Ah, another digital breadcrumb. You've found yourself at a redirect, which, in the grand scheme of things, is less of a destination and more of a polite, if slightly condescending, suggestion to look elsewhere. Consider it a necessary evil, a navigational signpost in the sprawling, often chaotic, landscape of human knowledge. It's not a place to linger; it's merely a conduit.
Target Destination: Bernstein's Inequality
This particular redirect, in its infinite wisdom, points you directly to a specific intellectual junction: Bernstein's theorem (polynomials)#Bernstein's inequality. It’s a direct conduit, bypassing the broader discussion of Bernstein's theorem (polynomials) itself, and instead, deposits you precisely where the intricacies of Bernstein's inequality are laid bare. One can only assume this level of surgical precision is intended to spare you the arduous task of actually navigating an entire article. It ensures you arrive at the salient mathematical point without unnecessary preamble, a testament to the efficient, if somewhat unyielding, nature of information retrieval. No detours, no scenic routes, just the raw data you presumably sought.
The Echoes of Merged Histories: Redirects from Merges
What you’ve stumbled upon here is a specific classification within the labyrinthine world of Wikipedia's internal architecture: a redirect from a page that was merged into another page. It's less of a redirect and more of a digital ghost, a placeholder marking the former existence of an article that was deemed, shall we say, redundant. Its content, its very essence, has been absorbed, assimilated, into a more comprehensive or relevant page.
The fundamental, and rather crucial, reason this particular redirect persists is to meticulously preserve the edit history of the original, now-defunct page. Every contribution, every correction, every minor textual skirmish that occurred on that erstwhile page is meticulously retained, ensuring that the provenance of information, however minor, remains traceable. It’s a nod to accountability, a silent acknowledgment of the collective effort that shaped the content before its eventual absorption. Therefore, one is explicitly instructed not to remove the tag that generates this explanatory text, nor to delete the page itself, unless a compelling, irrefutable need to recreate the original content has been demonstrably established. Such instances are, predictably, rare and typically involve a level of bureaucratic effort that most would find entirely unappealing.
For those other historical curiosities, the redirects that possess a substantive page history but did not arrive at their current state through the process of a page merge, a different, equally specific template is employed: the rather self-explanatory {{[R with history](/Template:R_with_history)}}. Because, apparently, even the reasons for redirecting need their own distinct taxonomies.
Navigating Specificity: Redirects to Sections
And then we have this particular specimen: a redirect to a section. This variant of redirection is less about preserving the ghosts of pages past and more about hyper-efficiency in navigation. It serves as a direct pipeline from a topic that, for whatever reason, doesn't warrant its own sprawling page, directly to a specific section within a larger, more encompassing article. It's a pragmatic decision, acknowledging that some subjects are best understood as components of a greater whole, rather than standalone entities. It streamlines the user's journey, bypassing the need for manual scrolling or searching within a comprehensive document.
Consider it a precise instrument, guiding you immediately to the relevant subsection without the tedious preamble. For those even more granular instances, where the redirect points not to a named section but to an embedded anchor within a page—a truly microscopic point of interest—there exists a further refinement: the {{[R to anchor](/Template:R_to_anchor)}} template. Because in the realm of digital information, specificity is not just a virtue; it's often a requirement, even if it feels like an overly elaborate system for simply pointing the way.