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A "soft redirect" or "smart redirect" is just an ordinary page with the text "See XYZ.", where XYZ is a link to the target of the smart redirect. A smart redirect should not point to another smart redirect - if you see this you should fix it by shortcutting past the second one and making the first redirect point directly to the ultimate target.

A regular redirect is performed by <code>#REDIRECT [[]]</code>. A double redirect should be fixed by the same method as above, or by replacing it with a hard redirect. Regular redirects did not exist in <code>wikispaces</code>.

A regular redirect is performed by <code><nowiki>#REDIRECT [[Page title]]</nowiki></code>. A double redirect should be fixed by the same method as above, or by replacing it with a hard redirect. Regular redirects did not exist in <code>wikispaces</code>. This kind of redirect displays a small information message when it was used to display the current page.

Real or "hard" redirects directly go to the target page without a notice of redirect. Therefore, they should only be used in the case of simple misspellings or alternate spellings. The rule is that if anyone might ever want to flesh the redirect out into its own article, it should not be a hard redirect. Hard redirects can be chained with no problem, which is why they're still appropriate to use for misspellings. The code for a hard redirect in MediaWiki is <code><nowiki>#REDIRECT [[:en:Page title]]</nowiki></code>. Hard redirects worked somewhat differently in <code>wikispaces</code>; only admins could create or change them, and they could not redirect to a section.

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 A "soft redirect" or "smart redirect" is just an ordinary page with the text "See XYZ.", where XYZ is a link to the target of the smart redirect. A smart redirect should not point to another smart redirect - if you see this you should fix it by shortcutting past the second one and making the first redirect point directly to the ultimate target.
-A regular redirect is performed by <code>#REDIRECT [[]]</code>. A double redirect should be fixed by the same method as above, or by replacing it with a hard redirect. Regular redirects did not exist in <code>wikispaces</code>.
+A regular redirect is performed by <code><nowiki>#REDIRECT [[Page title]]</nowiki></code>. A double redirect should be fixed by the same method as above, or by replacing it with a hard redirect. Regular redirects did not exist in <code>wikispaces</code>. This kind of redirect displays a small information message when it was used to display the current page.
 Real or "hard" redirects directly go to the target page without a notice of redirect. Therefore, they should only be used in the case of simple misspellings or alternate spellings. The rule is that if anyone might ever want to flesh the redirect out into its own article, it should not be a hard redirect. Hard redirects can be chained with no problem, which is why they're still appropriate to use for misspellings. The code for a hard redirect in MediaWiki is <code><nowiki>#REDIRECT [[:en:Page title]]</nowiki></code>. Hard redirects worked somewhat differently in <code>wikispaces</code>; only admins could create or change them, and they could not redirect to a section.