Wikipedia talk:Moving a page

Moving a WikiProject
I'm on a Wikiproject (Wikipedia:WikiProject RuPaul's Drag Race) where it appears that a consensus has developed for changing the name of the project. We've discussed it informally and now with a formal "template:Requested move" and support there. I'm sure the close and move will be more complex than just moving a mainspace page. Is there anything else that needs to be done before the week is up?Naraht (talk) 20:51, 15 August 2022 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 2 December 2022
The association recently went through a name change. The new name is American Association for Women in Radiology. We would like the change reflected accordingly. Thanks! AAWRNew (talk) 17:59, 2 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Move-protection-shackle.svg Not done: page move requests should be made at Requested moves. -- Red rose64 &#x1f339; (talk) 19:06, 2 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Okay, thank you. It read it was partially protected and didn't know if the original author had to change it.  Thanks! 12.106.125.106 (talk) 19:15, 2 December 2022 (UTC)

Moving talk pages
When using Special:MovePage, and selecting Move associated talk page box, the talk page is moved, and a redirect is left on the old talk page title.

I strongly feel that this function should, instead of a redirect to the new talk page, leave Template:Talk page of redirect. This would be in addition to Template:R from move (which it already does).

However, I don't have any idea if this would be remotely popular, or how I'd propose it, so I'm asking for an admin's opinions. (please include in your response)  –  City Urbanism   🗩   🖉  16:51, 9 April 2023 (UTC)
 * No, that would break inward links. -- Red rose64 &#x1f339; (talk) 22:53, 9 April 2023 (UTC)
 * I don't really understand. Template:Talk page of redirect is already transcluded on 20758 talk pages of redirects. –  City Urbanism   🗩   🖉  09:26, 10 April 2023 (UTC)
 * That's only for talk pages that already have content (e.g. because the corresponding article was merged). Graham 87 15:18, 10 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Understood. But it's arguable that following a move, it's better to have a talk page with Template:Tpr than a talk page with . The redirect is still content.  –  City Urbanism   🗩   🖉  15:25, 10 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Before the move, one or more discussions on the talk page may have been linked from elsewhere. If the talk page is then moved, the redirect ensures that those links still work. If the  is removed, those links no longer reach the intended discussions: they are broken. For example, many page moves are preceded by a discussion on the talk page of the page that it is intended to move. If the discussion is closed as successful, the page move action will often have in its summary a link to that discussion so that people curious as to the reason why the move occurred will be able to find it. -- Red rose64 &#x1f339; (talk) 21:57, 10 April 2023 (UTC)

Updates needed
This page and Help:How to move a page seems to be slightly outdated on the "how to" because vector 2022. Text and images. But I'm not 100% sure what I see is what "Most users will find". My "Move" is under "Tools", right of the watchlist star. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 06:34, 19 May 2023 (UTC)


 * Yeah, you are correct @Gråbergs Gråa Sång. &#8212;CX Zoom[he/him] (let's talk • {C•X}) 20:22, 27 May 2023 (UTC)

Moving an article with a talk page collision
I want to move an article following an RM discussion period (see here). The target is a redirect to the current title but it has a talk page, and that collides with the being-moved talk page. I don't see this covered in the project page. I'm an admin, but it's been a long time since I moved a page and I want to handle this properly; what is the accepted procedure here? I'm thinking that it might be best to manually incorporate the content of the target talk page into a subsection of the Requested move ... section on the talk page being moved before making the move. Advice solicited. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 12:09, 19 June 2023 (UTC)
 * For this particular case I'd do a bit of history-swapping ... I'd move to somewhere like  (without a redirect, overwriting the history at that article and your comment at its talk page ... but you can history-merge that back in ... or maybe choose another redirect that's not so obvious), and then move Battle of Balangiga" to ". Doing the move this way would mean that your comment here makes sense. It's hard to generalise because there are several ways of dealing with talk page collisions depending on the situation. Graham 87  15:46, 19 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I had to put this aside as my day went on and other things needed attention. I think I'll be able to work out what I need to do from that once I get back to it. Cheers. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 16:35, 19 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Well, ideally talk pages should stick to its parent article. In this case, the article's talk page must be brought over to match the current location of the article. However, I'm not sure what to do with the former redirect's talk page, because the redirect is now gone. I guess its content should be merged with the parent talk page, with necessary background (what moved and when), and the page be swapped. &#8212;CX Zoom[he/him] (let's talk • {C•X}) 22:07, 19 June 2023 (UTC)

