Editing Help:Redirect (section)

==Creating and editing redirects==
:''Unregistered users, and those not yet [[Wikipedia:User access levels#Autoconfirmed and confirmed users|autoconfirmed]], can request a redirect be created at [[Wikipedia:Articles for creation/Redirects]].  There is also a [[Wikipedia:Article_wizard/Redirects|wizard]] that less experienced editors can use to create a redirect.''

A redirect page can be created like any other page (see [[Help:Creating a new page|Creating a new page]]). Simply type in the wikitext <code><nowiki>#REDIRECT [[</nowiki>xxx]]</code>, replacing "xxx" with the title of the target page (optionally followed by a "#" sign and the section title).

Make sure that there is no text ''before'' the #REDIRECT keyword, or the redirect will not work. There is not usually any reason to place any text after the link either, although sometimes categories (or categorizing templates—see [[WP:Categorizing redirects|Categorizing redirects]]), interwiki links (see [[WP:Interlanguage links|Interlanguage links]]) or HTML comments (<code><nowiki><!-- comment --></nowiki></code>) are added.

Similarly, any existing page can be edited to turn it into a redirect.

To edit a page that is already a redirect (or to view its history, talk page, etc.), follow the redirect to the target page, then click on the link in the "(Redirected from ...)" notice at the top of the page. This takes you to the redirect page itself. (The [[Help:URL|URL]] for accessing a redirect page without following the redirect contains the query parameter ''redirect=no''.)

Another way to get to a redirect page is to go to the target page, and click "[[Help:What links here|What links here]]" (in the toolbox on the left of the page). This will show you all the [[backlink]]s to that page, including redirects. Clicking on a redirect in this list will take you to the redirect page, not the target.

The [[Help:edit summary|edit summary]] box can be left blank; the summary will then be automatically generated stating that the page has been redirected to the given target.  (This applies for: a new redirect page; an existing article page turned into a redirect page; and a change to the target of an existing redirect.)  The generated summary is overridden if the editor supplies their own summary.

=== Using VisualEditor ===
To create a redirect using the [[Wikipedia:VisualEditor|VisualEditor]]:
# Open the "page options" menu (icon with three parallel horizontal bars) at the top right of the editor
# Select "Page settings"
# Check the box marked "Redirect this page to"
# Enter the name of the target page in the text box below the checkbox
# Click on the blue "Apply changes" button
# Save the page. You may enter an edit summary, or an automatic summary will be generated.

===With Template=== 

For redirecting ''xyz'' to article ''abc'', enter ''xyz'' here, and type <nowiki>#REDIRECT [[abc]]</nowiki> in the body.

<div style="float: left"><inputbox>
type=create
align=left
preload=Template:Redirect preload
editintro=Template:Redirect editintro
buttonlabel=Create redirect
break=no
</inputbox></div><div style="clear: both"  >
=== With Redirect Maker ===
The [[Wikipedia:Redirect maker|redirect maker]] allows any autoconfirmed user to quickly make a redirect. Add it to your bookmarks bar for easy access to it any time you need to make a redirect.
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