Author: phi1ipp
Description:
It is not currently possible to move a page if a redirect exists where the page is to be moved. This is sane in most cases. However, if the redirect already points to the page to be moved, there is less reason to suspect that deleting the redirect and moving the page as instructed will have a bad effect. I therefore suggest that when pages are being moved to their own redirects, the redirecting page be automagically deleted (and a redirect created where the page was moved from, as per usual, and the message given about double redirects, also as usual).
Note, however, that this mechanism could be abused to delete pages; I propose two safeguards against this:
- The editor creating the redirect and moving the page must be two different users/IPs.
- Redirects younger than x minutes may not be deleted in this way. I propose x=60 as a default.
Version: 1.12.x
Severity: normal