Template:R template index

For a more complete alphabetical list of Rcats, see Wikipedia:Template messages/Redirect pages.

Further information: Wikipedia:WikiProject Redirect/Style guide

This template index page furnishes editors with a practical tool to quickly find the redirect category templates (Rcats) that are used most often. This index template organises the templates by function and, in some cases, provides examples of where and when to use them. For a complete alphabetical list of redirect category templates, see Wikipedia:Template messages/Redirect pages. The procedure to use for placing these Rcats on redirects will be found at WP:REDCAT.

At some point in the future, Jimmy Wales wants to make a printed version of the full Wikipedia encyclopedia. Some Rcats place a redirect in either Category:Printworthy redirects or Category:Unprintworthy redirects by default. Other Rcats do not, which means that it is up to editors to choose to the best of their knowledge which of those categories, Printworthy or Unprintworthy, is appropriate and should be populated. The Rcats that can be used separately to populate those categories are:

• {{R printworthy}} and {{R unprintworthy}}

Please click on either one for more details.

About hidden categories on Wikipedia

Thank you for your interest in sorting redirects into their correct categories! Most of the categories populated by redirect category templates (Rcats) are hidden categories. Hidden cats cannot be seen by viewers who are not logged in, nor by editors who have not set their preferences to view hidden cats. So if you have tagged a redirect with an Rcat and saved the redirect, but you cannot see the category, the first thing to check is if you have set your preferences to view hidden cats:

1. Go to Template:Myprefs
2. Scroll down to Advanced options
3. Check the box Show hidden categories
4. Click Save

You may need to purge your browser cache to ensure that you can see hidden cats in the future.

Redirect category templates

Grammar, punctuation and spelling

Check each Rcat's template page to see in which namespace(s) it may be used.

Usage	Template	Example(s)
Abbreviations
Initialisms For: initialisms to their expanded forms Not for: acronyms expanded forms to initialisms – {{R to initialism}} 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}}) J. S. Bach → Johann Sebastian Bach ({{R from short name}})
Acronyms For: acronyms to their expanded forms Not for: initialisms expanded forms to acronyms – {{R to acronym}} Challenge: this term is not well-defined.	{{R from acronym}}	U.N.C.L.E. → United Network Command for Law and Enforcement APPLE → Ariane Passenger PayLoad Experiment RBI → Run batted in ({{R from initialism}}) TLDR → Top-level domain registry (Template:TL)
Capitalisation and spelling
Alternative spellings For: correct spelling alternatives numbers to words words to numbers Not for: misspellings spelling differences that result in different pronunciations	{{R from alternative spelling}}	Humor → Humour Colonization of Africa → Colonisation of Africa Shed 7 → Shed Seven One → 1 (number) Alternate future → Alternative future ({{R from alternative name}}) Pronounciation → Pronunciation ({{R from misspelling}}) Travelling Wilburys → Traveling Wilburys ({{R from misspelling}})
Capitalisation For: capitalisation differences page names with incorrect capitalisation 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 and punctuation
Modifications For: punctuation differences re-arrangement of words	{{R from modification}}	North Korean-Russian → North Korean Russian Russia – North Korea relations → North Korea – Russia relations 1962-63 Ashes series → 1962–63 Ashes series
From 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}}	Dogs → Dog Mitochondria → Mitochondrium
To plurals For: singular nouns or noun phrases to their plural forms singular nouns or noun phrases when the plural form is also a redirect to the same target Not for: plural nouns or noun phrases to their singular forms	{{R to plural}}	Minimal medium → Minimal media

Alternative names

Check each Rcat's template page to see in which namespace(s) it may be used.

