User blog comment:Kirkburn/Technical Update: January 27, 2015/@comment-3183960-20150128123305/@comment-452-20150131133732

Wait, redirects don't show up in the link suggest any more?
 * Tested. Yep.

I have mixed feelings about that.
 * It will stop people from linking to redirects which were created for searching purposes. = good.
 * It will also stop people from linking to valid redirects. = bad.
 * It will cause confusion for people who don't know the name of the article. = bad.

How about display both, but display the article first? That way, if they didn't know the exact name of the article, it is presented to them, but if they wanted to link to the redirect, it is also suggested.

For the case of search suggestions, I agree with just showing the redirect name - showing a completely different name will only cause confusion. If they cannot be implemented differently, then the solution of displaying the article first and the redirect second works here too.

This also solves the problem of "the article name doesn't link to the section", because the user can select the redirect itself if they want to go to the section.

Example:

On a video game wiki I contribute to, all missions have an opening and closing cutscene, which both have names, so all missions have 3 names associated with them, which are displayed prominently on the screen in one of the games, and are listed elsewhere in another.

So, we have the article named after the mission, and two redirects to it for the names of the cutscenes.

Because the name of the first cutscene is displayed on-screen before the name of the mission is, this leads to a little confusion about the name of the mission, so people would often search for the name of the cutscene instead of the name of the mission, and may not even know the name of the mission. The cutscene and mission names are usually puns or other wordplay, and have little relation to each other, so typing one phrase and have another appear is confusing to someone who doesn't know what's going on.

I've also created a range of other redirects to improve searching, but which shouldn't be used as links, in most cases these do resemble the destination title, so having the destination name listed before the redirect should be a good prompt for people to use the "correct" title instead.

In summary: Yes, it's helpful to suggest the destination, but not everyone searching for a term will recognise the name of the destination, so listing the redirects after the destination would avoid confusion.