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There is some sense in what MisterSynergy says, but I also think there is sense in what @DeryckChan wrote in the RfC (here <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Allow_the_creation_of_links_to_redirects_in_Wikidata#Neutral>), namely that there still ought to be some warning if someone tries to sitelink to a redirect page, and the user should be made to actively confirm that they didn't want to instead link to the redirect target. Otherwise I could see us ending up with a lot of accidental sitelinks to mis-spellings, which the present system mostly keeps us safe from. For the most part the present workaround methods to allow a sitelink to be created to a redirect seem to mostly work acceptably enough (once a user knows about them). I can see that they may make life more difficult for large-scale programmatic addition of sitelinks to redirects; but for the moment let's get the badges in place first, so the community becomes much more aware of the existing sitelinks to redirects; then when that's in place we can come back to the question of whether it should be made easier to create new ones. TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T235420 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: Jheald Cc: deryckchan, agray, Lydia_Pintscher, MisterSynergy, Aklapper, Liuxinyu970226, Jheald, darthmon_wmde, DannyS712, Nandana, Lahi, Gq86, GoranSMilovanovic, QZanden, LawExplorer, _jensen, rosalieper, Wikidata-bugs, aude, Mbch331
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