Guild Wars Wiki:Formatting/Redirects

This article details the formatting guidelines for all redirect pages. For help on what redirects are or how to use redirects, please see Help:Redirect.

Redirect categorization
This formatting guideline primarily deals with properly categorizing redirects. As individual redirect pages aren't easily located beyond the exhaustive Special:Listredirects, it helps if there is a categorization system in place to organize them for easier maintenance.

Templates have been created to make it easier to tag redirect pages into the proper categories. For example, the redirect page of Abbadon contains:
 * 1) redirect Abaddon

The second line of that redirect is the template tag, declaring that it is a redirect due to incorrect spelling. The result is that all pages that link to the incorrect spelling will show up in Category:Common misspelling redirects.

Types of redirects
The following table shows some of the allowed redirects and their corresponding template and category:

It is understood that there are redirects that do not fall into the above groupings. For these, if they are deemed common enough, a discussion should be started on the talk page to consider a new template tag and category. In any case, do take note of the clause on redirects in the article retention policy.