Talk:Arafat

Hi RobS

As "Yasser Arafat" article has been moved to "Yasir Arafat", Could it's "history page" also travel with the text?

Yasser Arafat history page: http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Yasser_Arafat&action=history

Thanks for your reply.

--User:Joaquín Martínez, talk 08:01, 11 May 2007 (EDT)

I'm not sure how to do that. Maybe we can get some help. RobS 14:14, 11 May 2007 (EDT)

Copied from a similar discussion on RobS' talk page, copied here as documentation of what's happening.

As far as I know, it's not possible. Yasser Arafat was not "moved" to Yassir Arafat. Rather, the text of the former was coItalic textpied into the latter, and the former turned into a redirect. Histories move when pages are "moved", but not when they are copied.

One solution would be to delete Yassir Arafat (thus losing it's short history and its talk page, but see note below), restore Yasser Arafat to its pre-redirect content, then do an actual "move" from Yasser Arafat to Yassir Arafat. Would this idea be acceptable? Note: Rather than delete Yassir Arafat, one could "move" it to something else (another spelling, or a lower-case version) and turn it into a redirect to the proper article. This means that its history and talk page would not be lost. Philip J. Rayment 19:07, 11 May 2007 (EDT)

Yes, that would work very well. How wants to do it? RobS 15:26, 12 May 2007 (EDT)

I'll do it. Philip J. Rayment 11:17, 13 May 2007 (EDT)