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SeptimusHeap
MOD
(Edited uphill both ways)
11th Feb, 2013 04:35:22 AM
Pardon, but I really do not understand what you mean.
As an aside, I question the usage of potholes that you described.
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Telcontar
MOD
Since: Feb, 2012
11th Feb, 2013 05:02:31 AM
Namespaces work in potholes; you can type [[Music/HidetoMatsumoto hide]] and it shows up as hide just fine.
That was the amazing part. Things just keep going.
RevolutionStone
Since: Nov, 2012
11th Feb, 2013 06:05:30 PM
Telcontar THANK YOU!!! THAT IS WHAT I WAS GOING FOR!
How do I redirect to the music namespace without doing full page name?
I'm trying to clean up the redirects on X Japan and its members' pages, but there are two problems here.
First is a basic potholing issue - let's say, I want to put X Japan and have it as a pothole from "one of the first Visual Kei bands" with the text showing as "one of the first Visual Kei bands" with the pothole.
The second issue is related: I want Hideto Matsumoto to show up as "hide" in most articles. How do I do that without creating a redirect on the article itself (I can only imagine what a problem for the wiki having that redirect might be... since obviously everything that uses the word "hide" is NOT going to be referring to the late X guitarist) and without doing hide which directs to the old "main" article before it was moved to the music namespace. Similarly I want to have Tomoaki Ishizuka as "Pata" in most pages per stage name as standard.
Hopefully someone can help with this and I wasn't too confusing about the issue.
Edited by RevolutionStone