Wikipedia:Redirect

Also known as WP:R, WP:RDR, WP:REDIR, WP:REDIRECT

Wikipedia editing guideline about page redirects

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topic's main category: Category:Disambiguation and redirection templates
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An example of a Wikipedia redirect, showing a note that UK redirects to United Kingdom An example of a redirect on the Minerva Neue skin and on mobile, from Web redirect to URL redirection. Note the black message bar on the bottom.

A redirect is a page that automatically sends readers to another page, usually an article or section of an article. For example, if you type "UK" in the search box or click on the wikilink UK, you will be taken to the article United Kingdom with a note at the top of the page (or on mobile, in a black message bar at the bottom): "(Redirected from UKUK)". This is because the page UKUK contains wikitext that defines it as a redirect page and indicates the target article. It is also possible to redirect to a specific section of the target page.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Wikipedia:Redirect” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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