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===Redirects===
A redirect page is a page whose only function is to send anyone visiting that page to a page by a different name. Redirects are incredibly important, and everyone should learn how to make one.
Using a redirect, a link to [[Bethans]] will go to [[Elizabethans]]. The former is a common colloquial form likely to crop up in articles, but the latter is the only reasonable title for the article. To prevent editors from accidentally writing two pages about the same thing, redirects are crucial.
'''Making a redirect.''' Let's say we want to make "WUFO" point to "Williams Ultimate Frisbee Organization". Start a new page having the name that you want to become a redirect -- in this case, [[WUFO]]. Make its content
<center>
<nowiki>#redirect [[REDIRECT_TARGET]]</nowiki>
</center>
where REDIRECT_TARGET is the name of the article you want to go to -- in this case, "[[Williams Ultimate Frisbee Organization]]".
'''When to make a redirect.''' For redirects, more is usually better. Any time you think of a term that people often use to name something else, and that term only names that one thing, make the page a redirect. WUFO is only one thing, so it's a great redirect. "Hopkins," unfortunately, is the administrative hall as well as the dormitory. The page [[Hopkins]], then, needs to be a [[#Disambiguation pages|disambiguation page]].
==Conventions==
