Template:R template index

This template index page is used to furnish editors with a practical tool to quickly find redirect templates that are used most often. This index page organises by function the most widely used templates. For a more complete list, see Wikipedia:Template messages/Redirect pages.

Grammar, punctuation and spelling

Usage	Template	Example(s)
Alternative spellings for acceptable alternatives to the spelling used by the article; not for misspellings or spelling differences that result in different pronunciations	{{R from alternative spelling}}	Humor → Humour Alternate history → Alternative history ({{R from alternative name}}) Pronounciation → Pronunciation ({{R from misspelling}})
Initialisms	{{R from initialism}}	UN → United Nations ANZAC → Australian and New Zealand Army Corps ({{R from acronym}}) British Broadcasting Corporation → BBC ({{R from long name}})
Misspellings	{{R from misspelling}}
Other capitalisations, to ensure that "Go" to a mixed-capitalisation article title is case-insensitive	{{R from other capitalisation}}
Plurals	{{R from plural}} {{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}}
List entry or section	{{R to list entry}} {{R to section}}

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}}

Merges and moves

Usage	Template	Example(s)
Merges	{{R from merge}}
Duplicated articles	{{R from duplicated article}}
Page moves	{{R from move}}

See also

• Template:This is a redirect
• Wikipedia:Template messages/Redirect pages
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Redirect/Style guide