I'd like to have a possibility to retitle a thread of nodes conveniently, just like davido's Janitors Thread Retitler v3.1 and similar to The editors' hall of mirrors and trickery.

I imagine the process as follows:

  1. The janitor clicks retitle in the Editors Nodelet
  2. A Textbox is displayed. Janitor enters a new title and clicks preview.
  3. The new thread titles are displayed
  4. The janitor clicks submit
  5. The nodes get retitled and unconsidered
  6. An editorial note is left in the first retitled node that includes the consideration, the considerer, the janitor and the number of votes (Keep/Edit/Delete)
  7. Textbox and button are displayed for a autogenerated /msg to the OP

Maybe one could tweak davido's script to do this? What do you think?

Then I was thinking do do the retitling automatically (like autoreaping). But doing that blindly would be a bad idea facing considerations like change "defalt" to "default" or retitle: some more specific, please. So a retitling syntax would be neccessary. to change a part of the title: 

retitle/defalt/default/

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to change the whole title 
retitle/*/This is a new title/

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holli, /regexed monk/

In reply to On Site retitle function by holli

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