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== When to use redirects == In general, redirects are used to point alternate spellings, capitalizations, plurals, synonyms, abbreviations, and other likely alternate titles to the same page. For example, the [[Warhammer 40,000]] page is the target of the following redirects: [[41st millenium]], [[Warhammer 40k]], [[Warhammer 40K]], [[40k]], [[WH40k]], [[WH40K]], [[Warhammer 40000]], [[41st millennium]], [[40K]], and [[W40k]]. For an example of more advanced usage of redirects, suppose you want to link the phrase "plasma cannon." It doesn't have a page of its own, and doesn't really have enough content to make a page of its own, but the [[Plasma]] article has a section about plasma cannons. You could use a [[Help:piped link|piped link]] that points to the "Plasma Cannon" section of the Plasma article, like this: <nowiki>[[Plasma#Plasma Cannon|plasma cannon]]</nowiki>. But that link is case-sensitive, and it's cumbersome to type that out every time you want to link that phrase. So instead, we make (have already made, in fact) a redirect from "Plasma cannon" to "Plasma#Plasma Cannon". This has the additional advantage that, if the plasma cannon content gets moved, we only need to change the redirect (in fact, the redirect provides a convenient place to make the full article, and everything's already pointing to it -- although the "Plasma Cannon" redirect would have to be changed in this case), rather than search through and update every page that links to the Plasma article. We do the same thing with our Tactics pages. Articles link to the generic "/Tactics/" article, which acts as a redirect to that army's tactics page for the current edition. Then, when a new edition rolls around, we make a new page for each army, update the redirects, and move on with our lives.
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