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Is there a reason why {{ R to anchor}} has automatic assignment of printworthy, while {{ R to section}} doesn't? Seems these two should be identical in this aspect and it should probably work like R to section, as it's strange having these templates handle the printworthy-ness of a redirect, as these are very technical and tangent to the actual redirect. -- Gonnym ( talk) 23:04, 31 May 2019 (UTC)
{{
R to anchor|printworthy}}
to the redirect's code, which changes the categorization to
Category:Printworthy redirects. For the most part, the thinking is that if a subject is a good search term and yet does not have enough notability to even be a section header, then it is generally and usually unsuitable for a printed version of this encyclopedia. To remove this default unprintworthiness function from the rcat would mean that thousands of redirects that are now categorized as unprintworthy would become uncategorized in terms of printworthiness. I don't recommend this because the WMF
since 2003 has been using the
printworthiness of redirects to decide what should go into
printed versions of Wikipedia, so removing so many redirects from the "Unprintworthy redirects" category would make them all questionable in terms of whether they should or should not be included in print. That would just make the 1.0 team's job of sorting redirects much more difficult.
Paine Ellsworth,
ed.
put'r there 17:19, 7 June 2019 (UTC)
I have proposed changing which redirects can be speedily deleted under criterion G8. Please see the discussion at WT:CSD#Tightening G8 with respect to redirects. Thryduulf ( talk) 21:25, 10 June 2019 (UTC)
There is a discussion ongoing at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2019 June 18#Category:Middle-earth horses about an example category of redirects that would benefit from your opinion. Please come and help! Paine Ellsworth, ed. put'r there 17:04, 29 July 2019 (UTC)
Hi everyone, a few weeks ago I took over development of the redirect categorizing script Sagitarius+ from Sam Sailor, renaming it Capricorn so that the three script versions don't get confused. With the help of Cryptic and Tokenzero I was able to add support for every RCat in Category:Redirect templates (and some subcategories). Because of this, the interface you've come to know will be shuffled and the organization of the checkboxes will change a good deal. I'm putting some final touches, but it should be ready early next week. Once it is out, feel free to leave feedback or bug reports on my talk page; I tried my best to make the organization sensible, but feedback on reordering or regrouping is very welcome. If you can't wait or want to test for bugs now, you can load User:Wugapodes/CapricornDev.js (but it's not stable so you should know what you're doing before trying). If you want to opt-out, copy the current revision of User:Wugapodes/Capricorn.js to somewhere in your userspace and load that page rather than my or SamSailor's scripts. Wug· a·po·des 06:33, 16 August 2019 (UTC)
Please see the current proposal under discussion at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2019 September 14#Category:All redirect categories. – Fayenatic London 13:46, 17 September 2019 (UTC)
Would an editor familiar with editing templates please see Template talk:Redirect-several#Edit request. Thanks. Shhhnotsoloud ( talk) 06:43, 24 September 2019 (UTC)
There is an ongoing request for comment at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Council#RfC about tagging redirects which is of interest to this project. — Compassionate727 ( T· C) 21:05, 28 September 2019 (UTC)
I've started a discussion about the speedy deletion of this sort of redirect (e.g. Aisa Bint Ahmad (Q30904322) → Aisa Bint Ahmad) at Wikipedia talk:Criteria for speedy deletion#Redirects with database (e.g. Wikidata) identifiers. Please comment there to keep discussion together. Thryduulf ( talk) 13:21, 4 November 2019 (UTC)
Hello. I created {{ Meta redirect}} as a template to use for links coming in from Meta that require redirection. As noted there, generally these come from the Language Committee/Requests for new languages section of Meta, where the link to Wikipedia is generated by a template. And the template doesn't always match a page here. Sometimes I can just fix the link directly on Meta, but sometimes that's hard to do.
I've created a number of such redirects in the past (just one example: Masovian dialect language), but have simply made them straight redirects. It seems to me it would make more sense to template them and categorize them, so I created this. My intention would be to start using this from now forward, and eventually to clean up backwards. (You would potentially find these by going to my contributions, filtering for page creations, and looking for any page name ending in "language".)
I'm not sure how I should categorize and subcategorize these. I can (and will) write documentation, but would appreciate some guidance on this first. Thanks for your help. StevenJ81 ( talk) (clerk of the Language Committee) 19:58, 2 October 2019 (UTC)
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Last year summer, a bunch of redirect templates ({{ r from scientific name}}, {{ r to scientific name}}, {{ r from monotypic taxon}}, {{ r to monotypic taxon}} and {{ r from alternative scientific name}}) were swapped over to use Module:Science redirect, allowing for the use of parameters to sort the redirects into relevant tracking subcategories. At the time, the only parameters that were activated were those for which the appropriate subcategories already existed. User:Ahecht mentioned to me at the time that several other hooks were built in and used on at least some of the relevant redirects, but were commented out due to the appropriate categories not existing. Of these, I've found during sorting those redirects that there definitely are sufficient redirects for amphibians and for molluscs. Is there consensus for the creation of the relevant subcategories for those two groups and the activation of those parameters? AddWitty NameHere 02:48, 1 December 2019 (UTC) P.S. I will be cross-posting a notification of this discussion at WP:WikiProject Animals and WP:WikiProject Tree of Life as this discussion is also relevant to those projects. AddWitty NameHere 02:48, 1 December 2019 (UTC)
I've posted at Template talk:R to TV episode list entry#Issues with the name and scope of the template, but it's probably under-watched.
Currently {{ R to TV episode list entry}} name and description intend for this to be placed on episode redirects leading to a list of episode article. However, not all episode redirects are to these articles. Articles such as crossovers or multi-part story arcs, have redirects from the individual episodes redirecting to them, such as Legends of Today and Legends of Yesterday redirecting to Heroes Join Forces, or Attack on Central City and Attack on Gorilla City redirecting to Gorilla City (The Flash).
The template name should probably be changed to Template:R from TV episode (or Template:R from television episode) and it's text updated to reflect that it can also lead to targets like those given above ("to a related work or lists of episodes"). This will also make it similar to other fiction-related redirect templates like {{ R from fictional character}}, {{ R from fictional element}} and {{ R from fictional location}} and the other related categories at Category:Redirects from creative works. -- Gonnym ( talk) 11:40, 17 December 2019 (UTC)
I just tagged a redirect with {{
R from American English}}
, thinking that would be appropriate (article title used British spelling of a word, while the redirect had the American spelling). But the template gives the message that the redirect target is the more common variant, which seems...inappropriate. Is the rcat template note correct? Should it be changed? Should the template name be changed? This all seems a bit wonky. –
Deacon Vorbis (
carbon •
videos) 23:38, 24 December 2019 (UTC)
I'd like to get input from editors here. We currently have {{ R from fictional character}}, {{ R from fictional element}}, {{ R from fictional location}}, {{ R from television episode}}. 3 of these templates have sub-categories in the naming style of:
"<series> <type> redirects to lists"
- so for example:
Category:Arrow (TV series) character redirects to lists
. Location is the only category that is using: "<series> <type> redirects"
, so
Category:Arrow (TV series) location redirects
.
