For common ones, you can set up redirects to the
section heading. That
works, thankfully.
That's welcome news: they didn't work the last time that I checked (1.5.x;
just confirmed on 1.5.6), but I see that they do on a 1.6.5 install.
What are you referring to here? The following definitely does NOT work:
#REDIRECT [[Article title#Section name]]