User talk:BoffoHijinx

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[edit] Help?

Would you like some assistance with anything? You placed the template at the top of your page and that's why I'm here. James086^{Talk | Contribs} 05:30, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Need Help!

Someone changed the name of the Crosby, Stills & Nash (and Young) to Crosby,Stills & Nash (Crosby, Stills ,Nash and Young). I tried to fix this by changing it Crosby, Stills & Nash (Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young), as the commas were totally wrong. Now I'm having problems with links everywhere, and I have no idea how to fix this. It looks as though there's double redirects everywhere. Worse yet, the history from the original page no longer shows on the redirected page. It probably should not have been changed in the first place, but I couldn't figure out how to undo what the first person (Mrsanitazier) had done. HELP! BoffoHijinx 05:41, 7 January 2007 (UTC)BoffoHijinx

Is there a problem with the name now? Should it be called something else? If not then I suggest leaving it. As for the redirects, they will have to be changed to the new page. The other links (from articles) don't matter because they will go through the redirects. So if you go to Crosby, Stills & Nash (and Young) it will immediately redirect you to Crosby,Stills & Nash (Crosby, Stills ,Nash and Young) and say so at the top (just under the article title). If you click the link there it will take you to the redirect page. You can see what links to a page by clicking "What links here" under the search bar on the left. Do this and every page that links to that one will be listed. Then just pick out the redirects (there won't be too many) and change them so they point to the newly named article. I have done one for you, if you click this link it will show the differences between the 2 versions of the redirect. I hope it's not too confusing what I just said :) James086^{Talk | Contribs} 05:44, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Going back to the "What links here page" it appears that there are over 100 articles I'd need to fix in order to get it back to linking directly to the page. Is there any way it can go back to the original naming scheme prior to Mrsanitazier "fixed" it? That would also solve the problem of the history disappearing. BoffoHijinx 06:02, 7 January 2007 (UTC)BoffoHijinx

Well, it could have been left alone, but I couldn't figure out how to change it back to what it was originally before Mrsanitazier changed everything. There are quite a few pages that should link back to the redirected page. One instance, can be found if I go the CPR (band), the redirect goes through twice. I'd rather not have to change every single instance where their name appears, as it was quite a lengthy list. The other problem is that the redirect then blanked out all of the histories associated with the page. I wish I could just undo both my changes and the change made by Mrsanitazier, as his or her changes were incorrect in the first place. BoffoHijinx 05:57, 7 January 2007 (UTC)BoffoHijinx

Fixed. All is back at Crosby, Stills & Nash (and Young) (who puts an article at Crosby, Stills & Nash (Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young)?) -Royalguard11(Talk·Desk·Review Me!) 06:00, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Thank you Royalguard! That's exactly what I was hoping would happen. No idea why anyone would change the name in the first place. BoffoHijinx 06:06, 7 January 2007 (UTC)BoffoHijinx

[3x edit conflict] Yes it seems Royalguard11 has fixed the situation. Just so you know, the redirects work whenever something links to the article, so you wouldn't have needed to fix every article with the link, just the redirect pages and it would have fixed it. But that's irrelevant now. James086^{Talk | Contribs} 06:07, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

I appreciated your help, James086. Thanks for the tips. BoffoHijinx 06:10, 7 January 2007 (UTC)BoffoHijinx