At one point up until 2014, the character and element templates were indeed meant for list entries, at least by their name, {{ R to character list entry}} and {{ FictR to list entry}} but that was already 5+ years ago. The episode template changed recently to match them. Since then the template text and documentation have changed to support redirects from "fictional <type> to a related fictional work or list of <type>", but the categories are still being named and created as "to lists", making some of the entries in them incorrect.
I'm thinking it's time these categories match the template name and usage that the template describes and change them to match the location style. Any comment would be appreciated. -- Gonnym ( talk) 19:32, 2 January 2020 (UTC)
I note that the text of {{ R with possibilities}} states: {{ R printworthy}} should be used together with this template when applied to a redirect in mainspace.
Surely there is some way of doing this automatically? Quite a few templates will add categories to pages they are placed on if (and only if) those pages are in mainspace. Wouldn't it make sense to use the same sort of markup to enable mainspace articles labelled as possibilities to also be automatically listed as printworthy? Grutness... wha? 12:26, 14 January 2020 (UTC)
Please see Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2020 February 5#Template:R to anchor 2 – to merge to Template:R to anchor, and stop the latter from auto-categorizing things as unprintworthy when it's not forced to do otherwise. A template (like a bot) cannot make printworthiness determinations, and the "2" template was forked simply as a workaround for this problem. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 13:40, 5 February 2020 (UTC)
Let's take Snuggles State College in Wyoming. If it was formerly Snuggles State Teacher's College so that gets a redirect and a {{R from former name}}. The Wyoming State Government has passed a law saying the school will become Snuggles University on January 1, 2021... Should their be a redirect from Snuggles University? And if so, is there an appropriate template or even a non-template category? Naraht ( talk) 01:03, 9 March 2020 (UTC)
Many redirects in Category:Redirects from file extensions are also in its supercat Category:Filename extensions. Is this a legitimate break of WP:OVERCAT or should the redirects be removed? 1234qwer1234qwer4 ( talk) 13:59, 24 March 2020 (UTC)
I have opened a discussion at Wikipedia talk:Criteria for speedy deletion#Proposed new CSD criterion: R5, for redirects with malformed or misspelled (disambiguation) qualifiers which may be of interest to editors who follow this page. Narky Blert ( talk) 19:49, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
What rcat should be used when “United States” is exchanged with one of the above? 1234qwer1234qwer4 ( talk) 15:45, 7 April 2020 (UTC)
The WikiProject Report would like to focus on WikiProject Redirects for a Signpost article. This is an excellent opportunity to draw attention to your efforts and attract new members to the project. Would you be willing to participate in an interview? If so, here are the questions for the interview. Just add your response below each question and feel free to skip any questions that you don't feel comfortable answering. Multiple editors will have an opportunity to respond to the interview questions, so be sure to sign your answers. If you know anyone else who would like to participate in the interview, please share this with them. Have a great day. -- Puddleglum 2.0( How's my driving?) 19:18, 5 April 2020 (UTC)
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Sdkb}}
talk 06:13, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
I've started a discussion at Wikipedia talk:Redirects are costly#Pandora's box that proposes to remove the "Pandora's box" section of that essay. You are invited to comment there. Thryduulf ( talk) 11:24, 22 July 2019 (UTC)
There are a couple empty categories in there, such as Category:Redirects from Bavarian-language terms and Category:Redirects to Adnyamathanha-language terms, tagged with a template telling that the category should not be deleted. I don't understand why this is the case. If there are no such redirects, there is no need for the category. 1234qwer1234qwer4 ( talk) 11:40, 3 May 2020 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at
Category talk:Redirects from Chinese-language terms#Subcategorisation as Mandarin. I decided to post this here because hardly anyone watches category talk pages.
Glades12 (
talk) 16:01, 23 May 2020 (UTC)
A redirect related template, Template:Wikimedia Meta-Wiki redirect, has been listed at Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2020 May 25#Template:Wikimedia Meta-Wiki redirect. Interested editors are welcome to participate. Thank you, — Godsy ( TALK CONT) 06:34, 28 May 2020 (UTC)
Hi! If I want to categorize some redirects, is there any sort of a tool or search I can use to find a list of uncategorized ones? Thanks! DemonDays64 ( talk) 06:08, 29 May 2020 (UTC)
Once you've found a uncategorized redirect, you can usually find more by look at the contribution history of the redirect's creator. Set the contribution search to Namespace=(Article) and "Only show edits that are page creations". If you really want to narrow the search down, add "Only show edits that are latest revisions". With latest revision, you will miss some cases where a redirect has edited after creation to point to a different target, but any page that has been any Wikipedia for a reasonable length of time with only a single edit is almost certainly a redirect. Plantdrew ( talk) 01:54, 1 June 2020 (UTC)
Hi all, hope this is the right place. On a few occasions, I've followed a link typically from Twitter or Reddit to a Wikipedia article where either due to a typo or quirk of the formatting, the incoming Wikipedia redirect is missing it's closing bracket.
In both of these cases, I've tended to create a redirect to the correct article for the benefit of people actively following through from Twitter or Reddit. I don't do this with inactive discussions obviously.
As I said, I've done this a few times, but one such example is Wirehead (science fiction being discussed here, which is actually very busy. There appears to be clear consensus on this item that this class of redirect appears 'useless' and I'm not going to die on that hill particularly.
Since I believe there is a clear benefit in handling missing bracket redirects where needed, but the redirection review editors feel otherwise, could this be an area where a technical solution could be implemented? I can't imagine there are many (if any?) articles which open a bracket and don't close it? Could that be reported on technically? If so, the Mediawiki software could be extended to automatically add a missing bracket onto article names which open a bracket and fail to close it in some configurations?
Deku-shrub ( talk) 17:54, 19 June 2020 (UTC)
I suggest categorising this category into Category:Redirects to related topics instead of Category:Redirects from subtopics, because the first categorisation is far not always true. There may be a section on a page only covering something similar or even more general. If the section is actually explaining a subtopic, {{ R from subtopic}} should be (and is) used additionally. 1234qwer1234qwer4 ( talk) 22:11, 19 April 2020 (UTC)
Music Production Hebert.travis.tah ( talk) 23:07, 17 May 2020 (UTC)
Seems to me there ought to be a beast like this:
for things like BRCA1, the symbol for one particular gene of breast cancer fame. And now that I think of it—and have done a bit more research here on Wikipedia—maybe the same could be said for EC numbers? As for me though, I've never even created a category, let alone autopopulated one.
