User:TeleComNasSprVen/Guidelines to renaming a category
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- Copy-paste content from former catname to newer catname.
- Attribute original authors from former catname's history page, per the guidelines within the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
- Use Cat-A-Lot/HotCat to move files & categories to new catname.
- Add templates {{Badname}} or {{Category redirect}} to former catname.
- If it is a simple misspelling or typo, I use {{Badname}} because I assume autocomplete or Special:Search will automatically look for the newer category name anyway.
- If the newer catname is a synonym of the former catname, I use {{Category redirect}}
- Create an associated Wikidata item for the newer catname.
- Create claim (aka 'statement' on Wikidata) "instance of" with property "Wikimedia category page" for the new item.
- If there's a topic on English Wikipedia associated with the newer catname, or if there are stray interwiki links, I also move them to Wikidata.
- Add/change the associated topic's Wikidata item to have claim "Commons category" with the property containing the newer catname.
- Add the claim "category's main topic" to the newer catname's Wikidata item.
- Add the template {{On Wikidata}} to the newer catname to point to item containing the associated topic on English Wikipedia.