User:Curpsbot-unicodify/redirects

Optionally, the bot can also eliminate certain redirects. This is still in development and is turned off by default.

This is optional and will often be done on a separate pass, because it needs to visit other pages and is therefore much slower, and also because may be convenient for verification purposes to have these changes stand out in a separate edit instead of being mixed with character entity changes.

In this mode, the bot will:

change [[A|B]] to [[B]] if and only if

* "A" == "B" if diacritics are ignored
* [[A]] exists and is a redirect to [[B]]]

More generally, it will:

change [[A (disambig)|B]] to [[B (disambig)]] if and only if

* "A" == "B" if diacritics are ignored
* [[A (disambig)]] exists and is a redirect to [[B (disambig)]]

Also, it will:

change [[A]] to [[B]] if and only if

* "A" == "B" if diacritics are ignored
* [[A]] exists and is a redirect to [[B]]]
* a previous [[A|B]] link was previously encountered in this bot run

That is, the bot will normally not investigate links of the form "[[A]]" unless it has already cached the information that A is a redirect; otherwise it would have to follow every link on the page and that would be too time-consuming.

If it's a redirect but the redirect points somewhere else (call it "R") then:

the bot will stop and prompt if the operator wishes to change to one of:

* [[R]]
* [[R|B]]
* [[B]]

If the operator answers "yes" to one of these, it will be noted in the edit summary as a manual intervention.

It will also trivially:

change [[A|B]] to [[B]] if

* "A" == "B" (completely identical, not ignoring diacritics)