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Redirects are used to forward wiki users from one page name to another. They can be useful if a particular article is referred to by multiple names, or has alternative punctuation, capitalization or spellings. As with all modifications on the wiki, you can only create redirects for pages for which you have privileges for creating and editing.

Creating a redirect

You can create a new page with the name you want to direct from (see Help:Page initiation). You can also use an existing page that you are making inactive as a page by going to that page and using the "edit" tab at the top. In either case, you will be inserting the following code at the very first text position of the Edit window for the page:

#REDIRECT [[ pagename ]] where "pagename" is the name of the destination page. The word "REDIRECT" is not case-sensitive (although all caps are generally the standard for this type of code), but there must be no space between the "#" symbol and the pagename. Any text or spaces before the code will disable the code and prevent a redirect. Any text or regular content code after the redirect code will be ignored (and should be deleted from the existing page or moved to the page to which the redirect goes). However, if you wish to put or keep the current pagename listed in a Category, the usual tag for that category can be entered or kept on a line after the redirect code entry and is will not be ignored.

You should use the 'preview' button below the Edit window, or Alt-P, to check that you have entered the correct destination page name. The preview page will not look like the resulting redirect page, it will look like a numbered list, with the destination page in blue:

1. REDIRECT  pagename

If the pagename as you entered is not a valid page, it will show red-linked. Until there is a valid destination page, you should not make the redirect.

If any associated meta or discussion pages for the pagename that you are redirecting have been created, then the same approach should be taken for them - copy their text to the corresponding meta and discussion pages for the destination pagename and then redirecting the meta and discussion pages to those pagenames.

Accessing a redirected page

After making a redirect at a page, you can no longer get to that page by using its name or by any link using that name; and that pagename will not show up in wiki search results, either. However, near the top of the destination page, a notice that you have been forwarded appears, with the source pagename as an active link to it. Click this to get back to the redirected page, which will show a large bent arrow symbol and the destination for the redirect.

By doing this, you can do all the things to that redirected page that you could do if it had not been redirected. You can go to the associated metapage and discussion page (if the redirect is in the main namespace), if either were created and have not also been redirected. You can view the history of the page, including a record of the redirect. You can edit the page if the redirect is wrong, and you can revert to an older version to remove the redirect.

Deleting a redirect

There's generally no need to delete redirects. They do not occupy a significant amount of database space. If a page name is vaguely meaningful, there's no harm (and some benefit) in having it as a redirect to the more relevant or current page.

If you do need to delete a redirect, e.g. if the pagename is offensive, or you wish to described at: Deleting a page.

Double redirects

A double redirect is a page redirecting to a page which is itself a redirect, and it will not work. Instead, people will be presented with a view of the next redirect page. This is a deliberate restriction, partly to prevent infinite loops, and partly to keep things simple.

However, you could look out for double redirects and eliminate them, by changing them to be 1-step redirects instead. You are most likely to need to do this after a significant page move. Use the "what links here" toolbox link to find double redirects to a particular page, or use Special:DoubleRedirects to find them throughout the whole wiki.

A redirect to a page in the category namespace

To prevent a page that redirects to a category from appearing in the category, precede the word "Category" with a colon:

#REDIRECT [[:Category:Glossary]]