What do y'all think?— PaulTanenbaum ( talk) 16:19, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
I've just created Category:Redirects to a century; encouraging related editors to populate the rcat. 1234qwer1234qwer4 ( talk) 19:16, 27 June 2020 (UTC)
I've created many redirects but not paid much attention to categorising them. Now starting to try to add the templates, so I have a question: which template applies to a redirect from a version with, or without, "The "? Like the one I've just made from Public Law Project. Is it just "R from shorter name" or is there something more specific? And if it had been in the other direction, with "The " included in the article title? Thanks in advance for any advice. Pam D 10:07, 28 June 2020 (UTC)
Please take a look at /info/en/?search=Special:Contributions/Afshaarn because some of these redirects look very dodgy, especially Mother of the Nation of Great Britain for one. Up Uranus ( talk) 18:24, 18 July 2020 (UTC)
@ 1234qwer1234qwer4 and Narky Blert: Template:R from plausible term was deleted. I took a stab at replacing it in the 17 redirects using it, but I don't normally use these templates, so someone is welcome to check to see if I replaced it correctly:
Frietjes ( talk) 21:57, 30 July 2020 (UTC)
Hello. Doing NPP work, I come across a significant number of redirects. Many are relatively easy to evaluate (e.g. the redirected term is boldfaced in the first paragraph of the target, or it is a variation of the name of the target). But sometimes I come across something where it redirects to a lengthy article, and while not readily apparent, it is buried in the 10th paragraph (with no # to that particular section). Is there a tool which can search within a WP article? Onel5969 TT me 16:07, 19 August 2020 (UTC)
intitle:
for the page name and then add in your redirect term to search within the page, but at that point you might as well just use your browser's search.
Primefac (
talk) 21:51, 20 August 2020 (UTC)
What would be the best way to convert a redirect into an article? For example, I am thinking about doing so with
L'Ère du Verseau. Should I build the article in the draftspace or userspace and then request a
WP:USURPTITLE? Or can I just build the article on the lines below the #REDIRECT [[Yelle#Discography]]
part?
Bait30
Talk 2 me pls? 04:20, 8 September 2020 (UTC)
I'm looking at the recent contributions by User:Duc4Wikmedia--redirects like Blue Tulip Productions, which link to Jan de Bont, but there is no mention of that production company in De Bont's article. There's dozens and dozens of those, and I'm wondering what to do about them. Thank you, Drmies ( talk) 00:07, 5 June 2020 (UTC)
Forgot to mention, I've opened an ANI topic now. 𝟙𝟤𝟯𝟺𝐪𝑤𝒆𝓇𝟷𝟮𝟥𝟜𝓺𝔴𝕖𝖗𝟰 ( 𝗍𝗮𝘭𝙠) 19:42, 22 September 2020 (UTC)
Hi fellow redirect folks. I'd appreciate any feedback at Template talk:R to article without mention#Refining/clarifying usage. -- BDD ( talk) 15:51, 16 October 2020 (UTC)
{{ R from historic name}} and {{ R from former name}} have been nominated for merging. Your thoughts and opinions are invited at Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2020 October 17 § Template:R from historic name. Thank you. Primefac ( talk) 17:20, 18 October 2020 (UTC)
There are a lot of redirects that go from an emoji to an article (usually the article that the emoji's about, for example 🦷 redirects to Tooth. While the correctness of these redirects may be arguable (should that really redirect to Tooth, or should it go to Emoji?), my proposal doesn't really relate to that -- the thing I want to ask about here is whether they ought to have their own template. Right now it looks like they're all under {{ R from Unicode character}}, which adds them to Category:Redirects from Unicode characters with approximately 28,409 members. I think that specifically having a category for emoji redirects would be useful, especially in cases like the aforementioned (what if we change our minds about what to redirect them to? How will we even know how many there are?), etc. There's a considerable number of them -- in {{ Emoji (Unicode block)}} almost every one of them is wikilinked. So I think it'd be nice, perhaps, to have a {{ R from emoji}}, which adds them to a new Category:Redirects from Unicode emoji. jp× g 14:56, 23 October 2020 (UTC)
There's a proposal under way to rewrite the guidelines about links to disambiguation pages: Wikipedia talk:Disambiguation#Draft wording. This has potential relevance to situations where a redirect is retargeted from an article to a disambiguation page, or when a redirect is created that targets a disambiguation page. – Uanfala (talk) 20:26, 27 October 2020 (UTC)
Hi all, I think the way we add redirects from domain names could use a little looking at. Some prelims: {{
R from domain name}}
populates
Category:Redirects from domain names, which currently has ~4900 members. There are a handful of subcats for redirects from specific top-level domains (TLDs) which are all populated manually as far as I can tell. We should probably either kill the subcats (which I'd favor) or just have the Rcat template auto-sense and add as appropriate.
But more significantly, I think most of these shouldn't exist. Some are certainly okay: for example, we have some redirects from subdomains to TLDs, like .gov.ie redirects to .ie. And at least some of these contain information about the subdomain itself. Stuff like this is surely okay.
But after this, it starts to get iffy. The main drawback here is that domains lapse, change hands, etc. There are some reasonable cases to keep these, like when a company has some major branding with its domain or is specifically known by it or when there's information in an article about the domain/brand itself. But it seems that the vast majority of these were created in a (semi-)automated fashion with a script that pulled from a page's infobox. It would be helpful to set down some guidance on when (not) to create these, and maybe start to go through and start deleting the questionable ones. Thoughts? – Deacon Vorbis ( carbon • videos) 16:47, 2 November 2020 (UTC)
{{
R from domain name}}
s benefit the project? Best,
Sam
Sailor 17:46, 2 November 2020 (UTC)Wikipedia talk:Merging#Request for comment: Proposed blank and redirects might be of interest to anyone who happens to watch this page but not WP:CENT. — Godsy ( TALK CONT) 22:24, 15 December 2020 (UTC)
Please see:
Template talk:R to project namespace#RfC: Should we categorize redirects to the same namespace?
