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A soft redirect can also be useful if one wants to link to it from its target, as an invitation to create an article, like a red link. Just like a red link looks different from an ordinary link, a link to a soft redirect can look different using the [[m:Help:Link#Stub feature|stub link feature]]. See also [[m:Help:Redirect#Redirect_and.2For_link_to_non-existing_page|Redirect and/or link to non-existing page]].
==Soft redirects from Wikipedia to a sister project==
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Sometimes an entry is more appropriate on [[Wiktionary]] than Wikipedia and can never be expanded beyond simple dictionary definition. Normally, such articles are copied to Wiktionary using [[m:Help:Transwiki|transwiki]] process, and deleted from Wikipedia afterwards.
However, if the word or phrase is commonly wikified, it is quite likely that the deleted entry will be quickly re-created again by well-meaning users. The re-created article is likely to be another simple dictionary definition, just as [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a dictionary|inappropriate for Wikipedia]] as the original.
To avoid this, do not delete after transwiki'ing. One solution is to instead hard-redirect the word to a relevant article within Wikipedia. For instance, [[Organize]] could redirect it to a well-developed [[Organization]] article.
If this is not possible, create a '''soft redirect''' to Wiktionary on the Wikipedia page by inserting the {{tl|wi}} template on the Wikipedia page. This template automatically creates a soft redirect to Wiktionary, in case of this example to [[wikt:Organize]], which has multiple benefits:
#it brings the two projects closer together as they should be; and
#it prevents future clean up issues.
This applies to other sister projects as well. Please keep in mind that '''only commonly wikified words''' should be soft redirects. We don't need a soft redirect for every possible word or phrase to be included in Wikipedia.
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