Template:No redirect/doc

This is a documentation subpage for Template:No redirect (see that page for the template itself).
It contains usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page.

This template uses Lua:

Module:Redirect

Usage[edit]

This template provides an easy way to link a redirect page without following the redirect.

{{no redirect|page name|label}}

It accepts two unnamed parameters:

1= (required) the name of the page to link.
2= (optional) the text to be displayed. If this is omitted then the input of the first parameter is used.

Example[edit]

Instead of having to copy/paste or type:

[https://www.festipedia.org.uk/w/index.php?title=Afon_Glasylyn_Bridge&redirect=no Afon Glaslyn Bridge]
- to yield Afon Glaslyn Bridge

an editor can type:

''{{No redirect|Afon Glaslyn Bridge}}''

This will take users directly to the same redirect page and display its pagename as a bluelink thus: Afon Glaslyn Bridge.

The second parameter (label) may be useful in discussions on talk pages. For example,

{{No redirect|Afon Glaslyn Bridge|this redirect}}

may appear on a talk page in this context: "For reference, see this redirect."

If there is no page with that name given by the first parameter, the template generates a redlink as for any article name:

{{No redirect|Linda (locomotive)}} displays as Linda (locomotive)

Also, if a page is not a redirect, a normal link is displayed:

{{No redirect|Linda}} displays as Linda