Redirections

Feature Upgrade · Articles & templates · Created by Bleichmeister
accepted

What functionality is missing? What is unsatisfying with the current situation?

The current status is that if I have a character, or a city or a kingdom that has multiple names, sometimes even outdated, I can only refer to them by writing the name of the relevant article, link it, and edit the text.

Classic examples would be women who take their husband's name during the development of the story.

Kingdoms of were ruined and replaced with new ones.

Titles and nicknames...

How does this feature request address the current situation?

Editing names like this is tedious, having the autolinker recognise an article by a few redirective titles would save a lot of time going back and forth.

The Team's Response

Thanks for the suggestion! Article aliases are planned for a future update, which should cover this.
Current score

9/300 Votes · +1903 points

Votes Cast

  • +300

    by PhilosoShy
    on 2026-02-26 19:07
  • +100

    by AuraGuard
    on 2026-02-22 15:34
    I like JasonKnightman's suggestion.
  • +1

    by JasonKnightman
    on 2026-02-19 01:05
    Alternative: Would incorporating tag search for the autolinker be helpful? A woman's maiden family name could be a tag; a country's former name could be a tag, etc. Just have to code one thing - a mode for the search - at that point. No longer need aliases for articles at that point...
  • +300

    by Kyberian
    on 2026-02-14 19:44
    This would also let us set up redirects for common spelling mistakes and the like.
  • +300

    by Frostifjell
    on 2026-02-12 17:05
  • +1

    by Jupiter Melichios
    on 2026-02-09 22:06
    Nice idea, but I can't see the benefits of this being worth the development time, as it sounds very complex to implement
  • +300

    by Sequ0ia
    on 2026-02-03 00:36
  • +1

    by Those2Nerds
    on 2026-01-29 19:03
    This has been suggested multiple times already. See Alternative Spellings for Autolinker, accepted in 2024, and Alternative Names for Autolinking, declined just a few months ago:   "We previously accepted a suggestion to have a single alias per article, which is still planned. However, multiple aliases per article will not be implemented due to technical complexity."
  • +300

    by nnie
    on 2026-01-29 10:21
  • +300

    by Bleichmeister
    on 2026-01-29 06:58