Usage	Template	Example(s)
Full names such as Municipality, State forms or Village, City forms to briefer name form	{{R from name and country}} (see also {{R from more specific geographic name}} for other geographic variations)
Full names persons, things, topics and such alternative forms of names redirected to briefer article page names	{{R from long name}}
Short names persons, things, topics and such alternative forms of names redirected to full article page names	{{R from short name}}
Alternative names general pseudonyms, nicknames, and synonyms that are not historic names or a full name as above	{{R from alternative name}}
More specific names names that are more specific, less general that that used for the actual article (often as the result of WP:RM discussions involving WP:COMMONNAME), but not simply longer versions of the same name as above	{{R from more specific name}} (see also {{R from more specific geographic name}} and its variants for places)
Incorrect names articles that were renamed (moved) to correct name that left a redirect behind	{{R from incorrect name}}
Previous names (no historic significance)	{{R from former name}}
Previous names that do have historic significance, where subsumed into a modern entity or region (also populates Category:Printworthy redirects)	{{R from historic name}}	Calcutta → Kolkata
Scientific names from formal name to commonplace article name (automatic Printworthy category) commonplace name to more formal, specific article name from alternative scientific name to correct (or believed to be correct) scientific name from molecular/chemical formula to scientific or common name (automatic Printworthy category)	{{R from scientific name}} {{R to scientific name}} {{R from alternative scientific name}} {{R from molecular formula}}
Technical names from technical term to common name (automatic Printworthy category) from common name to more technical name	{{R from technical name}} {{R to technical name}}
Other languages	{{R from alternative language}}
Non-ASCII characters	{{R from ASCII}}
Diacritical marks	{{R from diacritics}} {{R from title without diacritics}}
Unambiguous surnames	{{R from surname}}

Disambiguation

Check each Rcat's template page to see in which namespace(s) it may be used.

Usage	Template	Example(s)
Titles with disambiguators that aren't needed	{{R from unnecessary disambiguation}}	Jupiter (planet) → Jupiter Shir Kahn (disambiguation) → Shir Kahn ({{R to disambiguation page}})
Facilitate disambiguation	{{R to disambiguation page}}
For ambiguous phrases covered by another disambiguation page	{{R from ambiguous page}}

Merges, duplicates and moves

Use these Rcat templates in any namespace.

Usage	Template	Example(s)
Duplicated articles	{{R from duplicated article}}
Merges Check page history to see if a redirect has was an article merged into another page.	{{R from merge}}
Page moves Check page history to see if a redirect is the result of a page renaming.	{{R from move}}

To namespaces

Check each Rcat's template page to see in which namespace(s) it may be used.

Usage	Template	Example(s)
Template:Blue
Wikipedia (project) namespace For: any page to a page in the Wikipedia namespace Not for: a page in the Wikipedia namespace to a page outside of the Wikipedia namespace	{{R to project namespace}}	Wikipedia:MOS → Wikipedia:Manual of Style MOS:ABBR → Wikipedia:Manual of Style (abbreviations) Help:IPA → Wikipedia:IPA
Help namespace For: any page to a page in the help namespace Not for: a page in the help namespace to a page outside of the help namespace	{{R to help namespace}}	Help:Magic word → Help:Magic words H:R → Help:Redirect (H:R is in the Main namespace) Wikipedia:Thumbnail → Help:Files
Portal namespace For: any page to a page in the portal namespace Not for: a page in the portal namespace to a page outside of the portal namespace	{{R to portal namespace}}	Portal:Beatles → Portal:The Beatles P:ENG → Portal:England Wikipedia:0 → Portal:Contents
Template:Blue
Main namespace For: a page outside of the main namespace to a page in the main namespace Not for: a page in the main namespace to any page	{{R to main namespace}}	Template:DSM IV TR → Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders Beatles → The Beatles
Talk namespaces For: a page outside of the talk namespace to a page in the talk namespace Not for: a page in the talk namespace to any page	{{R to talk page}}	Help:Table → Talk:Library Wikipedia:Edit conflict → Wikipedia talk:Edit conflict User talk:Simon → User:Simon ({{R to user namespace}}) User talk:Jimbo → Talk:Genius
Template namespace For: a page outside of the template namespace to a page in the template namespace Not for: a page in the template namespace to any page	{{R to template namespace}}	T:S → Template:Strikethrough (T:S is in the Main namespace.) Template:R from → Template:R template index
User namespace For: a page outside the user namespace to a page in the user namespace Not for: a page in the user namespace to any page	{{R to user namespace}}	Wikipedia:MOS → User:Jimbo Wales User talk:Tricky Ed → User:SuperEditor User:SuperEditor → User talk:Tricky Ed ({{R to talk page}}) User:SuperEditor → User:Tricky Ed User:Jimbo Wales/Workpage → User:Jimbo Wales
Category namespace For: a page outside of the category namespace to a page in the category namespace Not for: a page in the category namespace to any page	{{R to category namespace}}	CAT:A → Category:Wikipedia adminship (CAT:A is in the Main namespace) Category:A → Category:Wikipedia adminship

Miscellaneous

Check each Rcat's template page to see in which namespace(s) it may be used.

