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====Create a pagenew link=page===

* To create a new page:

*# SaveEdit thatany page.

*# Create a link to it on some other (related) page.

*# Enter a [[help:Redlink|redlink]] wikilink: <nowiki>[</nowiki>[page name]].

*# Save that page.

*# Preview or save.

*# Click onActivate the link you just made. The new page will open for editing.

* For more information, see [[Wikipedia:Starting an article|starting an article]] and check out Wikipedia's [[Wikipedia:Naming conventions|naming conventions]].

* Please dolink notto create ayour new article without linking to it from at least one other article.

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===Create an alias for a page===

===Redirects===

{{main|Help:Redirect}}

* Create an alias for any page by creating a [[Wikipedia:Redirect|Redirect]] from one [[Help:Page name| page name]] to another.

* [[Wikipedia:Redirect|Redirect]] one article title to another by placing a directive like the one shown to the right on the ''first'' line of the article (such as at a page titled "[[US]]").

* First create a new page whose page name is the name of the alias. That is the redirect.

* It is possible to redirect to a section. For example, a redirect to [[United States#History]] will redirect to the History section of the [[United States]] page, if it exists.

* On the ''first'' line of the new redirect page, use the syntax shown in the table below. For example, [[US]] is a redirect.

* It is possible to redirect to a section. For example, a redirect to [[United States#History]] will redirect to the History section of the [[United States]] page, if it exists.

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