Trying to move a page to the actual title shows an inappropriate generic error
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Open the "rename" special page
Click on "rename" without changing the title
The error says that you need administrator rights to erase the current page, but it should tell that the title is the same

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Related Changes in Gerrit:

	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	Improve "selfmove" message's wording	mediawiki/core	master	+1 -1

Customize query in gerrit

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Framawiki created this task.May 10 2017, 8:26 PM

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matmarex edited projects, added MediaWiki-Special-pages; removed MediaWiki-General.May 10 2017, 8:59 PM

This sounds like a fairly harmless issue and it should be easy to fix, so I'm leaving it for some new developer to look at :)

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matmarex renamed this task from Try to move a page to the actual title shows an unappropriate generic error to Trying to move a page to the actual title shows an inappropriate generic error.May 15 2017, 8:01 PM

xSavitar added a project: Africa-Wikimedia-Developers.Jul 3 2017, 7:53 PM

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Change 365170 had a related patch set uploaded (by Eugene233; owner: Eugene233):
[mediawiki/core@master] Page move with same title shows generic error

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/365170

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Jul 13 2017, 9:10 PM

Eugene233 claimed this task.Jul 13 2017, 9:13 PM

I think I might be able to submit a fix for this today :)

xSavitar moved this task from New Contributor's Tasks (Incoming) to Tasks in progress (Doing) on the Africa-Wikimedia-Developers board.Jul 18 2017, 1:45 AM

Change 365170 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/core@master] Improve "selfmove" message's wording

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/365170

ReleaseTaggerBot added a project: MW-1.31-release-notes (WMF-deploy-2017-09-26 (1.31.0-wmf.1)).Sep 22 2017, 10:00 PM