Board Thread:Administrator's Noticeboard/@comment-5275700-20160210211220/@comment-3157150-20160210225253

BertH wrote: Moving content from a wiki page to a Discussion post won't be any easier. The only tool you could use to do that would be good old copy/paste. Discussions is not built on MediaWiki and so, as you can see from the URL structure of the Fallout and Elder Scrolls examples, does not exist in the namespace structure at all. A little sad to hear that, really, though I'm sure compatibility with other platforms is is mind. BertH wrote:

However, I am interested to hear more about this problem. Could you show me (or tell me about) some examples of users posting content elsewhere that belonged here in the forum? We're going to be testing out different ways to bring in the desktop/wiki visitors to Discussions. As part of testing here, we could see if there's a way to catch and route those people properly. Some examples as below:
 * Original post: http://terraria.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Undelete?target=Looking+for+people+to+start+a+hardcore+world+and+new+hard+mode+characters+with+on+Xbox+360&timestamp=20160203185357
 * Moved to here but has since been deleted: http://terraria.wikia.com/wiki/Thread:313245
 * Original post: http://terraria.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Undelete?target=User+blog%3AMegatronG144%2Fadd+me+on+psn&timestamp=20151126011822
 * Deleted, rather than moved.
 * Original post: http://terraria.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Undelete?target=If+You+Want+Help+For+Terraria+pc+Click+here&timestamp=20150811160350
 * Deleted due to incomplete moving policies at the time.
 * Original post: http://terraria.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Undelete?target=User+blog%3ACreepybeer123%2FLooking+for+people+PS3+Terraria&timestamp=20150730193552
 * Deleted due to incomplete moving policies at the time.
 * Original post: http://terraria.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Undelete?target=What+is+a+good+idea+for+the+game&timestamp=20150526004713
 * Removed due to incomplete moving policies at the time.
 * Original post: http://terraria.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Undelete?target=Terraria.extree&timestamp=20151004030021
 * Removed due to both inability to move to forum and otherwise unsuitable content.
 * Original post: http://terraria.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Undelete?target=Corrupted+save%2C+seriously%2C+not+the+biome&timestamp=20150407081435
 * Removed due to unsuitability to the mainspace and inability to move to forum.
 * Original post: http://terraria.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Undelete?target=Destroyer+Tactics&timestamp=20150311220402
 * Removed due to unsuitability to the mainspace and inability to move to forum.
 * Original post: http://terraria.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Undelete?target=Looking+for+someone+who+wants+to+play+Terraria+%28PC%29&timestamp=20141227143650
 * Removed due to unsuitability to the mainspace and inability to move to forum.
 * Original post: http://terraria.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Undelete?target=Corrupted+save%2C+seriously%2C+not+the+biome&timestamp=20150407081435
 * Removed due to unsuitability to the mainspace and inability to move to forum.
 * Original post: http://terraria.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Undelete?target=Destroyer+Tactics&timestamp=20150311220402
 * Removed due to unsuitability to the mainspace and inability to move to forum.
 * Original post: http://terraria.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Undelete?target=Looking+for+someone+who+wants+to+play+Terraria+%28PC%29&timestamp=20141227143650
 * Removed due to unsuitability to the mainspace and inability to move to forum.
 * Original post: http://terraria.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Undelete?target=Looking+for+someone+who+wants+to+play+Terraria+%28PC%29&timestamp=20141227143650
 * Removed due to unsuitability to the mainspace and inability to move to forum.
 * Removed due to unsuitability to the mainspace and inability to move to forum.

These are a few examples that I can dig up on short notice, but most of them and the others that I can think of would have been much more suited to the forum. While copy-pasting does work, it also leaves me (or the moderator/admin in question) as the original poster. Unless the editor who originally made the page follows the thread, they get no notifications and at best will have a talk page message (which not all editors pay attention to, sadly) regarding the move.