Table:Linking to Redirects

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Discussion

I can't find any existing policies on this in the help pages, and I've seen several people do it, so I thought I'd bring it up here. While users are free to link to either a redirect or the actual article when creating or editing pages, a direct link is always preferred. You should not be changing any direct links to redirects. Feel free to change links like [[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]] to [[Bender]], but leave [[Bender Bending Rodríguez|Bender]] or [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] as is.

We should probably update this too. - Quolnok 01:09, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

Yes, well, personally, I still think redirects are obnoxious in search results. They should just automatically filter out. And as for the other thing, I think it was a de facto standard to link directly as often as possible, but there were a few *cough*lazy*cough* editors for a while there, and I think they specifically asked if they could link to just [[Fry]]. But yeah. Is there any way to create a box that can automatically detect if a link is for a redirect and edit the link to the direct link? The main reason for redirects is in case people get things wrong or just guess. Like entering "Bender" in the search box will get them to the correct page, rather than just saying "No such thing, try again, meatbag." We should try to be correct in articles as much as we can. --Buddy 01:15, 30 May 2009 (UTC)