Guild Wars Wiki:Formatting/Redirects

This page is an accepted formatting guideline on the Guild Wars Wiki. It has wide acceptance among editors and is considered a standard that all contributors should follow. Before editing this page, it is suggested to gather consensus on the talk page first.

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:

#redirect [[Abaddon]]
{{common misspelling}}

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:

No.	Redirect reason	Template	Category
1	Lowercase names to properly capitalized names    e.g. Lion's arch → Lion's Arch	{{capitalization}}	Category:Capitalization redirects
2	Plural terms to singular terms    e.g. Collectors → Collector	{{plural term}}	Category:Plural redirects
3	Names without punctuation to names with punctuation    e.g. Charge → Charge!	{{omitted punctuation}}	Category:Omitted punctuation redirects
4	Short forms of names to the complete name    e.g. Kamadan → Kamadan, Jewel of Istan	{{short name}}	Category:Short name redirects
5	Abbreviations or initialisms    e.g. DP → Death Penalty	{{abbreviation}}	Category:Abbreviation redirects
6	Common misspellings    e.g. Abbadon → Abaddon	{{common misspelling}}	Category:Common misspelling redirects
7	Common spelling variants    e.g. Armour → Armor	{{variant spelling}}	Category:Variant spelling redirects
8	Common names to official names    e.g. FoW armor → Obsidian armor	{{common name}}	Category:Common name redirects
9	Former official names to new official names    e.g. Chapter → Campaign	{{former name}}	Category:Former name redirects
10	Grammatical derivations    e.g. Knocked down → Knock down	{{grammar derivation}}	Category:Grammatical derivation redirects
11	Icon redirects    e.g. Image:Warrior-icon.png → Warrior	{{icon}}	Category:Icon redirects
12	Project namespace shortcuts    e.g. GWW:POLICY → Guild Wars Wiki:Policy	{{shortcut}}	Category:Shortcut redirects
13	Specific term or name to general term or explanation    e.g. Monk Tome → Skill tome	{{general term}}	Category:General term redirects
14	Fansite redirects    e.g. GWOnline → List of fansites	{{fansite redirect}}	Category:Fansite redirects

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.