Category:Redirect templates

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Please be diligent and add appropriate templates to any redirect you create, including those that result from page moves, unless you feel the original redirect should not exist (in that case, see Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion).

These templates can and should be combined when more than one applies; for example, when a redirect to another template is a case variant, add both {{R from alternative capitalisation}} and {{R from other template|working template name}}.

A particularly underused member of this category is {{R from alternative name}}, as such redirects are very common in historical articles.

Cat trick

In addition to being categorized by these templates, an article redirect can be conveniently categorized the same way as the target article using
   {{Cat also|Redirect's sort key|List of categories, each separated by pipes}}

When listing the categories, don't include the prefix 'Category:' for any of them. If you use the cat trick on a redirect, be sure to add an inline comment to the target article's list of categories, along the lines of: '<!-- If changing these categories, please adjust categories for the redirect Redirect name as well. -->'

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