Community Suggestion: Automatic Article Redirect
What functionality is missing? What is unsatisfying with the current situation?
In RPG campaigns it is not uncommon for the name of a person, place, location, or object to either change or to be revealed as having been something else all along. I want to be able to link to the P/P/L/O using the appropriate name; however, I don't always want to simply change the article title, either because it would be a spoiler (as in the case of using the same article across multiple campaigns, or when one character learns something but not others) or because it disrupts veracity and causes confusion (especially in session reports from before the change/reveal).How does this feature request address the current situation?
This feature was requested in 2022 by user jterlecki, but was declined because "WorldAnvil already allows to redirect a Category to an Article." The issue is that it's not a category I want to redirect, it's one (essentially non-existent) article to another, allowing me to have multiple links end up directing to the same article.What are other uses for this feature request?
As jterlecki mentioned in the original request, it's also sometimes the case that something falls under two separate categories and should be listed under both, but writing and having two separate articles is unnecessary or confusing, such as Country X (location, under World Atlas) and Country X (organization, under World Encyclopedia), or Event Y (article, under World Encyclopedia) and Event Y (event, under Timelines).The Team's Response
Thanks for the suggestion! While we can see how this could be useful and are not against it, this would be a significant change so we'd need to see more support from the commuinty before designing and creating the feature.
Current score
10/300 Votes · +2302 points
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+100
by A Thundering Devil
on 2025-08-08 00:24 -
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by A Goodhearted Velociraptor
on 2025-08-04 10:16 -
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by Scalenex
on 2025-08-04 02:52 -
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by HunterChristmas1247
on 2025-08-02 20:34 -
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by Anna Stwilight
on 2025-08-02 06:45 -
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by Those2Nerds
on 2025-07-28 20:51All issues you mentioned can already be addressed with existing tools. The mention system lets you title the link whatever you want and still go to the same article. Putting a name in a variable will let you mass-change it after a big reveal. WA's Secrets feature lets you show content to some people but not to others. Tags, tagged lists, and indices let you organize articles in multiple ways beyond categories. I'm not sure having an article redirect option would harm anything (maybe by introducing the potential for loops?), but it also doesn't strike me as solving anything that can't already be solved.
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+300
by AuraGuard
on 2025-07-26 17:53 -
+300
by DMBonnie
on 2025-07-25 17:32 -
+300
by bphilippe
on 2025-07-25 06:57 -
+300
by A Roaring Skeleton
on 2025-07-25 03:23 -
+300
by ohheyrene
on 2025-07-24 21:53
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