Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-26231129-20160309190806/@comment-452-20160309203544

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.