উইকিপিডিয়া:পুনর্নির্দেশনা

উইকিপিডিয়াতে পুনর্নির্দেশনা পাতাগুলি এই ভাবে শুরু হয়:

#পুননির্দেশ [[নিবন্ধের নাম]]

যেখানে নিবন্ধের নাম বলতে লক্ষ্যস্থ নিবন্ধের বা পাতার নাম। পুনর্নির্দেশিত পাতাগুলি কোনো নিবন্ধ নয়, কিন্তু এই পাতাটি পাঠককে কোনো নির্দিষ্ট নিবন্ধে পাঠিয়ে দেয়,যা সাধারণভাবে একটি বিকল্প শিরোনাম হিসেবে কাজ করে।

উদাহরণ হিসাবে, যখন আপনি অনুসন্ধান বাক্সে "UK" টাইপ করবেন অথবা আপনি যদি UK নামে কোনো উইকিলিঙ্ক তৈরি করেন, তাহলে আপনি যুক্তরাজ্য (United Kingdom) নিবন্ধে গিয়ে উপস্থিত হবেন এবং আপনি পাতার শীর্ষে দেখবেন "(United Kingdom থেকে ঘুরে এসেছে)"। যে লেখাগুলো আপনি এই পাতায় দেখতে পাচ্ছেন তার এই UK পাতাটিতে লেখা হয়নি। পাতাটিতে শুধুমাত্র United Kingdom পাতায় যাওয়ার লিঙ্ক পুননির্দেশিত হয়েছে। এই ব্যাপারটি যাচাইয়ের জন্য এই লিঙ্কে যান। কিছু পুর্ননির্দেশনা ঐচ্ছিক, যা টেমপ্লেট পুর্ননির্দেশ-এর ক্ষেত্রে বিষয়শ্রেণী ব্যবহারের উদ্দেশ্যে কোডগুলোর পরে লেখা হয়।

কীভাবে পুর্ননির্দেশ করতে হয় (পুর্ননির্দেশ কমান্ড)

যে পাতাটি পুর্ননির্দেশ করবেন সেই পাতাটি খুলুন। এর পর পাতার উপরে, শুরুতে পুর্ননির্দেশ কমান্ড-এর পর যে পাতায় পুর্ননির্দেশ করবেন তার নাম লিখে দিন। অন্য কিছুই লেখার প্রয়োজন নেই। নিচে দেখুন:

#পুননির্দেশ [[লক্ষ্যস্থিত নিবন্ধের নাম]]

উদাহরণস্বরূপ, ক্যামব্রিজ বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় পৃষ্ঠাটি (লক্ষ্যস্থিত পৃষ্ঠা) University of Cambridge পৃষ্ঠাটিতে (পুর্ননির্দেশিত পৃষ্ঠা) পুর্ননির্দেশ করতে, ক্যমব্রিজ বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়ের পৃষ্ঠাটি নিম্নলিখিতভাবে সম্পাদনা করুন এবং সংরক্ষণ করুন:

#পুননির্দেশ[[University of Cambridge]]

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আপনি পুর্ননির্দেশের কারণও সেই সাথে দিয়ে দিতে পারেন:

#পুননির্দেশ[[University of Cambridge]]{{ইংরেজি নাম}}

সম্ভাব্য কারণগুলোর অসম্পূর্ণ তালিকা পেতে নিচে নিচে দেখুন।

বিশেষ দ্রষ্টব্য:{{R}} নামে অপর একটি টেমপ্লেট রয়েছে। তার সাথে গুলিয়ে ফেলবেন না।

Redirects to page sections

You can also redirect to page sections within an article. See Meta:Help:Redirect#A redirect to an anchor:

#REDIRECT [[University of Cambridge#History]]{{R from alternative name}}{{R to section}}

Consider that when the target page is displayed, it is likely that the top of the page will not be shown, so the user may not see the helpful "(redirected from... )" text unless they know to scroll back to the top. This is less likely to cause confusion if the redirect is to a heading with the same name as the redirect; see for example "Argument from contingency".

