Wikipedia:Page mover

This page documents a procedural policy of Wikipedia.

It documents various processes by which the English Wikipedia operates.

This page in a nutshell:

The page mover permission allows editors to move pages, and subpages, without leaving redirects. Also allows creation and editing of editnotices and moving of categories.
The right is granted to experienced users (with at least 6 months of activity and at least 3,000 edits) who have demonstrated a good understanding of the Wikipedia page naming system.

The page mover user group (extendedmover) assigns rights that allow trusted users to perform more advanced page moves. These rights include moving without leaving behind a redirect (which allows moving page over a redirect with history (among others) using a round-robin page move), moving subpages when moving parent pages, moving categories, and overriding the title blacklist.

At their discretion, any administrator can grant these rights to experienced and trusted users who regularly move pages and demonstrate familiarity with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines regarding page moving and naming. Users are expected to have at least six months of editing history and at least 3,000 edits. Users should also have experience with the requested moves venue and know how page moving works.

If you wish to request page mover rights for yourself or another user, please see Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Page mover. Administrators are automatically granted these rights, so they do not need to request it.

There are currently 425 users with page mover rights, which together with Wikipedia administrators makes for a total of 1,266 users with these permissions.