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href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:RE/SG&redirect=no">WP:RE/SG</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p>This is a style guide for <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Redirects" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Redirects">redirects</a> in the <a href="/wiki/English_Wikipedia" title="English Wikipedia">English Wikipedia</a>. The ultimate goal of the guide is to have every redirect categorised in a standard format, as well as to have every <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Main_namespace" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Main namespace">main-namespace</a> (article) redirect categorised as either <a href="/wiki/Category:Printworthy_redirects" title="Category:Printworthy redirects">printworthy</a> or <a href="/wiki/Category:Unprintworthy_redirects" title="Category:Unprintworthy redirects">unprintworthy</a>. Printworthiness becomes important when a printed edition of <i>Wikipedia</i> is published, for example in <a href="/wiki/CD-ROM" title="CD-ROM">CD-ROM</a> format. For more information, see the documentation on the <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:R_printworthy" title="Template:R printworthy">R printworthy</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> and <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:R_unprintworthy" title="Template:R unprintworthy">R unprintworthy</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> template pages and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Printability" title="Wikipedia:Printability">Wikipedia:Printability</a>. </p><p>Redirect statements, which should start at the beginning of the first line of the redirect source, should follow one of these formats: </p> <pre> #REDIRECT [[Target article name]] #REDIRECT [[Target article name#Anchor]] </pre> <p>Replace "target article name" with the name of the article that is the desired target (including an optional anchor, if required). The target should be the exact name of the target, including correct casing, otherwise it may create a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Double_redirect" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Double redirect">double redirect</a>, a broken link, or some other problem. Use the same casing for the first character of the target as the target page, although this will not affect the working of the redirect. Although wikisyntax allows spaces and underscores to be used interchangeably, to avoid confusion and for easier maintenance, use spaces and underscores exactly as they are used in the target page title and anchor. </p><p>The redirect statement should appear all on one line or it will not work properly. Other elements such as redirect templates may appear after the redirect statement, however. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc"/> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Notability" data-mw-thread-id="h-Notability"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Notability"></span>Notability<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Notability"></span></h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:RHARMFUL"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcut</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:RHARMFUL&redirect=no">WP:RHARMFUL</a></span></li></ul></div></div><div id="harmful"> <p><span class="anchor" id="HARMFUL"></span> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion/Common_outcomes" title="Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Common outcomes">Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Common outcomes</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Moving_a_page#Moving_over_a_redirect" title="Wikipedia:Moving a page">Wikipedia:Moving a page § Moving over a redirect</a></div> <p>The major reasons why deletion of redirects is <b>harmful</b> are: </p> <ul><li>a redirect may contain non-trivial edit history;</li> <li>if a redirect is reasonably old (or is the result of moving a page that has been there for quite some time), then it is possible that its deletion will break incoming links (such links coming from older revisions of Wikipedia pages, from edit summaries, from other Wikimedia projects or <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:EXTERNALROT" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:EXTERNALROT">from elsewhere on the internet</a>, do not show up in "<a href="/wiki/Help:What_links_here" title="Help:What links here">What links here</a>").</li></ul> <p>Therefore consider the deletion only of either harmful redirects or of recent ones. </p> </div> <p><span class="anchor" id="DELETE"></span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Reasons_for_deleting" data-mw-thread-id="h-Reasons_for_deleting-Notability"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Reasons_for_deleting-Notability"></span>Reasons for deleting<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Reasons_for_deleting-Notability"></span></h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:RDELETE"></span><span id="WP:RDEL"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcuts</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:RDELETE&redirect=no">WP:RDELETE</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:RDEL&redirect=no">WP:RDEL</a></span></li></ul></div></div><div id="delete"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Criteria_for_speedy_deletion#Redirects" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion">Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion § Redirects</a></div> <p>You might want to <b>delete</b> a redirect if one or more of the following conditions is met (<i>but note also the exceptions listed below this list</i>): </p> </div> <ol><li><span class="anchor" id="D1"></span><span class="anchor" id="d1"></span>The redirect page makes it <i>unreasonably</i> difficult for users to locate similarly named articles via the search engine. For example, if the user searches for "New Articles", and is redirected to a disambiguation page for "<a href="/wiki/Articles" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Articles">Articles</a>" (itself a redirect to "<a href="/wiki/Article" class="mw-disambig" title="Article">Article</a>"), it would take much longer to get to the newly added articles on Wikipedia.