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Redirects can be effectively used for targeting purposes like geotargeting. Device targeting has become increasingly important with the rise of mobile clients. There are two approaches to serve mobile users: Make the website responsive or redirect to a mobile website version. If a mobile website version is offered, users with mobile clients ...
Often the redirect domain name is shorter than the original one. A friendly URL may be desired for messaging technologies that limit the number of characters in a message (for example SMS), for reducing the amount of typing required if the reader is copying a URL from a print source, for making it easier for a person to remember, or for the ...
There is a final, perhaps more important, reason not to fix many redirects: The redirect page might be about another but related topic from the one redirected to, and someone might want to create the page in the future; such a page is a redirect with possibilities. When such a page is created, "fixed" redirects will point to an incorrect (or ...
Because redirects are cheap to create and don't have any content, and because redirect deletion discussions at RfD take up a non-trivial amount of editors' time and energy to participate in, it is less important that a redirect be actively useful, and more important that the redirect simply does not impede or confuse readers.
Before discussing how to fix a double redirect, consider why the software won't take the reader to page D, even though that's clearly the right place. Or, to be precise, why the software doesn't let two redirects function sequentially. Suppose an editor set up redirect page C so that it pointed back to redirect page B? The software would go in ...
Redirect categorization templates are very useful for maintenance. If the redirect is targeting a portal page, use {{r to portal}} If the redirect is targeting a single event, use {{r from date}} If the redirect is targeting a year or month page, use {{r from subtopic}} and whichever of {{r to section}} and {{r to list entry}} is appropriate.
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[note 1] Or, in the case of a redirect, if someone writes an article in its place, then you can see and evaluate it straightaway and then do something about it if need be. In short, if anyone does edit pages such as these that by design shouldn't be being edited very often, you may want to be the one watching.