Help:Redirects/en

Redirects are used to forward users from one page name to another.

Creating a redirect
You may start a new page with the name you want to direct from (see Help:Starting a new page). where pagename is the name of the destination page.
 * 1) REDIRECT pagename

You should 'preview' (using the button below the Edit window, or use Alt-P) to check that you have entered the correct destination page name. 1. REDIRECT pagename If the pagename as you typed it is not a valid page, it will show in red.

Viewing a redirect
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.

By doing this, you can do all the things that any wiki page allows.

Deleting a redirect
There's generally no need to delete redirects.

If you do need to delete a redirect, e.g. if the page name is offensive, or you wish to discourage people from referring to a concept by that name, then you simply go to the redirect page as mentioned above, and follow the procedures at Help: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.

However, you could look out for double redirects and eliminate them by changing them to be 1-step redirects instead.

There is an option,, to automatically fix double redirects with a. However, it tends to aggravate page move vandalism, so it is disabled by default. The __STATICREDIRECT__ can be used to skip the double-redirect fix on a particular page.

A redirect to a page in the category namespace
To redirect to a category page and prevent the redirect appearing in this category, precede the word "Category" with a colon, otherwise the redirect page will also be categorized to the category itself:
 * 1) REDIRECT Category:Glossary

Suppressing a redirect
Users with the suppressredirect right may move a page without creating a redirect. By default this right is assigned to sysops and bots.