One of the purposes of the Custom Titles system was to make renames as easy as doing a custom title. You are also supposed to put in a redirect with the new title so that people will start using it. A full move is optional now.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"^^ The problem with that is that people might add the new titles to indexes or such, when it's actually a redirect. It could also lead to alphabetization errors for people who edit from the source rather than the preview. Like others said, it could also lead to a lot of wicks that need to be cleaned up.
“Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”This is helpful for editors because it magnifies the mistakes and makes it easier to fix.
But this is really confusing for readers, and I think readers are more important.
Put me in motion, drink the potion, use the lotion, drain the ocean, cause commotion, fake devotion, entertain a notion, be Nova ScotianThis makes it harder on everyone except the person doing the move. Readers get left with a mess that requires a fair bit of wiki-knowledge to make out. Editors have to deal with the fact that the source code and the output are suddenly very different. I'd say doing this causes more problems than it solves
Disregard. Read an above post in reverse...
edited 26th Apr '11 6:47:41 AM by SilentReverence
Fanfic Recs orwellianretcon'd: cutlocked for committee or for Google?Massive resource consumption, specifically.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"I say for Accidental Nightmare Fuel, we remove the auto-renamer-ma-jig and make Nightmare Fuel "Nightmare Fuel" a disambiguation page.
I don't know what to do Artistic License X, but it's a makes an even bigger mess than Accidental Nightmare Fuel.
edited 26th Apr '11 11:01:01 AM by DrStarky
Put me in motion, drink the potion, use the lotion, drain the ocean, cause commotion, fake devotion, entertain a notion, be Nova ScotianToss my vote in with the crowd of "using custom titles for rename purposes is bad". The custom title system was not designed to replace rename proposals, just the old ptitle infrastructure.
An Ear Worm is like a Rickroll: It is never going to give you up.Ideally, there should be a general rename function that copies the text over from title A to B and leaves A as a redirect to B, all in one fell swoop, but that has yet to happen.
edited 27th Apr '11 10:50:20 AM by Stratadrake
An Ear Worm is like a Rickroll: It is never going to give you up.As far as I know, we have used this to rename Nightmare Fuel, The You Fail X, and If You Know What I Mean.
Crown Description:
Thoughts on whether the custom title request feature should be used to perform renames on existing tropes.

Yeah, I thought he only point of it was for killing ptitles. Why is it being used for renames?