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(keyboard shortcut: Ctrl+⇧ Shift+Del). Select "Temporary Internet Files" at the top, and click "Delete". (If Wikipedia is in your list of favorites, you may need to turn off the "Preserve Favorites website data" at the top of the dialog box.) Internet Explorer will now silently delete the items you have chosen.
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The redirect makes no sense, such as redirecting "Apple" to "Orange". (Speedy deletion criterion G1 may apply.) It is a cross-namespace redirect out of article space, such as one pointing into the User or Wikipedia namespace. The major exception to this rule are the pseudo-namespace shortcut redirects, which technically are in the main article ...
Grant delete-redirect to page movers; Add the following text to Wikipedia:Page mover#Flags granted:; By default, a move cannot be carried out if there is already a page at the target title, unless that existing page is a single revision redirect pointing to the title that is being moved to replace it.
If the target is a non-existent section of an existing page, then the redirect will take the reader to the top of the target page. Chains of redirects are not followed. If title A redirects to B, and B is itself a redirect page, then a reader navigating to A will see the display of the redirect page B (as illustrated).
On the other hand, if the redirect was created by renaming a page with that name, and the page history just mentions the renaming, and for one of the reasons above you want to delete the page, copy the page history to the Talk page of the article it redirects to.
The article is preserved in the redirect page's history. Deletion by redirection might be considered vandalism in some circumstances. These redirects should be promptly reverted. Any editor can boldly redirect to another article, without copying content. If a deletion by redirection is disputed, an attempt should be made on the talk page to ...
Shortcuts exist as redirects pointing from the title of the shortcut (for example, Wikipedia:START) to its target (in this case, Portal:Contents).Notice that project shortcuts are usually listed with the prefix "WP" and not "Wikipedia"; this is because when "WP" or "Wp" appears before a colon in a page name, MediaWiki automatically expands it to "Wikipedia".