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If you click edit on any existing page or page section and then change the title of the page shown in the URL of your browser's address bar to the name of a non-existent page, and then hit return/enter, the resulting page shown will be the same as if you clicked on a red link, allowing you to create a page by the title entered. For example ...
Page name is a term for the title of any page on Wikipedia. A page is named for the convenience of linking to it by its title. It is shown on the title line, near the top, in large bold letters. On Wikipedia, a database stores all the pages, and so a page is also named for the convenience of a database query to get that page. In the case of ...
Autoconfirmed users can move a page; this moves the page content and edit history to a new title, and creates a redirect page at the old title. Use the "Move this page" tab at the top of the article to perform a move or rename. Once you have moved a page, click the "What links here" link in the "toolbox" in the right column and fix the links to ...
In the "To new title" box, change the old name of the page (in this case, "User:Your username goes here/New article") to the new name of the page (in this case, "Sam Wyly"); enter a reason (typically, "Creating new article"); and click the "Watch this page" box (see the section about your watchlist).
The title line of a Media page is File:pagename. (This title is only helpful in some cases.) A Special page follows no such rules. Its title displays no namespace, and can change its pagename. See for example the title of any page listed at Special:SpecialPages. A virtual page is not a page name stored in the database as wikitext.
To create a new page: Create a link to it on some other (related) page. Save that page. Click on the link you just made. The new page will open for editing. For more information, see starting an article and check out Wikipedia's naming conventions. Please do not create a new article without linking to it from at least one other article.
Alternate title headers are headers that cover up the default header at the top of a page. The default title header has the name of the page in big bold letters. If you don't like how the default looks, follow the instructions below First, create a user subpage (described in this section) titled "User:Example User/Header"
To make a request, go to Categories for discussion. Moving a file to a different name; only a few users ("administrators" and "file movers") can do this To make a request, use the template {{Rename media}} (see template for instructions). Changing a username to a different name; only a handful of users ("Stewards and Global renamers") can do this