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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:..."
- Please make sure you really need technical assistance before making a request here. In particular, if the target page is a redirect back to the source page that has only one revision, you can usually move the page normally.
- To list a technical request: Uncontroversial technical requests subsection and insert the following code at the bottom of the list, filling in pages and reason:
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the - 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]Uncontroversial technical requests
[edit]- Dou miao (food) → Pea shoots (currently a redirect instead to Snow pea) (move · discuss) – English translation as detailed in article ~ BlueTurtles | talk 04:52, 28 June 2025 (UTC)
- James Bond 007: Nightfire → James Bond 007: NightFire (currently a redirect back to James Bond 007: Nightfire) (move · discuss) – Move James Bond 007: Nightfire to James Bond 007: NightFire and 007: Quantum of Solace to Quantum of Solace (video game), as these are as the names of the games appear in press releases. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2804:7F0:90B2:12F9:B843:E03D:572A:1355 (talk) 00:23, 29 June 2025 (UTC)
- 007: Quantum of Solace → Quantum of Solace (video game) (currently a redirect back to 007: Quantum of Solace) (move · discuss) – Move James Bond 007: Nightfire to James Bond 007: NightFire and 007: Quantum of Solace to Quantum of Solace (video game), as these are as the names of the games appear in press releases. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2804:7F0:90B2:12F9:B843:E03D:572A:1355 (talk) 00:23, 29 June 2025 (UTC)
- 007: Licence to Kill → Licence to Kill (video game) (currently a redirect back to 007: Licence to Kill) (move · discuss) – Move 007: Licence to Kill to Licence to Kill (video game), James Bond 007: Nightfire to James Bond 007: NightFire and 007: Quantum of Solace to Quantum of Solace (video game), as these are as the names of the games appear in press releases. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2804:7F0:90B2:12F9:B843:E03D:572A:1355 (talk) 01:06, 29 June 2025 (UTC)
- Paraona bicolor → Eilema bicolor (currently a redirect instead to Manulea bicolor) (move · discuss) – Updated taxonomy in accordance with Volynkin, 2024 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/381113072_On_the_taxonomy_of_the_Oriental_genus_Paraona_Moore_with_descriptions_of_a_new_genus_a_new_species_and_introduction_of_new_synonymies_Lepidoptera_Erebidae_Arctiinae_Lithosiini TheLivingDanish1 (talk) 19:55, 29 June 2025 (UTC)
- Why does Eilema bicolor currently redirect to a different species? * Pppery * it has begun... 18:13, 30 June 2025 (UTC)
- Eero (wireless networking brand) → Eero (currently a redirect instead to Eero (name)) (move · discuss) – complete move after moving Eero to Eero (disambiguation) —Locke Cole • t • c 00:12, 30 June 2025 (UTC)
- I dunno... Are we saying that this is WP:PRIMARYTOPIC including long-term significance criteria? I'm on the fence and won't formally oppose if anyone feels different, but with traffic of only ~136 hits/day, it doesn't seem like that many people are searching for this in the first place. Academically, Books and Scholar search results for "eero" provide several possibilities. In an attempt to remove advertising results, trying to search on duckduckgo, the results are still the router system, but the sidebar is Eero Saarinen... Why him? I don't know, but his traffic is also higher than the brand as well (top hit in books). -2pou (talk) 18:15, 30 June 2025 (UTC)
- The page views for the router company article are 10× what the given name/surname article gets. Because of all the page moves recently, it's hard to see whether people visiting the original Eero article clicked through to the wifi/router company but my suspicion is they did. Regardless, readers come here to read the router/wifi article more than the name dab page. —Locke Cole • t • c 18:51, 30 June 2025 (UTC)
Why him?
