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If you are unable to complete a move for technical reasons, you can request technical help below. This is the correct method if you tried to move a page, but you got an error message saying something like "You do not have permission to move this page, for the following reasons:..." or "The/This page could not be moved, for the following reason:..."

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  • If this is your first article and you want your draft article moved to the mainspace, please submit it for review at Articles for creation, by adding the code {{subst:submit}} to the top of the draft or user sandbox page instead of listing it here.
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  • Please make sure you really need technical assistance before making a request here. In particular, if the target page is a redirect back to the source page that has only one revision, you can usually move the page normally.
  • To list a technical request: edit the Uncontroversial technical requests subsection and insert the following code at the bottom of the list, filling in pages and reason: 
    {{subst:RMassist|current page title|new title|reason=edit summary for the move}}
    This will automatically insert a bullet and include your signature. Please do not edit the article's talk page.
  • If you object to a proposal listed in the uncontroversial technical requests section, please move the request to the Contested technical requests section, append a note on the request elaborating on why, and sign with ~~~~. Consider pinging the requester to let them know about the objection.
  • If your technical request is contested, or if a contested request is left untouched without reply, create a requested move on the article talk and remove the request from the section here. The fastest and easiest way is to click the "discuss" button at the request, save the talk page, and remove the entry on this page.
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Technical requests

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Uncontroversial technical requests

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Most requests should be placed below this heading.
  • Yama-bito → Yamabito (currently a redirect back to Yama-bito) (move · discuss) – We should remove the hyphenation, as the article refers to the Yamabito all-throughout without the hyphen, and articles like Yamabiko and Samebito are titled without a hyphen. Kaasterly (talk) 06:49, 25 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Hexastylis arifolia → Asarum arifolium (currently a redirect back to Hexastylis arifolia) (move · discuss) – Per Kelley (1998), "Phylogenetic relationships in Asarum (Aristolochiaceae) based on morphology and ITS sequences", American Journal of Botany 85(10): 1454–67 (doi:10.2307/2446402), the genus Hexastylis is nested within Asarum and not treated as a separate genus. The current article content and history should be merged with Asarum arifolium. This requires a history merge. NShehan (talk) 12:28, 21 June 2025 (CT)
    Why does it require a history merge? jlwoodwa (talk) 22:24, 21 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@NShehan if this requires a HISTMERGE, then you should request that first. It may make a mive unnecessary, and we certainly don't want to expand the mess by moving pages around. Toadspike [Talk] 07:11, 22 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I believe they are just trying to do the correct thing after a similar thing happened with Draft:Asarum rhombiformis and Draft:Asarum_shuttleworthii. A move and and merge was what UtherSRG suggested and performed after I moved the old names to the new accepted names. KylieTastic (talk) 16:57, 22 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Not contesting this as I've found reliable sources Rotideypoc41352 (talk · contribs) 03:30, 25 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • May I kindly ask you please list some sources for your claims? This title was contested back in 2008, so I won't contest it if WP:RS support your request. Rotideypoc41352 (talk · contribs) 14:46, 24 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    It appears @Rotideypoc41352 has already done the work for me and listed some sources below, which are about the same ones I would've linked anyway. Tremoloandwine (talk) 00:10, 25 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    • The problem here is that both spellings are used regularly in reliable sources and both have plenty of support to be declared the "common name" per WP policy. If we asked her directly, I'm sure she's very annoyed about how everyone else decided that she has two names. What matters here is the spelling at birth which appears to be Michele. If fully confirmable, that would be the title of her article here, with a comment at the top on how it is often mistakenly spelled the other way. ---DOOMSDAYER520 (TALK|CONTRIBS) 15:18, 24 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Requests to revert undiscussed moves

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If your request involves reverting a recent move, place it here.

Contested technical requests

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Do not insert new requests in this section. Only move requests here if the requested move has been contested.
@CoolingGibbon That page has been named “Linux gaming” a few different times, with the most recent being in 2023. Since the page has been moved several times, mostly undiscussed, a RM should be done to determine the consensus for the change. cyberdog958Talk 18:35, 22 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Forrest Keller This was previously proposed and not carried out, so a full RM discussion would be required to overturn that. jlwoodwa (talk) 23:21, 22 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
It seems that the user that originally moved the article, @Timwi is no longer active. Where should we discuss this move? I haven't seen any arguments against it. Forrest Keller (talk) 16:43, 23 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Apologies, I missed the section where the argument on page views was made. Updated figures from last month:
- Trinity University (Texas): 7,546
- Trinity University of Asia: 1,968
- Trinity University College: 339
Given that Trinity University of Asia is disambiguated in name from Trinity University, and has about a quarter the number of page views as Trinity University, it seems to make more sense to make Trinity University (Texas) the primary topic for this term, especially given it is the only page which has an exact name match in the disambiguation page. Forrest Keller (talk) 16:53, 23 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
That is the kind of argument that should be made in a full WP:RM discussion, not here. jlwoodwa (talk) 01:06, 24 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Edit this section only if your request requires an administrator. Usually, do so if the page has been fully protected or move protected (see this guide to which moves need administrators). Place your request in another section if it only requires a page mover.
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