There are no tropes that need "hundreds" of redirects much less work pages. So I am not sure what the problem is.
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I'm trying to make redirects of articles that have the "Real Robot" trope title. In this case, I'm redirecting articles that have the "Real Robot" title to the "Real Robot Genre" title, the latter being redirected since there is a Super Robot Genre title that is a redirect from the "Super Robot" title.
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I am not seeing the point, frankly. And autoindexing namespaces should stay redirect-free.
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Forget it then. I'm pretty sure I explained everything...
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I really don't think you're being 100% clear here.
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Omninae, you aren't really being clear about what you're doing.
A "redirect" is a page that has no content of its own, and bounces anyone who uses that name to another page that does have content. It's an alternate name, generally used to make searching for the page easier by making more search terms find it, although it can be used because the name of a page was changed but the old name is still in wide use, or s that the name can be used to refer to either gender if it's a gendered name .
The thing you linked to is a list of "wicks" — links to the page using that particular name across the whole wiki.
No page should have hundreds of redirects. Many pages have hundreds or thousands of wicks.
Redirects should not be Daisy-chained: a redirect should point directly to the page it's intended to point to (Page A should redirect to Page C), not to another redirect to that page (Page A should not redirect to Page B which redirects to Page C).
What exactly are you trying to accomplish? Something to do with redirects or something to do with wicks?
edited 26th May '14 8:06:35 AM by Madrugada
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I think he means he's trying to move wicks from Real Robot to Real Robot Genre, and just doesn't get what "redirect" means. Don't quote me on that though.
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Sorry that I didn't reply sooner. RL and some other stuff got in the way a bit.
And yeah, what Totemic said. Although I was pretty sure moving the wicks from Real Robot to Real Robot Genre was a redirect. Guess I was wrong.
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Ah, ok. Unfortunately, no, there's no way to correct wicks automatically. You have to change each one manually. If the name you're trying to change is one with hundreds or thousands of wicks, you might consider making a thread in the Short-term projects section of the forum to get help on it.
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Thanks for the assist. I'll try to see if I can get one up when I have free time.
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I'm using this link as an example since it's a redirect from "Real Robot" to "Real Robot Genre".
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/relatedsearch.php?term=Main/RealRobot
I need to ask if there's an easier way of doing redirects to the proper trope instead of hunting down the said trope link and making the necessary redirects manually. Very hard to do if needed redirects are in the hundreds.
Hopefully I was clear on this. If not, let me know.
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