local p = {}



--returns a table of regular expressions, sorted by descending popularity, for a parent template and all redirects to it as of a certain date, or nil

--regex for the 1st pipe and surrounding whitespace are purposefully omitted to give the calling modules more flexibility

function p.main( template )



	--expand the following table as-needed, following the same format

	local tCanonical_templates = {

		'Category redirect' = { 

			--the following 11 pages (6 condensed) redirect to [[Template:Category redirect]], as of 2022/9:

			'{{ *[Cc]ate?g?o?r?y?[ _]*[rR]edirect',	--parent+505+312+243+1 transclusions

			'{{ *[Cc]atr',							--21

			'{{ *[Cc]at[ _]*[rR]edir',				--5+3

			'{{ *[Cc]at[ _]*[rR]ed',				--3+2

			'{{ *[Cc]at[ _]*[mM]ove',				--1

			'{{ *[Cc]ategory[ _]*[mM]ove',			--0

		},

		

		'Taxonbar' = { 

			--the following 6 pages (3 condensed) redirect to [[Template:Taxonbar]], as of 2023/8:

			'{{ *[Tt]axon?[ _-]?[bB]ar',		--parent+50+11+2+2 transclusions

			'{{ *[Tt]axon[Ii]ds',				--45

			'{{ *[Tt]axon[ _]*[iI]dentifiers',	--1

			--detect direct calls to [[Module:Taxonbar]]

			'{{ *#invoke *: *[Tt]axonbar',

		},

	}

	

	return tCanonical_templatestemplate or nil

end



return p