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I appreciate this template's implementation of relevant categories, but what it displays as text is excessive. At a soft redirect page, what is displayed, roughly is:
From the template {{ soft redirect}}:
This page is a soft redirect
From this template {{ R to user namespace}}:
This is a redirect from a page outside the user namespace to a user page (not to a user talk page). This redirect page must be outside the user namespace. For more information follow the category link.
Remember that user talk pages are not in the "user" namespace, they are in a talk namespace. This rcat should never be used to tag redirects to user talk pages – use {{ R to talk page}} instead.
Note: If this page is in the user namespace, then it will populate Category:Pages with templates in the wrong namespace instead.
except that in the display some of the above words or phrases are wikilinks, or are sized differently. (Feel free to improve the represnentation.)
In my view this is excessive, especially at soft redirect pages. It is rambling on with information not relevant for the editor user arriving at a soft redirect page, with stuff that might be directed to the admin/editor of the soft redirect, within documentation in this template's /doc page. I raised this at a new soft redirect, wp:Kaffeeklatsch, that was outcome of an RFD. (See Wikipedia talk:Kaffeeklatsch#Post-RFD discussion, if necessary, about template "R to user namespace".) For a regular redirect page, it does not matter as much, but is still excessive, and the info
I suggest the text be cut down to simply:
This page is a redirect from outside the user namespace to a user page.
in small font. Okay? Simply that, although perhaps part of the phrase could be a wikilink to {{ R to user namespace}} where the /doc info is displayed. -- do ncr am 03:37, 20 February 2015 (UTC)
The two bottom-bulleted notes have been removed from redirect pages. – Paine Ellsworth CLIMAX! 08:02, 21 February 2015 (UTC)
Please see:
Template talk:R to project namespace#RfC: Should we categorize redirects to the same namespace?
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SMcCandlish
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I appreciate this template's implementation of relevant categories, but what it displays as text is excessive. At a soft redirect page, what is displayed, roughly is:
From the template {{ soft redirect}}:
This page is a soft redirect
From this template {{ R to user namespace}}:
This is a redirect from a page outside the user namespace to a user page (not to a user talk page). This redirect page must be outside the user namespace. For more information follow the category link.
Remember that user talk pages are not in the "user" namespace, they are in a talk namespace. This rcat should never be used to tag redirects to user talk pages – use {{ R to talk page}} instead.
Note: If this page is in the user namespace, then it will populate Category:Pages with templates in the wrong namespace instead.
except that in the display some of the above words or phrases are wikilinks, or are sized differently. (Feel free to improve the represnentation.)
In my view this is excessive, especially at soft redirect pages. It is rambling on with information not relevant for the editor user arriving at a soft redirect page, with stuff that might be directed to the admin/editor of the soft redirect, within documentation in this template's /doc page. I raised this at a new soft redirect, wp:Kaffeeklatsch, that was outcome of an RFD. (See Wikipedia talk:Kaffeeklatsch#Post-RFD discussion, if necessary, about template "R to user namespace".) For a regular redirect page, it does not matter as much, but is still excessive, and the info
I suggest the text be cut down to simply:
This page is a redirect from outside the user namespace to a user page.
in small font. Okay? Simply that, although perhaps part of the phrase could be a wikilink to {{ R to user namespace}} where the /doc info is displayed. -- do ncr am 03:37, 20 February 2015 (UTC)
The two bottom-bulleted notes have been removed from redirect pages. – Paine Ellsworth CLIMAX! 08:02, 21 February 2015 (UTC)
Please see:
Template talk:R to project namespace#RfC: Should we categorize redirects to the same namespace?
—
SMcCandlish
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¢ 😼 19:22, 24 December 2020 (UTC)