—
SMcCandlish
☏
¢ 😼 19:18, 24 December 2020 (UTC)
An editor has found some work for those WikiGnomes who might be interested. Please see WT:DCS#Rcats for more info. P.I. Ellsworth ed. put'r there 16:57, 6 December 2020 (UTC)
Recently kicked off a discussion in Wikipedia talk:Redirect § Minimum utility threshold for redirects?. It addresses a point of debate that regularly comes up on WP:RFD and may be worth clarifying in editor guidelines. Current guidelines allow for any redirect so long as "someone" finds it useful. Interested to hear your feedback. - Wikmoz ( talk) 02:04, 31 January 2021 (UTC)
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At Template talk:Rfd2#Position of links there are currently two suggestions related to the links at the top of RfD discussions. One will alter their position, the other will add another link. Please comment there to keep discussion in one place. Thryduulf ( talk) 15:32, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
I don't understand why Category:Redirects to disambiguation pages is only for pages that have (disambiguation) in their title. Wouldn't it also be logical for pages that link to disambiguation pages in general? Anyway, confused me after putting it here (since it is what's on the tin, a "redirect to a disambiguation page"...). Cheers, RandomCanadian ( talk / contribs) 00:08, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
The page Espana includes Template:R from title without diacritics, however it does *not* redirect to España, it redirects to Spain (to avoid a double redirect). However under situation, it doesn't seem to qualify for the template. Should the information shown by having the template be tweeked to handle this case?
Also, it is likely when the show actually announces casting that Drag Race Espana will redirect to the article Drag Race España. However right now Drag Race España redirects to Drag Race (franchise) . Should Drag Race Espana right now A) redirect to Drag Race España causing a double redirect, B) direct to Drag Race (franchise) which means it will have to be edited when Drag Race España is created, or C) should no creation of Drag Race Espana be done to avoid the issue? Naraht ( talk) 15:29, 3 March 2021 (UTC)
Someone may want to take a look at this one – it doesn't use the standard {{ Redirect template}}. – SD0001 ( talk) 09:37, 6 November 2020 (UTC)
The Sayuki is part of what is being discussed at Talk:Fukagawa Geisha#Merge proposal. It appears that the redirect was created as part of a page move to Fiona Graham back in 2011. It seems inappropriate that a relatively common Japanese female name such as Sayuki should be redirected to a single article about a non-Japanese who use "Sayuki" as her professional "geisha name". Can the redirect can be boldly changed into a DAB page like Mika or Akemi and new redirect created for Sayuki the geisha, or would it be better to discuss this at WP:RFD. -- Marchjuly ( talk) 02:42, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
In templates {{ R from American English}}, {{ R from British English}}, {{ R from South Indian spelling}}, and possibly others, carry the wording “This is a redirect from a term in [whichever] English spelling to a more common variation. The prevalent spelling is given by the target of the redirect.”
— Michael Z. 19:05, 16 March 2021 (UTC)
Anyway, if no one objects, I will update these templates’ wording shortly, and later come up with a concrete proposal to reconfigure them. — Michael Z. 14:15, 17 March 2021 (UTC)
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78.95.22.62 ( talk) 23:46, 25 March 2021 (UTC)
It is at User:NotReallySoroka/No such redirect as "Dorian Fried". Feel free to comment on its talk page, NotReallySoroka ( talk) (formerly DePlume) 16:39, 17 April 2021 (UTC)
There are a lot of redirects that go from an emoji to an article (usually the article that the emoji's about, for example 🦷 redirects to Tooth. While the correctness of these redirects may be arguable (should that really redirect to Tooth, or should it go to Emoji?), my proposal doesn't really relate to that -- the thing I want to ask about here is whether they ought to have their own template. Right now it looks like they're all under {{ R from Unicode character}}, which adds them to Category:Redirects from Unicode characters with approximately 28,409 members. I think that specifically having a category for emoji redirects would be useful, especially in cases like the aforementioned (what if we change our minds about what to redirect them to? How will we even know how many there are?), etc. There's a considerable number of them -- in {{ Emoji (Unicode block)}} almost every one of them is wikilinked. So I think it'd be nice, perhaps, to have a {{ R from emoji}}, which adds them to a new Category:Redirects from Unicode emoji. jp× g 14:56, 23 October 2020 (UTC)
What Rcat template should I use for K.Põldmaa? It's the standard botanical author abbreviation for this person, and seems a useful redirect to provide. It's an abbreviation, but also a short form of her name: it seems useful to categorise it as not just any old abbreviation (with non-standard spacing) but an official code from an international system - see List of botanists by author abbreviation (A) etc. Have I missed noticing an appropriate template, or should we create one? Pam D 10:39, 12 April 2021 (UTC)
Redirects for the purpose of data collection seem to be somewhat-accepted on Wikipedia. Currently, they are used on the main page, such as COVID-19 pandemic*. We should probably establish consensus as the proper way to do this, whether that is with an asterisk, subpages of a project-space page, or something else, so it's clear to editors what these are, and that they should not be replaced or deleted. Elliot321 ( talk | contribs) 15:18, 26 January 2021 (UTC)
{{trackingredirect|Donald Trump|1}}
might go to
Donald Trump (tracking redirect 1). This makes it clear in the wikitext why the redirect is used, as well as what page is meant to be targeted. Just a thought.
Elliot321 (
talk |
contribs) 14:37, 4 February 2021 (UTC)
Hallo, Canoeing and kayaking came to my notice as a disambiguation page at AfD to which I was alerted (although actually labelled as a set index), but I see from its history that it used to be a redirect from a Wikidata term, in Category:Wikidata redirects. It is now at AfD as an inadequate dab page. I don't know anything about such redirects, but the editor who created this one, now blocked and locked, seems to have created a lot around that time. Should this exist? I tried reverting to the redirect but was reverted. Is there someone out there who knows about Wikidata redirects and can help or explain? Thanks. Pam D 11:26, 23 May 2021 (UTC)
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There is a discussion on the talk page of {{ tt:Fiction-based redirects to list entries category handler}} that would benefit from your input. Thanks in advance! P.I. Ellsworth ed. put'r there 22:53, 31 May 2021 (UTC)
There's currently a proposal to move an existing WP:RCAT template to Template:R from related term, which is currently a redirect (to a different redirect category template). Please comment at Template talk:R from related word#Requested move 30 May 2021. Thanks. -- Sangdeboeuf ( talk) 22:58, 6 June 2021 (UTC)
Hello, I am gathering information about the issue of redirect hatnotes appearing too often in order to fix it. For a concrete example I'm using Human body, there is a hat note linking to Gray's anatomy that should only appear if the user has searched for Anatomy of the Human Body.
