Wikipedia:Not broken is ugly

It's there, everywhere you look. Needlessly piped links that would have gone to a perfectly fine redirect, but are piped to the original target, bypassing the redirect. Need some illustration? Here you go. Now, you'll often find instances like this, in that this link is piped something like so:

[[The article target|A redirect name to the article target]]

This is what should have been happening:

[[A redirect name to the article target]]

This is the keystone concept behind Wikipedia:NOTBROKEN. Yet it often gets broken. Darned irony. So, let's look at an applied example. The name Noah Lennox, for example, is a redirect to Panda Bear (musician). What should be happening is:

[[Noah Lennox]]

But this often happens:

[[Panda Bear (musician)|Noah Lennox]]

Why does this happen? Why can't the average layman editor just be content with the darned redirect? Why can't it be simply: [[Noah Lennox]]?

Well, there could be a few reasons. Go to the article [[Panda Bear (musician)]] through the redirect page Noah Lennox, then come back. Notice what's at the top of the page? It looks a bit like this:

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

(Redirected from Noah Lennox)

Noah Benjamin Lennox (born July 17, 1978), also known by his moniker Panda Bear, is an American musician, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and co-founding member of the band Animal Collective.

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Okay, you're back, reader. I hope you paid really close attention to what was on the Wikipedia article. Now, I've got to ask you something: Did you see what I saw? It's this bit:

(Redirected from Noah Lennox)

I know I said there could be a few reasons, but I only care about one: That grey text looks hella ugly. That shifts the page down, that is a different color than the rest of the text, that just sits there looking at you until you reload the page. It is undescribable, inexplicable why this silly bit of text at the top of a page post-clicking on a redirect is avoided like the plague.

There are an infinite number of reasons as to why that looks ugly. This is why this sort of thing happens. WP:NOTBROKEN is ugly at the target page. Why, even for blatantly obvious redirects, does this little bit of text have to show up? That is the question you should be asking when you see this happening again. Editors who do this just don't want to see the little redirect header note pop up at the article.