no purpose; if you are not an admin, tag it with.
 * 6) Title-2 is an article on essentially the same topic as Title-3 ; i.e., a content fork.  Solution: merge the articles as in case 2 in the previous section, then make sure Talk:Title-1 redirects to the talk page of the merged article.
 * 7) Again, any other situation should be very rare.  If you find something that does not fit the above categories, please check the edit histories of all pages carefully before doing anything.

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