Wikipedia:Requested moves/Technical requests: Difference between revisions

Project page to request technical page moves

If you are unable to complete a move for technical reasons, you can request a technical move below. This is the correct method if you tried to move a page, but you got an error message saying something like “You do not have permission to move this page, for the following reasons:…” or “This page could not be moved, for the following reason:…”

• Please make sure you really need technical assistance before making a request here. In particular, if the target page is a redirect back to the source page that has only one revision, you can usually move the page normally.
• To list a technical request: edit the Uncontroversial technical requests subsection and insert the following code at the bottom of the list, filling in pages and reason:

  {{subst:RMassist|current page title|new title|reason=edit summary for the move}}
  

  This will automatically insert a bullet and include your signature. Please do not edit the article’s talk page.

• To request a reversion of a recent undiscussed move: Review the guidelines at WP:RMUM of whether a reversion of an undiscussed move qualifies as uncontroversial and if so, edit the Requests to revert undiscussed moves subsection and insert the following code at the bottom of the list, filling in pages and reason:

  {{subst:RMassist|current page title|new title|reason=edit summary for the move}}
  

  This will automatically insert a bullet and include your signature. Please do not edit the article’s talk page. Note that in some cases, clerks, such as administrators or page movers may determine that your request for a reversion does not pass the criteria and may move the request to the contested section or open a formal requested move discussion for potentially controversial moves on your behalf.

• If you object to a proposal listed in the uncontroversial technical requests section, please move the request to the Contested technical requests section, append a note on the request elaborating on why, and sign with ~~~~. Consider pinging the requester to let them know about the objection.
• If your technical request is contested, or if a contested request is left untouched without reply, create a requested move on the article talk and remove the request from the section here. The fastest and easiest way is to click the “discuss” button at the request, save the talk page, and remove the entry on this page. A bot will automatically remove contested requests after 72 hours of inactivity.

Edit this section if you want to move a request between sections.

Most requests should be placed below this heading.

Do not insert new requests in this section. Only move requests here if they have been contested.

@Octaviyanti Dwi Wahyurini Apparently consensus is still against moving this to mainspace, so you should go through WP:AFC or get consensus at Talk:KPop Demon Hunters. HurricaneZeta^C 14:26, 5 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@~2026-84300-7 2024 RM closed as not moved to a similar title. HurricaneZeta^C 16:28, 7 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Why, if I may ask? The current title isn’t WP:CONSISTENT ~2026-84300-7 (talk) 16:45, 7 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

This is the discussion, but you can start a new one if you think it’s wrong. I don’t think the use of “transsexuals” which is seen as outdated would fly though. HurricaneZeta^C 16:57, 7 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Theoverheaddoorguy This article is messy, to say the least, but the first few sections clearly talk about garage doors. Maybe revamp this article into one about overhead doors, or make a new one and then propose merging this one into that? Please don’t add spam links. HurricaneZeta^C 16:28, 7 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

• Draft:New Ryan Field → Ryan Field (2026) (move · discuss) – publishing as article, keeping draft history. Merging current version with draft started earlier (from which much of the existing article , recently published, seems to have taken its content). SecretName101 (talk) 03:37, 5 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

  Admitedly, attribution is not my area of expertise, but why can’t you just edit the article that’s already there? 162 etc. (talk) 04:45, 5 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

  @162 etc. no. The correct thing is to move a draft to the article space to preserve the earliest edit history.

  the editor who recently published directly in the article space instead of doing this was errant. SecretName101 (talk) 04:48, 5 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

  In fact, those without permissions to overwrite are given a standard warning to request a move, being warned, “ Do not manually move the article by copying and pasting it; the page history must be moved along with the article” SecretName101 (talk) 04:51, 5 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

  Moving this to admin section; will defer to somebody experienced in WP:HISTMERGE. I’ve already made some edits to the article in question. 162 etc. (talk) 04:54, 5 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

  Maybe I’m missing something, but it looks to me like Ryan Field (2026) was copied directly from the mainspace article now at Ryan Field (1926) (permalink) rather than Draft:New Ryan Field. In that case a dummy edit for attribution would make more sense than a histmerge. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 07:12, 7 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

• Wikipedia:Boilerplate text → Wikipedia:Historical archive/Boilerplate text (move · discuss) – Per Wikipedia:Template_namespace#History, this page was created to hold boilerplate text to copy into pages before the Template namespace existed. Aside from fixing Lint errors and removing deprecated messages, the page hasn’t been edited substantively since 2006. and was marked as historical that year. Other similar historical pages have been moved to being subpages of Wikipedia:Historical archive, and based on the index of pages there, I think this is also a good candidate for being moved there. On top of moving this, please be sure to add a link there to this page. ~2026-47018-8 (talk) 21:49, 3 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

  Robot clerk note: One or both pages in this request are either create-protected or move-protected. It has been moved from the Uncontroversial technical requests section. TenshiBot (talk) 00:00, 4 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]