Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-26975268-20130201045831/@comment-188432-20130203061935

Not retyping it: CzechOut wrote: The only thing that really needs discussion is what should the dab term be.

As to your second graf: good thought, but it might get very tedious, depending on the length of the report returned by WLH. Don't let it distract you from the central mission of getting what's there now into proper shape. The WLH reports aren't going anywhere.

As to your third: you honestly don't have the power. That's no a "convenient lie" or a "white lie" or any kind of a lie. Moving a page isn't about one little click. It's about making sure that the result doesn't add confusion.

If you move the page, you'll create a bigger mess, because you will necessarily leave behind a redirect, which is wholly undesriable in this case. Our goal here is to consistently use 1 January as a link for in-universe pages, while 1 January (real world) becomes the link for out-of-universe pages. This requires a delicate touch — and a bot — that you just don't have. It's no reflection on your skill set, but the permissions you have in the software that underpins the wiki.

You flatly have no realistic shot at manually moving all the links to the old page. That's not a challenge to your abilities or hyperbole when it comes to mine. By adding you're giving me a list by which I can easily have the bot change all the links as necessary.

Remember the change we made on the category? It's like that. Think how long it would have taken you to make that change manually and compare it to the 45 minutes or so it took me.

It is simply a waste of your time as an editor to move pages. Literally, it's beneath you. What I've found in my twelve-ish years of wiki editing is that you should always let a bot do the maintenance so that you can spend your time with the hard work of creativity.