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If a discussion/talk page exists for a redirect, please ensure (1) that the talk page's WikiProject banners are tagged with the "class=Redirect" parameter and (2) that the talk page is tagged at the TOP with the {{Talk page of redirect}} template. If the discussion page is a redirect, then it may be tagged with appropriate redirect ...
If the redirect target is an existing page on English Wikipedia and a reader navigates to the redirect page – by wikilink, the search box, or a URL – the reader is taken directly to the target page. A small notice below the top title indicates that the user arrived via a redirect.
A redirect is a special type of page that sends the reader to another page. They are used when there are different names for the same subject. For example, the United Kingdom is often referred to as the "UK". The article on Wikipedia entitled UK is a redirect to the United Kingdom article, as it is the same topic as the United Kingdom article.
Pages redirected to the given page are marked "redirect". Pages transcluding the given page are marked "transclusion"; for these pages, it is not shown whether they also link to the given page. For image and other file pages, the pages using the image or file appear on the list and are marked "image link".
Redirects are pages which automatically send visitors to another page – redirecting them there – effectively allowing people to reach a single article by alternate titles for the topic, likely search terms, or content subsumed within that existing page. Reasons to use a redirect include, but are not limited to:
A page that is a redirect can be moved like any other page, although it is rarely useful because it has the same detrimental effect on page history as copy-pasting content to a new page, and making the old page a redirect: when moving a redirect page to a new page name, the redirect on the old page (now directing to the new redirect page) will ...
Double redirects are when a link on page A goes to redirect page B, which goes to redirect page C, which points to page D. In that case, when you click the link on page A, the Wikipedia software will display the redirect page C; which isn't what the reader needs. The link on page A or the redirect on page B needs to be changed.
This redirect page must be in the Wikipedia talk namespace. ... From a file extension: This is a redirect from a title that is a file extension ...