One option for documenting a redirect to a section heading is to leave a comment using <!-- ... ---> to remind others that the title is linked, so that if the title is altered, the redirect can be changed. For example:

 ==Evolutionary implications== <!-- This section is linked from redirect "[[Richard Dawkins]]" --> 

A redirect to a non-existent section – perhaps due to a misspelling or name change – will simply lead to the top of the target article.

A more resilient approach is to insert an {{Anchor}} inside the heading, copying the heading's current title as a parameter to the template; then, even if the heading is renamed, its original anchor is preserved and the existing anchor links will still work. {{Anchor}} can take multiple parameters to accommodate several names and variations. Documenting terms expected in the subsection without confusing the readers is encouraged. The above example becomes:

==Evolutionary implications {{Anchor|Evolutionary implications}}==

This method however has an unwanted side effect: the {{Anchor|parameters}} will appear in section edit summaries:

/* Some section title {{Anchor|parameters}} */ the user summary

The following markup avoids this side effect:

==Evolutionary implications==
{{Anchor|Evolutionary implications}}

or this real example, which does have a convenient nearby section title:

==Table of AWG wire sizes==
{{Anchor|Table of AWG wire sizes}} <!-- redirect target and direct link from other articles -->

{{Anchor|any text for an anchor link}} will also work in the body text of a long section where one might not want a section or sub-section title, such as above a table referenced by another article.

Undesirable redirects

Double redirects

A double redirect is a title that redirects to another redirect – avoid these, as they do not work. (To prevent endless looping, a redirect will not "pass through" more than one entry.)

Double redirects are usually created after a move, when old redirects are left unchanged and point toward an old name. If you move or rename a page, it is best to click on "What links here" to see if any redirects exist, and to change them to redirect straight to the new title.

Self-redirect

A self-redirect is a title that redirects straight to the page on which the link is found. This may occur if a redirect is created from a red link on the page, or if the title once was an article of its own but was merged. This is particularly common in a series of new inter-related topics moving together from the stub stage. Many editors despise red links, even temporarily in new topics. The team working the articles may well intend to expand such redirects to full articles, so the cyclical links are place holders; in such cases, checking the page histories should make it clear whether to make a corrective edit.

An exception is a redirect to a section within the article, especially in a long article that cannot be viewed all at once on an average-sized computer screen. Essentially comparable to a "see above" or "see below", this is accomplished by wikilinking [[#Heading]] (no article name, just the heading name prefixed by #).

Nonfunctional redirects

Redirects to other Wikimedia projects, other websites, or special pages do not work. These should be avoided or replaced with a soft redirect template.

Shortcuts within article space

While redirects to project pages or sections thereof for the purpose of creating a shortcut are accepted, the same is not usually desired for mainspace articles, though exceptions exist.

Redirects from well-recognized abbreviations and acronyms to an article's title are acceptable (for example, UCLA redirects to University of California, Los Angeles). When creating such a redirect, try to learn about other titles that might use that same abbreviation. It may be more appropriate for the abbreviation or acronym to serve as a disambiguation page, or else the template {{redirect|abbreviation}} shall be placed at the top of the page for which that abbreviation is most recognized, pointing to a disambiguation page for all other uses of the abbreviation.

Abusive redirects

Redirect vandalism

Vandals may abuse redirects. Usually, the vandals attempt to shock readers by redirecting them to pages with offensive content. They may also redirect random pages to other random pages to confuse readers.

Promotional redirects

Spammers may create redirects from lists of likely search terms to the article about their product, thus ensuring that the Wikipedia article appears at the top of web searches that use these terms.

Attack redirects

Others are meant to attack people or promote propaganda by creating false, negative, or abusive redirects to articles.

