LQWiki:How to use a redirect

To redirect a page (1) to a different page (2), enter on page 1:

 #REDIRECT NAME OF PAGE 2 

For example, if somehow two pages were created for foo: FOO and Foo, and you want anyone going to Foo to be redirected to FOO , what you need to do is this: Go to the Foo page, click the edit button, and on the first line of the page put:


 * #REDIRECT FOO

With no other text in that page.

When to use a Redirect:


 * Misspellings
 * Abbreviations
 * Alternate spellings
 * Alternate capitalizations
 * Synonyms
 * Facilitate disambiguation
 * Plurals, tenses, etc.
 * To avoid broken links

Later, if you need to edit a redirect, go to: http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki.phtml?title=Foo&redirect=no (changing "Foo" in the above URL to whatever page is your "redirect page") and make your change.