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• 22:42, 5 January 2006 User:84.245.178.84 (→Changing a redirect)
• 09:06, 21 December 2005 User:203.199.116.141
• 09:06, 21 December 2005 User:203.199.116.141
• 01:27, 16 November 2005 User:Uncle G (Fixed hyperlinks that break when this page is copied to other projects.)
• 15:21, 28 September 2005 User:68.72.179.14 (→A redirect to an anchor)
• 13:09, 15 September 2005 User:SV Resolution m (rv)
• 08:08, 15 September 2005 User:81.213.172.21
• 16:48, 4 September 2005 User:Cspurrier (rv spam)
• 16:47, 4 September 2005 User:80.82.51.183 (→Deleting a redirect)
• 21:56, 12 August 2005 User:Sasa Stefanovic m (fixed link)
• 01:38, 1 August 2005 User:Angela m (fix link)
• 10:47, 14 July 2005 User:Patrick (→A redirect to an anchor - reportedly it is difficult to implement in a satisfactory way, see bugzilla:218.)
• 09:49, 13 July 2005 User:Mikez m (despam)
• 09:20, 13 July 2005 User:221.237.215.48 (→The move tool)
• 21:32, 7 July 2005 User:Patrick (→Redirect and/or link to non-existing page - Wikipedia:Red link)
• 07:01, 2 July 2005 User:Patrick (→Interwiki redirects and redirects to special pages)
• 07:00, 2 July 2005 User:Patrick (→Interwiki redirects and redirects to special pages - update)
• 06:55, 2 July 2005 User:Patrick (→Purposes of a redirect -See also hover box for another technique with a similar result.)
• 06:44, 2 July 2005 User:Patrick (update: rm bit about interwiki redirect)
• 03:23, 2 July 2005 User:Jnc (→What is a redirect? - Convert example to one which works both here and on en:Wiki:)
• 03:23, 2 July 2005 User:Jnc (→What is a redirect? - Convert example to one which works both here and on en:Wiki:)
• 03:16, 2 July 2005 User:Jnc (→What is a redirect? - Remove link which doesn't work when this page is copied to en:Wikipedia:)
• 13:09, 1 July 2005 User:Patrick (→Redirect and/or link to non-existing page)
• 13:05, 1 July 2005 User:Patrick (→Redirect and/or link to non-existing page)
• 12:57, 1 July 2005 User:Patrick (→Redirect and/or link to non-existing page)
• 12:49, 1 July 2005 User:Patrick (→Redirect and/or link to non-existing page)
• 12:35, 1 July 2005 User:Patrick (→Redirect and/or link to non-existing page - there is no distinction between a redirect back, and an onward redirect)
• 12:34, 1 July 2005 User:Patrick (→Redirect and/or link to non-existing page)
• 12:29, 1 July 2005 User:Patrick m (→Detecting links to redirects)
• 12:27, 1 July 2005 User:Patrick (One may want to change the setting only temporarily, because one normally uses the stub feature in the regular way, and/or because section linking does not work on "stubs", unless external link style)
• 12:23, 1 July 2005 User:Patrick m (→Detecting links to redirects)
• 12:21, 1 July 2005 User:Patrick m (→Detecting links to redirects)
• 12:18, 1 July 2005 User:Patrick (By specifying a very high value as threshold (perhaps only temporarily), the stub feature allows indication of links having a redirect as target: they are ''not'' marked as stub (however, links to non)
• 12:05, 1 July 2005 User:Patrick m (→Redirect and/or link to non-existing page)
• 12:04, 1 July 2005 User:Patrick (In the 3rd and 4th case, especially if A has a list of links to pages B, one can mark the links with more info, e.g. by bolding, and explain the marking.)
• 07:39, 30 June 2005 User:Patrick m (→Creating a redirect)
• 03:45, 30 June 2005 User:Uncle G (→Creating a redirect - Fixed links)
• 22:29, 29 June 2005 User:Patrick m (→Redirect or link to edit page)
• 22:27, 29 June 2005 User:Patrick (→Redirect or link to edit page)
• 22:23, 29 June 2005 User:Patrick (→Redirect or link to edit page)
• 22:19, 29 June 2005 User:Patrick (→Redirect or link to edit page)
• 22:14, 29 June 2005 User:Patrick (→Redirect or link to edit page)
• 14:03, 29 June 2005 User:Patrick (→See also -*Detecting links to redirects using the stub feature.)
• 22:02, 28 June 2005 User:Patrick (→Redirect or link to edit page)
• 21:54, 28 June 2005 User:Patrick (→Redirect or link to edit page -i.e. a page only containing something like "See <nowiki></nowiki>A".)
• 21:40, 28 June 2005 User:Patrick (Another solution is to make B a soft redirect to A. One can see at A that B is very short using the stub feature.)
