Editing Incubator escapee wiki:Help desk/Archive 5 (section)

== Renaming without creating a redirect ==

The answer to my problem is doubtless presented succinctly somewhere in these pages, but after an hour of looking I still haven't found it, so perhaps someone will take pity on me and help me out.

I want to write an article entitled "Bill of lading". An article of that name already exists; however, it does not in fact deal with the term "bill of lading" (a shipping document) at all, but is instead a definition of the word "bill" meaning a statement of money owed.

Apart from some spelling mistakes the currently misnamed article is perfectly good in its own right, so I do not wish to delete its content, just rename the page.

However, as I understand it, if I do that a redirect page called "Bill of lading" will automatically be created -- so how can I then create my own "Bill of lading" page, the title already having been taken? -- [[User:Picapica|Picapica]] 22:25, 31 Jul 2004 (UTC)

:If you go to a redirect page, you'll get a little note saying "Redirected from whatever". If you click that link, it'll take you to the page title you were at, where you can edit as normal. Try visiting [[Wikipedia:Help Desk]] to see what I mean, it's a redirect on the capitalization. -- [[User:Cyrius|Cyrius]]|[[User talk:Cyrius|✎]] 22:45, 31 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Many thanks, Cyrius. I've now been able to do what I wanted -- and everything seemed to work very well :-) -- [[User:Picapica|Picapica]] 23:35, 31 Jul 2004 (UTC)