Creating new redirects

You can create a new page in order to make a redirect. Alternatively, if you are unable to create a new page (as an anonymous user, for example), you can make a request at Articles for Creation.

Only the redirect line will be displayed when you save the page.

To go back and edit your redirect after it is working, add ?redirect=no to the end of the URL for your redirect:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_University?redirect=no

If you wish to add a reason, select one of the tags from the Tag column below and add it on the same line as #REDIRECT [[Wherever]], enclosed in double braces. For example, on the redirect page University of cambridge,

#REDIRECT [[University of Cambridge]]{{R from other capitalisation}}

That will also add the redirect to the category listed in the Category column below.

Redirects take effect immediately after saving a page. You may need to clear your cache to see these changes.

Suppressing redirects

When a page is moved, a redirect is automatically left behind. Administrators have the ability to suppress the redirect, i.e., to prevent it being created, by unchecking the box labelled "Leave a redirect behind." This is useful to save time when performing moves for which a redirect is inappropriate, such as reverting page move vandalism.

However, in general, unless there is a good reason (such as vandalism or userfying recently created malplaced items) to suppress the redirect, it is best to leave it behind, as a useful entry in the history. This leaves a trail to help readers find the old article, in case a new article is created at its previous location.

Redirect or rename?

If there is an article named, say, University of Oxford, and you discover that the title "Oxford University", although a reasonable alternative designation and search term for the same university, is still a red link, you can create a page with that title as a new redirect page, redirecting to the page University of Oxford. An alternative is instead to rename the University of Oxford page to "Oxford University". This is also called a "page move"; see Help:Moving a page for more detail. The old page becomes a redirect to the new page.

The following table summarizes this schematically, using arrows to indicate who redirects to whom:

Old situation:		Oxford University		University of Oxford
New redirect:		Oxford University	→	University of Oxford
Rename/move:		Oxford University	←	University of Oxford

To choose between two such possibilities, the main consideration should be that the preferred title of an article is the most common name for the topic of the article as would normally be used in articles written in English. So we prefer "Italy" over "Italia", and "Pope" over "Pope of Rome". However, it is often better to have an article at a well-defined, unambiguous term, with redirects from looser colloquial terms, rather than vice versa. There are many declarations of independence, but there is only one United States Declaration of Independence. For more on this, see Wikipedia:Naming conventions.

Categories for redirect pages

See Wikipedia:Categorizing redirects for situations where categorizing a redirect might be helpful.

Redirects should not normally contain categories that would fit on the target page because it can result in duplicate listings of the same page within a category. Relevant categories should be moved to the main page where the redirect is pointing. In some cases, however, adding categories to a redirect page allows legitimate alternative titles or names to be found in category lists. Redirect pages within categories will appear in italics.

Navigating redirects

When a redirected page is linked to normally, the user is taken to a page that is neither the original page nor the page to which it is redirected. Instead, the user is taken to a page that has the content of the destination page with a clickable mention of the redirect at the top, and the URL of the original page. To go to the original page, one can click on the aforementioned link, or append the string &redirect=no to the end of the URL. To go to the actual article, rather than simply viewing the mirror version, click on the "article" or "project page" tab at the top of the page. For instance, clicking on the phrase "clickable mention" above will take you to the "embedded link" page, which is redirected to the "hyperlink" page. Towards the top of the page is the phrase "Redirected from Embedded link", with the words "Embedded link" in blue. Clicking on these words will take you to the actual Embedded link page. Directly above the article title "Hyperlink" at the top of the page is the word "article" in blue. Clicking on this word will take you to the actual Hyperlink page.

What do we use redirects for?

Compare the more complete template list in the guideline sub-page: Wikipedia:Template_messages/Redirect_pages and the notations in the corresponding category.

The templates in the following lists are used to classify redirect pages, depending on the reason for the redirect. Use as many of these templates to tag the redirect as are applicable. Some redirects will have both alternative spellings, alternative capitalisations, and perhaps be a redirection to a list article entry or section. In the final analysis, all these templates do is establish a categorization of the redirect page, and like articles, more than one category can – and frequently should – apply.

