How to Change the Title of a wikiHow Article

General Instructions for Both Methods

1. 1
   Review the Title Policy before you begin.
2. 2
   Check the Discussion Page of the article for any comments or alternative title suggestions.
3. 3
   Evaluate the suggested title for accuracy and economy of phrasing.
   • Not all suggested titles are the better than the existing title. If the current title is better than the suggested one, remove the {{title|Please change me}} template and explain your reasoning on the discussion page or edit summary.
   • You can skip the consensus building portion of the title change process in several instances. For example: if the article is fairly new, and the author just made a simple typo when writing it, or if you are not changing anything other than simple grammar issues such as spelling, punctuation, first person usage, or capitalization.
   • The more well-established the article (determined by how old it is and how many page views it has), the more careful you need to be about changing the title. For example: You should be extra cautious about changing a title if an article has a high view count and has been read by a wide audience over a good period of time.
   • Occasionally, with newer articles that have very few views or comments on their talk pages, it is simpler to copy/paste an entire body of an article into a better title rather than creating multiple REDIRECT pages.
4. 4
   After adjusting the title, you must return to the article to remove the title template. Make a notation in the edit summary that you have changed the title.

Admin Method

1. 1
   Choose "Move" from the admin buttons on the top of the page.
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   Make the changes to the title.
3. 3
   State your reasoning for changing the title in the box.
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   Click "Move Page"
5. 5
   Change all incoming links to the old title.
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   Choose "What Links Here" from the toolbox drop-down menu.
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   Go through each link, find references to the old title, and replace them with the new title that's been agreed upon. This isn't mandatory, since the redirects will keep all the old links fresh. However in the cases of a radical name change it will reduce reader confusion.
8. 8
   Open the Article for editing to remove the {{title}} tag from the article.
9. 9
   Remove the title tag.
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    Save the changes to the article body.
11. 11
    Document your title change on the discussion page. Leave a simple note saying that you changed the title and that anyone can view the page history for details.

Category Method

This can be used ONLY if the title tag addition was the last edit to the article, but eliminates opening the article for editing to remove the tag when you are finished (3 clicks and one select/delete less than method 1 above)

1. 1
   Open the Title Category here.
2. 2
   Click on a title to change.
   
   
   

   Open Title Category Page
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   Read (and remember!) the title change suggestion. In this case, it is a minor grammatical fix, just lowercase the first letter of the preposition "when".
   
   
   

   Read the Suggested Title
4. 4
   Click on the History tab.
   
   
   

   Click the History Tab.
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   Undo the last edit - the one adding the title tag. If the title tag placement was not the last edit, you'll have to proceed with Method 1.
6. 6
   Click "Move". (There's no need to return to the main article page to do this!)
   
   
   

   Now click "move" to make the changes.
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   Make the changes to the title.
   
   
   

   Highlight the change.
   
   
   

   Make the change.
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   Click "Move page," and you're ready for the next one!
   
   
   

   Click "Move Page"
   

   Ready for the next one!

Booster Method

1. 1
   Open your web browser and visit the wikiHow website.
   
   
   
2. 2
   Become a New Article Booster on wikiHow, at the very least.
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   Go to the article that needs adjusting. Be sure it stays within the borderline of wikiHow's Title Policy.
   
   
   
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   Click on that article's URL bar and Revise the URL that appears, so that, in between the www.wikihow.com and the article title, you can add the text Special:Movepage/. You'll see a page that contains both the original article that is "bound" to the page, along with a line labeled "To Move Page".
   
   
   
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   Click into the "To Move Page" line and make all adjustments available to the article, while still following wikiHow's wikiHow:Title Policy.
   
   
   
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   Make sure the "Move associated talk page" checkbox is checked (if present).
   • This checkbox will only be present, if the article has had any previous messages attached to it, or RS/FA article announcements placed on it.
     • Obviously, this means that, for those pages that don't have stuff, it's obvious that when the title page is moved, it creates a brand new talk page for the moved article's title, and "disregards" the original talk page, leaving the old one as blank.
       • This is NOT how Wikipedia views this policy when members Permanently Change the Title to a Wikipedia Article, as they bring this box out anyways.
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   Look at the line labeled "Add this page to my Watch List". If you'd like to watch for changes on the upcoming page for edits, check this box.
   
   
   
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   Click the "Move page" box, when complete.
   
   
   
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   Look for a "success" message from the Move page system to be generated and displayed.