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[[Acme]] corp contains a link to president [[Bob]]. We have no article for Bob (yet), so it's a redirect to [[Acme]]. Someone who clicks on the blue [[Bob]] link gets bounced from [[Acme]] back to [[Acme]]. The reader experience can be confusing to the point of upsetting. Discussion at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28technical%29#Cyclic_redirects:_Avoid_misleading_the_reader Once possible solution: In article [[Acme]], can the software render [[Bob]] as a redlink? (Or maybe orange-red.) This correctly indicates that the article doesn't exist and that clicking the link is normally pointless. Also: if someone does click that link then apply Redirect=false. This is the expected behavior for clicking a redlink, and getting bounced back would be pointless anyway.