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Background: Mostly, the existence of a sitelink to a redirect indicates a potential //data problem// on Wikidata: a sitelink that has been left over when two Wikipedia articles have been merged, but no corresponding merge has been made on Wikidata. A sitelink to a redirect can therefore be a strong indication that an item on Wikidata is a duplicate of another one, and should be merged with it. However, at the moment it is not possible for somebody browsing a Wikidata article to readily spot that a sitelink points to a redirect. A badge to identify this would bring the fact into plain sight. On the other hand sitelinks to redirects may also (sometimes) be created intentionally, most commonly to preserve decent interwiki linkage when different Wikipedias have adopted different article strategies for a subject with a "Bonnie and Clyde" issue. At present eleven wikipedias allow such intentionally sitelinked redirects to be marked with a Template:Wikidata redirect <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16956589> template. On English Wikipedia this currently has almost 26,000 transclusions. A community RfC on Wikidata <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Allow_the_creation_of_links_to_redirects_in_Wikidata> in 2017-2018 confirmed that there was community consensus to allow sitelinks to be added to redirects in this way, matching the results of an earlier RfC in 2013 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/A_need_for_a_resolution_regarding_article_moves_and_redirects#new_Proposal_zero>. Both the Wikidata Help:Handling sitelinks overlapping multiple items <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Help:Handling_sitelinks_overlapping_multiple_items> help page and the Wikidata:Notability <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Notability> policy page give advice on how such sitelinks to redirects may be created. Nevertheless, a strong theme in the most recent RfC <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Allow_the_creation_of_links_to_redirects_in_Wikidata> was that such redirects need to be much more clearly visible and distinguishable. Creating two new Wikidata badges, one to mark a sitelink to a redirect, and a second to mark an //intentional// sitelink to a redirect, would be the obvious (and comparatively easy) way to achieve this. TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T235420 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: Jheald Cc: Aklapper, Liuxinyu970226, Jheald, darthmon_wmde, DannyS712, Nandana, Lahi, Gq86, GoranSMilovanovic, QZanden, LawExplorer, _jensen, rosalieper, Wikidata-bugs, aude, Mbch331
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