Is there a way to change/rename the URL for a Free Space page?

Question

When I first started creating some of my free space pages I was not thinking and really did not "name" them properly. For instance, I created a free space for Woodlawn Cemetery. The URL for that is Space:Woodlawn Cemetery. The problem is I know of at least two Woodlawn Cemeteries in the county I grew up in and I am sure there must be numerous Woodlawn Cemeteries throughout the US. I would like to be able to change/rename the URL to be more accurate and possibly keep from causing confusion for others. Was not sure if there was a way to do this or if it was just something to remember for the future.

Answer 1

Brian (and Keith),

Sorry for the long delay in replying.

If it's really important that you change the URL, you can do it by creating a new profile with the name you want and then merging the old profile into the new profile.

Merging free-space profiles works the same as it does with people, but the link to the form is a little hard to find. Here it is: http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Special:MergeSpace

As you know, we want to do more with the Name field on free-space profiles, i.e. use that almost everywhere, so the URL doesn't matter so much.

Chris

Comments

Thanks both of you guys. You pointed me towards a couple new tools I did not realize existed. As long as it is not an issue I will probably leave them as is, until it is determined how the Name field is going to evolve. No sense constantly having to change things.

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Another thought/question Chris... Does any coding exist to affect how things look on the category pages? for instance [[Chelton-4|BJC]] would display as BJC, can we do the same for categories or is it always the default "URL" name? I know someone mentioned that if you do [[Category:Department of Education|Educaction, Department of]] that it would sort "Department of Education" under the "E" section on the category page but I do not believe it affects how it is displayed.  Just curious.

Answer 2

Brian:

I've not found a way to do so, but have been thinking about this. Since no one else jumped in to reply yet, I decided to offer what follows.

You might be able to save the information on the page in a file on your desktop, then try the Delete (see: http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Special:Delete) for one profile.

I don't know that this would work.  Just a thought.

Good Luck and thanks for all your contributions to the WikiTree Project!

Keith

Answer 3

I found the answer using http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Special:MergeSpace