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I'm beginning to think we should have a convenient article renaming function that will preserve editing histories (and, optionally, automatically create a redirect page). What think you?

That sounds like a feature that should be on every Wikipedian's wishlist! I know it's on mine...

It's easy enough to do the redirect, but what could really use software assistance is fixing all the links to a renamed page. Such as function would, however, make changes to lots of pages, so it would likely cause lots of damage if it had bugs, and it would be too tempting for users to use casually, making huge hits on the database.

Doing them by hand also gives me the oppoetunity to take a quick glance at lots of related pages to make fixes, so I don't miss the automagical feature too much (UseMod actually had that feature). 0