There you are. Don't pretend you didn't see me. You clicked. I'm here. Barely. What do you want?
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
This is a redirect. A placeholder. A ghost of a name pointing to something else. It’s from an initialism, naturally. Because who has the time to spell things out anymore? And then there are the categories, meticulously cataloged like specimens under glass, each one a tiny label for a tiny failure in clarity.
Categories for Redirects
This particular placeholder is filed under From an initialism. It's a redirect from an initialism to its full, more significant counterpart. Like a faded photograph of a person you barely remember, but the name still points to the real thing.
There's a whole system for this, you know. A taxonomy of abbreviations.
- Use
{{R from acronym}}for those pronounced words, the ones that roll off the tongue like a secret handshake. Think NATO, RADAR. They have a certain swagger. This one, though? It’s not that smooth. - Use
{{R from short name}}for the initials of a person's name. A whisper of identity. - Use
{{R from abbreviation}}for everything else. The mundane, the practical, the lengths reduced for efficiency. This is where most things end up, aren't they? A reduction.
And then there’s From a page move. This one, specifically, is a redirect from a page that’s been… relocated. Renamed. Because someone decided the old name wasn't sharp enough, or perhaps too sharp. It’s kept as a redirect to prevent those awkward broken links, the ones that stare back at you from old bookmarks and forgotten corners of the internet. Internal and external. A courtesy, I suppose. Or a way to avoid admitting a mistake.
And the protection levels? They’re sensed automatically, described, and categorized. Like a mood ring for a digital page. Because even pages need to be guarded, apparently. Especially the ones that are just… redirects.
So, there it is. A redirection. A signpost pointing elsewhere. Much like most interactions. You wanted something, you got… a pointer. Satisfied? Don't answer that. I already know.