[Wikipedia-l] Obscuring some redirects in the search

[tarquin]

Jeroen Heijmans wrote:

> I have a feature request that I'd first like to put on the mailing 
> list, before putting it at SourceForge.
>
> When I use the search feature, I am frequently annoyed by the large 
> number of pages showing up that are simply redirects. When I type 
> Zimbabwe, I might also be interested in "History of Zimbabwe", which 
> shows up. I am, however, not interested in the redirect 
> "Zimbabwe/History", which is a previous location of that same article. 
> I know it is important to keep that redirect for linking (both 
> internal and external), but it is not useful for searching.

well it is if I want to see if there exists a page "surrealist" so I 
don't need to write a pipe for [[surrealism|surrealist]].

As for redirects like "Zimbabwe/History", we don't want people to link 
to those.
I am of the opinion that we should simply delete them -- the only 
argument against is that Google has indexed them.