• 21:35, 28 June 2005 User:Patrick (→Redirect or link to edit page)
• 15:42, 28 June 2005 User:Patrick (→Redirect or link to edit page)
• 15:37, 28 June 2005 User:Patrick (→Redirect or link to edit page)
• 02:04, 20 June 2005 User:Angela (remove POV. It does no harm to redirect to sections)
• 05:25, 6 June 2005 User:139.168.158.226 (→Interwiki redirects and redirects to special pages)
• 08:32, 26 May 2005 User:Patrick (→Double redirects - rm dup)
• 08:32, 26 May 2005 User:Patrick m (→What is a redirect?)
• 08:30, 26 May 2005 User:Patrick (When a page called for inclusion is a redirect page, the redirect target is included instead, with the same parameters, without any redirect message. Again, a double redirect does not work.)
• 21:39, 25 May 2005 User:Patrick m (→How do I delete a redirect?)
• 15:58, 19 May 2005 User:24.226.139.68 (Porn Spam)
• 15:08, 18 May 2005 User:85.100.29.124
• 19:39, 15 May 2005 User:Patrick m (Reverted edits by 81.214.97.127 to last version by 69.203.149.103)
• 17:47, 15 May 2005 User:81.214.97.127
• 16:00, 27 April 2005 User:69.203.149.103 (→How to get canonical URL)
• 11:53, 25 April 2005 User:Patrick m (→Changing a redirect)
• 11:52, 25 April 2005 User:Patrick (→Changing a redirect - compare [http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Babel&redirect=no] with the preview of [http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Babel&action=edit].)
• 11:36, 25 April 2005 User:Patrick (→Creating a redirect - A code like %70 in a redirect disables it, although the link works from the redirect page.)
• 11:34, 25 April 2005 User:Patrick (→How do I change a redirect? - The redirect page shows the canonical form of the target, unlike its preview page, which renders the link in the usual way.)
• 11:32, 25 April 2005 User:Patrick m (→How do I create a redirect?)
• 11:30, 25 April 2005 User:Patrick (→How do I change a redirect?)
• 23:00, 21 April 2005 User:TheDJ (h:h and h:f)
• 17:28, 20 April 2005 User:AnyFile
• 11:13, 30 March 2005 User:Patrick ('''''Update: interwiki redirects and redirects to special pages seem to have been disabled, try e.g. Help:Interwiki redirect demo and Help:Redirect to special page demo.''''')
• 11:06, 30 March 2005 User:Patrick (→Interwiki redirects and redirects to Special pages -'''''Update: interwiki redirects seem to have been disabled, try e.g. Help:Interwiki redirect demo.''''')
• 08:35, 16 March 2005 User:Patrick m
• 08:35, 16 March 2005 User:Patrick m
• 08:31, 16 March 2005 User:Patrick (rv my accidental deletion)
• 16:59, 16 February 2005 User:Patrick m
• 16:41, 16 February 2005 User:Patrick (no localurl, because X at the end is more convenient)
• 12:12, 12 February 2005 User:Patrick (→A redirect to a page in the image or category namespace)
• 11:37, 12 February 2005 User:Patrick (On Commons a redirect to a category gives the full page, but not the subcategories and pages in the redirect page (if that is also a category).)
• 11:53, 7 February 2005 User:Patrick (A redirect to an image page or to a category shows the editable text only! To get the full page after being redirected, use the link "Image", or "Category", respectively.)
• 11:37, 29 January 2005 User:Patrick (→Images linking to a page - See also Help:Navigational image.)
• 04:17, 7 January 2005 User:68.192.118.69 (Making desc. of anchored redirects match "How to edit a page")
• 06:22, 25 October 2004 User:Jnc m (→How do I delete a redirect? - Refer to Meta admin page)
• 13:55, 7 September 2004 User:24.4.252.96 (→What is a redirect?)
• 10:44, 7 September 2004 User:PhilHibbs (Moving on top of a pre-existing redirect)
• 13:46, 2 September 2004 User:Patrick m (→How do I create a redirect?)
• 13:44, 2 September 2004 User:Patrick (Extra text ''after'' the #REDIRECT command and link, on the same line, can serve as explanatory text, which only sees when viewing the redirect page itself.Extra lines of text are [[Help:Automatic con)
• 15:36, 1 September 2004 User:Patrick m
• 15:23, 1 September 2004 User:Patrick (→Redirect or link to edit page)
• 15:21, 1 September 2004 User:Patrick (→Redirect or link to edit page)
