The All-knowing Sith'ari's board-to-board with Porplemontage

Thank you.

I agree with what you're saying. If you can get some input on this and a majority of the admins like the idea, I'll make the change.

I see what you're saying, but to use that example, I think if someone were to type in "The Covenant" and no option came up on the list, they would either hit "return" anyway and they would be redirected to the article, or would reconsider what they're typing and delete the "The". Alternatively, they'd be taken to the search page, where they'd get a list of relevant articles, one of which would probably be the one they're after.

There is no setting for this, but I've found the code which needs to be changed to implement what you're asking for.

This was a proposed MediaWiki bug, but a fix was rejected since they want redirects in there. The reason is that they are not all stylistic problems. For example, if you type in "The Covenant", the first option that comes up is "The Covenant" which redirects to "Covenant Empire" and you get the article you want. This is the intended functionality.

The ideal solution is to delete the messy redirects. I would argue this to improve the user experience in cases similar to the Covenant example above, so that useful redirects are included instead of getting rid of all redirects.

Hi, I've been having a few thoughts about our redirects, and Subtank directed me to you an Jack Phoenix. At the moment, when one types into the search bar, both articles and redirects appear in the drop-down menu. Many of these redirects are redundant or have poorly-written titles, and I believe they make the wiki look unprofessional. Deleting these redirects (and deciding which ones should be kept) would be a phenomenal task, so I'm wondering if there's a way of altering the coding so redirects don't appear in the drop down menu. Is this possible?