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| '''Initialisms'''
| '''Initialisms'''
*For redirects from [[initialism]]s to their respective expanded forms
*For:
*Not for redirects from expanded forms to initialisms
**[[initialism]]s to their expanded forms
*Not for:
**expanded forms to initialisms
**initials of personal names
| {{tl|R from initialism}}
| {{tl|R from initialism}}
| {{xt|UN → United Nations<br/> Member states of the UN → Member states of the United Nations}}<br/> {{!xt|ANZAC → Australian and New Zealand Army Corps}} ({{tl|R from acronym}})<br/> {{!xt|British Broadcasting Corporation → BBC}} ({{tl|R from long name}})
| {{xt|UN → United Nations<br/> Member states of the UN → Member states of the United Nations}}<br/> {{!xt|ANZAC → Australian and New Zealand Army Corps}} ({{tl|R from acronym}})<br/> {{!xt|British Broadcasting Corporation → BBC}} ({{tl|R from long name}})<br/> {{!xt|JS Back → Johann Sebastian Bach}} ({{tl|R from short name}})
|-
|-
| colspan="3" style="text-align: center" | '''Capitalisation, punctuation and spelling'''
| colspan="3" style="text-align: center" | '''Capitalisation, punctuation and spelling'''
|-
|-
| '''Alternative spellings'''
| '''Alternative spellings'''
*For correct spelling alternatives
*For:
*Not for misspellings or spelling differences that result in different pronunciations
**correct spelling alternatives
*Not for:
**misspellings or spelling differences that result in different pronunciations
| {{tl|R from alternative spelling}}
| {{tl|R from alternative spelling}}
| {{xt|Humor → Humour<br/> Colonization of Africa → Colonisation of Africa}}<br/> {{!xt|Alternate history → Alternative history}} ({{tl|R from alternative name}})<br/> {{!xt|Pronounciation → Pronunciation}} ({{tl|R from misspelling}})<br/> {{!xt|Travelling Wilburys → Traveling Wilburys}} ({{tl|R from misspelling}})
| {{xt|Humor → Humour<br/> Colonization of Africa → Colonisation of Africa}}<br/> {{!xt|Alternate history → Alternative history}} ({{tl|R from alternative name}})<br/> {{!xt|Pronounciation → Pronunciation}} ({{tl|R from misspelling}})<br/> {{!xt|Travelling Wilburys → Traveling Wilburys}} ({{tl|R from misspelling}})
|-
|-
| '''Capitalisation'''
| '''Capitalisation'''
*For capitalisation differences, whether correct or incorrect
*For:
*Not for [[CamelCase]] titles from the old versions of Wikipedia
**capitalisation differences, whether correct or incorrect
*Not for:
**[[CamelCase]] titles from the old versions of Wikipedia
| {{tl|R from other capitalisation}}
| {{tl|R from other capitalisation}}
| {{xt|Cody ChesnuTT → Cody Chesnutt<br/> The beatles → The Beatles}}<br/> {{!xt|TheBeatles → The Beatles}} ({{tl|R from CamelCase}})
| {{xt|Cody ChesnuTT → Cody Chesnutt<br/> The beatles → The Beatles}}<br/> {{!xt|TheBeatles → The Beatles}} ({{tl|R from CamelCase}})
|-
|-
| '''Misspellings'''
| '''Misspellings'''
*For incorrect differences in spelling
*For:
**incorrect differences in spelling
| {{tl|R from misspelling}}
| {{tl|R from misspelling}}
| {{xt|Pronounciation → Pronunciation<br/> Travelling Wilburys → Traveling Wilburys}}
| {{xt|Pronounciation → Pronunciation<br/> Travelling Wilburys → Traveling Wilburys}}
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|-
| '''Plurals'''
| '''Plurals'''
| {{tl|R from plural}}<br/> {{tl|R to singular}}
*For:
**plural nouns or noun phrases to their singular forms
**plural nouns or noun phrases when the singular form is also a redirect to the same target
*Not for:
**singular nouns or noun phrases to their plural forms
| {{tl|R from plural}}
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Revision as of 11:35, 7 April 2011


This template index page is used to furnish editors with a practical tool to quickly find the redirect templates that are used most often. This index page organises the templates by function and provides examples of where and where not to use them. For a complete alphabetical list of redirect templates, see Wikipedia:Template messages/Redirect pages.

Grammar, punctuation and spelling
Usage Template Example(s)
Abbreviations
Initialisms
  • For:
  • Not for:
    • expanded forms to initialisms
    • initials of personal names
{{R from initialism}} UN → United Nations
Member states of the UN → Member states of the United Nations

ANZAC → Australian and New Zealand Army Corps ({{R from acronym}})
British Broadcasting Corporation → BBC ({{R from long name}})
JS Back → Johann Sebastian Bach ({{R from short name}})
Capitalisation, punctuation and spelling
Alternative spellings
  • For:
    • correct spelling alternatives
  • Not for:
    • misspellings or spelling differences that result in different pronunciations
{{R from alternative spelling}} Humor → Humour
Colonization of Africa → Colonisation of Africa

Alternate history → Alternative history ({{R from alternative name}})
Pronounciation → Pronunciation ({{R from misspelling}})
Travelling Wilburys → Traveling Wilburys ({{R from misspelling}})
Capitalisation
  • For:
    • capitalisation differences, whether correct or incorrect
  • Not for:
    • CamelCase titles from the old versions of Wikipedia
{{R from other capitalisation}} Cody ChesnuTT → Cody Chesnutt
The beatles → The Beatles

TheBeatles → The Beatles ({{R from CamelCase}})
Misspellings
  • For:
    • incorrect differences in spelling
{{R from misspelling}} Pronounciation → Pronunciation
Travelling Wilburys → Traveling Wilburys
Grammar
Plurals
  • For:
    • plural nouns or noun phrases to their singular forms
    • plural nouns or noun phrases when the singular form is also a redirect to the same target
  • Not for:
    • singular nouns or noun phrases to their plural forms
{{R from plural}}
Alternative names
Usage Template Example(s)
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 surnames {{R from surname}}
Miscellaneous and administrative redirects
Usage Template Example(s)
Facilitate disambiguation {{R to disambiguation page}}
To redirect to decade article {{R to decade}}
To redirect from a shortcut {{R from shortcut}}
Old-style CamelCase links {{R from CamelCase}}
Links auto-generated from EXIF information {{R from EXIF}}
From school stub to merge location {{R from school}}
People who are members of a group, organisation, ensemble or team {{R from member}}
Sub-topics or closely related topics that should be explained within the text, which may possibly become a future article {{R with possibilities}}
List entry or section {{R to list entry}}
{{R to section}}
Related words {{R from related word}}
Merges and moves
Usage Template Example(s)
Merges {{R from merge}}
Duplicated articles {{R from duplicated article}}
Page moves {{R from move}}


See also