Editing Help:Redirect (section)

==Purposes of a redirect==
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Redirects are usually created because readers may search for an article under different names (or editors may wish to link to it from different names). Examples are:
* Alternative names for the same thing
* Alternative spellings, capitalizations, etc. (although it is not necessary to create redirects from different capitalizations just because readers may enter them in the search box - the Go button in the Monobook skin resolves this automatically)
* Common misspellings
* Plurals
* Subtopics that don't have their own article (in this case, you may redirect to a section of the target page)
* [[WP:Shortcut|Shortcuts]] to a page, used mainly in project space (such as [[WP:AFD]])
* Redirects that keep links to a page active after it has been renamed (even if internal links are updated—this still applies for links from outside and [[Help:Edit summary#Internal and interwiki links in edit summaries|links in edit summaries]])

Note that it is not necessary to create redirects from every title an editor may conceivably wish to link to a given page – [[Help:Piped link|piped links]] can be used as an alternative.