• 15:00, 1 September 2004 User:Patrick (If one really wants both, one could make a link like [http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Redirection&action=edit Write article about redirection].)
• 14:53, 1 September 2004 User:Patrick (When B is a subtopic of A, and B does not have its own article, one may be tempted to do the following:)
• 15:13, 15 August 2004 User:Goatmilk
• 22:02, 13 August 2004 User:Patrick (de,)
• 21:40, 12 August 2004 User:Patrick (in projects that allow embedding images in external link style.)
• 21:20, 12 August 2004 User:Patrick m
• 21:19, 12 August 2004 User:Patrick (→Images linking to a page -See e.g. the two images on wikibooks:Main Page:Français.)
• 17:02, 12 August 2004 User:Odbo255 (notes regarding image redirection, added navigable images)
• 13:38, 12 August 2004 User:Patrick (→Purposes of a redirect - Allowing a link title independent of the eventual link target; one creates a page whose name is the desired link title, and which redirects to the desired target page. See)
• 12:11, 21 July 2004 User:Patrick (and with underscores for spaces.))
• 12:02, 21 July 2004 User:Patrick m
• 12:00, 21 July 2004 User:Patrick (''(To go to an interwiki redirect click http://meta.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=X&redirect=no and change the page name (here X) in the address bar of the browser. Type it in canonical form, i.e.)
• 12:10, 6 July 2004 User:Patrick (→How do I change a redirect? -Here on Meta, go to http://meta.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Redirection&redirect=no and change the page name (here Redirection) in the address bar of the browser.)
• 11:18, 6 July 2004 User:Patrick (→How do I create a redirect? - Extra text on the page ''after'' the #REDIRECT command and link is automatically deleted on Save (not yet on Preview).)
• 11:09, 6 July 2004 User:Patrick m (→The move tool)
• 11:05, 6 July 2004 User:Patrick m (→Renamings and merges)
• 11:01, 6 July 2004 User:Patrick (→Double redirects - apparently recursion is disabled within the same project only)
• 10:48, 6 July 2004 User:Patrick (→Renamings and merges - rephrase)
• 10:31, 6 July 2004 User:Patrick m
• 10:26, 6 July 2004 User:Patrick (→What is a redirect? - just like following the link, except that the browser shows the original URL, and the new page shows a redirection message below the title.)
• 10:18, 6 July 2004 User:Patrick (→What is a redirect? - misc)
• 12:18, 24 June 2004 User:Patrick (→Purposes of a redirect -Comparison with piped link.)
• 12:11, 24 June 2004 User:Patrick (→See also - Wikipedia:Redirects_for_deletion#When_should_we_delete_a_redirect.3F)
• 11:53, 24 June 2004 User:Patrick (==Purposes of a redirect==)
• 22:16, 14 June 2004 User:Robin Patterson m (→How do I create a redirect? - "MediaWiki User's Guide: Piped link" rather than "...piped link" restores "dead" link!)
• 21:01, 25 May 2004 User:193.29.77.111
• 00:40, 15 April 2004 User:Jroes m (Added a link to the next page in the guide)
• 14:57, 23 March 2004 User:PenguiN42 m (fixed broken link)
• 02:16, 6 March 2004 User:Jnc m (Fix my broken fix to broken links, argh.)
• 02:09, 6 March 2004 User:68.231.240.62 (Fix broken links)
• 12:13, 13 December 2003 User:Menchi m (simplify interln)
• 08:33, 13 December 2003 User:Grin (interlang.. why don't fix them all..? -- I did.)
• 07:04, 13 December 2003 User:217.232.11.109 (de: corrected)
• 15:15, 10 December 2003 User:Grin (not just the 'pedia but other projects too. i think. maybe. who knows?)
• 15:13, 10 December 2003 User:Grin (fix old interwiki syntax, re brion in talk page)
• 11:46, 14 November 2003 User:195.194.2.253 (a page that links-->a link on another page )
• 03:00, 9 October 2003 User:Patrick m
• 02:58, 9 October 2003 User:Patrick m (fix link)
• 23:10, 8 October 2003 User:142.177.74.111 (disinfopedia redirect policy link)
• 10:36, 8 October 2003 User:Patrick (ft If the main function of the image is just being a symbol for the link, then, before uploading, give it a name describing that function rather than describing the image itself.)
• 10:24, 8 October 2003 User:Patrick (misc)
• 10:14, 8 October 2003 User:Patrick (rm controversial)