Spellings, misspellings, tenses and capitalisations

Reason	Usage notes, and text that will be shown on Previewing the page when applied.	Tag / Category to find articles so tagged
Abbreviations	এটি একটি পুনর্নির্দেশ। আপনি হয়তো এমন একটি শব্দ বা শব্দাবলী দ্বারা অনুসন্ধান করেছেন যা মূল বিষয়/সংস্থা/পুস্তক/ব্যক্তি ইত্যাদির সংক্ষিপ্তরূপ। আপনি চাইলে, সংক্ষিপ্তরূপ থেকে পুনর্নির্দেশিত হয়েছে এমন নিবন্ধগুলোর তালিকা দেখতে পারেন। DSM-IV redirects to Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders	{{R from abbreviation}}
Shortcuts	এটি একটি উইকিপিডিয়া শর্টকাটের পুননির্দেশনা। সাধারণতঃ উইকিপ্রকল্পের পাতা, সেই সংক্রান্ত আলোচনার পাতা এবং বিষয়শ্রেণীর জন্য শর্টকাট সংরক্ষিত থাকে। আরও জানতে বিষয়শ্রেণীর লিঙ্ক অনুসরণ করতে পারেন। WP:V redirects to Wikipedia:Verifiability	{{R from shortcut}}
Misspellings	This is a redirect from a misspelling or typographical error. The correct spelling is given by the target of the redirect. Pages using this link should be updated to link directly to the redirect target, without using a piped link that hides the correct details. For more information, see Category:Redirects from misspellings. Condoleeza Rice redirects to Condoleezza Rice	{{R from misspelling}}
Other spellings, other punctuation	This is a redirect from a title with a different spelling. Pages using this link may be updated to link directly to the target page. It is not necessary to replace these redirected links with a piped link. For more information, follow the link to Category:Redirects from alternative spellings or see this reference page. colour redirects to color Al-Jazeera redirects to Al Jazeera	{{R from alternative spelling}}
Plurals	টেমপ্লেট:R from plural greenhouse gases redirects to greenhouse gas, etc. Note that [[greenhouse gas]]es shows up as greenhouse gases, so it is not usually necessary to redirect regular plurals. However third-party websites started adding automatic links to Wikipedia from their topics. Many of them follow the opposite naming convention, i.e., topics are named in plural, and the link to Wikipedia may land into an empty page, if there is no redirect.	{{R from plural}} or {{R to singular}}
Related words	একটি সম্পর্কিত শব্দ বা বাক্যাংশ থেকে: এটি একটি পুনর্নির্দেশ from একটি শব্দ (বা বাক্যাংশ) to থেকে একটি পাতার শিরোনাম যা কোনোভাবে সম্পর্কিত। এই পুনঃনির্দেশ একটি ভাল অনুসন্ধান শব্দ হতে পারে, অথবা একটি নিবন্ধে সম্পর্কিত শব্দগুলি উইকিঅভিধান লিঙ্কগুলির জন্য ভালো হতে পারে।। সম্পর্কিত শব্দগুলি থেকে পুনঃনির্দেশগুলো একই শব্দের বিকল্প বানান থেকে সঠিকভাবে পুনঃনির্দেশিত নয় । কিন্তু একই সময়ে, তারা একটি উপ-বিষয় থেকে পুনঃনির্দেশের থেকেও আলাদা, যেহেতু সম্পর্কিত শব্দটি নিবন্ধটিতে একটি পূর্ণ উপ-বিষয় নিশ্চিত করার সম্ভাবনা কম অথবা এটি সম্পর্কিত বিষয় বা একটি নিবন্ধ, টেমপ্লেট, প্রকল্প পাতা এবং আরও অনেক কিছু হওয়ার সম্ভাবনা রয়েছে৷ Symbiont redirects to Symbiosis	{{R from related word}}
Other capitalisations	টেমপ্লেট:R from other capitalisation Natural Selection redirects to Natural selection (to aid linking from other articles and external sites)	{{R from other capitalisation}}

