Help talk:Adding a new programming language

Redirect?

What is this thing with redirect? I tried to insert redirect command as described, but it would cause a redirect to the page itself. --PauliKL 15:02, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

The "My Language" should be replaced with the category title that you want to redirect to. "Add the following text, replacing My Language with the name of your programming language"

The link is actually the page that you want to redirect to. For instance, if I wanted a page to redirect to my user page, I would add #REDIRECT [[User:Mwn3d]]. If I wanted to redirect to IEEE, I would add #REDIRECT [[IEEE]]. Look at this page for another example. --Mwn3d 15:55, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

Yes, I know that redirecting to some page redirects to that page. The question is: why would I want to redirect? And from where?

According to this help page, clicking a red link in a task page would lead to some page. From there you are supposed to redirect to another page. But the problem is that the first page is already the page where you are supposed to redirect to. That is, you are redirecting to the page itself.

I am guessing that you are supposed to redirect from page "some language" to page "category:some language". But it looks like the links in the language headings in the task pages already point to "category:some language".

--PauliKL 10:15, 27 October 2008 (UTC)