I will compile all information in this place for organization purposes, feel free to contribute to the list if you can.-- TZubiri ( talk) 20:04, 30 June 2021 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Bot requests/Archive 83#Restoring redirects to recreated pages about the possibility of an automated and/or semi-automated process for restoring redirects to a deleted page when that page is undeleted and/or recreated. Please comment there to keep discussion in one place. Thryduulf ( talk) 01:44, 16 July 2021 (UTC)
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Is there a reason why {{ R to anchor}} has automatic assignment of printworthy, while {{ R to section}} doesn't? Seems these two should be identical in this aspect and it should probably work like R to section, as it's strange having these templates handle the printworthy-ness of a redirect, as these are very technical and tangent to the actual redirect. -- Gonnym ( talk) 23:04, 31 May 2019 (UTC)
{{
R to anchor|printworthy}}
to the redirect's code, which changes the categorization to
Category:Printworthy redirects. For the most part, the thinking is that if a subject is a good search term and yet does not have enough notability to even be a section header, then it is generally and usually unsuitable for a printed version of this encyclopedia. To remove this default unprintworthiness function from the rcat would mean that thousands of redirects that are now categorized as unprintworthy would become uncategorized in terms of printworthiness. I don't recommend this because the WMF
since 2003 has been using the
printworthiness of redirects to decide what should go into
printed versions of Wikipedia, so removing so many redirects from the "Unprintworthy redirects" category would make them all questionable in terms of whether they should or should not be included in print. That would just make the 1.0 team's job of sorting redirects much more difficult.
Paine Ellsworth,
ed.
put'r there 17:19, 7 June 2019 (UTC)
I have proposed changing which redirects can be speedily deleted under criterion G8. Please see the discussion at WT:CSD#Tightening G8 with respect to redirects. Thryduulf ( talk) 21:25, 10 June 2019 (UTC)
There is a discussion ongoing at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2019 June 18#Category:Middle-earth horses about an example category of redirects that would benefit from your opinion. Please come and help! Paine Ellsworth, ed. put'r there 17:04, 29 July 2019 (UTC)
Hi everyone, a few weeks ago I took over development of the redirect categorizing script Sagitarius+ from Sam Sailor, renaming it Capricorn so that the three script versions don't get confused. With the help of Cryptic and Tokenzero I was able to add support for every RCat in Category:Redirect templates (and some subcategories). Because of this, the interface you've come to know will be shuffled and the organization of the checkboxes will change a good deal. I'm putting some final touches, but it should be ready early next week. Once it is out, feel free to leave feedback or bug reports on my talk page; I tried my best to make the organization sensible, but feedback on reordering or regrouping is very welcome. If you can't wait or want to test for bugs now, you can load User:Wugapodes/CapricornDev.js (but it's not stable so you should know what you're doing before trying). If you want to opt-out, copy the current revision of User:Wugapodes/Capricorn.js to somewhere in your userspace and load that page rather than my or SamSailor's scripts. Wug· a·po·des 06:33, 16 August 2019 (UTC)
Please see the current proposal under discussion at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2019 September 14#Category:All redirect categories. – Fayenatic London 13:46, 17 September 2019 (UTC)
Would an editor familiar with editing templates please see Template talk:Redirect-several#Edit request. Thanks. Shhhnotsoloud ( talk) 06:43, 24 September 2019 (UTC)
There is an ongoing request for comment at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Council#RfC about tagging redirects which is of interest to this project. — Compassionate727 ( T· C) 21:05, 28 September 2019 (UTC)
I've started a discussion about the speedy deletion of this sort of redirect (e.g. Aisa Bint Ahmad (Q30904322) → Aisa Bint Ahmad) at Wikipedia talk:Criteria for speedy deletion#Redirects with database (e.g. Wikidata) identifiers. Please comment there to keep discussion together. Thryduulf ( talk) 13:21, 4 November 2019 (UTC)
Hello. I created {{ Meta redirect}} as a template to use for links coming in from Meta that require redirection. As noted there, generally these come from the Language Committee/Requests for new languages section of Meta, where the link to Wikipedia is generated by a template. And the template doesn't always match a page here. Sometimes I can just fix the link directly on Meta, but sometimes that's hard to do.
I've created a number of such redirects in the past (just one example: Masovian dialect language), but have simply made them straight redirects. It seems to me it would make more sense to template them and categorize them, so I created this. My intention would be to start using this from now forward, and eventually to clean up backwards. (You would potentially find these by going to my contributions, filtering for page creations, and looking for any page name ending in "language".)
I'm not sure how I should categorize and subcategorize these. I can (and will) write documentation, but would appreciate some guidance on this first. Thanks for your help. StevenJ81 ( talk) (clerk of the Language Committee) 19:58, 2 October 2019 (UTC)
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Last year summer, a bunch of redirect templates ({{ r from scientific name}}, {{ r to scientific name}}, {{ r from monotypic taxon}}, {{ r to monotypic taxon}} and {{ r from alternative scientific name}}) were swapped over to use Module:Science redirect, allowing for the use of parameters to sort the redirects into relevant tracking subcategories. At the time, the only parameters that were activated were those for which the appropriate subcategories already existed. User:Ahecht mentioned to me at the time that several other hooks were built in and used on at least some of the relevant redirects, but were commented out due to the appropriate categories not existing. Of these, I've found during sorting those redirects that there definitely are sufficient redirects for amphibians and for molluscs. Is there consensus for the creation of the relevant subcategories for those two groups and the activation of those parameters? AddWitty NameHere 02:48, 1 December 2019 (UTC) P.S. I will be cross-posting a notification of this discussion at WP:WikiProject Animals and WP:WikiProject Tree of Life as this discussion is also relevant to those projects. AddWitty NameHere 02:48, 1 December 2019 (UTC)
I've posted at Template talk:R to TV episode list entry#Issues with the name and scope of the template, but it's probably under-watched.
Currently {{ R to TV episode list entry}} name and description intend for this to be placed on episode redirects leading to a list of episode article. However, not all episode redirects are to these articles. Articles such as crossovers or multi-part story arcs, have redirects from the individual episodes redirecting to them, such as Legends of Today and Legends of Yesterday redirecting to Heroes Join Forces, or Attack on Central City and Attack on Gorilla City redirecting to Gorilla City (The Flash).
The template name should probably be changed to Template:R from TV episode (or Template:R from television episode) and it's text updated to reflect that it can also lead to targets like those given above ("to a related work or lists of episodes"). This will also make it similar to other fiction-related redirect templates like {{ R from fictional character}}, {{ R from fictional element}} and {{ R from fictional location}} and the other related categories at Category:Redirects from creative works. -- Gonnym ( talk) 11:40, 17 December 2019 (UTC)
I just tagged a redirect with {{
R from American English}}
, thinking that would be appropriate (article title used British spelling of a word, while the redirect had the American spelling). But the template gives the message that the redirect target is the more common variant, which seems...inappropriate. Is the rcat template note correct? Should it be changed? Should the template name be changed? This all seems a bit wonky. –
Deacon Vorbis (
carbon •
videos) 23:38, 24 December 2019 (UTC)
I'd like to get input from editors here. We currently have {{ R from fictional character}}, {{ R from fictional element}}, {{ R from fictional location}}, {{ R from television episode}}. 3 of these templates have sub-categories in the naming style of:
"<series> <type> redirects to lists"
- so for example:
Category:Arrow (TV series) character redirects to lists
. Location is the only category that is using: "<series> <type> redirects"
, so
Category:Arrow (TV series) location redirects
.