Sub-topics and small topics in broader contexts

This is a redirect from a title for a topic more detailed than what is currently provided on the target page, or section of that page, hence something which can and should be expanded. When the target page becomes too large, this redirect may be replaced with an article carved out of the target page. See also , and when appropriate, use both together. Conversely, if the topic is not susceptible to a major expansion, tag instead with , or , depending on how the topic should be handled. with a link directly to the target page. For more information, see the auto-category: .

• Distributed denial of service redirects to Denial of service

Reason	Usage notes, and text that will be shown on Previewing the page when applied.	Tag / Category to find articles so tagged
Too short for own article List entry or Section	Category:Redirects to list entries This is a redirect to a list in which the subject is an entry. আরও তথ্যের জন্য দেখুন: Template:R to list entry This template automatically categorizes pages to Category:Redirects to list entries. When List is more section-like in organization, such as list of fictional characters in a fictional universe.	{{R to list entry}} {{R to section}}
Sub-topics or closely related topics that should be explained within the text
{{R with possibilities}} Category:Redirects with possibilities
People known solely in the context of one event	A redirect from the person's name to the article on the event. For example: Joe Steele redirects to Glasgow Ice Cream Wars Skylar Deleon redirects to Murder of Thomas and Jackie Hawks
People who are members of a group, organization, ensemble or team	টেমপ্লেট:R from member Eric Dill redirects to The Click Five	{{R from member}} Category:Redirects from members
To redirect to decade article	টেমপ্লেট:R to decade 1003 BC redirects to 1009–1000 BC	{{R to decade}}

