Stages

Currently, there are ~3,000 pairs of pages with a Legends article at the un-suffixed Example title and the canon article at Example/Canon. The end result of this process will have the Legends article at Example/Legends and the canon title at Example without a suffix, with the edit histories preserved, and all of the links changed. The process will be undertaken by (at the moment) three or more bots.


 * Stage 1:
 * The bots will each take sections of the 3,000 pairs, and move each pair to their new title. Example: the Luke Skywalker page, which is the Legends page that has existed since 2005, will be moved to Luke Skywalker/Legends. Then the Luke Skywalker/Canon page will be moved to the now empty/redirected Luke Skywalker title, with a redirect left from Luke Skywalker/Canon. Then on to the next Legends/Canon page pair, and so on. This way, the core titles will not be redirects for more than a few minutes at most; probably a few seconds.
 * Stage 2:
 * The bots will run through the non-mainspace namespaces and Category:Legends articles, which is one of the two divisions of the entire mainspace (as all mainspace articles use Eras which applies the Legends/Canon article categories), and fix all links to the 3,000 moved Legends pages. By the end of this, no pages should be linking to those 3,000 unsuffixed titles. I've done runs like this before with similar numbers of redirects.
 * Stage 3:
 * The bots will run through the non-mainspace namespaces and Category:Canon articles, and fix all /Canon links to the 3,000 moved canon pages. Splitting the two link-changing stages prevents any false positives where the bots would change a link that's already been fixed. The Example/Canon redirects won't be deleted, preserving external links.