User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-26975268-20130114031046/@comment-1046-20130114041813

The simple answer to "how do I make a redirect" is to follow a redlink to the page you want to redirect, type " #REDIRECT target ", where "target" is the page you want the term to redirect to, and save the page.

However, much more complicated than that is the question of whether you should create a redirect. Personally, I'm all for them, on the principle that they make things easier for readers and people searching for subjects. However, other people feel that redirects shouldn't generally be made, because they encourage editors to make links "wrong" (that is, if we have a redirect from Queen Nefertiti to Nefertiti, then if somebody is making a page about Queens in Doctor Who they might use Queen Nefertiti instead of Nefertiti on that page). As it is now, if somebody does that, they'll see from the red link that they don't have the "proper" name for the link; but if there's a redirect, then both versions will be blue.

I don't personally think that's such a big deal, but others may disagree.