Template:R to section

Template:R to section

Template:R to list entry

Do not replace these redirected links

Category:Redirects with possibilities

বিকল্প নাম এবং ভাষা সমূহ

Reason	Usage notes, and text that will be shown on Previewing the page when applied.	Tag / Category to find articles so tagged
Full names such as Municipality, State forms or Village, City forms to briefer name form.	টেমপ্লেট:R from name and country Other names with a comma separating (delimiting) another larger geopolitical entity, normally a state such as "Notodden, Norway" giving a search capability by the full name. (And somewhat uncluttering Redirects from alternative names.)	{{R from name and country}}
Full names persons, things, topics and such alternative forms of names redirected to briefer article page names.	টেমপ্লেট:R from full name	{{R from full name}}
Other names, Alternative names general pseudonyms, nicknames, and synonyms that are not historic names or a full name as above.	এটি অন্য নাম, ছদ্মনাম, ডাকনাম কিংবা একটি প্রতিশব্দ থেকে করা একটি পুনর্নির্দেশ। এই শিরোনামটি নামকরণের সাধারণ নিয়ম অনুযায়ী করা হয়েছে এবং লেখার ক্ষেত্রে সাহায্য করতে পারে। এই পুনঃনির্দেশিত লিঙ্কগুলোকে পাইপযুক্ত লিঙ্ক দিয়ে প্রতিস্থাপন করার প্রয়োজন নেই। বিস্তারিত জানতে, এই তথ্যসূত্র পাতাটি এবং বিষয়শ্রেণী:বিকল্প নাম থেকে পুনর্নির্দেশ দেখুন। ভুল নামের ক্ষেত্রে এই টেমপ্লেট ব্যবহার করবেন না, এজন্য {{R from incorrect name}} ব্যবহার করতে পারেন। Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone redirects to Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone Wellie throwing redirects to Wellie wanging Cassinoide redirects to Cassini oval Butcher of Kurdistan redirects to Ali Hassan al-Majid Rev. Fred Phelps redirects to Fred Phelps Linear operator redirects to Linear map	{{R from alternative name}} or {{R from other name}}
Other names with Historic significance, where subsumed into a modern entity or region.	This is a redirect from a title that is another name, a pseudonym, a nickname, or a synonym that has a significant historic past as a region, state, principate's holding, city, city-state or such, but which region has been subsumed into a modern era municipality, district or state, or otherwise experienced a name change. It leads to the title in accordance with the naming conventions for common names and can help writing. However, do not replace these redirected links with a piped link unless the page is updated for another reason. For more information, see Wikipedia:Redirect and the Category:Redirects from historic names under Category:Redirects from alternative names. Note that in some cases, the entity can have articles under several names, each discussing the period of the entity's history when it had a particular name; see for example Byzantium, Istanbul and Constantinople. Depending upon the age and historic detail known about a principality, many of these might also be tagged with {{R with possibilities}}	{{R from historic name}}
Scientific names (from such to briefer)	এটি বৈজ্ঞানিক নাম থেকে সাধারণ নামে পুনঃনির্দেশ করা। Heosemys depressa redirects to Arakan Forest Turtle Deuterium oxide redirects to Heavy water 1P/Halley redirects to Comet Halley	{{R from scientific name}}
Scientific names (commonplace name to more formal, specific article name)	টেমপ্লেট:R to scientific name This is a redirect from the common name to the scientific name. See also Template:R from scientific name European shore crab redirects to Carcinus maenas Baking soda redirects to Sodium bicarbonate Alnitak redirects to Zeta Orionis	{{R to scientific name}}
Other languages	This is a redirect from a name in one language to a name in another language. It leads to the title in accordance with the naming conventions for titles in other languages and can help writing. However, do not replace these redirected links with a piped link unless the page is updated for another reason. For more information, follow the category link. The Abduction from the Seraglio redirects to Die Entführung aus dem Serail Brown seaweed redirects to Wakame Argumentum ad ignorantiam redirects to argument from ignorance As-Sulta Al-Wataniyya Al-Filastiniyya redirects to Palestinian National Authority	{{R from alternative language}}
Non-ASCII Characters	This is a redirect from a title in basic ASCII to the formal article title, with differences that are not diacritical marks (accents, umlauts, etc.) Use this redirect link (without piping) when the page concerns language translation or English language equivalents. Other pages using this link should be updated to replace text with the redirect target (again, without piping). For more information, follow the category link. Ulla Toernaes redirects to Ulla Tørnæs	{{R from ASCII}}
Diacritical marks	This is a redirect to the article title with diacritical marks (accents, umlauts, etc). Use this redirect link (without piping) when the page concerns language translation or English language equivalents. Other pages using this link should be updated to replace text with the redirect target (again, without piping). For more information, follow the category link. Kurt Goedel and Kurt Godel redirect to Kurt Gödel	{{R from title without diacritics}}
Unambiguous surname	টেমপ্লেট:R from surname Obama redirects to Barack Obama	{{R from surname}}

