Template:R_avoided_double_redirect

Template:R avoided double redirect

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{{R avoid 2R}}
{{A2r}}

When used with the "Redirect category shell" (Rcat shell) template:

Template {{Redirect category shell}} may be used to add one or more rcat templates, along with their parameters and categories, to a redirect. For more information see the documentation page below.

When used by itself:

From an avoided double redirect: This is a redirect from an alternative title or related topic of (redirect page name), another redirect to the same title. Because double redirects are disallowed, both pages currently point to (target article).
- If (redirect page name) is retargeted or is expanded into a separate article, template, or other project page, this redirect will be recategorized to be updated.

This template should not be substituted nor used to tag soft redirects.

This template uses Lua:

Module:R avoided double redirect (sandbox)

Usage

This rcat template populates the following categories by default:
- Category:Avoided double redirects – if page specified in the unnamed parameter is still a redirect
- Category:Avoided double redirects to be updated – if specified page is no longer a redirect
Add this rcat to a redirect page (not a talk-page redirect) in the following manner:

#REDIRECT [[(target article title)]]

{{Rcat shell|
{{R avoided double redirect|1=(specified page)}}
}}

or the 1= may be omitted:

#REDIRECT [[(target article title)]]

{{Rcat shell|
{{R avoided double redirect|(specified page)}}
}}

The "(specified page)" is the other redirect that has possibilities of being converted into an article, and to which the tagged redirect may someday be retargeted.

Template {{Rcat shell}} is an alias for the Redirect category shell template, which may be used to add as many appropriate rcats as needed, usually from one to seven, along with their parameters, to a redirect. For more information see the documentation on its template page. This rcat may also tag a redirect individually:

#REDIRECT [[(target article title)]]

{{R avoided double redirect|(specified page)}}

This is in accord with instructions found at Wikipedia:REDCAT.

Use this rcat to tag any mainspace redirect from a title that should target another redirect. For example, so far there is no article Harriman Nelson yet, and that title is a redirect to Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (TV series). Alternate forms of that redirect, such as Admiral Harriman Nelson, must also redirect to the "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (TV series)" article in order to avoid a double redirect. In this case the Admiral Harriman Nelson redirect should be tagged with this rcat template as follows:

#REDIRECT [[Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (TV series)]]

{{Rcat shell|
{{R avoided double redirect|Harriman Nelson}}
{{R unprintworthy}}
}}

or if applied individually:

#REDIRECT [[Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (TV series)]]

{{R avoided double redirect|Harriman Nelson}}

The individual usage on the Admiral Harriman Nelson redirect would display (without the border):

From an avoided double redirect: This is a redirect from an alternative title or related topic of Harriman Nelson, another redirect to the same title. Because double redirects are disallowed, both pages currently point to Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (TV series).
- If Harriman Nelson is retargeted or is expanded into a separate article, template, or other project page, this redirect will be recategorized to be updated.

If a new article is later created at Harriman Nelson, then the template output on the Admiral Harriman Nelson redirect will automatically change to:

From an avoided double redirect: This is a redirect from an alternative title or related topic of Harriman Nelson, a former redirect to the same title.
- Harriman Nelson is not a redirect. Most likely this redirect should be updated to point to Harriman Nelson now that it is no longer a redirect, and this template removed.
- If that is not the correct target for this redirect, update or remove this template and/or the redirect itself and/or the other page as appropriate.

In the first case above, the boldface From an avoided double redirect would actually link to the main category, Avoided double redirects, and in the second case the link would automatically be altered to Category:Avoided double redirects to be updated.

The above documentation is transcluded from Template:R avoided double redirect/doc.
Editors can experiment in this template's sandbox and testcases pages.
Add categories to the /doc subpage. Subpages of this template.

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