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This wikiproject covers both the English, and Simple English Wikipedias.

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WikiProject Redirect

General information (edit · changes)

• WikiProject Redirect - Main Project Page
• Wikipedia:Redirect - local guidelines
• Help:Redirect - meta help page

Things you can do (edit)

• Fix up redirect problems, such as double redirects
• Add redirects on the basis of common misspellings, etc.
• Add redirects on the basis of international spellings and names.
• Add redirects about countries - eg. old names, full names and slang names
• Add redirects to articles with uncommon ASCII characters (example: ä,ö,å, etc.)
• Clean up nonsense redirects and redirects to non existent articles.
• Add redirect templates to any applicable redirect pages.
• Monitor and participate in discussions at redirects for discussion.
• Monitor and participate at redirects for creation.

Welcome to the Redirect WikiProject. We are a group dedicated to improving the standard of redirects on Wikipedia.

Links

• 'What redirects here', useful for finding nonsense redirects or cleaning up pages that have too many redirects linking to them.

Goals

• To fix up redirect problems, such as double redirects
• Add redirects on the basis of common misspellings, etc.
• Add redirects on the basis of international spellings and names.

Scope

• The project covers all articles in the English Wikipedia and all articles in the Simple English Wikipedia.

[edit] Open tasks

• Fix up redirect problems, such as double redirects
• Add redirects on the basis of common misspellings, etc.
• Add redirects on the basis of international spellings and names.
• Add redirects about countries - eg. old names, full names and slang names
• Add redirects to articles with uncommon ASCII characters (example: ä,ö,å, etc.)
• Clean up nonsense redirects and redirects to non existent articles.
• Add redirect templates to any applicable redirect pages.
• Monitor and participate in discussions at redirects for discussion.
• Monitor and participate at redirects for creation.

[edit] Requested redirects

If you don't have an account, and therefore can't create pages, please place requests at the end of the next section, in the format:

20 April 2008

NewRedirect > TargetArticle

[edit] Request queue

27 April 2009

Gadgets (Windows) > Microsoft Gadgets Y Done

11 August 2009

Pelagornithid > Pelagornithidae Y Done

[edit] Templates

Redirect pages:

• Wikipedia:Template messages/Redirect pages - One or several of these templates may be placed on a redirect page

Users:

• {{WPRedirInvite}} - WikiProject invitation - To invite users who may be interested to join the WikiProject
• {{User WikiProject Redirect}} - Userbox

[edit] Participants

Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest or experience.

1. Webdinger (talk · contribs) 01:42, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
2. Mr. XYZ (talk · contribs) 18:01, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
3. Edmundkh (talk · contribs) 11:08, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
4. TigerK 69 (talk · contribs) 01:37, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
5. EditingMachine (talk · contribs)
6. Thundermaster (talk · contribs) 11:59, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
7. MisterWiki (talk · contribs) 22:12, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
8. Richard0612 (talk · contribs) I am currently trawling through pages with lots of redirs. and listing useless ones at RfD 13:04, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
9. Lenoxus (talk · contribs) LOL I can't believe I hadn't put my name here yet. I recently categorized as many of the redirect templates as I could into subcategories. My current project, working along with Richard0612, is the implementation of a redirect meta-template: See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Redirect#New meta-template(s) idea and Wikipedia:VPR#New idea for redirect templates for our discussion. 23 May 2008
10. Love Krittaya (talk · contribs) 12:08, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
11. Candlewicke (talk · contribs) 03:40, 13 August 2008 - Whoop-de-doodle. I should have been here long ago. :) Some that spring to mind. So many Oxegen redirects. Double digit numbers with and without apostrophes, eg. '07 or 08. Dave Geraghty. And on this very day Failte Towers and Gerard McDonnell. So yes, a few names that might get shortened to avoid confusion. And Irish language titles, punctuation, symbols and such-like.
12. UberScienceNerd (talk · contribs) 01:41, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
13. The Duke of Waltham (talk · contribs) Interested in style and navigation, and keen to see a rationalisation of the redirect-categorisation system. 00:38, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
14. Explodicle (T/C) 17:53, 30 September 2008 (UTC)
15. I make a lot of redirects! Bsimmons666 (talk) 16:46, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
16. Omnipedian (talk · contribs) 11:03, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
17. I've completed all redirects from Spanish and French names of political parties in Latin America and Africa. Now working in European ones Againme (talk · contribs)
18. OlEnglish (talk · contribs) Adding redirect templates, and creating new redirects 19:15, 14 March 2009 (UTC)
19. MBisanz (talk · contribs) I should really be a member here. MBisanz ^talk 07:51, 17 March 2009 (UTC)
20. Antivenin (talk · contribs)
21. Cssiitcic (talk · contribs) I enjoy making redirects and have made alot of them before joing this WikiProject.
22. Hi878 (talk) 19:07, 27 April 2009 (UTC) I've been making redirects that need to be made, so I thought that it would be good to join this.
23. Keiji (iNVERTED) (Talk) 16:31, 2 May 2009 (UTC) I almost always make a redirect when I receive a page not found error for something that exists.
24. User:Utahraptor_ostrommaysi/User:Utahraptor_ostrommaysorum 14:24. 0905.12 (UTC) I'm going to start with my own user pages! (Spelling mess-up)
25. Malpass93 (talk · contribs) 22:26, 16 May 2009 (UTC) - I can't believe I wasn't already here! I've made tonnes of these things. Anyway, I'm here now.
26. FingersOnRoids (talk · contribs) 22:26, 16 May 2009 (UTC) - I work at WP:AFC/R, creating requested redirects, and at WP:AFD, where I !vote for articles with plausible search terms to be redirected to a related article, instead of being flat out deleted.Fingers^OnRoids 02:25, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
27. Emmette Hernandez Coleman (talk · contribs) I find myself creating redirects a lot. I have also been adding redirect templates to redirects.
28. Secret Saturdays (talk · contribs) If I knew this wikiproject existed, I would've joined sooner.
29. Skittleys (talk · contribs) I've been categorising redirects for a while now, and realised there must be an associated WikiProject! I also make a lot of redirects against Americanizations.
30. Urbanrenewal (talk · contribs) I have been creating redirects for years, I only recently stumbled across the wikiproject.|► ϋrбanяeneωaℓ • TALK ◄| 19:32, 30 September 2009 (UTC)
31. Hadger (talk · contribs) I would love to help improve Wikipedia with redirects and making it easier for people to find pages. If I had known about this page before, I would've already been participating in this WikiProject. Hadger 03:10, 24 October 2009 (UTC)
32. Skullers (talk) 20:35, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
33. Secret Saturdays (talk · contribs)