Miscellaneous and administrative redirects

Reason	Usage notes, and text that will be shown on Previewing the page when applied.	Tag / Category to find articles so tagged
Facilitate disambiguation	এটি দ্ব্যর্থতা নিরসন পাতায় করা একটি পুনঃনির্দেশ। এই পুনঃনির্দেশটি অন্য সেসব নিবন্ধের সংযোগে ব্যবহারের উদ্দেশ্যে তৈরি করা হয়েছে যেগুলোকে দ্ব্যর্থতা নিরসন না করে দ্ব্যর্থতা নিরসন পাতাটি উল্লেখ করতে হবে। অতএব, এই টেমপ্লেটটি সাধারণত শুধুমাত্র সেইসব পাতাতেই থাকা উচিত যার শিরোনামে "(দ্ব্যর্থতা নিরসন)" উল্লেখ আছে। বিস্তারিত তথ্যের জন্য, বিষয়শ্রেণী পাতা দেখুন। America (disambiguation) redirects to America	{{R to disambiguation page}}
To redirect from a shortcut	এটি একটি উইকিপিডিয়া শর্টকাটের পুননির্দেশনা। সাধারণতঃ উইকিপ্রকল্পের পাতা, সেই সংক্রান্ত আলোচনার পাতা এবং বিষয়শ্রেণীর জন্য শর্টকাট সংরক্ষিত থাকে। আরও জানতে বিষয়শ্রেণীর লিঙ্ক অনুসরণ করতে পারেন। WP:CAT redirects to Wikipedia:Categorization	{{R from shortcut}}
Oldstyle CamelCase links	This is a redirect from a CamelCase or subpage title. In the initial versions of Wikipedia, all links had to be CamelCase. They are kept to keep edit history and to avoid breaking links that may have been made externally. For more information, follow the category link. AnnaKournikova redirects to Anna Kournikova	{{R from CamelCase}}
links auto-generated from EXIF information	Adobe Photoshop CS Windows redirects to Adobe Photoshop	{{R from EXIF}}
From school stub to merge location	টেমপ্লেট:R from school Culler Middle School redirects to Lincoln Public Schools	{{R from school}}

Avoiding broken links on merges

Redirects can be used to avoid breaking of links on article merges. We try to avoid broken links because they are annoying to our readers. Therefore, if you change the layout of some section of Wikipedia, or merge two duplicate articles, always leave redirects in the old location to point to the new location. Search engines and visitors will probably have linked to that page at that url. If the page is deleted, potential new visitors from search engines will be greeted with an edit window. The same is true for anyone who previously bookmarked that page, and so on.

Reason	Text that will be shown on Previewing the page when applied.	Tag / Category to find articles so tagged
Merges	টেমপ্লেট:R from merge Zip of death redirects to Zip bomb online and offline redirect to on-line and off-line	{{R from merge}}
Duplicated articles	টেমপ্লেট:R from duplicated article Green Slime redirects to The Green Slime	{{R from duplicated article}}

When should we delete a redirect?

To delete a redirect without replacing it with a new article, list it on redirects for discussion. See deletion policy for details on how to nominate pages for deletion.

Listing is not necessary if you just want to replace a redirect with an article, or change where it points: see these instructions for help doing this. If you want to swap a redirect and an article, but are not able to move the article to the location of the redirect please use Wikipedia:Requested moves to request help from an admin in doing that.

What needs to be done on pages that are targets of redirects?

We follow the "principle of least astonishment"—after following a redirect, the reader's first question is likely to be: "hang on ... I wanted to read about this. Why has the link taken me to that?". Make it clear to the reader that they have arrived in the right place.

Normally, we try to make sure that all "inbound redirects" other than mis-spellings or other obvious close variants of the article title are mentioned in the first couple of paragraphs of the article or section to which the redirect goes. It will often be appropriate to bold the redirected term. For example:

• James Tiptree, Jr. (August 24, 1915 – May 19, 1987) was the pen name of American science fiction author Alice Bradley Sheldon ...
  • James Tiptree, Jr., redirect from Alice Sheldon
• Water (H2O, HOH) is the most abundant molecule ...
  • Water (properties), redirect from H2O, NB not bolded

If there is an ambiguity associated with a redirect, one of the redirect disambiguation templates may be useful.

Do not cause a secondary redirect. They do not work like a primary redirect; same with tertiary redirects.

Self-links, duplicate links

Avoid self-links, including self-links through redirects ("loop links"). Also, avoid having two links that go to the same place. These can confuse readers, and cause them to unnecessarily load the same page twice.

Do not "fix" links to redirects that are not broken

There is nothing inherently wrong with linking to redirects. Some editors are tempted, upon finding a link to a redirect page, to remove the redirect and point the link directly at the target page. While there are a limited number of cases where this is beneficial, it is generally an unhelpful exercise, and it can actually be detrimental.

