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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by SMcCandlish (talk | contribs) at 03:34, 9 December 2017 (→‎Requests to revert undiscussed moves: nope). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

If you are unable to complete a move for technical reasons, you can request technical help 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 "The/This page could not be moved, for the following reason:..."

  • 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.
  • 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.

Technical requests

Edit this section if you want to move a request from Uncontroversial to Contested.

Uncontroversial technical requests

Contested technical requests

  • Gaia Movement (currently a redirect to Gaianism)  Gaia Foundation (move · discuss) – more accurate title since recent changes to content (diff) Sangdeboeuf (talk) 02:09, 9 December 2017 (UTC) (edited 03:30, 9 December 2017 (UTC))[reply]
    • Oppose. We have no sources for the existence of a worldwide "Gaia Foundation"; this looks like original research or assumption. The article, having been rewritten to be about the alleged organization (not to be confused, the article says, with national-level ones with the same name like gaiafoundation.org in the UK), has already been tagged as failing WP:NORG. The generalized movement is clearly the more notable topic, and encompasses much more than a few organizations that may or may not be forming some kind of global federation.  — SMcCandlish ¢ >ʌⱷ҅ʌ<  03:15, 9 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Requests to revert undiscussed moves

Nothing to oppose in a revert of controversial move, take it to WP:RUSSIA, affects ca. 1000 pages. 85.180.253.27 (talk) 03:28, 9 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Um, no, we take it to the talk page of the affected articles. The entire point of RM is to get broad input, not to canvass particular wikiprojects; we do not host RMs at wikiproject talk pages. The entire point of a WP:CONSISTENCY approach to naming (including of topics like rail systems) is to prevent not encourage geographically topical projects from making up their own divergent approaches to article titles. If a request-to-revert-undiscussed were to proceed here, it would be back to Shosse Entuziastov (Moscow Metro), Shelepikha (Moscow Metro), and Aviamotornaya (Moscow Metro), but these have already been overwritten with disambiguation pages. The smart result is to decline to the request here (since it's policy-wrong for multiple reasons), then open either three RMs at the article talk pages or preferably one combined RM at the first of these articles's talk pages.  — SMcCandlish ¢ >ʌⱷ҅ʌ<  03:34, 9 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]