wp:common name
The discussion here may be of interest to some, as it raises some core questions as to wp:commonname. 2603:7000:2101:AA00:CCC9:7E7B:26A9:1834 (talk) 18:49, 24 August 2023 (UTC)
 * I've taken the liberty of fixing your link. Graham 87 03:23, 25 August 2023 (UTC)

Talk page archives
When Mathematical modelling of infectious disease was moved to Mathematical modelling of infectious diseases, its talk archives did not move with it, and the header of the talk page no longer linked to the archives. I've now corrected this example.

I would like to add a prompt to this how-to guide advising people to look for such archives and move them as necessary (this would seem to be appropriate next to the instructions about changing the auto-archiving settings). But I'm not very experienced with moving pages so first wanted to check whether such archives should have been automatically moved by some other mechanism, or whether the manual check that I'm discussing is already discussed somewhere I haven't found. Thanks, Mgp28 (talk) 13:07, 31 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Aidan9382-Bot is supposed to fix these sorts of things now (but that task wasn't active when the move had been made). The page Moving a page doesn't mention auto-archiving settings but [[Wikipedia:Cleaning up after a move does, and I've made some tweaks there. Graham87 (talk) 00:33, 1 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Thank you. That's very helpful. Mgp28 (talk) 00:44, 1 November 2023 (UTC)

Protected edit request on 6 November 2023
We would like to change "1079 Life" to "Life FM (Adelaide)" Startybartfast (talk) 05:04, 6 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Move-protection-shackle.svg Not done: page move requests should be made at Requested moves. Liu1126 (talk) 11:13, 6 November 2023 (UTC)

Moving pages that are inaccessible due to technical reasons?
How to move pages that are inaccessible due to technical reasons, i.e. they have certain patterns or characters that have at some point made them inaccessible? For example, BBC: On This Day and BBC: In Concert can't be accessed nor moved because they now redirect to the bbc: wiki. I guess they can be moved with Special:ApiSandbox but when I tried it in another wiki, it gave me an "invalid name" error message or something like that. Are there instructions anywhere how it's done? 2001:14BA:9C98:7100:7DDB:D27C:73FF:4061 (talk) 06:46, 5 January 2024 (UTC)


 * This isn't the first time this has happened, see . It is possible to move it using the API, but you need page IDs, not titles, since the title will now be considered invalid for trying to obtain a page. The s you list are the respective page IDs. Aidan9382 (talk) 07:36, 5 January 2024 (UTC)


 * Thanks. I tried that but it gave me "Caught exception of type MediaWiki\\Page\\PageAssertionException". I'm not sure but maybe it's because I don't have the rights to move a page without leaving a redirect. 2001:14BA:9C98:7100:30AB:1C21:8949:959A (talk) 23:48, 6 January 2024 (UTC)

"Wikipedia:→" listed at Redirects for discussion
The redirect [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:%E2%86%92&redirect=no Wikipedia:→] has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at  until a consensus is reached. Nickps (talk) 17:52, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

Mass editing backlinks of moved page
Hi,

Recently I moved List of highest points in California by county to List of California county high points and I would like to change the dozens of backlinks to this page to reflect the move. In practice I suppose it doesn't matter because the backlinks target the redirect which ultimately lands on the correct page, but the majority of these backlinks are in the "See also" section in plain text and I would prefer they read the correct title.

Is there an easier way to fix all of these without manually changing everything listed on the "Pages that link here" page? This would take hours for me to do manually and I'd definitely prefer a quicker solution.

Thanks! Pugchump (talk) 19:56, 21 May 2024 (UTC)
 * You should leave them alone, per WP:NOTBROKEN. -- Red rose64 &#x1f339; (talk) 21:46, 21 May 2024 (UTC)