</li> <li><span class="anchor" id="D2"></span><span class="anchor" id="d2"></span>The redirect might cause confusion. For example, if "Adam B. Smith" was redirected to "<a href="/wiki/Andrew_B._Smith" class="mw-redirect" title="Andrew B. Smith">Andrew B. Smith</a>", because Andrew was accidentally called Adam in one source, this could cause confusion with the article on <a href="/wiki/Adam_Smith" title="Adam Smith">Adam Smith</a>, so the redirect should be deleted.</li> <li><span class="anchor" id="D3"></span><span class="anchor" id="d3"></span>The redirect is offensive or abusive, such as redirecting "Joe Bloggs is a Loser" to "<a href="/wiki/Joe_Bloggs" title="Joe Bloggs">Joe Bloggs</a>" (unless "Joe Bloggs is a Loser" is legitimately discussed in the article), or "Joe Bloggs" to "<a href="/wiki/Loser" class="mw-disambig" title="Loser">Loser</a>". (<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:CSD#G10" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:CSD">Speedy deletion criterion G10</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:CSD#G3" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:CSD">G3</a> may apply.) <i>See also</i> <a href="#Neutrality_of_redirects">§ Neutrality of redirects</a>.</li> <li><span class="anchor" id="D4"></span><span class="anchor" id="d4"></span>The redirect constitutes self-promotion or spam. (<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:CSD#G11" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:CSD">Speedy deletion criterion G11</a> may apply.)</li> <li><span class="anchor" id="D5"></span><span class="anchor" id="d5"></span>The redirect makes no sense, such as redirecting "<a href="/wiki/Apple" title="Apple">Apple</a>" to "<a href="/wiki/Orange" class="mw-disambig" title="Orange">Orange</a>". (<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:CSD#G1" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:CSD">Speedy deletion criterion G1</a> may apply.)</li> <li><span class="anchor" id="D6"></span><span class="anchor" id="d6"></span>It is a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Cross-namespace_redirects" title="Wikipedia:Cross-namespace redirects">cross-namespace redirect</a> out of article space, such as one pointing into the User or Wikipedia namespace. The major exception to this rule are the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Pseudo-namespace" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Pseudo-namespace">pseudo-namespace</a> shortcut redirects, which technically are in the main article space. Some long-standing cross-namespace redirects are also kept because of their long-standing history and potential usefulness. "<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style">MOS:</a>" redirects, for example, were an exception to this rule until they became their own namespace in 2024. (Note also the existence of <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:ALIAS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:ALIAS">namespace aliases</a> such as <i>WP:</i>. <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:CSD#R2" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:CSD">Speedy deletion criterion R2</a> may apply if the target namespace is something other than <i>Category:</i>, <i>Template:</i>, <i>Wikipedia:</i>, <i>Help:</i>, or <i>Portal:</i>.)</li> <li><span class="anchor" id="D7"></span><span class="anchor" id="d7"></span>If the redirect is broken, meaning it redirects to an article that does not exist, it can be immediately deleted under <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:CSD#G8" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:CSD">speedy deletion criterion G8</a>. You should check that there is not an alternative place it could be appropriately redirected to first and that it has not become broken through vandalism.</li> <li><span class="anchor" id="D8"></span><span class="anchor" id="d8"></span>If the redirect is a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research" title="Wikipedia:No original research">novel</a> or very obscure synonym for an article name that is not mentioned in the target, it is unlikely to be useful. In particular, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Redirects_in_languages_other_than_English" title="Wikipedia:Redirects in languages other than English">redirects in a language other than English</a> to a page whose subject is unrelated to that language (or a culture that speaks that language) should generally not be created. (Implausible typos or misnomers are <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:CSD#R3" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:CSD">candidates for speedy deletion criterion R3</a>, if recently created.)