Last modified: 2006-08-30 15:10:55 UTC
See closed bug #7055 for previous discussion. The idea is to improve the redirect sintax in order to allow the author to insert a short mesage explaining *why* you have been redirected. e.g. If "Freddy Mercury" redirects to "Queen (music)" a it could display a message like "You have been redirected form [[Freddy Mercury]] who was Queens's lead vocalist and frontman until his death" Of course implementation details are up to the developers, but in order to state things clearlier here is an pseudo-syntax that could be used: #REDIRECT [[Queen]] You have been redirected form [[Freddy Mercury]] who was Queens's lead vocalist and frontman until his death But the text on the next line, or paragraph, (e.g. a [[:Category:Singer redirects]]) won't be reported Bye and Thanks, Lorenzo.
(In reply to comment #0) > Of course implementation details are up to the developers, but in order to state > things clearlier here is an pseudo-syntax that could be used: > > #REDIRECT [[Queen]] You have been redirected form [[Freddy Mercury]] who was > Queens's lead vocalist and frontman until his death To begin with, make any content clearly separated from the actual redirect notice, so the syntax would have to be #REDIRECT [[Queen (music)]] the Queens' lead vocalist and frontman until his death It would be nice if we could just use that, really. It wouldn't cause *that* much breakage, assuming categories and so on were stripped. The only real uses for putting anything on redirect pages other than the redirect are 1) categories and 2) reasons for the redirect; 1 will be ditched and 2 might not be all bad.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 2012 ***
