Help:Renaming pages
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Any page can be renamed - or "moved".
When pages are renamed, there is always the issue of broken links from existing pages.
Before the page is renamed you can check what links to it.
- Go for the "What links here" page in the toolbox.
When you rename a page, you can also leave a redirect, which will pick up any old links.
- When the last of the links is updated, then you can delete the redirect page.
After a page has been moved you can see what it used to be called
- via Recent changes in the wiki menu
- or via the move log itself
There is also a report that will tell you if there are broken links.
- Go to the "Special pages" link in the toolbox
- The one you want is Wanted pages
- i.e. pages which are linked to, but which do not exist.
- The list includes a count of how many pages link there.
- The count is a link to the "What links here" page which shows you which pages.