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An example of a Wikipedia redirect, ... To create a basic redirect using the source editor, type #REDIRECT [[target page name here]] as the only text on the page.
The article on Wikipedia entitled UK is a redirect to the United Kingdom article, as it is the same topic as the United Kingdom article. Redirects ensure that different articles about the same subject are not created, and that visitors who may only know one way of referring to a topic are able to find the article they wish to, even if they are ...
Note that a redirect works as intended (takes the reader directly to the target page) only if the link is to an existing normal page (not a special page) on the same project (English Wikipedia). In other cases soft redirects are often used – see below. Examples: #REDIRECT [[France]] (redirects to the France article)
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 ...
Double redirects are when a link on page A goes to redirect page B, which goes to redirect page C, which points to page D. In that case, when you click the link on page A, the Wikipedia software will display the redirect page C; which isn't what the reader needs. The link on page A or the redirect on page B needs to be changed.
Redirects are pages which automatically send visitors to another page – redirecting them there – effectively allowing people to reach a single article by alternate titles for the topic, likely search terms, or content subsumed within that existing page. Reasons to use a redirect include, but are not limited to:
Use this rcat only on redirects that are in Wikipedia's main-article namespace, and only when the redirect's topic is a song which is a cover version of its target. If it is not a cover version of its target, use {{R from song}} instead.
This category contains subcategories containing only redirects. This category should not contain any pages directly; there are so many of them that a category containing all of them would be unmanageable. To add a redirect to one of the subcategories, use a redirect template.