With a few limited exceptions, there are no good reasons to pipe links solely to avoid redirects. It is almost never helpful to replace [[redirect]] with [[target|redirect]].

It is likewise unhelpful to edit visible links for no other reason than to avoid redirects. That is, editors should not change, for instance, [[Franklin Roosevelt]] to [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] just to "fix a redirect". This rule does not apply to cases where there are other reasons to make the change, such as linking to an unprintworthy redirect.

Reasons not to change redirects include:

• Redirects can indicate possible future articles.
• Introducing unnecessary invisible text makes the article more difficult to read in page source form.
• Non-piped links make better use of the "what links here" tool, making it easier to track how articles are linked and helping with large-scale changes to links.

Furthermore, not only are Wikipedia editors asked not to worry about performance, changing redirects to direct links does not significantly improve performance anyway. See also Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation popups/About fixing redirects.

Exceptions:

• It is preferable to change redirected links in navigational templates, such as those found at the bottom of many articles (e.g. {{US Presidents}} at the end of George Washington). In this case, when the template is placed on an article, and contains a direct link to that article (not a redirect), the direct link will display in bold (and not as a link), making it easier to navigate through a series of articles using the template.
• It may be appropriate to make this kind of change if the hint that appears when a user hovers over the link is misleading.

Redirecting non-articles

টেমপ্লেট পুনর্নির্দেশনা

A template T2 can be redirected to another template T1 by entering the following command at the top of T2:

#REDIRECT [[Template:T1]]

This creates an alias (T2 is an alias for T1). The alias name T2 can be used instead of the "real" template T1.

A categorisation template such as {{R from other template}} should also be added to T2 (below the #REDIRECT line) as follows:

{{R from other template|T1}}

Aliases for templates can cause confusion and make migrations of template calls more complicated. For example, assume calls to T1 are to be changed ("migrated") to some new template TN1. To catch all calls, articles must be searched for {{T1}} and all aliases of T1 (T2 in this case).

বিষয়শ্রেণী পুর্ননির্দেশনা

যদিও #REDIRECT [[:Category:অটোমোটিভ প্রযুক্তি]] লাইন যোগ করে একটি বিষয়শ্রেণী, অন্য একটিতে পুর্ননির্দেশ করা সম্ভব, কিন্তু মিডিয়াউইকি সফটওয়্যারের সীমাবদ্ধের কারণে সচারচর এটি করতে নিরুৎসাহিত করা হয়। এই পদ্ধতিতে বিষয়শ্রেণী পুর্ননির্দেশ করা হলে, তা টার্গেটেড বিষয়শ্রেণীতে পুর্ননির্দেশিত হবে ঠিকই, কিন্তু পূর্বের বিষয়শ্রেণীটি যেসকল নিবন্ধে ব্যবহৃত হয়ে গিয়েছে, সেখানকার নিবন্ধগুলো থেকে নতুন বিষয়শ্রেণীতে পুরোনোগুলো পুর্ননির্দেশিত হবে না। যতোক্ষণ না এই সমস্যাটি মিডিয়াউইকি সফটওয়্যার-এর ভবিষ্যৎ সংস্করণে ঠিক না হয়। তাই #REDIRECT অবশ্যই কোনো বিষয়শ্রেণী পাতায় ব্যবহার করা যাবে না।

"Soft" redirects for categories can be created using {{Category redirect}}. A bot traverses categories redirected in this manner moving articles out of the redirected category into the target category, see Template talk:Category redirect.

আরও দেখুন

• Help:Moving a page
• উইকিপিডিয়া:দ্ব্যর্থতা নিরসন
• Wikipedia:Double redirects (maintenance list for items to be fixed and instructions after moving a page)
• Wikipedia:Hatnote
• Wikipedia:How to edit a page
• Wikipedia:List of interwiki redirects
• Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion
• Wikipedia:Redirects to be made
• Wikipedia:Soft redirect
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Redirect
• User:Daniel Quinlan/redirects-project

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