https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53264

--- Comment #1 from Yuvi Panda <[email protected]> ---
ShortUrl is literally just that - takes a long title, makes it short. It does
not (and should not, IMO!) have any extra logic for following pages around. We
already have such a thing to not break URLs - Redirects! If you are moving
something without a redirect, then that is an explicit decision made to break
the URL. If you don't want to break the URL, leave a redirect. This is as
permanent as the canonical URL, and I think that is good enough. 

Also, there is already a 'permalink' facility, which you can see in the
sidebar. If you really want a 'permanent' link, you should use that. ShortURL
was simply built to avoid hex-encoding issues.

I'd close as WONTFIX if nobody objects.

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