Because he was the architect of the Gateway Arch, among other iconic structures in the U.S. Calling him "Saarinen" is ambiguous because of his father, also an architect. Rotideypoc41352 (talk · contribs) 05:49, 1 July 2025 (UTC)
- I dunno... Are we saying that this is WP:PRIMARYTOPIC including long-term significance criteria? I'm on the fence and won't formally oppose if anyone feels different, but with traffic of only ~136 hits/day, it doesn't seem like that many people are searching for this in the first place. Academically, Books and Scholar search results for "eero" provide several possibilities. In an attempt to remove advertising results, trying to search on duckduckgo, the results are still the router system, but the sidebar is Eero Saarinen... Why him? I don't know, but his traffic is also higher than the brand as well (top hit in books). -2pou (talk) 18:15, 30 June 2025 (UTC)
- MIM-72 Chaparral → M48 Chaparral (currently a redirect back to MIM-72 Chaparral) (move · discuss) – MIM-72 is the designation of the missile fired by the M48 Chaparral weapon system. RulanIndustries (talk) 17:28, 30 June 2025 (UTC)
- Second Fiji expedition (currently a redirect to Third Fiji expedition) → Third Fiji expedition (move · discuss) – The First Fiji expedition is not actually the First Fiji expedition it is the Second Fiji expedition. And the Second Fiji expedition is not the Second Fiji expedition it is the Third Fiji expedition. The real 1st Fijian Expedition is the Fiji Expedition of 1840 I am trying to change all of them to their proper names. Please help. I attempted to move the 1st to the 2nd and it gave me a technical reasons why it could not be done that is beyond me. Historyguy1138 (talk) 02:30, 1 July 2025 (UTC)
- July 36 → 36 July (currently a redirect back to July 36) (move · discuss) – The format of dates in Bangladesh and the former British colonies BurningB (talk) 05:52, 1 July 2025 (UTC)
Requests to revert undiscussed moves
[edit]- Draft:Let's Buy Commodore → User:Jakdeebear/sandbox (move) – Userify request given draft creator's attempted WP:CUTPASTE at Special:Diff/1298174348 and Special:Diff/1298188527, respectively Rotideypoc41352 (talk · contribs) 02:30, 1 July 2025 (UTC)
- Discovery Travel & Living (Europe) → Discovery Travel & Living (currently a redirect instead to Discovery Travel & Living (European TV channel)) (move · discuss) – Unexplained move (perhaps done in error) resulting in WP:MISPLACED Rotideypoc41352 (talk · contribs) 05:49, 1 July 2025 (UTC)
Contested technical requests
[edit]- Black comedy → Dark humor (currently a redirect back to Black comedy) (move · discuss) – No one uses the term “black comedy” anymore. The term dark humor has replaced the latter and changing the name is the best decision to describe the term. That or simply dark comedy. V.B.Speranza (talk) 00:48, 25 June 2025 (UTC)
- While you can't logically prove a negative, some evidence is needed on how "No one" uses the term anymore and if it has been totally replaced in the public consciousness with a new term that everybody uses. ---DOOMSDAYER520 (TALK|CONTRIBS) 14:08, 25 June 2025 (UTC)
- @V.B.Speranza That sounds like a good argument for an RM, but not really an uncontroversial argument for a undiscussed move. cyberdog958Talk 14:52, 25 June 2025 (UTC)
No one uses the term “black comedy” anymore.
Since when? In my experience, it's used all the time. I would also note that Dark humor converts a neutral title into an American English one. -- Necrothesp (talk) 11:15, 26 June 2025 (UTC)I would also note that Dark humor converts a neutral title into an American English one.
So, the article would be moved to Dark humour (British spelling) instead? GTrang (talk) 00:50, 28 June 2025 (UTC)- Although no template, it's written in American, and humour is currently considered the common name (spelling wise) as opposed to humor, but not without numerous exceptions; Jewish humor, anti-humor, theories of humor, humor styles, office humor, and more. Yet another good reason for an RM to establish common name. CNC (talk) 11:27, 28 June 2025 (UTC)
- John Oliver → John Oliver (entertainer) (currently a redirect back to John Oliver) (move · discuss) – Disambiguating Percy James91 (talk) 06:26, 27 June 2025 (UTC)
- @Percy James91 Strong oppose. The article is currently the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC, it has many times more page views than the other articles combined. Annh07 (talk) 06:51, 27 June 2025 (UTC)
- Tangentially, this move request needs to specify what should be done with the base page name to avoid WP:MISPLACED. More to the point, this has been discussed before and is thus ineligible for technical move requests as a WP:PCM. Rotideypoc41352 (talk · contribs) 00:43, 29 June 2025 (UTC)
- @Percy James91 Strong oppose. The article is currently the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC, it has many times more page views than the other articles combined. Annh07 (talk) 06:51, 27 June 2025 (UTC)
- US intervention in the Syrian civil war → United States intervention in the Syrian civil war (currently a redirect back to US intervention in the Syrian civil war) (move · discuss) – Convention established by innumerable other articles is that United States is fully spelled out. ~ Pbritti (talk) 01:45, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
- This request is valid but note that the opposite happened last year with the related Timeline of US intervention in the Syrian civil war, in which "United States" was previously spelled out before being shortened for a different policy reason. ---DOOMSDAYER520 (TALK|CONTRIBS) 15:09, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
- @Doomsdayer520: The renaming of Timeline of US intervention in the Syrian civil war seems to be in an attempt to make that article consistent with the one I'm requesting the move on. I think there's pretty clear indication that the spelling out "United States" is the norm and should be applied to both articles. If you believe a RM discussion is necessary for either/both, I can get on that. Best, ~ Pbritti (talk) 21:11, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
- I don't think the fuller process is necessary as long as we have consistency. The "Timeline" article should be fixed so "United States" is spelled out, but the person who moved it to that title last year should receive an explanation. ---DOOMSDAYER520 (TALK|CONTRIBS) 14:05, 25 June 2025 (UTC)
- @Doomsdayer520: The renaming of Timeline of US intervention in the Syrian civil war seems to be in an attempt to make that article consistent with the one I'm requesting the move on. I think there's pretty clear indication that the spelling out "United States" is the norm and should be applied to both articles. If you believe a RM discussion is necessary for either/both, I can get on that. Best, ~ Pbritti (talk) 21:11, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
- @Pbritti: I think your inference that making the two articles consistent would require a full RM is right given the move history of the Timeline article. (For the record, I have no opinion on this and speak solely from a purely procedural perspective.) Rotideypoc41352 (talk · contribs) 01:24, 29 June 2025 (UTC)
- This request is valid but note that the opposite happened last year with the related Timeline of US intervention in the Syrian civil war, in which "United States" was previously spelled out before being shortened for a different policy reason. ---DOOMSDAYER520 (TALK|CONTRIBS) 15:09, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
- Sirius XM → SiriusXM (currently a redirect back to Sirius XM) (move · discuss) – The title should be one word, as this reflects the official branding of the company (additionally, in official legal paperwork, the company is also listed as "SiriusXM Holdings, Inc."). A similar example to this is AutoZone, the auto parts company. Red0ctober22 (talk) 02:16, 29 June 2025 (UTC)
- @Red0ctober22 this should be discussed as it was discussed back in 2019, even if fairly low in participation. This is also a popular article and would probably benefit from the attention. ASUKITE 13:08, 29 June 2025 (UTC)
- I second. WP:TITLE "Wikipedia [...] generally prefers the name that is most commonly used." Based off of their branding, I would say that SiriusXM is commonly used. As a matter of fact, I don't recall ever seeing it mentioned as "Sirius XM." Their current website addresses the name as "SiriusXM." Additionally, the name/logo is a trademark, so I believe we should format it as described in WP:BRANDING, which states that (if I interpreted it correctly) it must match or be as close as possible to the branding.In their logos/corporate branding, there is no space clearly visible between "Sirius" and "XM."
