Forum:Is there any way to rename a category, without having to change every page in the category

This concerns The Fire Emblem Wiki.

When we were first working on it (and it had barely 100-200 pages) we wern't too concerned about the names of the categories, but not that we have about 1950+ articles the annoying little problems are getting more and more apparant to me.

(i.e i'd change Sacred Stones Images to The Sacred Stones Images, Fire Emblem:Radiant Dawn characters to Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn characters, and a bunch of other very minor changes)

Now these changes are important for tidy-ing the wiki and keeping the categories consistant. However it will take over a thousand edits to do all these changes that are needed and I can't be bothered to spend that long doing it (would take me about a fortnight to do it).

Is there an easy way to do this.

-- Semaj draehs - any replies to my Talk page  17:13, 13 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Why not have more of your wiki's users help you? It's not something you should have to take on by yourself. If it's an improvement effort, it should be a community effort. - Brandon Rhea (talk) 17:33, 13 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Short answer: no. -- LordTBT Talk! 17:42, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

''Why not have more of your wiki's users help you? It's not something you should have to take on by yourself. If it's an improvement effort, it should be a community effort''

We all have better edits to do, which is why I was trying to find an easier/quicker way. Ther are 4 regular users including me, the other admin is busy working on some nav templates and contributing to pages, another regular user is busy adding a lot of great content pages (and he's on a role, so I don't really wanna disturb him) and the last regular user has his own site and helps us out by lending images from his site aswel as correcting things, but he doesn't really do much of the tidying work. Either way its not really worth it at this point to pull everyone away from more meaningful tasks, so I guess i'll leave it for now and wait til everything else is done, then I might be able to organise a community effort to get it sorted.

-- Semaj draehs - any replies to my Talk page  19:52, 13 July 2009 (UTC)


 * You can consider using a Bot. Tedjuh10 - Talk 19:56, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

How do you use a bot?

-- Semaj draehs - any replies to my Talk page  21:17, 13 July 2009 (UTC)