Template:R from shortcut

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 a shortcut: This is a redirect from a shortcut in any namespace to a page in any namespace except template namespace.
  • If target page is a template, then use {{R from template shortcut}} instead. Shortcuts are wikilinked on community pages, talk pages and edit summaries, but not in mainspace articles.
  • Note: Template talk pages are in a talk namespace; they are not in the template namespace. All shortcuts to talk pages should be tagged with {{R from shortcut}}.

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Usage

• This redirect category (rcat) template populates Category:Redirects from shortcuts and, when the shortcut

is in main-article namespace (mainspace), then Category:Unprintworthy redirects is also populated by default.

Aliases/shortcuts in mainspace are not suitable for a printed version.

In other words they are unprintworthy.

• Add this rcat to a redirect in the following manner:

#REDIRECT [[(target page name)]]

{{R from shortcut}}

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

• Template {{This is a redirect}} may also be used to add this and up to seven appropriate rcats to a redirect.
• Use this rcat on any redirect from a TechInfoDepot (WP:, MOS:, etc.) shortcut. Shortcuts are historically reserved

for TechInfoDepot project pages, their discussion and help pages, and categories, and they are now used in all namespaces.

If the redirect is a shortcut to the template namespace and the redirect itself

is in any namespace, then use {{R from template shortcut}} instead of Template:R from shortcut (talk links edit).

It is the target page that determines this, so if a redirect is in the template namespace and targets

a page in any other namespace, then it is not a template shortcut and should be tagged with Template:R from shortcut (talk links edit).

Aliases

• Also known as... – list of templates that redirect here and may also be used

See also

• {{R from shortcut}}
• {{R from shortcut/doc}}