Help:Redirect - Wikipedia

Open the "page options" menu (icon with three parallel horizontal bars) at the top right of the editor · Select "Page settings" · Check the box marked "Redirect ... Help:Redirect FromWikipedia,thefreeencyclopedia Jumptonavigation Jumptosearch Wikimediahelppage ThispageisaboutdirectingasearchtermtoaWikipediaarticle.Forclarifyingredirectedsearchtermsatthearticleitself,seeTemplate:Redirect.Forguidanceontheuseofredirects,seeWikipedia:Redirect. Thishelppageisahow-toguide.Itdetailsprocessesorproceduresofsomeaspect(s)ofWikipedia'snormsandpractices.ItisnotoneofWikipedia'spoliciesorguidelines,andmayreflectvaryinglevelsofconsensusandvetting.ShortcutsH:RH:REDIR Aredirectisapagecreatedsothatnavigationtoagiventitletakesthereaderdirectlytoadifferentpage.Aredirectiscreatedusingthesyntax: #REDIRECT[[Target]] ...where"target"isthenameofthetargetpage.Itisalsopossibletoaddasectionheadertomakearedirecttoaspecificsectionofthetargetpageinthefollowingmanner: #REDIRECT[[Target#Sectionheader]] Thepound/number/hashsign(#)isalsousedtolinktopageanchors. Contents 1Syntax 2Howitappearstotheuser 2.1Sectionredirects 3Purposesofaredirect 4Creatingandeditingredirects 4.1UsingVisualEditor 4.2WithTemplate 5Deletingredirects 6Movingpages 7Transclusion 8Softredirects 9Seealso Syntax ShortcutWikipedia:Hardredirect Apageistreatedasaredirectpageifitswikitextbeginswith#REDIRECTfollowedbyavalidwikilinkorinterwikilink.Aspaceisusuallyleftbeforethelink.(Notethatsomealternativecapitalizationsof"REDIRECT"arepossible.) Notethataredirectworksasintended(takesthereaderdirectlytothetargetpage)onlyifthelinkistoanexistingnormalpage(notaspecialpage)onthesameproject(EnglishWikipedia).Inothercasessoftredirectsareoftenused–seebelow. Examples: #REDIRECT[[France]](redirectstotheFrancearticle) #REDIRECT[[France#History]](redirectstothe"History"sectionoftheFrancearticle) #REDIRECT[[fr:France]](appearsasaredirecttotheFrancearticleonFrenchWikipedia,butdoesnotworkasatrueredirect) Anytextappearingaftertheredirectlinkisignoredinthedisplay,butmaybeusedtoaddcategories,interwikilinks,comments,etc. Notethattheredirectlinkmustbeexplicit–itcannotcontainmagicwords,templates,etc. Whenredirectingtoacategorypage,prefixthetargetpagenamewithacolontopreventtheredirectfromshowingupinthecategory.(Redirectsfromonecategorypagetoanothershouldusesoftredirects–seebelow.)Redirectstoimagepagesalsorequirethecolon. Howitappearstotheuser IftheredirecttargetisanexistingpageonEnglishWikipediaandareadernavigatestotheredirectpage–bywikilink,thesearchbox,oraURL–thereaderistakendirectlytothetargetpage.Asmallnoticebelowthetoptitleindicatesthattheuserarrivedviaaredirect.Forexample,ifyouclickTransportation,youareredirectedtotheTransportarticle,andthetopofthepagelookslike: Transport FromWikipedia,thefreeencyclopedia    (RedirectedfromTransportation) Togototheredirectpageitself(toeditit,viewitshistory,etc.),clickthelinkinthe"(Redirectedfrom...)"notice. Iftheredirecttargetisanon-existingpage(redlink),oraspecialpage,orapageinanotherproject,thentheredirectisnotfollowed,andthereaderseesthedisplayoftheredirectpage(asillustratedbelow).Ifthetargetisanon-existentsectionofanexistingpage,thentheredirectwilltakethereadertothetopofthetargetpage. Chainsofredirectsarenotfollowed.IftitleAredirectstoB,andBisitselfaredirectpage,thenareadernavigatingtoAwillseethedisplayoftheredirectpageB(asillustrated).SeeDoubleredirects.(Botsfixsuchchainssothateachredirectpointsdirectlytothefinaltargetpage.) Aredirectpagevieweddirectly,eitherinthesituationsdescribedabove,orwhentheURLusedtoaccessthepagecontainsthequeryparameterredirect=no,lookslikethis: Transportation FromWikipedia,thefreeencyclopedia Redirectpage Transport (SeetheactualTransportationredirectpage.) Redirectstoarticlesthatbeginwithalowercasetitle,forexampletheredirectfromthepageatEbay.comtothearticleateBay,willdisplaythetargetpagewithacapitalizedfirstletter,eventhoughthearticledisplaysthetitlewithalowercasetitle.Thisisbecausethetruetitleofthetargetpageisactuallycapitalized—itjustappearslowercasebecauseoftheuseofthemagicwordDISPLAYTITLE.(Usually,thetemplate{{Lowercasetitle}}isusedtoimplementtheDISPLAYTITLEmagicwordforlowercasetitles.) Sectionredirects Whentheredirecttargetisasectionlink,followingaredirectedlinkshouldleadtothesectionorotherelementidentifiedbythelink.Normallytheredirectedpageincludestheentirecontentsofthetargetpageasifthesectionfragmentwasn'tspecified,andusesJavaScripttojumptothesectionafterthepageisloaded.IfJavaScriptisdisabled,thisjumpdoesnothappen. Whenaredirectpageisvieweddirectlywithoutfollowingthetargetlink,thelinkisshownasanordinarysectionlink,andworksasusualwithouttheuseofJavaScript. Purposesofaredirect Furtherinformation:Wikipedia:Redirect§ Purposesofredirects Redirectsareusuallycreatedbecausereadersmaysearchforanarticleunderdifferentnames(oreditorsmaywishtolinktoitfromdifferentnames).Examplesare: Alternativenamesforthesamething Alternativespellings,capitalizations,etc.