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Enter the title you want to create here, and click Create redirect: Note that creating a redirect on mobile browser can cause issues; you may wish to switch to desktop view . To do this, scroll to the bottom of this article and click the 'desktop view ' link.
URL hijacking is an off-domain redirect technique [3] that exploited the nature of the search engine's handling for temporary redirects. If a temporary redirect is encountered, search engines have to decide whether they assign the ranking value to the URL that initializes the redirect or to the redirect target URL.
Because the ampersand character (&) is disallowed, it is not possible to create an ordinary link containing &action=edit or &redirect=no in the URL query string. These kinds of links can be helpful in user pages. Also, a redirect page can have categories and you might wish to view or edit these in a single click.
If the redirect target is an existing page on English Wikipedia and a reader navigates to the redirect page – by wikilink, the search box, or a URL – the reader is taken directly to the target page. A small notice below the top title indicates that the user arrived via a redirect.
To create a basic redirect using the source editor, type #REDIRECT [[target page name here]] as the only text on the page. The capitalization of the word REDIRECT doesn't matter. For instance, if you were redirecting from "" to "United Kingdom", this would be the entire body of . #REDIRECT [[United Kingdom]]
Since the "What links here" page does list redirects to a sections in the page, another possible workaround is making a new title that redirects to a particular section, and encouraging people to make links to the redirect rather than the section. For instance, making a Bar (Foo) page that redirects to Foo#Bar.
Other uses of URL shortening are to "beautify" a link, track clicks, or disguise the underlying address. This is because the URL shortener can redirect to just about any web domain, even malicious ones. So, although disguising of the underlying address may be desired for legitimate business or personal reasons, it is open to abuse. [2]
This takes you to the actual shortcut page, which is a redirect. You should notice &redirect=no in the URL. Edit the target #REDIRECT [[Wikipedia:Whatever]]. Add {{R from shortcut}} if that template doesn't already appear. After changing a shortcut, there are other pages which may need to be updated: