User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-188432-20130129081336/@comment-188432-20130130183524

Digifiend wrote: What separation? I renamed the Oswin page to Clara Oswin Oswald, that's the opposite of splitting it. My intent was that they should be one page.

Well, no. The word "rename" is a bit of semantic trickery by Wikia. There's no difference between "rename" and "move", which you definitely did. It may have been your intent to create one page, but normal users can't do anything but split a page when they use the option labelled "rename".

This is part of the reason why it's bad form to take an action like a page move/rename on the page of an important character, concept or story without discussion.

In many cases, having a redirect wouldn't be problematic. But in this case, your action very definitely created a stir, as witnessed by the very first post of Talk:Clara Oswald#Why a single article? / Splitting article.

Your move actually created the avenue by which information could then be put onto the redirect page — the precise opposite of what you intended. Tangerineduel, in other words, did not split the article. You did, and he merely followed up your action, trying to make some sense of it, given the discussion that erupted on the talk page.

Neither I nor anyone else is mad at you, but your action — though done for completely the opposite reason than it appeared — is beyond the norm of our usual practises when it comes to names of important, frequently-linked pages.