Help talk:Redirect

message: On my display (with Firefox 2), the starting text:
::See also: Wikipedia:Redirect
:A redirect is a page
appears to the left of the shortcuts box, making the page confusing since it appears to start with an incomplete and non-capitalized sentence fragment. --Flex (talk|contribs) 16:46, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Alignment

message: #REDIRECT does not result in an automatic redirect as predicted in the instructions on this page. Instead Wikipedia interprets the octothorpe as the beginning of a numbered list, and prints “1. REDIRECT” followed by the link to the page. Felicity4711 01:58, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Problem

message: Is there a syntax or template that can be placed on a talk pages that redirects that talk page to the talk page of the article that the article redirects to? I want to edit a reasonable number of talk pages where the articles have redirects. Adding the same text to all would make the task easier. --Traveler100 (talk) 10:19, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I think you want to know if there's a single template that does the redirect job automatically for multiple different pages? There's probably a way to do it with Parser functions, but unless you can figure that out you'd have to type the name of each article title manually and redirect their talk pages as you normally would any other page. -- œ™ 04:22, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  redirect talk based on article redirect 

message: One of my articles is of such a nature that it was necessary to create a couple of stubs that redirect, as a sort of disambiguation attempt. I'm wondering, though about the search engine (say, Google) implications of this. My main article has no problem coming up in search results, but if I search for variants of the article's name, nothing really comes up. Is there some way (that's not documented here - perhaps it should be) to incorporate a stub's automatic redirect that the search engines can pick up on the stub's content (at least its title)? Perhaps there's some other best practice to achieve the same thing? Nonetheless, I'd like to see this topic addressed in this article, or at least referenced! Thanks!  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chris.rider81 (talk • contribs) 20:56, 5 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Search engine implications for hard redirects 

message: So this: Wikipedia:Policy bloat evidently doesn't work. Can it be fixed? Butwhatdoiknow (talk) 22:34, 18 September 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you to Legoktm for the "soft redirect" message to explain. Should this help page have some text regarding soft redirect? Butwhatdoiknow (talk) 01:29, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  How to redirect to meta-wiki 

message: Is it possible to create a redirect page that redirects one to a specific section of an article?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by KidXap (talk • contribs) 08:50, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, see the second of the examples at Help:Redirect#Syntax. -- John of Reading (talk) 09:39, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Section of Article Redirect? 

message: I have a case where a subject (because of its loose translation to English) is known by different associations of words and their many permutations making it very tedious to create as many Redirect pages as there are possibilities. Is there a way (some Boolean syntax for example) to do this automatically?  Thanks! UberNemo (talk) 14:14, 10 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Multiple Redirects to the same Page 

message: The case is nearly always uppercase #REDIRECT, but there are a few hundreds of #Redirect or #redirect or even #REDIRECt (on Wikivoyage). Is it useful to convert them to uppercase, even though there is no rule that says "The #REDIRECT keyword should be uppercase" ? Nicolas1981 (talk) 02:59, 27 November 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: A: The format should really be InitCaps: #Redirect [[Target... to be consistent with these types of things on WP including this article (Help:Redirect). Facts707 (talk) 10:51, 28 July 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  B: If by good fortune we can reach a consensus on A: above, could someone please write a bot to change them all and also please add a space character after #Redirect if there is isn't one? I have to say #REDIRECT[[Article is quite hard on the eyes... Cheers, Facts707 (talk) 10:51, 28 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Letter case: UPPERCASE, InitCaps, lowercase? 

message: I can see why we might want to redirect to an article from common misspellings. However, the downside is that if editors misspell a word and then link it; superficially it looks okay because the link is blue. So their ignorance is perpetuated, as is the misspelling when readers see it. Is there a way of annotating such redirects so they don't look like an acceptably spelt blue link? If not, shouldn't we consider removing this as a reason to redirect? Let misspellings always show as red links... --Bermicourt (talk) 20:38, 8 December 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: We want to help readers who enter misspellings in the search box. They can be tagged with  but will still show up as blue. What links here can be used to find pages linking to misspellings. PrimeHunter (talk) 22:04, 8 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Common misspellings 

message: After several apparently independent attempts by new users to create articles here by blanking and then overwriting he content, I've semi-protected the page for three months. I've not been able to find anything obvious that has changed to cause this, but if anyone has any good ideas please speak up. I'm also happy to discuss this semi-protection if anyone feels it is inappropriate for any reason. Thryduulf (talk) 23:46, 23 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  semi-protection 

message: Hello, I was wondering if there is an automated Wiki tool I could use to scan a certain article for links which link to REDIRECTS. Likewise, I would also like to know if this tool can automatically replace the REDIRECT links with the article they redirect to. Thanks. --Omer Toledano (talk) 16:48, 9 January 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: This is something that is generally discouraged - see WP:NOTBROKEN for why. Links to redirects are valuable and should very rarely need to be replaced to bypass them. Geraldo Perez (talk) 17:04, 9 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is there an automated to tool to scan and article for redirects and automatically replace them? 

