Help:Redirect

This is one of Pikmin Fanon's help pages and is meant to aid users by improving their ability to positively contribute to the wiki. Expanding pages such as this with additional information is always welcome.

A redirect is a page that automatically forwards a user to another similar page. For example, searching the page "Captain" will automatically send the user to leader.

Here is how a redirect looks:

Making a redirect

Making a redirect is as simple as typing #REDIRECT [[target]], with target being the page that the redirect should link to. If anything is typed above this code then the redirect will fail, although typing something under it will just make the content under it harder to access. If you are redirected to a different page, then there will be a notice (typically near the top of the page) that notifies you what page you were redirected from. Redirects are also made automatically when moving pages.

General

User and user talk redirects can exist for users who had been active on the wiki under one name and later changed their username but should not be made otherwise. On the other hand, category, file, and talk redirects should never be made, and those made automatically from moving a page should have {{delete}} added as soon as all links to the old name are changed to the new name.

To make a redirect permanent, use {{nodelete}} below the code and specify why it should be kept.