• 10:12, 8 October 2003 User:Patrick (ft An image can link to a page of choice instead of the image description page by putting a redirect as "image description". The actual image description then has to be put on the Talk page.)
• 10:08, 8 October 2003 User:Patrick (For clarity it may be useful to add a text near the image, which can be made a link to the same page. Thus clicking on the text and on the image has the same effect.; update file name)
• 20:40, 7 October 2003 User:Patrick (An image can link to a page of choice instead of the image description page by putting a redirect as "image description", e.g. two images on the Main Page of http://wikibooks.org/)
• 20:30, 7 October 2003 User:Patrick (There are plans to adjust the software so as to reduce the complcations.)
• 19:50, 7 October 2003 User:Patrick (The page "Image Textbookicons.png – go to redirect-to-Special page itself" on Wikibooks: http://wikibooks.org/wiki/Image_Textbookicons.png_%E2%80%93_go_to_redirect-to-Special_page_itself.)
• 11:47, 5 October 2003 User:Patrick m
• 11:37, 5 October 2003 User:Patrick (Another example is Be bold - go to interwiki redirect page itself.)
• 11:18, 5 October 2003 User:Patrick (Alternatively a page like en:Wikipedia:What it thinks it is - go to redirect page itself can additionally be made, a redirect page to en:Wikipedia:What it thinks it is which is an interwiki re)
• 13:09, 4 October 2003 User:81.79.40.41 (*Redirected user pages considered harmful)
• 12:24, 4 October 2003 User:Patrick (To avoid these problems, consider direct interwiki links without redirect, or a "non-automatic redirect": a page with "See ...", e.g. en:Wikipedia:Enhanced Recent Changes. This requires an ext)
• 12:03, 4 October 2003 User:Patrick (To avoid these problems, consider a direct interwiki link, or a non-automatic redirect: a page with "See ...". If you use an interwiki redirect anyway, put on the page to which the redirect po)
• 11:50, 4 October 2003 User:Patrick (*Redirects in search results - proposed software changes.)
• 14:55, 3 October 2003 User:MyRedDice (See also: MeatBall:PageRedirect)
• 14:55, 3 October 2003 User:MyRedDice (inter-wiki redirects)
• 14:37, 3 October 2003 User:MyRedDice (trim)
• 14:35, 3 October 2003 User:MyRedDice (remove en-specific)
• 09:12, 2 October 2003 User:Patrick (For policy on the use and abuse of redirects on the English Wikipedia see en:Wikipedia:Redirect.)
• 09:06, 2 October 2003 User:Patrick (As a simple way to avoid problems with infinite recursion, in the case one is redirected to another redirect page, the second redirect is not applied.)
• 11:07, 29 September 2003 User:Patrick (It is also possible, but controversial, to set up redirects between MediaWiki wikis, such as Wikipedia. Simply prefix )
• 11:01, 29 September 2003 User:Patrick (The same applies to redirects to Special pages.)
• 11:53, 27 September 2003 User:Patrick ((for projects outside Wikimedia the "w/" is not always used).)
• 11:31, 27 September 2003 User:Patrick (project domain name)
• 16:30, 26 September 2003 User:MyRedDice m (short form)
• 23:33, 23 September 2003 User:Jerzy m (Fixed internal reference to own name)
• 11:30, 23 September 2003 User:Patrick (transferred to here changes in corr wp page)
• 03:11, 7 September 2003 User:Daniel Mayer m
• 03:08, 7 September 2003 User:Daniel Mayer (converted)
• 02:31, 7 September 2003 User:Daniel Mayer (en.wikipedia version)

[edit] From Meta:Help talk:Redirect

[edit] Added categories to a redirect's single-line wikicode

I've stumbled on a special case where it was needed to categorize a redirect page itself. (It was for a CD reissued under a different title). It works, but it seems undocumented on your help page. For the full details of the case and what I did, see:

→ SOLUTION: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Albums#NEW.21_Categorizing_retitled_reissues

Even though it's a rare case, I think it should be documented somewhere on your help page that it can be done, and how and when. For instance, there are plenty of books or movies with previous or alternative titles: shouldn't their redirect pages be categorized too, so as to make the main previous titles be findable in categories lists too?

→ DEBATE: crossposted to Meta:Help talk:Redirect

-- 62.147.112.164 20:03, 15 August 2006 (UTC)