Forum:Wikipedia Redirects

Today, I noted two articles that are simply redirects to Wikipedia articles. The articles in question are "Internet" and "EverQuest". I bring them up because they show a new issue with the Double Redirect list, specifically that the list seems to ignore the wikipedia namespace in the redirection link, and thus treats these pages as circular links. Because I have not seen EverQuest listed here before, and it was last edited in 2006, I think this might be a new issue. -- 16:21, 14 July 2009 (UTC)


 * "Everquest" was a link like that. I think "Machinima" was too, but I do not see it in the history.-- 17:52, 14 July 2009 (UTC)


 * As they are external links, they are not followed through and are sometimes referred to as "soft redirects". 12:11, 15 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Or broken redirects. They seem to be getting deleted (again).-- 00:24, September 24, 2009 (UTC)


 * That too. It makes sense - the pages linking to the redirects should be going directly to Wikipedia if needed anyway. 12:35, September 24, 2009 (UTC)


 * The article_name template can be used for direct links. --  Fandyllic  (talk &middot; contr) 9:53 PM PST 24 Sep 2009