Moving a page over a redirect causes a revision to vanish
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	Mr.Z-man
	Jul 22 2009, 5:26 AM

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When a page is moved over a redirect, the redirect revision is deleted entirely from the database. In the interests of not having edits completely disappear, we may want to put this somewhere, possibly in the archive table, or merging it with the history of the article moved over it.

Related to bug 16877

Version: 1.16.x
Severity: minor
See Also:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16877
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5785

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Mr.Z-man created this task.Jul 22 2009, 5:26 AM

No replies and nobody CCed here. The topic of removing edits from a database seems to be relevant for some editors, but I have no idea how relevant this specific (and very mechanical) case would be.

Bugreporter closed this task as a duplicate of T106119: Moving a page over the redirect leaves an abandoned row in the revision table.Jul 29 2016, 5:39 PM

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