message: Hi, I'm wondering what methods (wikilink modifier, template, etc.) are available to link directly to a redirect page (i.e. to target a redirect page itself without getting forwarded on to its target). The only method I'm currently aware of is by using a URL link with &redirect=no appended – e.g. foo. --75.188.199.98 (talk) 07:35, 2 November 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: There is no wikilink. A url with redirect=no is required.  produces that.  is a shortcut. PrimeHunter (talk) 11:48, 2 November 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Tnx bunches, that has the functionality I'm after. --75.188.199.98 (talk) 05:42, 3 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ways to make a link directly targeting a redirect page itself 

message: I created a redirect from ОТМА to OTMA (try it!; the first is the Cyrillic form of the second) because, well, someone might run into "ОТМА" and want to know what it is. This is all very well, but following the redirect gives a page which appears to say "OTMA, redirected from OTMA". The assumption presumably is that writing this is self-explanatory, which it normally is, but sadly this assumption is false. Ideally there should be a note, something like "Redirected from ОТМА (Cyrillic form)", but there does not seem to be any mechanism to do this. Again, writing "ОТМА redirects here" on the OTMA page would just add extra confusion. Any suggestions? Imaginatorium (talk) 06:37, 8 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cyrillic confusion 

message: Is there a template or wikisyntax that allows a link that redirects to the same page to be rendered as a redlink? I want this for Civil decorations of Pakistan, where Nishan-e-Quaid-i-Azam was a redirect back to Civil decorations of Pakistan. Clearly this link is of no use to readers and I have removed it, but if an article is created then is would not be linked.
What I would like is something like  that automatically changes from a red link to a blue link when an article becomes available. Clicking on the red link should lead to the redirect page. Perhaps  could be extended to support this.
Verbcatcher (talk) 18:45, 18 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hiding circular redirects 

message: Does this serve a purpose somewhere or is it user copy / paste laziness?
I'm trying to draft a regular expression to check for nonstandard redirects.--Pawngpawng (talk) 19:43, 9 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Piped link in a redirect? 

message: I don't want to type it because it's code. It includes the word "REDIRECT" followed by the linked page.
Do I just create the page to be redirected and then put into it?
WorldQuestioneer (talk) 20:58, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  What page to I put the redirect tag in? 

message: What I want is #REDIRECT X then a bunch of content. 
Tnen you can include the contents of the page using various mechanisms of transclusion... but if it shows up in a search -- and people go to that page, they get redirected. 
That doesnt appear to work, since #R isn't the first thing on the page. 
This would be especially valuable for subpages... you can lots of fragments of an article that all direct up to the parent. 
The alternative is to do them in a separate namespace for fragments, and have that fragment namespace non-searchable. But that's messier in naming convention/confusion, and sort of defeats the point of a subpage.  David Every (talk) 00:16, 21 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Conditional redirect

message: I am trying to find redirect pages which are not assessed as redirects for a certain WikiProject, so that I could reassess them as redirects. Is there a way or tool to identify pages (or talk pages) in a certain category which are redirects? How can this be done? Sanglahi86 (talk) 11:14, 30 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Identify pages in a category which are redirects 

message: An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect :Wikipedia redirect help and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 September 2#Wikipedia redirect help until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion.  Pkbwcgs (talk) 21:47, 2 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Wikipedia redirect help" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]] 

message: An editor recently created a redirect from what appears to be effectively a google search phrase to an article - "Is it legal to 3d print guns" to the article 3D printed firearm#Legal status. This doesn't seem...right? I've never seen a redirect like this before. I could see ten million such redirects existing from random search queries on topics to specific articles or sections of articles. I think a question like that belongs as a google search, and then google directs them to what they're looking for.  cheers. anastrophe, an editor he is. 22:33, 4 October 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed. Questions aren't "alternative titles" (i.e., they're not a possible/incorrect alternative name for a topic), which is the general purpose of redirects. Admittedly, the list of purposes isn't exclusive, but I think the general principle that Wikipedia is an encylopedia, and therefore not a manual, guide etc., would also be relevant in this case. Jr8825 • Talk 02:29, 5 October 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks. I don't think this particular redirect matters much in the scheme of things, not so much that I'd request deletion. It just struck me as 'out of kilter', but 'out of kilter' doesn't mean policy-violating. Since this was the first time I've seen one, it's likely not endemic, so I've already expended more effort talking about it than it's worth... cheers. anastrophe, an editor he is. 03:24, 5 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Redirect from a search question? 

message: After a software change, it's now easy to link redirects on Wikipedia with items on Wikidata. The new policy on Wikidata is described in https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Sitelinks_to_redirects . There are many cases where it's useful create these links to be able to provide interwiki-links between different languages. I propose adding a section to this help page that informs users of Wikipedia about the possibility and usefulness of creating these links. ChristianKl ❪✉❫ 15:51, 21 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Redirects that are linked to Wikidata