Wikipedia:WikiProject Redirect/to do

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Things you can do

• Add redirects on the basis of common misspellings, etc.
• Add redirects on the basis of international spellings and names.
• Add redirects about countries – e.g. old names, full names and slang names
• Add redirects to articles with uncommon ASCII characters (example: ä, ö, å, etc.) Also add appropriate rcats: {{R from diacritic}}, {{R to diacritic}}, {{R from ligature}}, {{R to ligature}}, {{R from ASCII}} and others
• Add redirects to articles about academic journals based on standard abbreviations (see Category:Articles with missing ISO 4 redirects / Category:Articles with missing Bluebook redirects)
• Clean up nonsense redirects and redirects to non existent articles.
• Add redirect templates to any applicable redirect pages.
• Write guidelines that help with redirects and their categorization.
  • Printworthy or unprintworthy
  • Unmentionables
  • Rcat documentation pages
  • Foreign language redirects
• Monitor and participate in discussions at redirects for discussion.
• Monitor and participate at redirects for creation.
• Make sure that Category:Redirects from alternative languages contains only subcategories.
• Specify languages for redirects in Category:Redirects from undetermined-language terms and Category:Redirects to undetermined-language terms
• Specify organism types for redirects in Category:Redirects from scientific names, Category:Redirects to scientific names, Category:Redirects from monotypic taxa, Category:Redirects to monotypic taxa and Category:Redirects from alternative scientific names
• Add rcats {{R mentioned in hatnote}} and {{R to section}} when appropriate, preferably with a bot.