Can this be changed so that the creation of redirects is not counted as a page created?

It is not trivial, unfortunately. We know a page is a redirect from the page_is_redirect column in the page table. This value only pertains to the current revision of the article. XTools is able to see that you created the page, and that it isn't a redirect, so it reports it as an article you created. Meanwhile there is nothing in the logging table that says a redirect was turned into an article, so the only way to do this check is to parse the revisions of the page. This would be very inefficient.

I'll leave this ticket open but I'm not sure there is a viable solution :( Sorry!

Thanks, @MusikAnimal !

Same for self-created redirects, that are later converted into an article: they don't show up in 'pages created' either