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• Is text permitted below a #REDIRECT?

YES. WP:SELFRED says "Redirect pages can contain other content below the redirect."

• Why is there text in this particular #REDIRECT page?

The placement of this text here is to house information that at present does not need its own article, yet would make for an overly large footnote if housed in the article that is pointing here.

• How is the referring article to point here?

Using the standard Wikilink wiki mechanism.

• What is the connection between the text below and article(s) that wikilink here?
  • Authors, with wikilinks, whose writings are included in the archive being described.
  • Information about the leadership and membership of said archive.

ABI_Wikilink2 The CBI has collections of archival papers and oral histories from many notable figures in computing including:

ABI_Wikilink1 ‘’’(about) IT History Society’’’

(Leadership)

The current chairman is Jeffery Stein of Peyton Investments. The Trustees, Historical Advisory Committee, and Archival Advisory Committee are made up of distinguished individuals who have created technology, built companies, and recorded IT events as archivists or historians. The Board of Directors also includes David G. Arscott, Leslie Berlin, James Cortada, Peter Cunningham, Gideon Gartner, Brewster Kahle, William Hugh Murray, Frederic G. Withington, George Dyson, Nolan Bushnell, Randy Katz, and Lars Heide.

(Membership)

Membership totals over 700, with fifty percent of the members residing in countries outside the United States. Memberships are divided into three categories: individual, corporation, and institution. Membership is free. Corporate and institutional members include California Institute of Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Computer History Museum, Deutsches Museum, IEEE History Center, Hewlett-Packard Company, IBM Corporation, UK National Archive for the History of Computing, Intel, Microsoft Corporation, Stanford Silicon Valley Archives, Applied Materials, Symantec, Agilent Technologies Foundation, Internet Archive, History San Jose, FedEx, British Library, Hans Nixdorf Museum, and McKesson Corporation.