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Summary
- This template is for creating soft redirects, that is to say, short pages inviting readers to visit another page on a different Wikimedia project. This cannot be performed with a classical redirect due to technical restrictions.
- This template is also used to redirect an entry to a special page, in which case hard redirects have been disabled.
- Occasionally it is used to effectively disable a redirect that has been deprecated, e.g. WP:DIVA, in which case {{Historical}} is usually also used, above the soft redirect template.
- For redirecting categories, use {{Category redirect}} instead.
- For all other redirects within the English Wikipedia, please continue to use
#REDIRECT [[Other article]]
.
This places tagged pages in Category:Wikipedia soft redirects or Category:User soft redirects.
Usage
Single parameter
{{Soft redirect|target}}
Example
{{Soft redirect|Meta:Template:Interwiki redirect}}
will produce:
Soft redirect to:Meta:Template:Interwiki redirect
This page is a soft redirect.Template:Soft redirect protection
Two parameters
{{Soft redirect|target|label}}
Example
{{Soft redirect|Lawn mower|grasscutter}}
will produce:
Soft redirect to:grasscutter
This page is a soft redirect.Template:Soft redirect protection
Please remember that this is just to illustrate the second "label" parameter. Template:Soft redirect should not be used when #REDIRECT [[Lawn mower]]
should be used.
Other examples
See also
- Wikipedia:Soft redirect guideline
- {{wi}}, a template for soft redirects to Wiktionary
- {{Double soft redirect}}, a template for a 'soft redirect with two targets'.