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Redirects

Latest comment: 11 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Two points:

All that are needed are one or two shortcuts. The procedure is, if one wants to include new shortcuts, they should first be created and only then they are added to the documentation page. Otherwise, they will show as red links and may confuse other contributors.
There are good reasons to show all existing redirects in the Redirects section. They are then available for use by anyone who may want to use them. Also, if an administrator does not want so many redirects and wants to delete some of them, they have a list to use for that work. – PAINE ELLSWORTH ^CLIMAX! 21:15, 28 June 2013 (UTC)Reply

Questions

Latest comment: 10 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Two questions –

In this code as shown below, the {{Template other}} template is called. It's first parameter contains two categories, which are linked and populated when this Rcat is on a template redirect page. Why does the second parameter contain those same two categories, which appear to be inappropriate since they will be populated by pages outside template space? The third category is appropriate and categorizes CNRs.
Why does this Rcat cause its redirects to populate Category:All redirect templates? All that does is place "redirects to redirect templates" in that category and clutters up the category. They are only "redirects to redirect templates" and not themselves "redirect templates", after all. (And they will, when tagged with this template, be found anyway in Category:Redirects to redirect templates, a subcategory of Category:All redirect templates.)

{{Template other
  |{{{category|[[Category:All redirect templates]]
               [[Category:Redirects to redirect templates]]}}}
  |{{{category|[[Category:All redirect templates]]
               [[Category:Redirects to redirect templates]]
               [[Category:Redirects to template from non-template namespace]]}}}
}}

I will go ahead and make the necessary adjustments to the code to correct these "faults" as I see them. Feel free to disagree, revert and discuss it here. Joys! – Paine Ellsworth ^CLIMAX! 06:52, 22 December 2013 (UTC)Reply

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