(althoughitisnotnecessarytocreateredirectsfromdifferentcapitalizationsjustbecausereadersmayentertheminthesearchbox-theGobuttonintheMonobookskinresolvesthisautomatically) Commonmisspellings Plurals Subtopicsthatdon'thavetheirownarticle(inthiscase,youmayredirecttoasectionofthetargetpage) Shortcutstoapage,usedmainlyinprojectspace(suchasWP:AFD) Redirectsthatkeeplinkstoapageactiveafterithasbeenrenamed(evenifinternallinksareupdated—thisstillappliesforlinksfromoutsideandlinksineditsummaries) Notethatitisnotnecessarytocreateredirectsfromeverytitleaneditormayconceivablywishtolinktoagivenpage–pipedlinkscanbeusedasanalternative. Creatingandeditingredirects Unregisteredusers,andthosenotyetautoconfirmed,canrequestaredirectbecreatedatWikipedia:Articlesforcreation/Redirectsandcategories. Aredirectpagecanbecreatedlikeanyotherpage(seeCreatinganewpage).Simplytypeinthewikitext#REDIRECT[[xxx]],replacing"xxx"withthetitleofthetargetpage(optionallyfollowedbya"#"signandthesectiontitle). Makesurethatthereisnotextbeforethe#REDIRECTkeyword,ortheredirectwillnotwork.Thereisnotusuallyanyreasontoplaceanytextafterthelinkeither,althoughsometimescategories(orcategorizingtemplates—seeCategorizingredirects),interwikilinks(seeInterlanguagelinks)orHTMLcomments()areadded. Similarly,anyexistingpagecanbeeditedtoturnitintoaredirect. Toeditapagethatisalreadyaredirect(ortoviewitshistory,talkpage,etc.),followtheredirecttothetargetpage,thenclickonthelinkinthe"(Redirectedfrom...)"noticeatthetopofthepage.Thistakesyoutotheredirectpageitself.(TheURLforaccessingaredirectpagewithoutfollowingtheredirectcontainsthequeryparameterredirect=no.) Anotherwaytogettoaredirectpageistogotothetargetpage,andclick"Whatlinkshere"(inthetoolboxontheleftofthepage).Thiswillshowyouallthebacklinkstothatpage,includingredirects.Clickingonaredirectinthislistwilltakeyoutotheredirectpage,notthetarget. Theeditsummaryboxcanbeleftblank;thesummarywillthenbeautomaticallygeneratedstatingthatthepagehasbeenredirectedtothegiventarget.(Thisappliesfor:anewredirectpage;anexistingarticlepageturnedintoaredirectpage;andachangetothetargetofanexistingredirect.)Thegeneratedsummaryisoverriddeniftheeditorsuppliestheirownsummary. UsingVisualEditor TocreatearedirectusingtheVisualEditor: Openthe"pageoptions"menu(iconwiththreeparallelhorizontalbars)atthetoprightoftheeditor Select"Pagesettings" Checktheboxmarked"Redirectthispageto" Enterthenameofthetargetpageinthetextboxbelowthecheckbox Clickontheblue"Applychanges"button Savethepage.Youmayenteraneditsummary,oranautomaticsummarywillbegenerated. WithTemplate Forredirectingxyztoarticleabc,enterxyzhere,andtype#REDIRECT[[abc]]inthebody. Deletingredirects Seealso:Wikipedia:Redirect/Deletionreasons Administratorscandeleteredirectsinthesamewayasanyotherpage.DeletionorotherpotentiallycontroversialtreatmentofredirectscanbeproposedbyanyeditoratRedirectsfordiscussion.PleaserefertoWikipedia'sdeletionpolicyfordetailsandinstructions. Movingpages Whenapageismoved(renamed),aredirectisautomaticallycreatedfromtheoldtothenewname,andalsooneforthecorrespondingtalkpage(ifthatwasmovedaswell).AdministratorsandPagemoverscanchoosetosuppresscreationoftheredirect. Ifthenewpagenameisoccupiedbyaredirectthathasonlyoneeditinitshistoryandtargetedtotheoldpagename,itisreplacedbythepagebeingmoved.Iftheredirecthasmorethanonehistoryentry,orhasadifferenttargetpage,thenthemovemustbemadebyanadministratororpagemover. Transclusion Whenapagecalledfortransclusionisaredirectpage,theredirecttargetisincludedinstead,withthesameparameters,withoutanyredirectmessage.HenceifTemplate:AFDisredirectedtoTemplate:Afd,then{{AFD|...}}willhavethesameeffectas{{Afd|...}}Asusual,doubleredirectsarenotfollowed. Softredirects Asanalternativetothenormal"hard"redirects(whichtakethereaderdirectlytothetargetpage),itispossibletocreate"soft"redirects,whichleavethereaderontheredirectpage,givingthemtheoptionofclickingthelinktothetargetpage.Thisisusuallydoneinthefollowingsituations: Whenthetargetisonanotherproject(Wiktionary,Meta,otherlanguageWikipedias,etc.)orisaspecialpage.(Inthesesituationsahardredirectwouldbehaveasasoftoneinanycase.) Forredirectsbetweencategories.(Hardredirectsworkforcategorypages,butsoftonesarepreferredbecauseofthesoftware'sinabilitytorecategorizepagesfromredirectedcategories.) Softredirectsarecreatedusingthetemplates{{softredirect}}and{{categoryredirect}}. Seealso ThispageisreferencedintheWikipediaGlossary. 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