I’m a reddit old-timer but a relative Lemmy noob. I created a community called “electionmethods”, and then realized that I wanted the name to be “election-methods”. I tried deleting the community in an attempt to start over, but the old community remains. I then decided to wait, and hope that the deleted “electionmethods” went away so that I could start clean. I want it to be renamed “election-methods”, since I’ve been running a mailing list since 1996 called the “election-methods mailing list”, and I’m hoping to encourage the members of the list to use Lemmy. How do I rename “electionmethods” to “election-methods”? As a bonus, I would love it if “electionmethods” redirect to “election-methods”.
That community is deleted as far as anyone else can see (try your link with Private Browsing, or when logged out). It will remain visible to you, to allow you to change your mind and restore it, for 7 days I think.
Therefore, you should be able to start up a new community with the name you want, and just forget about the old one.