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dRoy Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar from Most likely from my study Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: I'm just high on the world
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#1: Oct 22nd 2014 at 2:12:00 PM

I'm launching a thread because I cannot find the relevant thread to ask this.

I was trying to make an Awesome Moments page for Modern Warfare series. It has its own pages for Funny Moments, Heartwarming Moments, and other contents, so I found that to be appropriate.

However, whenever I type Awesome/ModernWarfare on internet address, it keeps redirecting to Awesome/CallOfDuty. How do I make something stop redirecting?

edited 22nd Oct '14 2:12:10 PM by dRoy

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#2: Oct 22nd 2014 at 2:18:41 PM

Edit another article, then manually substitute the name of the article you wish to edit in the URL. If you are removing the redirect, then you'll need to fix the page type as well.

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dRoy Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar from Most likely from my study Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: I'm just high on the world
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#3: Oct 22nd 2014 at 2:35:51 PM

Not sure if I get that, but I will try nonetheless. Thanks.

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#4: Oct 22nd 2014 at 3:51:06 PM

I broke the redirect for you. Awesome.Modern Warfare is now blank and ready for you to make it.

Basically, the steps to break a redirect are:

1. Open any other page for editing.

2. Up at the top of your screen, where the url of the page you're on shows, you'll see something like https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Awesome/CallOfDuty?action=edit. Manually replace the name of that page, the one you currently have open to edit, with the full name of the page that has the redirect you want to break. In this case, you'd replace <Awesome/CallOfDuty> with <Awesome/ModernWarfare>

3 Hit your "Enter" key. You should now have an open edit window for the page with t the redirect that you want to remove.

4. Find the string that starts with <redirect:> and has the colon followed by a page name. It may be one of the first lines, it may be the only line, it may be hidden somewhere in the page content.

5. Delete that whole string.

6. Save your edit.

7. Now you should be on the page that used to redirect, but is now blank or shows the old content. Open it for editing and edit normally.

edited 22nd Oct '14 4:00:40 PM by Madrugada

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dRoy Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar from Most likely from my study Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: I'm just high on the world
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#5: Oct 22nd 2014 at 3:55:33 PM

Oh sweet! Thanks!

I tried following Fighteer's instruction and almost messed up the Call of Duty page. [lol]

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