At one point up until 2014, the character and element templates were indeed meant for list entries, at least by their name, {{ R to character list entry}} and {{ FictR to list entry}} but that was already 5+ years ago. The episode template changed recently to match them. Since then the template text and documentation have changed to support redirects from "fictional <type> to a related fictional work or list of <type>", but the categories are still being named and created as "to lists", making some of the entries in them incorrect.
I'm thinking it's time these categories match the template name and usage that the template describes and change them to match the location style. Any comment would be appreciated. -- Gonnym ( talk) 19:32, 2 January 2020 (UTC)
I note that the text of {{ R with possibilities}} states: {{ R printworthy}} should be used together with this template when applied to a redirect in mainspace.
Surely there is some way of doing this automatically? Quite a few templates will add categories to pages they are placed on if (and only if) those pages are in mainspace. Wouldn't it make sense to use the same sort of markup to enable mainspace articles labelled as possibilities to also be automatically listed as printworthy? Grutness... wha? 12:26, 14 January 2020 (UTC)
Please see Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2020 February 5#Template:R to anchor 2 – to merge to Template:R to anchor, and stop the latter from auto-categorizing things as unprintworthy when it's not forced to do otherwise. A template (like a bot) cannot make printworthiness determinations, and the "2" template was forked simply as a workaround for this problem. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 13:40, 5 February 2020 (UTC)
Let's take Snuggles State College in Wyoming. If it was formerly Snuggles State Teacher's College so that gets a redirect and a {{R from former name}}. The Wyoming State Government has passed a law saying the school will become Snuggles University on January 1, 2021... Should their be a redirect from Snuggles University? And if so, is there an appropriate template or even a non-template category? Naraht ( talk) 01:03, 9 March 2020 (UTC)
Many redirects in Category:Redirects from file extensions are also in its supercat Category:Filename extensions. Is this a legitimate break of WP:OVERCAT or should the redirects be removed? 1234qwer1234qwer4 ( talk) 13:59, 24 March 2020 (UTC)
I have opened a discussion at Wikipedia talk:Criteria for speedy deletion#Proposed new CSD criterion: R5, for redirects with malformed or misspelled (disambiguation) qualifiers which may be of interest to editors who follow this page. Narky Blert ( talk) 19:49, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
What rcat should be used when “United States” is exchanged with one of the above? 1234qwer1234qwer4 ( talk) 15:45, 7 April 2020 (UTC)
The WikiProject Report would like to focus on WikiProject Redirects for a Signpost article. This is an excellent opportunity to draw attention to your efforts and attract new members to the project. Would you be willing to participate in an interview? If so, here are the questions for the interview. Just add your response below each question and feel free to skip any questions that you don't feel comfortable answering. Multiple editors will have an opportunity to respond to the interview questions, so be sure to sign your answers. If you know anyone else who would like to participate in the interview, please share this with them. Have a great day. -- Puddleglum 2.0( How's my driving?) 19:18, 5 April 2020 (UTC)
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Sdkb}}
talk 06:13, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
I've started a discussion at Wikipedia talk:Redirects are costly#Pandora's box that proposes to remove the "Pandora's box" section of that essay. You are invited to comment there. Thryduulf ( talk) 11:24, 22 July 2019 (UTC)
There are a couple empty categories in there, such as Category:Redirects from Bavarian-language terms and Category:Redirects to Adnyamathanha-language terms, tagged with a template telling that the category should not be deleted. I don't understand why this is the case. If there are no such redirects, there is no need for the category. 1234qwer1234qwer4 ( talk) 11:40, 3 May 2020 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at
Category talk:Redirects from Chinese-language terms#Subcategorisation as Mandarin. I decided to post this here because hardly anyone watches category talk pages.
Glades12 (
talk) 16:01, 23 May 2020 (UTC)
A redirect related template, Template:Wikimedia Meta-Wiki redirect, has been listed at Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2020 May 25#Template:Wikimedia Meta-Wiki redirect. Interested editors are welcome to participate. Thank you, — Godsy ( TALK CONT) 06:34, 28 May 2020 (UTC)
Hi! If I want to categorize some redirects, is there any sort of a tool or search I can use to find a list of uncategorized ones? Thanks! DemonDays64 ( talk) 06:08, 29 May 2020 (UTC)
Once you've found a uncategorized redirect, you can usually find more by look at the contribution history of the redirect's creator. Set the contribution search to Namespace=(Article) and "Only show edits that are page creations". If you really want to narrow the search down, add "Only show edits that are latest revisions". With latest revision, you will miss some cases where a redirect has edited after creation to point to a different target, but any page that has been any Wikipedia for a reasonable length of time with only a single edit is almost certainly a redirect. Plantdrew ( talk) 01:54, 1 June 2020 (UTC)
Hi all, hope this is the right place. On a few occasions, I've followed a link typically from Twitter or Reddit to a Wikipedia article where either due to a typo or quirk of the formatting, the incoming Wikipedia redirect is missing it's closing bracket.
In both of these cases, I've tended to create a redirect to the correct article for the benefit of people actively following through from Twitter or Reddit. I don't do this with inactive discussions obviously.
As I said, I've done this a few times, but one such example is Wirehead (science fiction being discussed here, which is actually very busy. There appears to be clear consensus on this item that this class of redirect appears 'useless' and I'm not going to die on that hill particularly.
Since I believe there is a clear benefit in handling missing bracket redirects where needed, but the redirection review editors feel otherwise, could this be an area where a technical solution could be implemented? I can't imagine there are many (if any?) articles which open a bracket and don't close it? Could that be reported on technically? If so, the Mediawiki software could be extended to automatically add a missing bracket onto article names which open a bracket and fail to close it in some configurations?
Deku-shrub ( talk) 17:54, 19 June 2020 (UTC)
I suggest categorising this category into Category:Redirects to related topics instead of Category:Redirects from subtopics, because the first categorisation is far not always true. There may be a section on a page only covering something similar or even more general. If the section is actually explaining a subtopic, {{ R from subtopic}} should be (and is) used additionally. 1234qwer1234qwer4 ( talk) 22:11, 19 April 2020 (UTC)
Music Production Hebert.travis.tah ( talk) 23:07, 17 May 2020 (UTC)
Seems to me there ought to be a beast like this:
for things like BRCA1, the symbol for one particular gene of breast cancer fame. And now that I think of it—and have done a bit more research here on Wikipedia—maybe the same could be said for EC numbers? As for me though, I've never even created a category, let alone autopopulated one.
