FamilySearch Wiki:Deletion Guidelines for Administrators: Difference between revisions

Redirecting may be used to forward users from one page name to another title. This is preferred to deleting an old article. Redirecting maintains other titles of articles, while sending the user to the same location for information. Redirecting is ideal for dealing with spelling variations, including diacritic usage in titles, and having more than one article name ultimately direct the user to one article or page. Redirecting articles means that anytime a user attempts to visit the former page name, they will be redirected to the new page name. Redirecting involves some careful considerations. Redirecting a page requires first creating a new page, second moving all of the content from the old page to the new page, and then clearing all of the old material out of the old page and replacing it with the redirect code. Because of the considerations involved in redirecting pages, if the title has been incorrectly named, or needs to be changed, the preferred method to use is Moving a page.