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This takes you to the redirect page itself. (The URL for accessing a redirect page without following the redirect contains the query parameter redirect=no.) Another way to get to a redirect page is to go to the target page, and click "What links here" (in the toolbox on the left of the page).
Instead, a page with almost the same content as the target of the redirect is generated by the MediaWiki software, differing in that a small-text note appears below the title of the page, identifying the name of the redirect used to get there (and linking to it in such a way that it can be accessed without the redirect, e.g. so it can be changed).
The redirect is better in a case like this than a direct link like [[dog|poodle]], because when an actual poodle article is eventually created (replacing the redirect), readers following the poodle link are taken there automatically without anyone needing to review all the links to dog to see which ones should actually go to poodle.
#REDIRECT [[Name of article]] Replace "Name of article" with the article you want it to point to, and click "Publish page". For example, entering 'UK' into the above box would create a new page with the title 'UK'; a redirect from this page to the United Kingdom article would be formatted like this: #REDIRECT [[United Kingdom]]
The major reasons why deletion of redirects is harmful are: . a redirect may contain non-trivial edit history; if a redirect is reasonably old (or is the result of moving a page that has been there for quite some time), then it is possible that its deletion will break incoming links (such links coming from older revisions of Wikipedia pages, from edit summaries, from other Wikimedia projects ...
Other pages that use this redirect should be updated with a direct link to the redirect target (again, without piping). This rcat template must not be used to tag redirects to a title with differences that are 1: ligatures (like æ and Œ – use {{ R to ligature }} instead), or 2: other non-ASCII characters that do not include diacritics (like ...
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This template provides an easy way to link a redirect page without following the redirect. Template parameters [Edit template data] Parameter Description Type Status Page name 1 The name of the page to link String required Label 2 The text to be displayed. If this is omitted then the input of the first parameter, page name, is used. String optional See also {{ Template link no redirect ...