We should probably put the following somewhere on a reference page
somewhere.
Delirium wrote:
This is the procedure I normally use:
1. Delete the old page name. It's just a redirect now, and has no
history.
2. Move the new page name back to the old page name.
Another possibility:
1. Move the new page name back to the old page name.
2. Delete the new page name (now just a redirect with no history).
With the first approach, the page now looks like nothing ever happened
(unless you look at the deletion log). With the second approach, the
page looks like it was turned into a redirect and then reverted (the
two histories get merged). Which is better might depend on your
preference -- one shows evidence of vandalism, but is possibly
confusing, while the other is less confusing but erases evidence of
vandalism.
*/Allan Crossman <a.crossman(a)blueyonder.co.uk>/* wrote: On 31 Aug 2003
at 21:16, wikien-l-request(a)Wikipedia.org wrote:
I've fixed the Penis page by undeletion and moving...
To undelete in Explorer, first bookmark this address:
http://www.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Undelete&target=PAG…
Now, whenever you need to undelete, just go to that page (nothing bad
happens
if you actually load it), change "PAGENAME" in the URL to the name of
the page,
e.g. User:Scarequotes, and there you go.
Don't try using the Deletion log to get there, it takes forever to load,
usually.
---------------