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; What are reasons why we use "Show Preview" when working with Redirects?

* Sometimes the target isn't the exact same as what looks to be a working link. For example, when creating a new Redirect for an abbreviation (eg "AD") that does not have a Redirect yet, the full-form name (eg "Army Directive") appears on the page to be linked to an existing page; Army Directive, in this instance. The link doesn't actually target <code><nowiki>[[Army Directive]]</nowiki></code>; It's ''actually'' marked up as <code><nowiki>[[Army_Directives|Army Directive]]</nowiki></code>. so the target is [[Army_Directives]].

** The other possibility from this example could be that the markup appears as <code><nowiki>[[Army Directive]]</nowiki></code>, but that would have to rely on an existing Redirect to the target link <code><nowiki>[[Army_Directives]]</nowiki></code>.

* It's possible to generate a informational warning message from clicking Show Preview. When creating a redirect for the abbreviation "ACS" (presumably targeting the page name "Astro Control System"), the warning message informed that a page exists with the page name <code><nowiki>[[Royal_Manticoran_Astro_Control_Service]]</nowiki></code>. Because of this warning the target it suggests is checked for target accuracy, and the target in the Redirect page can be adjusted accordingly; this saves extra steps/work in the future.

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+; What are reasons why we use "Show Preview" when working with Redirects?
+* Sometimes the target isn't the exact same as what looks to be a working link. For example, when creating a new Redirect for an abbreviation (eg "AD") that does not have a Redirect yet, the full-form name (eg "Army Directive") appears on the page to be linked to an existing page; Army Directive, in this instance. The link doesn't actually target <code><nowiki>[[Army Directive]]</nowiki></code>; It's ''actually'' marked up as <code><nowiki>[[Army_Directives|Army Directive]]</nowiki></code>. so the target is [[Army_Directives]].
+** The other possibility from this example could be that the markup appears as <code><nowiki>[[Army Directive]]</nowiki></code>, but that would have to rely on an existing Redirect to the target link <code><nowiki>[[Army_Directives]]</nowiki></code>.
+* It's possible to generate a informational warning message from clicking Show Preview. When creating a redirect for the abbreviation "ACS" (presumably targeting the page name "Astro Control System"), the warning message informed that a page exists with the page name <code><nowiki>[[Royal_Manticoran_Astro_Control_Service]]</nowiki></code>. Because of this warning the target it suggests is checked for target accuracy, and the target in the Redirect page can be adjusted accordingly; this saves extra steps/work in the future.

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