Usage	Template	Example(s)
Old-style CamelCase links	{{R from CamelCase}}
To redirect to decade article	{{R to decade}}
Links auto-generated from Exif information	{{R from Exif}}
List entry	{{R to list entry}}
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}}
Related terms or topics	{{R to related topic}}
Related words	{{R from related word}}
From school stub to merge location	{{R from school}}
Section Note R to anchor below and how the targets are similar. The target must be clicked and checked to be able to tell the difference.	{{R to section}}	WP:SOURCE → Wikipedia:Verifiability#Reliable sources N270 → Intel Atom (CPU)#Diamondville ({{R to anchor}})
Embedded anchor The category page notes that this does not apply to anchors that are in or near section headers. Use R to section instead.	{{R to anchor}}	Fire-lizard → Pern#fire-lizard FAT-32 → File Allocation Table#FAT32 (Note the hyphen – use {{R to section}} because this is a "section anchor".)
To target from a shortcut (not a "template shortcut"—see below)	{{R from shortcut}}	WP:BOLD → Wikipedia:Be bold Template:Vanchor → Template:Visible anchor ({{R from template shortcut}})
To target from a template shortcut If the target is a template, then the redirect is a "template shortcut" no matter what namespace it is in.	{{R from template shortcut}}	Template:Cn → Template:Citation needed T:S → Template:Strikethrough Template:WP:UTM → Wikipedia:Template messages/User talk namespace ({{R from shortcut}})
From a song to an album or artist	{{R from song}}
From an album to an artist	{{R from album}}
From an Internet domain name	{{R from domain name}} (alias {{R from dotcom}})	Thomas.loc.gov → THOMAS Gnu.org → GNU Openoffice.org → OpenOffice.org ({{R from other capitalisation}})
From a single Unicode character	{{R from Unicode}}
From a phrase	{{R from phrase}}

Notes

• {{This is a redirect}} can be used to add up to six redirect category templates to redirects. One optional unnamed parameter may be included with each Rcat. See template documentation for details. This is useful with one exception: When you place an Rcat on a redirect that gives you the choice to change from one category to another, then you will not be able to use the {{This is a redirect}} template. The Rcat {{R from plural}} is a good example of this. {{R from plural}} is used to redirect from a plural title to a singular one. Most of these redirects are "unprintworthy", so {{R from plural}} automatically places those redirects in Category:Unprintworthy redirects. To identify a redirect from a plural title as printworthy in combination with {{This is a redirect}}, use R from printworthy plural (deprecated) as the redirect template name.
• For Talk pages, there are only certain redirect category templates you should use. The only Rcats that apply to Talk pages are {{R from alternative name}}, {{R from shortcut}}, those associated with moves, merges and cross-namespace redirects. For more information, click on the templates.
• If a redirect is tagged incorrectly, for example, if an editor places a mainspace-only Rcat on a redirect in another namespace, the redirect will not be sorted into the expected category. Instead, the redirect may be sorted into Category:Pages with incorrectly transcluded templates, a category that should be empty.
• When Rcats are used to categorize image-file redirects, the category(ies) may not appear on the redirect page after saving even if preferences are set to view hidden cats. Yet the image-file redirect will still populate the category(ies). For example, in the Category:Redirects from moves at the bottom of the page under section heading Media in category "Redirects from moves", an image-file redirect has been correctly categorized, and yet {{Redr|move|short}}'s categories may not appear on the image-file redirect's page. Hidden categories on image-file redirects can also be detected by clicking on "Page information" in the Tools.

See also

• {{Talk page of redirect}}