On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Erik Moeller wrote:
I am in the process of moving the [[programming
language]] pages ("Forth
programming language", "LISP programming language" etc.) to standard
names
("Forth", "LISP") where there's no need for disambiguation. If I
do so by hand, I
can only cut & paste the contents, because there's usually a redirect in
place. Cut and paste, unlike "move page", does not preserve the page history,
however. So the proper course of action is to first delete the redirect pages
and then use "move page".
If there is actual content in the histories of the redirects, don't forget
to undelete them afterwards to recombine the split pages' histories.
(When there is nothing at all in their histories but the single redirect,
then you don't need to delete at all; move will take care of it.)
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)