Editing Help:Link (section)

=== Using a redirect as alternative ===

An alternative to a piped link is using [[Help:Redirect|redirect pages]]. For example, to create [[How to set up a coffee house]], use <code><nowiki>[[How to set up a coffee house]]</nowiki></code> and make this a redirect to [[coffeehouse setup]]. This is convenient if the redirect is already there or will also be of use elsewhere; however, there are a few drawbacks:

* The tooltip does not show the page one will arrive at.
* "[[Help:Related changes|Related changes]]" gives the changes in the ''redirect page'', not the redirect target.

Combining a piped link and a redirect, one can provide some information that is not the name of the page one links to in the hover tooltip, e.g., the pipe to a redirect <code><nowiki>[[United Nations Organization|UNO]]</nowiki></code> will display a tooltip "United Nations Organization" when hovering over [[United Nations Organization|UNO]], thereby explaining the abbreviation. (However, {{tl|abbr}} is preferred for abbreviations.)