</li> <li><span class="anchor" id="D9"></span><span class="anchor" id="d9"></span>If the target article needs to be moved to the redirect title, but the redirect has been edited before and has a history of its own, then the title needs to be freed up to make way for the move. If the move is uncontroversial, tag the redirect for <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Criteria_for_speedy_deletion#G6" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion">G6 speedy deletion</a>, or alternatively (with the <code>suppressredirect</code> user right; available to <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Page_mover" title="Wikipedia:Page mover">page movers</a> and admins), perform a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:ROUNDROBIN" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:ROUNDROBIN">round-robin move</a>. If not, take the article to <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Requested_moves" title="Wikipedia:Requested moves">Requested moves</a>.</li> <li><span class="anchor" id="D10"></span><span class="anchor" id="d10"></span> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:RETURNTORED"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcut</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:RETURNTORED&redirect=no">WP:RETURNTORED</a></span></li></ul></div></div> If the redirect could plausibly be expanded into an article, and the target article contains virtually no information on the subject.</li></ol> <p><span class="anchor" id="KEEP"></span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Reasons_for_not_deleting" data-mw-thread-id="h-Reasons_for_not_deleting-Notability"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Reasons_for_not_deleting-Notability"></span>Reasons for not deleting<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Reasons_for_not_deleting-Notability"></span></h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:RKEEP"></span><span id="WP:RK"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcuts</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:RKEEP&redirect=no">WP:RKEEP</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:RK&redirect=no">WP:RK</a></span></li></ul></div></div><div id="keep"> <p>However, <b>avoid deleting</b> such redirects if: </p> </div> <ol><li><span class="anchor" id="K1"></span><span class="anchor" id="k1"></span>They have a potentially useful page history, or an edit history that should be kept to comply with the licensing requirements for a merge (see <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Merge_and_delete" title="Wikipedia:Merge and delete">Wikipedia:Merge and delete</a>). On the other hand, if the redirect was created by renaming a page with that name, and the page history just mentions the renaming, and for one of the reasons above you want to delete the page, copy the page history to the Talk page of the article it redirects to. The act of renaming is useful page history, and even more so if there has been discussion on the page name.</li> <li><span class="anchor" id="K2"></span><span class="anchor" id="k2"></span>They would aid <a href="http://meatballwiki.org/wiki/AccidentalLinking" class="extiw" title="meatball:AccidentalLinking">accidental linking</a> and make the creation of <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Proposed_mergers" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Proposed mergers">duplicate articles</a> less likely, whether by redirecting a plural to a singular, by redirecting a frequent misspelling to a correct spelling, by redirecting a misnomer to a correct term, by redirecting to a synonym, etc. In other words, redirects with no incoming links are <i>not</i> candidates for deletion <i>on those grounds</i> because they are of benefit to the browsing user. Some extra vigilance by editors will be required to minimize the occurrence of those frequent misspellings in article text because the linkified misspellings will not appear as broken links; consider tagging the redirect with the <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:R_from_misspelling" title="Template:R from misspelling">R from misspelling</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> template to assist editors in monitoring these misspellings.</li> <li><span class="anchor" id="K3"></span><span class="anchor" id="k3"></span>They aid searches on certain terms. For example, users who might see the "<a href="/wiki/Keystone_State" class="mw-redirect" title="Keystone State">Keystone State</a>" mentioned somewhere but do not know what that refers to will be able to find out at the <a href="/wiki/Pennsylvania" title="Pennsylvania">Pennsylvania</a> (target) article.</li> <li><span class="anchor" id="K4"></span><span class="anchor" id="k4"></span>Deleting redirects runs the risk of breaking incoming or internal links. For example, redirects resulting from page moves should not normally be deleted without good reason. Links that have existed for a significant length of time, including <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:CamelCase_and_Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia:CamelCase and Wikipedia">CamelCase</a> links (e.g. <a href="/wiki/WolVes" class="mw-redirect" title="WolVes">WolVes</a>) and old <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Subpages" title="Wikipedia:Subpages">subpage</a> links, should be left alone in case there are any existing links on external pages pointing to them. Please tag these with <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:R_from_old_history" class="mw-redirect" title="Template:R from old history">R from old history</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span>. <i>See also</i> <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot#Link_rot_on_non-Wikimedia_sites" title="Wikipedia:Link rot">Wikipedia:Link rot § Link rot on non-Wikimedia sites</a>.