Help talk:Redirect

Accents: suggestion to remove the need for such redirects (RESOLVED)

I just embarked on setting up redirects for Bundózo and Chilémbi without the accents as per the guidance in this help page and tradition of this wiki. However, if you type in either of those names without accents the wiki finds the page anyway. Adding a redirect is then not needed. Worse, it potentially means the names of these cities could be misspelt because of the existence of a page without the accents. We have a rule: However, do not make redirects to cover potential typos for exactly this reason.

I am unsure if the wiki automatically copes with all diacriticals in the search. If it does, I suggest we amend this help page to remove the need for redirects for accents and other diacritical marks. -Fleanetha (talk) 19:13, 27 July 2019 (UTC)

No discussion in more than 5 years and MediaWiki continues to handle this automatically. Since this isn't a policy or guideline, I've just removed the line. -Oznogon (talk) 20:51, 3 January 2025 (UTC)

Thanks Oz. It's been a long wait. Much appreciated. However, and this must not sound ungrateful, I just typed in bundozo and nothing came up; ditto chilembi. Has this feature stopped working in the six years? Mystified once more. --Fleanetha (talk) 00:11, 5 January 2025 (UTC)