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Symbiotic nova should probably remain as a separate article. It is barely more than a stub at the moment, but it is "a thing" and I don't feel any great need to merge it. I think the creator of that article thought that the term applied to essentially all symbiotic variable stars which isn't the case. It should of course be mentioned in Symbiotic star/binary, as well as at Cataclysmic variable star which is the parent class for the symbiotic variables as well as others. I don't think the existing articles present the relationships between the different types of cataclysmic variables, and especially the symbiotic systems, very well. Lithopsian (talk) 11:27, 17 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
If you feel there is no need to merge it then that is fine. My main reason for concern for was that this was not a simple pageswap, as you wanted as redirect to be re-targeted before swapping and I didn't feel comfortable changing the links for a topic I don't know much about. Could you please confirm that all the wikilinks here (for the title "Symbiotic binary") would apply to the article currently here at "Symbiotic star" and not the at "Symbiotic nova". There is something called Symbiotic novae star, should that be redirected to the article here or Symbiotic nova? Also where should Symbiotic variable and Symbiotic variable star redirect to after the move. Sorry for having to ask all the questions and not just doing the move at RM/TR, but with moves like this we need to make sure that the links and redirects all point towards the intended target. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 12:25, 17 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, I should probably have done some tidying before I started. It doesn't help that there is a piece of the puzzle that seems to be completely missing: an article about the symbiotic variable star class (prototype Z Andromedae), which seems like it is a catch-all but is actually distinct from the symbiotic novae and sometimes called classical symbiotics or just Z Andromedae variables. There are currently four redirects to Symbiotic nova, here's how I think they should be retargeted:
Symbiotic binary: move Symbiotic star over this
Symbiotic novae star => Symbiotic nova (no change)
Symbiotic variable => Symbiotic binary (for now, but will get its own article)
Symbiotic variable star => Symbiotic binary (for now, but get its own article)
@Lithopsian: I have created a table below of proposed action of the pages that have been mention above could you please fill in the ones that say example? This is going to be left open for the standard 7 days to see if anyone else has anything to comment, but if nobody opposes then we can get to work on doing this. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 20:47, 17 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I've removed three articles and one template from the table. These require edits, which I've begun, but independent of this move request. At worst, if the move is rejected, then there are some wikilinks to the symbiotic binary redirect that will have to be piped to symbiotic star, but these are already listed in the table as "Wikilinks". For example, I've already added Symbiotic novatoTemplate:Variable star topics and this is correct whatever happens here. Lithopsian (talk) 21:17, 17 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.