bug report:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=600079&gro…
=34373&atid=411192
(part of) Lee's answer:
It was not my intention to allow moving talk pages
when
moving from one namespace to another, so the bug is that the
checkbox appears at all.
But the question remains: why?
BTW, is it possible to make an sql query that looks for talk pages who's
corresponding article is only a redirect, or doesn't exist?
Kurt
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)