Editing Help:Redirect (section)

==Soft redirects==
As an alternative to the normal "hard" redirects (which take the reader directly to the target page), it is possible to create [[Wikipedia:Soft redirect|"soft" redirects]], which leave the reader on the redirect page, giving them the option of clicking the link to the target page. This is usually done in the following situations:
* When the target is on another project ([[Wiktionary]], [[MetaWiki|Meta]], other language Wikipedias, etc.) or is a [[Help:special page|special page]]. (In these situations a hard redirect would behave as a soft one in any case.)
* For [[Help:Category#Moving and redirecting category pages|redirects between categories]]. (Hard redirects work for category pages, but soft ones are preferred because of the software's inability to recategorize pages from redirected categories.)

Soft redirects are created using the templates {{tl|soft redirect}} and {{tl|category redirect}}.