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Facebook's notification to "update your name". The Facebook real-name policy controversy is a controversy over social networking site Facebook's real-name system, which requires that a person use their legal name when they register an account and configure their user profile. [1]
This procedure preserves the page's edit history. Please do not rename a page by copying/pasting its content to a new page name. If you have an autoconfirmed account (an account that is at least four days old and has made more than 10 edits), you can move a page yourself, but please first review Wikipedia:Article titles.
You can still edit these pages indirectly by submitting an edit request—an editor with the permission to edit the protected page will respond to it. To submit an edit request, click on the protected page's "View source" tab and then the "Submit an edit request" button at the bottom right.
Wikipedia has page histories. So every time you make a change to an article (or most other pages), the old version is still there too, and is almost as easily accessible to a reader or to another editor as the current version of the page. And so if you do something silly, someone else can easily undo it.
If you wish to link to a page while displaying text different from the page name, use [[page name|text]]. To add a link, find an article that supports both the immediate context and main topic. The spelling of the page name can come from visiting the target and copying its title, from the search box name-completion.
Now the fullpagename of a page will generally be the same as the page name (note the space in page name), and hence the page's title as explained earlier. The only time the fullpagename will differ from the page's title, is if the displayed title is changed by a method detailed in the 'Changing the displayed title' section beneath; for example ...
A page that is a redirect can be moved like any other page, although it is rarely useful because it has the same detrimental effect on page history as copy-pasting content to a new page, and making the old page a redirect: when moving a redirect page to a new page name, the redirect on the old page (now directing to the new redirect page) will ...
On the article about an individual, the display name and the article title will usually be identical and can be omitted. For example, on the article page Facebook , linking to their own Facebook profile could be done with: