The person who moves the page can specify whether the talk page moves with it, so either it moves with the actual page, or stays behind with the old title. In any case it isn't deleted.
—Yan (User:Ynhockey). On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 12:01 AM, Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك نورونيا <[email protected]> wrote: > Is this a bug or is it a feature? > > Just wanted to know what happens to the 'talk' section of a Wikipedia entry > once (or if) a page gets shifted. > > I noticed that the earlier discussions (that might have come up via the > Talk) just disappears. > > Now, this isn't very helpful. Because all the earlier talk seems to be > untraceable, and there is a complete vacuum about what was said earlier. > > If anyone wishes, this system can be abused (for instance, to cover earlier > discussions... by simply changing the title of the page). > > Am I missing something here? > > FN > > -- > _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ > _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ > _/ > _/ Frederick Noronha http://about.me/noronhafrederick http://goa1556.in > _/ P +91-832-2409490 M 9822122436 Twitter @fn Fcbk:fredericknoronha > _/ Hear Goa,1556 shared audio content at > https://archive.org/details/goa1556 > _/ > _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ > _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ > _______________________________________________ > Wikipedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l > _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l
