LDC wrote:
Move is not destructive; it will fail with an error message if the destination page already exists or is an illegal title. I also just fixed one remaining bug in the way it updated the link tables, so I don't see much reason to restrict it anymore. It is, however, still a fairly drastic move since it changes a lot of stuff at once and creates links to redirects, so it should probably still be restricted to logged in users at least.
I would be wary of allowing somebody who has been logged-in for 5 minutes the ability to move pages around so easily. Again we should have an 'old hand' status to start porting these types of sysop functions to long-time users (with the goal of eventually porting all sysop functions as soon as safety mechanisms are established for each). There should be a minimum expectation that those with these abilities have been exposed to our policies and naming conventions. There is also the issue that if a newbie make a mistake during a move only a sysop can correct it because the old page title needs to be deleted before the move can be reversed.
I know the automatic promotion idea will take some time to implement but creating an interface for sysops to do this manually has already been done for phase II so should be easy enough for phase III. We should begin working toward phasing-out sysop status by at least porting the move feature to old hands.
--mav
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