Stock car racing:Moving a page

Once you familiarize yourself with the conventions to name pages, you may want to change the name of a page, because you made or another user may have committed an error, or you have checked that there is a name more appropriate.

Although there is the temptation to simply create the page with the new name, and paste in it a copy of the existing content under the name previous, this procedure is incorrect because it does not preserve the history of the issues.

To be able to make the change properly, it is essential that you are registered and you are already a users. If you still do not meet these requirements, you can add the template rename to the top of the page, of the as stated in its documentation, or to request the change in the Coffee-Help. If you already you do, you can follow this procedure:


 * Click on the down arrow MediaWiki Vector skin action arrow.png (in the upper tabs, next to the blue star) and then Move, or press the tab moving, if you use the skin "monobook".




 * Opens a form where you must fill in the desired new name for the page, and the reason for doing so. To confirm the instead, click on the button Rename page.




 * This will change the name of the page and will automatically create a "redirect" in the previous name; in addition, the record now original will be under the new title.

If it works, bravo!, is already ready.

If it does not work and it gives you an error is because a page with that title already exists and the system will not allow you to change it. The steps to to follow will depend on the page involved:


 * If the target it is a redirection whose history of edits is not used, that is to say, that the material in the history is not part of any article (in some cases, it is difficult to know) request a library the deletion of this page. If there is full confidence that this is a redirection without history useful, you can use the template in the redirect to to speed up the process.


 * If in change, the destination is a article with content, it is likely that try to duplicate pages and might need to make a fusion records"". In this case it is necessary to combine the contents of both articles in one of them, copy it to another (both must be identical) and request the intervention of a librarian in "Request for the merger of histories". The librarian in addition to worry of, where appropriate, to merge the respective discussions of the pages involved in the merger. For more information, see Stock car racing:Mergers.

What to do with the redirection
What to do with that redirection, if it is not a correct title is still a matter of debate. Some prefer to delete the "redirect," which are spelling errors. Others prefer to let them, as this prevents someone put content under the incorrect title. In addition, the redirects do not appear when you press "random page" or count the number of total items, and can serve to people who do not know the correct spelling a topic can find the information.

Of course titles to be correct, but alternative must be retained.

Rules of courtesy to change the name of a page

 * Don't do change of name mass unless you're sure that all the world agrees with you!


 * As a rule of courtesy also you should correct the links that pointed to the old name, and now are redirected. If you are too many, perhaps you should not have done the change of name!


 * Changes the lead section of the article to which the title in bold matches the new name.

Use of "DISPLAYTITLE"
It is also possible to use the magic word  or   to show the title a page with a different combination of uppercase and lowercase letters, or to replace spaces by underscores, which causes the page to keep the title original but the visible is different. The title of the page and the title amended by SHOW TITLE, once standardized, must match for DISPLAYTITLE have effect. For any other type of modification of the title it must be rename of the page by using the under the previous method.

An accepted use of SHOW TITLE is to show the initial letter in lowercase letters, for which there is Lowercase title. However, it should not be used for a title or any part of it you see in italics in place of round, as this possibility was rejected by voting.

The magic word DISPLAYTITLE does not support the use of.