Moving/Deleting Pages[]
This page needs to be erased and the information copied over to a page with the proper spelling of the demon lord's name "Nocticula". I don't believe I have the power to erase pages as a normal user, do I? --brandingopportunity 19:59, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
- I have moved the page to the correct location. As a normal user you shouldn't be able to delete, but you can move, which will make the existing page into a redirect. This way, all misspelled links that already exist will send the user to the correct page. -- Yoda8myhead 21:26, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
- Mark, can you explain that a bit more? Thanks. --brandingopportunity 11:50, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
- Yes. When a page exists and has the wrong title, either because it's misspelled or doesn't follow naming conventions, it can be moved to a new location very easily. At the top of the page should be a "move" tab. When you click on that, it will give you the option of moving the article. What it really does is make a new page of the title you enter, copy all text from the old page to the new one and replace the old page with an automatic redirect to the new one. So any old links will still take the user to the new, correct page. You can also make a manual redirect from a new page to an old one (such as redirecting "Elves" to the main article on "Elf") by putting on an empty page
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- Yes. When a page exists and has the wrong title, either because it's misspelled or doesn't follow naming conventions, it can be moved to a new location very easily. At the top of the page should be a "move" tab. When you click on that, it will give you the option of moving the article. What it really does is make a new page of the title you enter, copy all text from the old page to the new one and replace the old page with an automatic redirect to the new one. So any old links will still take the user to the new, correct page. You can also make a manual redirect from a new page to an old one (such as redirecting "Elves" to the main article on "Elf") by putting on an empty page
- Mark, can you explain that a bit more? Thanks. --brandingopportunity 11:50, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
- This can be taken one step further by going to a redirect page and clicking the "What links here" page on the lower left, which will list every page with a wikilink to that target. You can then go in and edit the old links to the new target, but this isn't necessary. If nothing links to the redirect page, it can be deleted or left up in case other pages link to it in error in the future. Deleting pages needs to be done by a sysop. -- Yoda8myhead 14:43, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
- Thanks for all that :) Very informative. --brandingopportunity 04:08, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
- Very useful indeed. --Vagrant-Poet 16:10, 11 February 2009 (UTC)