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=====Attack redirects=====
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Others are me
Others are meant to attack people or promote propaganda by creating false, negative, or abusive redirects to articles.
===Creating new redirects===
You can [[Help:Starting a new page|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 [[WP:AFC/R|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:
'''<nowiki>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_University?redirect=no</nowiki>'''
If you wish to ''add a reason'', select one of the tags from the Tag column [[#reasons|below]] and add it on the same line as <nowiki>#REDIRECT [[Wherever]]</nowiki>, enclosed in double braces. For example, on the redirect page [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=University_of_cambridge&action=edit University of cambridge],
'''<nowiki>#REDIRECT [[University of Cambridge]]{{R from other capitalisation}}</nowiki>'''
That will also add the redirect to the category listed in the Category column below. <!-- Note that there must be a space between the end of the redirect code and the template code for this to work properly.{{fact|date=June 2008|Oh really, never had the problem in hundreds of redirects, and I'm constantly adding <nowiki>{{R ...}</nowiki> templates during any given edit day checking links. Do note most of these embed a leading ' ' so maybe I've just been lucky, but I also usually test through. --User:fabartus}} -->
Redirects take effect immediately after saving a page. You may need to [[Wikipedia:Cache#How to purge|clear your cache]] to see these changes.
===Suppressing redirects {{anchor|SUPPRESS}}===
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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 [[WP:Userfication|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 [[WP:Red link|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:
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| '''Old situation:''' || || <font color="red">Oxford University</font> || || [[University of Oxford]]
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| '''New redirect:''' || || [[Oxford University]] || '''→''' || [[University of Oxford]]
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| '''Rename/move:''' || || [[Oxford University]] || '''←''' || [[University of Oxford]]
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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 (language)|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==
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