diff --git a/Wikifetch/config.py b/Wikifetch/config.py
index 7d23857..1fb67d5 100644
--- a/Wikifetch/config.py
+++ b/Wikifetch/config.py
@@ -55,8 +55,5 @@ Wikifetch = conf.registerPlugin('Wikifetch')
 conf.registerChannelValue(Wikifetch, 'url',
         registry.String(_('en.wikipedia.org'), _("""Default URL of the
         website to pull from.""")))
-conf.registerChannelValue(Wikifetch, 'showRedirects',
-        registry.Boolean(True, _("""Determines whether redirect paths will
-        be shown in the output.""")))
 
 # vim:set shiftwidth=4 tabstop=4 expandtab textwidth=79:
diff --git a/Wikifetch/plugin.py b/Wikifetch/plugin.py
index 2897b14..477fa71 100644
--- a/Wikifetch/plugin.py
+++ b/Wikifetch/plugin.py
@@ -143,19 +143,7 @@ class Wikifetch(callbacks.Plugin):
             self.log.debug('Wikifetch: following search result:')
             tree, article, addr = self._get_article_tree(None, searchresults[0].get('href'))
             search = redirect
-        # otherwise, simply return the title and whether it redirected
-        elif self.registryValue('showRedirects', msg.args[0]):
-            redirect = re.search(r'\(%s <a href=[^>]*>([^<]*)</a>\)' %
-                                 _('Redirected from'), article)
-            if redirect:
-                try:
-                    redirect = tree.xpath('//span[@class="mw-redirectedfrom"]/a')[0]
-                    redirect = redirect.text_content().strip()
-                    title = tree.xpath('//*[@class="firstHeading"]')
-                    title = title[0].text_content().strip()
-                    reply += '"%s" (Redirected from "%s"): ' % (title, redirect)
-                except IndexError:
-                    pass
+
         # extract the address we got it from - most sites have the perm link
         # inside the page itself
         try:
diff --git a/Wikifetch/test.py b/Wikifetch/test.py
index 3d05ebd..c245dbf 100644
--- a/Wikifetch/test.py
+++ b/Wikifetch/test.py
@@ -66,9 +66,8 @@ if network:
             self.assertNotError('wiki GNU/Linux')
             self.assertNotError('wiki --site en.wikipedia.org /')
 
-        def testRedirects(self):
-            self.assertRegexp('wiki Foo', '"Foobar" \(Redirected from "Foo"\): '
-                                          'The terms \x02foobar\x02')
+        def testFollowRedirects(self):
+            self.assertRegexp('wiki YVR', 'Vancouver International Airport')
 
         def testWikiBold(self):
             self.assertRegexp('wiki Apple', '\x02')