What do y'all think?— PaulTanenbaum ( talk) 16:19, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
I've just created Category:Redirects to a century; encouraging related editors to populate the rcat. 1234qwer1234qwer4 ( talk) 19:16, 27 June 2020 (UTC)
I've created many redirects but not paid much attention to categorising them. Now starting to try to add the templates, so I have a question: which template applies to a redirect from a version with, or without, "The "? Like the one I've just made from Public Law Project. Is it just "R from shorter name" or is there something more specific? And if it had been in the other direction, with "The " included in the article title? Thanks in advance for any advice. Pam D 10:07, 28 June 2020 (UTC)
Please take a look at /info/en/?search=Special:Contributions/Afshaarn because some of these redirects look very dodgy, especially Mother of the Nation of Great Britain for one. Up Uranus ( talk) 18:24, 18 July 2020 (UTC)
@ 1234qwer1234qwer4 and Narky Blert: Template:R from plausible term was deleted. I took a stab at replacing it in the 17 redirects using it, but I don't normally use these templates, so someone is welcome to check to see if I replaced it correctly:
Frietjes ( talk) 21:57, 30 July 2020 (UTC)
Hello. Doing NPP work, I come across a significant number of redirects. Many are relatively easy to evaluate (e.g. the redirected term is boldfaced in the first paragraph of the target, or it is a variation of the name of the target). But sometimes I come across something where it redirects to a lengthy article, and while not readily apparent, it is buried in the 10th paragraph (with no # to that particular section). Is there a tool which can search within a WP article? Onel5969 TT me 16:07, 19 August 2020 (UTC)
intitle:
for the page name and then add in your redirect term to search within the page, but at that point you might as well just use your browser's search.
Primefac (
talk) 21:51, 20 August 2020 (UTC)
What would be the best way to convert a redirect into an article? For example, I am thinking about doing so with
L'Ère du Verseau. Should I build the article in the draftspace or userspace and then request a
WP:USURPTITLE? Or can I just build the article on the lines below the #REDIRECT [[Yelle#Discography]]
part?
Bait30
Talk 2 me pls? 04:20, 8 September 2020 (UTC)
I'm looking at the recent contributions by User:Duc4Wikmedia--redirects like Blue Tulip Productions, which link to Jan de Bont, but there is no mention of that production company in De Bont's article. There's dozens and dozens of those, and I'm wondering what to do about them. Thank you, Drmies ( talk) 00:07, 5 June 2020 (UTC)
Forgot to mention, I've opened an ANI topic now. 𝟙𝟤𝟯𝟺𝐪𝑤𝒆𝓇𝟷𝟮𝟥𝟜𝓺𝔴𝕖𝖗𝟰 ( 𝗍𝗮𝘭𝙠) 19:42, 22 September 2020 (UTC)
Hi fellow redirect folks. I'd appreciate any feedback at Template talk:R to article without mention#Refining/clarifying usage. -- BDD ( talk) 15:51, 16 October 2020 (UTC)
{{ R from historic name}} and {{ R from former name}} have been nominated for merging. Your thoughts and opinions are invited at Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2020 October 17 § Template:R from historic name. Thank you. Primefac ( talk) 17:20, 18 October 2020 (UTC)
There are a lot of redirects that go from an emoji to an article (usually the article that the emoji's about, for example 🦷 redirects to Tooth. While the correctness of these redirects may be arguable (should that really redirect to Tooth, or should it go to Emoji?), my proposal doesn't really relate to that -- the thing I want to ask about here is whether they ought to have their own template. Right now it looks like they're all under {{ R from Unicode character}}, which adds them to Category:Redirects from Unicode characters with approximately 28,409 members. I think that specifically having a category for emoji redirects would be useful, especially in cases like the aforementioned (what if we change our minds about what to redirect them to? How will we even know how many there are?), etc. There's a considerable number of them -- in {{ Emoji (Unicode block)}} almost every one of them is wikilinked. So I think it'd be nice, perhaps, to have a {{ R from emoji}}, which adds them to a new Category:Redirects from Unicode emoji. jp× g 14:56, 23 October 2020 (UTC)
There's a proposal under way to rewrite the guidelines about links to disambiguation pages: Wikipedia talk:Disambiguation#Draft wording. This has potential relevance to situations where a redirect is retargeted from an article to a disambiguation page, or when a redirect is created that targets a disambiguation page. – Uanfala (talk) 20:26, 27 October 2020 (UTC)
Hi all, I think the way we add redirects from domain names could use a little looking at. Some prelims: {{
R from domain name}}
populates
Category:Redirects from domain names, which currently has ~4900 members. There are a handful of subcats for redirects from specific top-level domains (TLDs) which are all populated manually as far as I can tell. We should probably either kill the subcats (which I'd favor) or just have the Rcat template auto-sense and add as appropriate.
But more significantly, I think most of these shouldn't exist. Some are certainly okay: for example, we have some redirects from subdomains to TLDs, like .gov.ie redirects to .ie. And at least some of these contain information about the subdomain itself. Stuff like this is surely okay.
But after this, it starts to get iffy. The main drawback here is that domains lapse, change hands, etc. There are some reasonable cases to keep these, like when a company has some major branding with its domain or is specifically known by it or when there's information in an article about the domain/brand itself. But it seems that the vast majority of these were created in a (semi-)automated fashion with a script that pulled from a page's infobox. It would be helpful to set down some guidance on when (not) to create these, and maybe start to go through and start deleting the questionable ones. Thoughts? – Deacon Vorbis ( carbon • videos) 16:47, 2 November 2020 (UTC)
{{
R from domain name}}
s benefit the project? Best,
Sam
Sailor 17:46, 2 November 2020 (UTC)Wikipedia talk:Merging#Request for comment: Proposed blank and redirects might be of interest to anyone who happens to watch this page but not WP:CENT. — Godsy ( TALK CONT) 22:24, 15 December 2020 (UTC)
Please see:
Template talk:R to project namespace#RfC: Should we categorize redirects to the same namespace?
