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It has come to my attention that many boosters and admins may not remember that when you move a page using the page-move tool there’s another task that goes along with it. Updating links where the old page was used to the new updated link - which was mentioned in the page designating the task’s instructions.

Although some pages are rather quick, easy and painless with only a few, there are some pages that can get rather tedious and seem to last a long time - something I had noticed about a topic that I began a while back that was just moved (thanks to anothers’ advice). Please remember to complete the updating of the links where the old links have now been updated.

Spare the RedirectsBot and take care of business yourself. Copying and pasting and clicking using the WhatLinksHere is used. Please remind yourself of the instructions found at https://www.wikihow.com/Change-the-Title-of-a-wikiHow-Article . Thank you.

I don’t want to mention usernames, but there has been at least a few names that comes to mind who were just moving pages and not updating links where present.

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Maybe I’m missing something obvious, but does it cause actual harm to let RedirectsBot clean up the links? I agree that it’s best practice to clean up after a title change, but the advice to manually clean it up was added in 2007, long before we had RedirectsBot. Short of broken links/double redirects and cases of “it makes no sense to have this link here”, I can’t really think of a situation where overlooking the cleanup would actually be detrimental in some manner, and I’m wondering if the advice itself might be outdated.

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Anna and i discussed this in 2014 and although the method still applies to best practices- its not really outdated as such.

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It doesn’t look like RedirectsBot was created until mid-December of 2015, though, and our standards and practices have evolved quite a bit even since 2015. I’m curious as to whether that article should be updated as well, even just as a “it’s better to do so yourself but the bot will get it if you forget” kind of thing.

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I see this a lot when I fix broken links. Tedious task.

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I think it’s a good practice to look at the links when you move a page, to make sure that they are helpful and relevant (and removing any that aren’t.)

As far as updating them manually or letting the bot do, I think it’s fine either way and up to the person doing the move. RedirectsBot doesn’t mind:wink:

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@Jayneg yeah, but what happens when a person moves a page but has to suppress the redirect link? The link to the page gets lost and the link will later be deleted!

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@EpcotMagic I think it should be most common to have a redirect - especially on an already established page - but in the rare event when someone is not keeping the redirect on an established page, it would be good to manually check. If links are deleted, though, I don’t think it’s a serious issue.

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I don’t think it’s too serious, but I’d thought I’d keep the reminder out there, since I was seeing a lot of that over the last few months.

If a page is moved, RedirectsBot does nothing with stale pages - and those that are noted, can be tricky for a reader to understand. Personally, when I move-pages, I make sure to clear up links (where possible), but sometimes it’s unavoidable that I leave a few behind.

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