Stephen C. Carlson wrote:
I'd like to delete [[Epistle to the Hebrews]] because the move command won't let me move the ungrammatically named [[Epistle to Hebrews]] to [[Epistle to the Hebrews]], due to a non-empty page history that has a bunch of automatic script conversions.
Done. But Fred is right, you should probably be an admin. Such a deletion doesn't need to go on the votes page, since there was no history being deleted besides redirects -- yet technically it still required an admin to do it.
Perhaps there is a technical solution; if a page has no history except redirects, then should people be able to move to it just like any other move?
In the past, I simply copied the text from one page to the other and set up the appropriate redirect, but a sysop got on my case for it as a non-optimal operation. So now, I put a request on Votes for Deletion, but no sysop has acted on the request yet.
Well, you should ask the sysop that got on your case. ^_^
So, am I asking for the trivial page deletion in the right place? Or, should I just ignore a sysop jumping on my case, because waiting days for an edit to happen is counter to the wiki editing philosophy?
Possibly you should ignore it after a while, since histories can be combined later anyway. Or you can ask just me, since I'm nice in this way, but then you may still wait a while if I'm busy.
-- Toby