Toby Bartels wrote:
The Cunctator wrote:
Gah. You do all realize every time we change the title we kill thousands of links in?
How is that? Was the move not done properly?
Mostly because we don't have a good automated way of moving articles that have inbound redirects. When an article is moved, its former location becomes a redirect (to the new location), so any inbound redirects to the old location are now double-redirects (redirects to a redirect) that no longer work properly (since the Wikipedia software only follows one level of redirection). The only solution at present is to manually change each of these "#REDIRECT [[September 11 Terrorist Attacks]]" pages to "#REDIRECT [[September 11, 2001 attacks]]", which whoever moved the page did not do (there are, indeed, quite a lot of them).
-Mark