User talk:Mini-mitch
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Tooth and Claw
So, before you moved Tooth and Claw to Tooth and Claw (TV story) — which was fine in itself — did you give any thought about what you would do with the couple of hundred links to Tooth and Claw? Have you verified they're all meant to link to the TV story? Were you taking care of the re-linking yourself? What's going on with it? I'm getting questions on my talk page about it, so I need to know whether you're taking care of it, or whether I should be gettin' the bot ready.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ <span style="">14:03:13 Sat 23 Jul 2011
- Well, here's the thing. The moment one makes a name change to an article — especially one as heavily linked as a TV story page — it's no longer an academic discussion on a talk page. The move requires additional action. And we, as admin, have to make sure that a core page like this is re-linked properly. We can't just leave it to others to take care of, because it's part of the basic "spine" of the wiki. And what's happened here is that Tybort has "taken care of it" — by just asking me to make the changes. And I don't mind doing it. But I would like to do it on my own schedule, rather than having to stop what I was doing and do it now. So in future it would be great if either you personally take responsibility for the re-linking consequent to a big name change like this; or you say, "You know, that's gonna require a bot to do it efficiently. Please put your request at user talk:CzechOut." That way I can have some control over the timing and the way that it's done. For instance, I would never have acquiesced to Tybort, no matter the validity of the request, before I knew that every single link to Tooth and Claw was meant to go to the TV story. Once you establish that, the bot changeover is a snap.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ <span style="">14:42:47 Sat 23 Jul 2011
