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Broken redirects (priority 2)

 * Click to help clean up these redirects
 * Problem and why it should be fixed:
 * Redirects that lead to a dead link.
 * Correcting these will enable patrons to go to the link they intended.


 * Help links:
 * Help:Redirects
 * How to report:
 * Automatically reported.
 * Steps to resolve:.
 * Try to determine what the link was taking patron to. The problem may be something simple like a spelling error. Or the page has been deleted.
 * If page link no longer exists, then delete link and the sentence that had the link in it.
 * If page still exists, then repair link in either Visual Editor or in wikitext by the following steps.
 * Log in.
 * Click on "Edit."
 * In the Visual Editor box find the bad link and correct it.
 * Scroll down to the Summary box and type: "repaired broken link."
 * Check the "This is a minor edit" box.
 * Click "Save page."
 * Make sure that the link is fixed or has been deleted if necessary.

Double redirects (2)

 * Click to help clean up the double redirects
 * Problem and why it should be fixed:


 * When clicking on an article, you see the arrow with a link to another page, but there is no "redirect=no" in the title. The problem is that Page #1 (the page you are on) is being redirected to Page #2, and Page #2 is then being redirected to Page #3. That breaks Page #1 because the wiki doesn't let you have a chain of redirects like that.


 * Help links:


 * Help:Redirects


 * How to report:
 * Automatically reported.


 * Steps to resolve:
 * Log in.
 * On the Double Redirects page, each entry will consist of three links separated by arrows. The first and second links are separated by (Edit).
 * Click to open the 3rd page, then copy the title.
 * Click to edit first article.
 * Replace the link following: #REDIRECT with the copied title of the 3rd entry.
 * Scroll down to the Summary box and type: "deleted double redirect."
 * Check the "This is a minor edit" box.
 * Click "Save page."
 * The double redirect will disappear from maintenance report.

All redirects (**)

 * Click to review potential problems with redirects
 * This is a list of all re-directs in the wiki. Only a few will need to be corrected, if they are double or triple re-directs.


 * Problem and why it should be fixed:
 * Link may not be going to the correct page.
 * Users should be able to access the page they need with one click


 * Help links:
 * Help Redirects
 * How to report: Automatically Reported
 * Steps to resolve:See instructions for Re-directs and Double Re-Directs and these pages may have specialized problems.

Lists of pages that meet a specific criteria contain two asterisks; they don't mean that there is a problem with all the pages in the report and don't need to be "cleaned up."