Help:Moving a page

Category moves should be investigated and planned before they are initiated. Please post requests for category moves at if you are, or expect to be, unable to complete the process.

Do not move or rename a page by copying/pasting its content, because doing so fragments the edit history. Instead, please follow the instructions given below.

There are many reasons why you might wish to rename a page:

Technical restrictions prevent the storage of titles beginning with a lowercase letter, containing certain characters, and using formatting such as italics. Templates which may be used as workarounds include:

Consider listing pages that you want to have renamed/moved at . List them at , if:

For other cases, follow the instructions for controversial and potentially controversial moves:

Do not move or rename a page by copying/pasting its content, because doing so fragments the edit history. ( 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. See also .)

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

If you need technical help in a simple pagemove situation which is blocked by history at the target of the move, list the page at WP:RMT following the listing procedure outlined there.

To be able to move pages yourself, you must be logged in and you must have an (i.e., generally 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, in which case you can move over the redirect (check the edit history). If you cannot move a page yourself because of a technical restriction, and you expect the move to be uncontroversial, you can list it at the technical section of requested moves. Otherwise, you can make your request at its section for controversial and potentially controversial moves.

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