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(Redirect the accompanying (non-talk) page?)

This should be redirected to Help:Moving a page, which is where WP:MOVE redirects anyway... --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 19:55, 21 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

No it shouldn't. This is 2,569 bytes. Help:Moving a page is 19,525 bytes. There is a reason this project is so hard for newcomers to grasp, and it's your obsession with rules and waffle. All the help pages should look like this one, but I doubt they ever will. Gurch (talk) 06:04, 3 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
   For the record, Help:Moving a page, WP:MOVE (and BTW Wikipedia:Moving (renaming) a page and Wikipedia:Renaming (moving) a page) now all redirect to the project-page WP:Moving a page, which contains 39.5kB, or about twice the longer one's former stated size, and 16 times the shorter one's.
   My own opinion is that
  • there are enuf ways to go wrong in doing renames (or moves, if you prefer that "viewing angle")
  • that seeing how small a fraction of the whole story you're reading
  • provides a brief but priceless insight about the number of ways
  • in which overconfidence in your renaming savvy could soak up a lot of avoidable effort.
--Jerzy•t 08:21, 17 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

What gives?

I've been signed up for a few weeks now but I still can't move/rename/retitle any articles. How come? Mad Man American (talk) 17:37, 5 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps it's because you are still a new user. If you cannot move pages, you can request a page move instead. -- Joaquin008 (talk) 20:00, 17 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

A point

No droplist

I don't see a small triangle near the star, and therefore I can't select Move option. Why? Xeoxer (talk) 12:15, 4 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@Xeoxer: You must have an autoconfirmed account to move a page. Since you haven't made 10 edits yet, you're probably not autoconfirmed. If there is a specific page that needs to be moved, see WP:RM. --Glaisher [talk] 12:25, 4 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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