I've so far been changing them into "Y of X" except for "X/communications" and "X/Military":

* History of Afghanistan * Geography of Afghanistan * People of Afghanistan * Government of Afghanistan * Economy of Afghanistan * Communications in Afghanistan * Transportation in Afghanistan * Military of Afghanistan * Foreign relations of Afghanistan

I don't know if that's the best way to go about it. I'm open to suggestions. I've only changed over I think four so far, so it can easily be undone.

Many of the earlier pages have X/Foreign relations and X/Transnational issues as two separate subpages; I've been moving them onto the same main page "Foreign relations of X." And some of the pages have additional subpages people have added, for instance X/Archaeology, so if there could be some kind of note of additional subpages, I'd be happy to go in and change those ones manually. Again, I don't know how hard that is to program.

If there's anything I can do to make the conversion easier, let me know. So far as which conversion is easier, I don't know.

thanks again,

kq

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That could be done, but we (I) would have to know what to convert, and into what format.

Would that be [[Egypt/History]] => [[Egypt (History)]]? Or rather => [[History of Egypt]]? Same for Geography, or different? And so on.

I suggest making this a function that is available only for sysops in the sidebar. I am certain that Larry will be most eager to deconstruct some subpages ;)

A similar function is planned for moving/renaming pages, including subpages (for example, to move them to the wikipedia namespace).

Should we attempt to convert all links to these pages automatically, or should we use #REDIRECTs? The former would be more elegant, but also more complicated, while the latter is rather simple but crude.

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