Template:R template index

Further information: Wikipedia:Template messages/Redirect pages

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The goal and use of this template is to furnish to editors a useful tool to quickly find REDIRECT categories that are most-often used. This template acts as sort of a "master template" that brings together and organizes the most popular "Rcats".

Spellings, misspellings, tenses and capitalisations

Reason	Template
Abbreviations	{{R from abbreviation}}
Too short for own article List entry or Section	{{R to list entry}} {{R to section}}
Misspellings	{{R from misspelling}}
Other spellings, other punctuation	{{R from alternative spelling}}
Plurals	{{R from plural}} or {{R to singular}}
Related words	{{R from related word}}
Sub-topics or closely related topics that should be explained within the text	{{R with possibilities}}
People who are members of a group, organization, ensemble or team	{{R from member}}
Other capitalisations, to ensure that "Go" to a mixed-capitalisation article title is case-insensitive	{{R from other capitalisation}}

Alternative names

Reason	Template
Full names such as Municipality, State forms or Village, City forms to briefer name form.	{{R from name and country}}
Full names persons, things, topics and such alternative forms of names redirected to briefer article page names.	{{R from full name}}
Alternative names general pseudonyms, nicknames, and synonyms that are not historic names or a full name as above.	{{R from alternative name}}
Other names with Historic significance, where subsumed into a modern entity or region.	{{R from historic name}}
Scientific names (from such to briefer)	{{R from scientific name}}
Scientific names (commonplace name to more formal, specific article name)	{{R to scientific name}}
Other languages	{{R from alternative language}}
Non-ASCII Characters	{{R from ASCII}}
Diacritical marks	{{R from title with diacritics}} {{R from title without diacritics}}
Unambiguous surname	{{R from surname}}

Miscellaneous and administrative redirects

Reason	Template
Facilitate disambiguation	{{R to disambiguation page}}
To redirect to decade article	{{R to decade}}
To redirect from a shortcut	{{R from shortcut}}
Oldstyle CamelCase links	{{R from CamelCase}}
links auto-generated from EXIF information	{{R from EXIF}}
From school stub to merge location	{{R from school}}

Avoiding broken links on merges

Reason	Template
Merges	{{R from merge}}
Duplicated articles	{{R from duplicated article}}

See also

• Category:All redirect templates