Board Thread:Policies/@comment-122657-20121205075833/@comment-122657-20121207222722

Darkseid01 wrote: Why are characters moved? How is it more efficient than renaming or deleting? Is it done simply so the mover does not need to re-enter the information on the page?

Characters are moved to retain the edit history of the page. Deleting the old page and writing the same stuff on the new pages loses all edit history related to that character, and as such cannot be reverted to a point earlier than the copy/paste method.

Further, 'moving' a character by bot allows the bot to update all references to the old page title, thereby updating appearances, images, and many other links automatically, which would be quite a job doing manually.