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essay on the
deletion policy. It contains the advice or opinions of one or more Wikipedia contributors. This page is not an encyclopedia article, nor is it one of
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Although essay this is in my user-space, please feel free to edit it. Emmette Hernandez Coleman ( talk)
It's often helpful to think of deleting a redirect as re-targeting it to search page. If you delete a redirect, then when our readers look it up in the search box, they end up at the search page.
When a redirect is deleted, you don't always end up at a search page:
People use all these methods and more to search and navigate Wikipedia so the user experience is unpredictable.
This is an
essay on the
deletion policy. It contains the advice or opinions of one or more Wikipedia contributors. This page is not an encyclopedia article, nor is it one of
Wikipedia's policies or guidelines, as it has not been
thoroughly vetted by the community. Some essays represent widespread norms; others only represent minority viewpoints. |
Although essay this is in my user-space, please feel free to edit it. Emmette Hernandez Coleman ( talk)
It's often helpful to think of deleting a redirect as re-targeting it to search page. If you delete a redirect, then when our readers look it up in the search box, they end up at the search page.
When a redirect is deleted, you don't always end up at a search page:
People use all these methods and more to search and navigate Wikipedia so the user experience is unpredictable.