</li> <li><span class="anchor" id="K5"></span><span class="anchor" id="k5"></span>Someone finds them useful. Hint: If someone says they find a redirect useful, they probably do. You might not find it useful—this is not because the other person is being untruthful, but because you browse Wikipedia in different ways. Evidence of usage can be gauged by using the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.wikishark.com/">wikishark</a> or <a class="external text" href="https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/">pageviews tool</a> on the redirect to see the number of views it gets.</li> <li><span class="anchor" id="K6"></span><span class="anchor" id="k6"></span>The redirect is to a closely related word form, such as a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(plurals)#Primary_topic" title="Wikipedia:Naming conventions (plurals)">plural form</a> to a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Redirect#What_do_we_use_redirects_for?" title="Wikipedia:Redirect">singular form</a>.</li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Neutrality_of_redirects" data-mw-thread-id="h-Neutrality_of_redirects-Notability"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Neutrality_of_redirects-Notability"></span>Neutrality of redirects<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Neutrality_of_redirects-Notability"></span></h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:RNEUTRAL"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcut</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:RNEUTRAL&redirect=no">WP:RNEUTRAL</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p>Just as article titles using non-neutral language <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Article_titles#Non-neutral_but_common_names" title="Wikipedia:Article titles">are permitted in some circumstances</a>, so are such redirects. Because redirects are less visible to readers, more latitude is allowed in their names, therefore perceived lack of neutrality in redirect names is not a sufficient reason for their deletion. In most cases, non-neutral but <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:V" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:V">verifiable</a> redirects should point to neutrally titled articles about the subject of the term. Non-neutral redirects may be tagged with <code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:R_from_non-neutral_name" title="Template:R from non-neutral name">R from non-neutral name</a>}}</code>. </p><p>Non-neutral redirects are commonly created for three reasons: </p> <ol><li>Articles that are created using non-neutral titles are routinely moved to a new neutral title, which leaves behind the old non-neutral title as a working redirect (e.g. <span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Climategate&redirect=no">Climategate</a></span> → <a href="/wiki/Climatic_Research_Unit_email_controversy" title="Climatic Research Unit email controversy">Climatic Research Unit email controversy</a>).</li> <li>Articles created as <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:POV_fork" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:POV fork">POV forks</a> may be deleted and replaced by a redirect pointing towards the article from which the fork originated (e.g. <span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Barack_Obama_Muslim_rumor&redirect=no">Barack Obama Muslim rumor</a></span> → deleted and now redirected to <a href="/wiki/Barack_Obama_religion_conspiracy_theories" title="Barack Obama religion conspiracy theories">Barack Obama religion conspiracy theories</a>).</li> <li>The subject matter of articles may be represented by some sources outside Wikipedia in non-neutral terms. Such terms are generally avoided in Wikipedia article titles, per the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:WTA" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:WTA">words to avoid</a> guidelines and the general <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NPOV" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NPOV">neutral point of view policy</a>. For instance the non-neutral expression "<span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Attorneygate&redirect=no">Attorneygate</a></span>" is used to redirect to the neutrally titled <a href="/wiki/Dismissal_of_U.S._attorneys_controversy" title="Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy">Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy</a>. The article in question has never used that title, but the redirect was created to provide an alternative means of reaching it because a number of press reports use the term.</li></ol> <p>The exceptions to this rule would be redirects that are not <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:UNDUE" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:UNDUE">established terms</a> and are unlikely to be useful, and therefore may be nominated for deletion, perhaps under <a href="#D3">deletion reason #3</a>. However, if a redirect represents an established term that is used in multiple mainstream <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:SOURCES" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:SOURCES">reliable sources</a>, it should be kept even if non-neutral, as it will facilitate searches on such terms. 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