SourceWatch:How to rename a page

If you discover that you've created a page with the wrong title (maybe you misspelled it, maybe you didn't follow the naming conventions and you want to make it fit in more cleanly with the rest of SourceWatch), you can rename it by moving it to a new title.

Note that you have to be logged in to rename a page this way; regarding the set preferences:
 * 1) there is no button for this in the nostalgia skin;
 * 2) the button is in the quickbar, so this must be on.

When you've got your article up, click on the "Move page" link in the sidebar. You'll be asked for a new name for the article, and given the option to also move the article's talk page. (Unless you know what you're doing, it's safest to say yes.) Click the magic button, and the page will be renamed using the new title. The old title will become a redirect page, so any links to the old title will still go to the new page.

See also:

 * How to edit a page
 * How to use redirect pages
 * Practice editing pages in our SourceWatch sandbox!

Acknowledgement: the content of many of the help pages in SourceWatch have been adapted from Wikipedia.