- (I have no clue if this comment belongs here or on the talk page of Sirus XM itself, if it is in the wrong place, please let me know) ItsTheComedianYT (talk) 21:03, 30 June 2025 (UTC)
- Furu Platinum → Furu Purachina (currently a redirect back to Furu Platinum) (move · discuss) – actual title of the album Lulusword (talk) 10:22, 28 June 2025 (UTC)
- From web search, I'm getting the impression that the common name may still be "Furu Platinum", from google searches, especially in English coverage (mostly streaming listings, which isn't really a "reliable source" but it seems to be most of what we have to go on) - I can't even find "Furu Purachina" in any of the major streaming services. This is even reflected in the album artwork.ASUKITE 12:55, 29 June 2025 (UTC)
- Focus Entertainment → Focus Entertainment Publishing (move · discuss) – Title of the page is confusing, readers may confuse it with the parent company (which was once named Focus Entertainment as well). I suggest add publishing to the end to make clear that this is a subsidiary of the parent/not the parent company ItsTheComedianYT (talk) 20:06, 30 June 2025 (UTC)
- @ItsTheComedianYT.
Not done. Focus Entertainment is a WP:COMMONNAME. Fancy Refrigerator (talk) 00:26, 1 July 2025 (UTC)
- @ItsTheComedianYT.
- Shyama Prasad Mukherjee (disambiguation) → Shyama Prasad Mukherjee (currently a redirect instead to Syama Prasad Mookerjee) (move · discuss) – WP:MALPLACED - (disambiguation) is not needed Ivey (talk - contribs) 01:37, 1 July 2025 (UTC)
- MALPLACED fixed by reverting undiscussed retarget away from longstanding WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. If you think no primary topic exists, please hit "discuss". Rotideypoc41352 (talk · contribs) 03:56, 1 July 2025 (UTC)
Administrator needed
[edit]- 2025 Premier Volleyball League on Tour → 2025 Premier Volleyball League Reinforced Conference (currently a redirect instead to 2024–25 Premier Volleyball League season#Reinforced Conference) (move · discuss) – Redirect, page should be moved back to the "Reinforced Conference" article (planned for 4Q 2025) with "2025 Premier Volleyball League on Tour" (July–September 2025) created as a redirect of its own with its own fresh history which should start here Hariboneagle927 (talk) 09:54, 15 June 2025 (UTC)
- @Hariboneagle927, it looks like what you want to request is a {{History split}}. Realistically, you could probably just start the article over with a "Copied from Special:PermaLink/1295369782" edit summary or something like that, but a History Split will have to be done by an admin, up to you. Just add the details of what dates go to what article title. -2pou (talk) 21:26, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
- I have tagged the article with a history split. Not sure if I did it right. But I'm willing to wait. I don't think I can start over a new article (currently a redirect with its own shorter history) Hariboneagle927 (talk) 04:05, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
- @Hariboneagle927, it looks like what you want to request is a {{History split}}. Realistically, you could probably just start the article over with a "Copied from Special:PermaLink/1295369782" edit summary or something like that, but a History Split will have to be done by an admin, up to you. Just add the details of what dates go to what article title. -2pou (talk) 21:26, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
- Moving to the admin section, so an admin can decide to carry out the histsplit or to remove it from here and just it sit in the normal histsplit heap. Rotideypoc41352 (talk · contribs) 01:24, 29 June 2025 (UTC)
- I've been reluctant to history split this because there isn't a clearly delineated split point before which all edits are entirely about one topic and after which all edits are entirely about the other topic and I don't like doing history operations that leave some edits effectively orphan. * Pppery * it has begun... 18:15, 30 June 2025 (UTC)