Help:How to move a page

On occasion you might make a mistake of some kind with a page. Perhaps it's a spelling mistake in the title, or your name changed, or you made it in the wrong space — many people make their first persona page on their talk page rather than the main wiki space. Whatever the reason, what you probably want to do is MOVE the page.

Typically, if possible, it's better to move a page rather than to just create a new one an delete the old one. Why is this? Several reasons:

• Moving a page allows you to save the contents without having to copy/paste or re-type.
• Moving has an option to create a redirect (say, for a common misspelling, or your old name, or the like).
• Most importantly, moving keeps the page's edit history and talk page along with it.

The Move command is under More.

Selecting the name, and entering a reason for the move.

Moving (renaming) a page means changing it's name, and possibly moving it to a new space. This is done by using the Move tab at the top, under More. The tab is not visible if you are not logged in.

Then simply enter the new name and click "Move page". You can check or uncheck options to leave a redirect for the old name, and if you would like to watch the page.

Note you can also enter in a reason you are moving the page, which can be very helpful when folks review the change logs.

For further information, see Media Wiki's Help:Moving a Page

• Redirects are used to forward users from one page name to another. They can be useful if a particular article is referred to by multiple names, or has alternative punctuation, capitalization or spellings. For more information, see Media Wiki's Help:Redirects