—
SMcCandlish
☏
¢ 😼 19:18, 24 December 2020 (UTC)
An editor has found some work for those WikiGnomes who might be interested. Please see WT:DCS#Rcats for more info. P.I. Ellsworth ed. put'r there 16:57, 6 December 2020 (UTC)
Recently kicked off a discussion in Wikipedia talk:Redirect § Minimum utility threshold for redirects?. It addresses a point of debate that regularly comes up on WP:RFD and may be worth clarifying in editor guidelines. Current guidelines allow for any redirect so long as "someone" finds it useful. Interested to hear your feedback. - Wikmoz ( talk) 02:04, 31 January 2021 (UTC)
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At Template talk:Rfd2#Position of links there are currently two suggestions related to the links at the top of RfD discussions. One will alter their position, the other will add another link. Please comment there to keep discussion in one place. Thryduulf ( talk) 15:32, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
I don't understand why Category:Redirects to disambiguation pages is only for pages that have (disambiguation) in their title. Wouldn't it also be logical for pages that link to disambiguation pages in general? Anyway, confused me after putting it here (since it is what's on the tin, a "redirect to a disambiguation page"...). Cheers, RandomCanadian ( talk / contribs) 00:08, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
The page Espana includes Template:R from title without diacritics, however it does *not* redirect to España, it redirects to Spain (to avoid a double redirect). However under situation, it doesn't seem to qualify for the template. Should the information shown by having the template be tweeked to handle this case?
Also, it is likely when the show actually announces casting that Drag Race Espana will redirect to the article Drag Race España. However right now Drag Race España redirects to Drag Race (franchise) . Should Drag Race Espana right now A) redirect to Drag Race España causing a double redirect, B) direct to Drag Race (franchise) which means it will have to be edited when Drag Race España is created, or C) should no creation of Drag Race Espana be done to avoid the issue? Naraht ( talk) 15:29, 3 March 2021 (UTC)
Someone may want to take a look at this one – it doesn't use the standard {{ Redirect template}}. – SD0001 ( talk) 09:37, 6 November 2020 (UTC)
The Sayuki is part of what is being discussed at Talk:Fukagawa Geisha#Merge proposal. It appears that the redirect was created as part of a page move to Fiona Graham back in 2011. It seems inappropriate that a relatively common Japanese female name such as Sayuki should be redirected to a single article about a non-Japanese who use "Sayuki" as her professional "geisha name". Can the redirect can be boldly changed into a DAB page like Mika or Akemi and new redirect created for Sayuki the geisha, or would it be better to discuss this at WP:RFD. -- Marchjuly ( talk) 02:42, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
In templates {{ R from American English}}, {{ R from British English}}, {{ R from South Indian spelling}}, and possibly others, carry the wording “This is a redirect from a term in [whichever] English spelling to a more common variation. The prevalent spelling is given by the target of the redirect.”
— Michael Z. 19:05, 16 March 2021 (UTC)
Anyway, if no one objects, I will update these templates’ wording shortly, and later come up with a concrete proposal to reconfigure them. — Michael Z. 14:15, 17 March 2021 (UTC)
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It is at User:NotReallySoroka/No such redirect as "Dorian Fried". Feel free to comment on its talk page, NotReallySoroka ( talk) (formerly DePlume) 16:39, 17 April 2021 (UTC)
There are a lot of redirects that go from an emoji to an article (usually the article that the emoji's about, for example 🦷 redirects to Tooth. While the correctness of these redirects may be arguable (should that really redirect to Tooth, or should it go to Emoji?), my proposal doesn't really relate to that -- the thing I want to ask about here is whether they ought to have their own template. Right now it looks like they're all under {{ R from Unicode character}}, which adds them to Category:Redirects from Unicode characters with approximately 28,409 members. I think that specifically having a category for emoji redirects would be useful, especially in cases like the aforementioned (what if we change our minds about what to redirect them to? How will we even know how many there are?), etc. There's a considerable number of them -- in {{ Emoji (Unicode block)}} almost every one of them is wikilinked. So I think it'd be nice, perhaps, to have a {{ R from emoji}}, which adds them to a new Category:Redirects from Unicode emoji. jp× g 14:56, 23 October 2020 (UTC)
What Rcat template should I use for K.Põldmaa? It's the standard botanical author abbreviation for this person, and seems a useful redirect to provide. It's an abbreviation, but also a short form of her name: it seems useful to categorise it as not just any old abbreviation (with non-standard spacing) but an official code from an international system - see List of botanists by author abbreviation (A) etc. Have I missed noticing an appropriate template, or should we create one? Pam D 10:39, 12 April 2021 (UTC)
Redirects for the purpose of data collection seem to be somewhat-accepted on Wikipedia. Currently, they are used on the main page, such as COVID-19 pandemic*. We should probably establish consensus as the proper way to do this, whether that is with an asterisk, subpages of a project-space page, or something else, so it's clear to editors what these are, and that they should not be replaced or deleted. Elliot321 ( talk | contribs) 15:18, 26 January 2021 (UTC)
{{trackingredirect|Donald Trump|1}}
might go to
Donald Trump (tracking redirect 1). This makes it clear in the wikitext why the redirect is used, as well as what page is meant to be targeted. Just a thought.
Elliot321 (
talk |
contribs) 14:37, 4 February 2021 (UTC)
Hallo, Canoeing and kayaking came to my notice as a disambiguation page at AfD to which I was alerted (although actually labelled as a set index), but I see from its history that it used to be a redirect from a Wikidata term, in Category:Wikidata redirects. It is now at AfD as an inadequate dab page. I don't know anything about such redirects, but the editor who created this one, now blocked and locked, seems to have created a lot around that time. Should this exist? I tried reverting to the redirect but was reverted. Is there someone out there who knows about Wikidata redirects and can help or explain? Thanks. Pam D 11:26, 23 May 2021 (UTC)
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There is a discussion on the talk page of {{ tt:Fiction-based redirects to list entries category handler}} that would benefit from your input. Thanks in advance! P.I. Ellsworth ed. put'r there 22:53, 31 May 2021 (UTC)
There's currently a proposal to move an existing WP:RCAT template to Template:R from related term, which is currently a redirect (to a different redirect category template). Please comment at Template talk:R from related word#Requested move 30 May 2021. Thanks. -- Sangdeboeuf ( talk) 22:58, 6 June 2021 (UTC)
Hello, I am gathering information about the issue of redirect hatnotes appearing too often in order to fix it. For a concrete example I'm using Human body, there is a hat note linking to Gray's anatomy that should only appear if the user has searched for Anatomy of the Human Body.
I will compile all information in this place for organization purposes, feel free to contribute to the list if you can.-- TZubiri ( talk) 20:04, 30 June 2021 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Bot requests/Archive 83#Restoring redirects to recreated pages about the possibility of an automated and/or semi-automated process for restoring redirects to a deleted page when that page is undeleted and/or recreated. Please comment there to keep discussion in one place. Thryduulf ( talk) 01:44, 16 July 2021 (UTC)