Last modified: 2012-04-14 19:20:28 UTC
In my opinion it is helpful to include a new option to move: suppresssubpagesredirect. All user with "suppresredirect" and "move-subpages"-rights should have this option. Advantage: * When moving a project page with subpages in the most case it is necessary to leave a redirect from old to new project name, but not for subpages, so the subpagesredirect can be supressed. * a user rename: The redirect for the root-userpage is necessary to go to the new name. But by the subpages the redirect is not always useful
I'm not sure these use-cases for creating redirects for the root page but not for subpages are very realistic. The expected use for suppressredirect was reverting vandal pagemoves: if the vandal moved a page and a hundred subpages to a vandal title, then when moving them back there's no need for a redirect anywhere. The suppressredirect setting propagates to subpages as expected for this usecase. I don't think adding yet another option is a good idea. If you *really* need to do this, move them all with redirect suppressed and then recreate the redirect for the root page manually.
Creating the root redirect manually after move sounds like a better idea, than this option.
