Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-26231129-20160309190806/@comment-452-20160310151904

I'm sorry, I didn't realise we were supposed to be quoting the post immediately above us. Jessepinky wrote: 452 wrote: Nice work figuring out that it was a double redirect causing the problem, and thanks for the tip, you're my hero!

I tested it out and here's a condensed method:
 * If you have an article named John Smith, and a redirect for John, and want the John redirect to appear in search and link suggestsions,
 * Create a redirect named John(anything) which redirects to John (it really doesn't matter, so long as the first part matches the destination redirect.)

I'm personally going to use the format John-redirect, so they're clear and easy to find.

edit: I'm finding that it only sometimes works, but I hope that's just a cache issue.

edit: curiously, if you move a page over a redirect, then create the dummy redirect, then move the page back to the original title, entering the original title shows the redirect and not the page.

Example:
 * Page is named John Smith. Redirect is named Smith, John
 * Rename John Smith to Smith, John
 * Create Smith, John-redirect to point to Smith, John
 * Rename Smith, John back to John Smith

If you enter "John" in the search bar, the suggestion is Smith, John

If you enter "Smith" in the search bar, the suggestion is John Smith!

Again, hopefully this is just a caching problem which will sort itself out eventually. May I get a link of the wiki where you are experimenting? (Did I do it right?)

The last time I gave out the link to my test wiki, someone had Wikia Staff try to pressure me into deleting a page on my test wiki that they didn't like. Although the page in question is still standing, but I'd rather avoid that type of drama occurring again, and don't give out links to my test wiki.

In any case, the cache appears to have sorted itself out on my test wiki, and both John and Smith give the search suggestion of John Smith, which is disappointing.

Unofrtunately, the majority of redirects I made are now just showing two results, both when creating the redirect before moving the page, and when just creating a double redirect.

But thanks for the idea!