Editing Help:Redirect (section)

==How it appears to the user==
If the redirect target is an existing page on English Wikipedia and a reader navigates to the redirect page – by [[Help:Link|wikilink]], the search box, or a [[Help:URL|URL]] – the reader is taken directly to the target page. A small notice below the top title (or in a black pop-up box on mobile) indicates that the user arrived via a redirect. For example, if you click [[Transportation]], you are redirected to the [[Transport]] article, and the top of the page looks like:

<blockquote style="background-color: white; color: black; border:1px solid black; padding: 1em;">
{{fake heading|Transport}}
{{int:tagline}}
{{Indent|3}}<small>{{int:redirectedfrom|<span class="plainlinks">[{{fullurl:Transportation|redirect=no}} Transportation]</span>}}</small>
</blockquote>

To go to the redirect page itself (to edit it, view its history, etc.), click the link in the "(Redirected from...)" notice.

If the redirect target is a non-existing page ([[WP:redlink|redlink]]), or a [[Help:special page|special page]], or a page in another project, then the redirect is not followed, and the reader sees the display of the redirect page (as illustrated below). If the target is a non-existent section of an existing page, then the redirect will take the reader to the top of the target page.

Chains of redirects are not followed. If title ''A'' redirects to ''B'', and ''B'' is itself a redirect page, then a reader navigating to ''A'' will see the display of the redirect page ''B'' (as illustrated). See [[WP:Double redirects|Double redirects]]. ([[Help:Bot|Bots]] fix such chains so that each redirect points directly to the final target page.)

A redirect page viewed directly, either in the situations described above, or when the [[Help:URL|URL]] used to access the page contains the query parameter <code>redirect=no</code>, looks like this:

<blockquote style="background-color: white; color: black; border:1px solid black; padding: 1em;">
{{fake heading|Transportation}}
<small>{{int:tagline}}</small>
<div>{{int:redirectpagesub}}</div>
[[File:Redirect arrow without text.svg]] <span class="redirectText">[[Transport]]</span>
</blockquote>

(See the actual {{no redirect|Transportation}} redirect page.)

Redirects to articles that begin with a lowercase title, for example the redirect from the page at [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=EBay.com&redirect=no Ebay.com] to the article at [[eBay]], will display the target page with a capitalized first letter, even though the article displays the title with a lowercase title. This is because the true title of the target page is actually capitalized — it just appears lowercase because of the use of the magic word [[Help:Magic words#Behavior switches|DISPLAYTITLE]]. (Usually, the template <nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:Lowercase title|Lowercase title]]<nowiki>}}</nowiki> is used to implement the DISPLAYTITLE magic word for lowercase titles.)

===Section redirects===
When the redirect target is a [[Help:section link|section link]], following a redirected link should lead to the section or other element identified by the link. Normally the redirected page includes the entire contents of the target page as if the section fragment wasn't specified, and uses [[JavaScript]] to jump to the section after the page is loaded. If JavaScript is disabled, this jump does not happen.

When a redirect page is viewed directly without following the target link, the link is shown as an ordinary section link, and works as usual without the use of JavaScript.