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Files changed: - CHANGES.md - VERSION - instructions/page-lifecycle.md - instructions/publish-cycle.md - tools/CONTRACT.md - tools/chemenu/cli.py - tools/chemenu/commands/log_append.py - tools/chemenu/commands/migrate_cmd.py - tools/chemenu/commands/new_page.py - tools/chemenu/commands/page_ops.py - tools/chemenu/corpus_diff.py - tools/chemenu/lint_core.py - tools/chemenu/tests/test_corpus_diff.py - tools/chemenu/tests/test_lint.py - tools/chemenu/tests/test_migrate_cmd.py - tools/chemenu/tests/test_page_ops.py - tools/chemenu/tests/test_type_resolver.py - tools/chemenu/type_resolver.py
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---
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type: types/instruction.md
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name: page-lifecycle
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description: Rename a page, delete one, or drop a single cross-reference without breaking the links that point at it.
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---
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# Rename, delete, or unlink a page
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A page's title is the wiki's only identifier for it. The same title appears in other pages'
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`[[wikilinks]]`, in the `[[Title]]` a `[^cite-id]` footnote definition points at, and in
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frontmatter reference arrays (`related:`, `sources:`, `entities:`, `concepts:`).
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**Never move, rename, or delete a page file by hand, and never edit a reference array by
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hand.** Each of the commands below rewrites all three places at once; hand-editing rewrites
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one and leaves the others pointing at nothing.
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## Rename
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```bash
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tools/wikitool rename --from "<Old>" --to "<New>" --dry-run # see the blast radius first
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tools/wikitool rename --from "<Old>" --to "<New>"
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```
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Repoints body wikilinks (aliases and anchors preserved), a citation id derived from the old
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title (both its Footnotes definition and every `[^cite-id]` reference to it), the page's own
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H1, and every frontmatter reference array the type declares in `page_ref_fields:`.
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**If `--from` is not a page but is referenced**, rename instead repoints those references onto
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the existing `--to` page and moves nothing. That is the fix for a reference spelled
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`act_runner` when the page is `Act Runner`.
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## Delete
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```bash
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tools/wikitool rm --page "<Title>" --dry-run
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tools/wikitool rm --page "<Title>"
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```
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It **refuses while other pages still reference the page**. That refusal is information, not an
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obstacle: show the user the inbound list, and only re-run with `--yes` once they approve.
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It strips reference-array entries and bare `- [[Title]]` / `- **label:** [[Title]]` bullets. It
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leaves prose mentions and inline citations in place and reports them - those are an editorial
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fix afterwards, not a reason to retry the command.
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## Move
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```bash
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tools/wikitool move --page "<Title>" --dry-run # see where it would go first
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tools/wikitool move --page "<Title>"
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tools/wikitool move --reconcile --dry-run # every misplaced page at once
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tools/wikitool move --reconcile
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```
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Moves the page's file to the directory its type-spec computes for its current frontmatter -
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`base_dir` + `layout`, the same rule `new` places a page by when it is first created. The
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destination is never chosen by hand: there is no `--to <dir>`. Only the file moves - no body, no
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frontmatter field, and the title (the wiki's only identity for a page) never changes, so no
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reference anywhere in the wiki needs updating.
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`--reconcile` applies the same rule corpus-wide in one call; a second run reports nothing left
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to do. `wikitool lint`'s **Misplaced Pages** finding is the advisory this fixes - it is not a
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hard error, so an unreconciled corpus is not a broken one, only one `move` would tidy.
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A destination that already holds a file with the page's name is refused, not silently
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overwritten - that only happens on a pre-existing duplicate-title collision, which `lint`'s
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**Duplicate Titles** finding reports separately.
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## Drop a single reference
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```bash
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tools/wikitool xref remove --a "<A>" --b "<B>"
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```
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Clears `<B>` from every reference field `<A>`'s type declares, plus the matching bullets.
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`--b` need not still exist as a page, which is how a reference left behind by an earlier
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hand-edit gets cleared. Idempotent.
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## Afterwards
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Always close out with [publish-cycle.md](publish-cycle.md), using `--op rename`, `--op delete`,
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or `--op move`. A move changed no reference, so run `wikitool index rebuild` rather than
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`sources rebuild-index` - the catalog is built from where a page's file sits, and nothing else
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about it moved. Then confirm nothing was left dangling:
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```bash
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tools/wikitool lint
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```
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`lint` reports every reference still pointing at nothing, and every page still not at its
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computed location.
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## Scope
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This is for pages under `kb/`. Contracts, instructions, skills and type-specs are not pages -
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they are moved with `git mv`, and their inbound links are ordinary markdown paths that have to
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be updated by hand.
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