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== How to move a page to its redirect ==

The article [[African language]] is about ''African languages and language families''. On its discussion page I proposed a move to ''African languages'' (plural) since that seems to be the more appropriate name. (According to the naming conventions and/or the WikiProject Linguistics, an article titled ''African language'' would be about '''the''' African language, by analogy with [[Swahili language]] and the like; however, 'the African language' does not exist.) 

Coming to my point. Currently [[African languages]] is a redirect to [[African language]]. How do I move [[African language]] to its plural counterpart now? I understand that just copy/pasting is not the best thing to do because of losing the page history. Thanks in advance for the help!
- [[User:Strangeloop|Strangeloop]] [[User Talk:Strangeloop|<small>(talk)</small>]] 10:29, 21 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Only an admin can do this i'm afraid :-( I've done it for you. In case any admins don't know how to do this, you have to delete the redirect page (african languages) move the page to the old redirect page, then undeleted the page you just deleted to get the history back. [[User:Theresa knott|Theresa Knott]] [[User talk:Theresa knott| (taketh no rest)]] 10:37, 21 Sep 2004 (UTC)

: Thank you! [[User:Strangeloop|Strangeloop]] [[User Talk:Strangeloop|<small>(talk)</small>]]