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I'm not a very active editor anymore, but aspire to get back into it as time allows. I teach social studies to middle schoolers in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
I created this account on January 23, 2007. It is named after a fictional character: a wise, but somewhat mad, prophet. Below this introduction is a dusty collection of tips and links which I have found useful.
Many topics are naturally referred to by different names. For example, baby and infant mean the same thing. But Wikipedia doesn't have a separate article for each synonym (one article defining babies is enough). Therefore, Wikipedia includes a method for linking synonyms so that they lead to the same article. This is done using redirects.
To create a redirect, start a new page for the synonym and in it put only this:
#REDIRECT [[target page]]
...where target page is the name of the article the synonym should lead to. When a user clicks on a link with the synonym, he or she is automatically sent to the [[target page]].
Caveat: do not manually create redirects when you want to rename a page, because then the history of the page resides at the old title. Use the move tab instead, found at the top of every page, which also moves the history.
