That was a complaint on German wikipedia afer the switch to the new
software. I think there's even a bug report, but I'm not sure.
Brion VIBBER wrote:
I noticed tonight when Jeronimo was moving a bunch of
pages from the
article namespace into Wikipedia: namespace that the talk pages
weren't being automatically moved over to Wikipedia talk:, even though
he had been using the check box to automatically move the talk page.
(They can be moved manually, but that defeats the purpose of the
checkbox!)
Looking at SpecialMovePage.php I see the comments:
# Move talk page if (1) the checkbox says to, (2) the source
# and target namespaces are identical, (3) the namespaces are not
# themselves talk namespaces, and of course (4) it exists.
which conditions are dutifully followed by the code; number two is the
one that's catching us here.
If there's a good reason behind that, it needs to be documented. If
not, it ought to be changed to handle moving talk pages across
namespaces (so long as neither the source nor destination namespace of
the main article is a talk namespace) to accord with current user
expectation.
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)
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