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VisualEditor's Link feature unnecessary fix links to different variant of Chinese redirect
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Description

Steps to replicate the issue (include links if applicable):

  • Select "中華民國大陆時期" (Simplified Chinese) from this text and use VisualEditor's Link feature.
  • It will display "中華民國大陸時期" (Traditional Chinese) as the top result.

What happens?:

What should have happened instead?:
If the link is already redirected to the target page (i.e.[[redirect]]), then it should not replace with [[target|redirect]].

Other information:
This issue was originally flagged on the zhwiki Village Pump, as well as Talk:Growth on mediawiki.org.

Event Timeline

Wow, I'm amazed. People are still using Visual Editor?

The enwiki guideline is about editing existing links, not creating new ones, so I don't see an issue here.

I don't know about the zhwiki issue specifically. Cc @dchan

SCP-2000 renamed this task from VisualEditor's Link feature suggest unnecessary redirect and violate redirect guideline to VisualEditor's Link feature unnecessary fix links to different variant of Chinese redirect.Feb 8 2026, 10:31 AM
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The enwiki guideline is about editing existing links, not creating new ones, so I don't see an issue here.

I don't know about the zhwiki issue specifically. Cc @dchan

Hello, I apologize for my mistake. I have revised this ticket and specified the zhwiki issue only. Since this ticket is not only about zhwiki but also enwiki, I am happy to open a new ticket about the zhwiki issue if it is needed. Thanks.