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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Hike395 (talk | contribs) at 15:29, 5 March 2024 (→User:Hike395: I am quite conservative about name changes, so don't often participate in RM. Would probably use this once every couple of years?). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

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User:Hike395

Proven track record in keeping WP tidy. Would like to perform uncontroversial page swaps. — hike395 (talk) 12:19, 2 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hike395, just asking out of curiosity: you haven't posted at RM/TR since 2022 and from the looks of it haven't participated much in RMs since then either. With only a half-dozen moves made in the last year (all of which in January), why the sudden interest in pagemover? (please do not ping on reply) Primefac (talk) 14:26, 5 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I was looking at Feather Canyon and Feather River Canyon, which appeared to be an idiosyncratic permastub plus redirect. Feather River Canyon was very clearly the WP:COMMONNAME. I could have done an RM, or swapped them myself (if I had pagemover). But then I realized that North Fork Feather River is actually a solid article, so I merged the paragraph of material from Feather Canyon and made both redirects.
My philosophy is to be very conservative about changing the name of articles. The most important thing is to improve article content (IMO): article renaming can produce drama that takes time away from other editing tasks. I learned this lesson back in 2011, see the >200KB discussion at the Shishapangma talk archives: 1, 2, 3. I tend to only rarely get involved in RM, and would probably only use this userright about once every year or two.
If you don't want to give me this userright, that's fine too. I'm just trying to help WP. — hike395 (talk) 15:28, 5 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

User:AirshipJungleman29

To help at WP:RM and elsewhere. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 21:15, 2 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  Done Hey man im josh (talk) 17:11, 4 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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