Difference between revisions of "Help talk:Redirects"
(New page: == Orange instead of blue == Shouldn't the text under "Creating a redirect" say orange instead of blue? Now it says: (Generally you will be redirecting to an existing page name, so the lin...) |
m (Protected "Help talk:Redirects" [edit=sysop:move=sysop]) |
||
| (2 intermediate revisions by one other user not shown) | |||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
== Orange instead of blue == | == Orange instead of blue == | ||
Shouldn't the text under "Creating a redirect" say orange instead of blue? Now it says: (Generally you will be redirecting to an existing page name, so the link should be blue, not red). -- [[Contributor name:Che Biko|Che Biko]] 23:17, 28 January 2009 (UTC) | Shouldn't the text under "Creating a redirect" say orange instead of blue? Now it says: (Generally you will be redirecting to an existing page name, so the link should be blue, not red). -- [[Contributor name:Che Biko|Che Biko]] 23:17, 28 January 2009 (UTC) | ||
| + | |||
| + | == Redirect Notifications == | ||
| + | I just spent 15 minutes trying to figure out how to redirect a duplicate page to another that was created by the same author. You know normal cleanup routines for a wiki. Come to realize the page was exactly the same. | ||
| + | |||
| + | Even the title= tag didn't show the actual page being used, it wasn't until I checked the url after using the Edit feature for the page did I notice that "one" of the pages was the source, while the other was a redirect. | ||
| + | |||
| + | On most wikis, when you are redirected, it sells you that your were redirected from "pagename". I recommend you do the same thing so people don't get confused by this and waste time trying to help on something that doesn't need help, or to cusual users that end up reading the same page twice (at least in part), it verify that yes indeed they are looking at the same article and there IS NOT new information here. | ||
| + | |||
| + | [[Contributor name:Escoce|Escoce]] 17:31, 11 March 2009 (UTC) | ||
| + | |||
| + | :Unless I'm missing something, there is no link at all on the page to show a redirect has taken place, in spite of the statement to the contrary in the body of this article. Rather than being difficult to spot, it appears to simply not be there... | ||
| + | |||
| + | :--[[Contributor name:Bel Amar|Bel Amar]] 21:51, 10 April 2009 (UTC) | ||
Latest revision as of 15:51, 10 April 2009
Orange instead of blue
Shouldn't the text under "Creating a redirect" say orange instead of blue? Now it says: (Generally you will be redirecting to an existing page name, so the link should be blue, not red). -- Che Biko 23:17, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
Redirect Notifications
I just spent 15 minutes trying to figure out how to redirect a duplicate page to another that was created by the same author. You know normal cleanup routines for a wiki. Come to realize the page was exactly the same.
Even the title= tag didn't show the actual page being used, it wasn't until I checked the url after using the Edit feature for the page did I notice that "one" of the pages was the source, while the other was a redirect.
On most wikis, when you are redirected, it sells you that your were redirected from "pagename". I recommend you do the same thing so people don't get confused by this and waste time trying to help on something that doesn't need help, or to cusual users that end up reading the same page twice (at least in part), it verify that yes indeed they are looking at the same article and there IS NOT new information here.
Escoce 17:31, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
- Unless I'm missing something, there is no link at all on the page to show a redirect has taken place, in spite of the statement to the contrary in the body of this article. Rather than being difficult to spot, it appears to simply not be there...
- --Bel Amar 21:51, 10 April 2009 (UTC)