Wikipedia:Template messages/Redirect pages

This redirect page affects an "as of ..." link. All redirects should use capitalized month names.

The primary purpose of linking to this redirect is to keep track (using the "Whatlinkshere" feature) of information that was current in the year when the link to this redirect was created, but may need updating later.

For more information, follow the category link.

This is a redirect from a title with an abbreviation.

For more information, follow the category link.

This is a redirect from a title with another method of capitalisation. It leads to the title in accordance with the Wikipedia naming conventions for capitalisation, and can help writing, searching, and international language issues. Apply one of the below templates to redirects created for this purpose. Other variants should use one of the other redirect templates such as from alternative spelling or from alternative name.

Pages linking to any of these redirects may be updated to link directly to the target page. However, do not replace these redirected links with a piped link unless the page is updated for another reason.

For more information, follow the category link Category:Redirects from other capitalisations.

This is a redirect from a title in a language other than English.

It leads to the title in accordance with the naming conventions for titles in other languages and can help writing. However, do not replace these redirected links with a piped link unless the page is updated for another reason.

For more information, follow the category link.

This is a redirect from a title that is another name, a pseudonym, a nickname, or a synonym.

It leads to the title in accordance with the naming conventions for common names and can help writing. However, do not replace these redirected links with a piped link unless the page is updated for another reason.

For more information, see this reference page and the Category: Redirects from alternative names.

This is a redirect from a title in basic ASCII to the formal article title, with differences that are not diacritical marks (accents, umlauts, etc.)

Use this redirect link (without piping) when the page concerns language translation or English language equivalents. Other pages using this link should be updated to replace text with the redirect target (again, without piping).

For more information, follow the category link.

This is a redirect from a CamelCase title. In the initial versions of Wikipedia, all links had to be CamelCase.

They are kept to keep edit history and to avoid breaking links that may have been made externally.

For more information, follow the category link.

This is a redirect from a year to the decade article. Years from 1700 BC to 500 BC should redirect to the relevant decade.

Do not replace these redirected links with a link directly to the target page.

For more information, follow the category link.

This is a redirect to the article title with diacritical marks (accents, umlauts, etc.) The correct spelling is .

Use this redirect link (without piping) when the page concerns language translation or English language equivalents. Other pages using this link should be updated to replace text with the redirect target (again, without piping).

For more information, follow the category link.

This is a redirect to a disambiguation page. This redirect is used by links that should always point to the disambiguation page, rather than be disambiguated.

For more information, follow the category link.

This is a redirect to a talk page. One possible usage is in a template creating links to subpages, where the template itself has no such subpage, but a documentation at its talk page.

This is a redirect of a wikilink created from JPEG EXIF information (i.e. the "metadata" section on some image description pages). Since MediaWiki offers no control over the link target of these autogenerated wikilinks, redirects like this are created to make the wikilinks useful.

WARNING: It might appear that no pages link to this redirect. This is because the EXIF links don't show up in these listings. This redirect is most probably not orphaned!

See also: Category:Redirects

This is a redirect to a "list of minor entities"-type article which is a collection of brief descriptions for subjects not notable enough to have separate articles.

For more information, follow the category link.

This is a redirect from a misspelling or typographical error. The correct spelling is .

Pages using this link should be updated to link directly to the redirect target, without using a piped link that hides the correct details.

For more information, follow the category link.

This is a redirect from a dummy navigational category abused to link very large pages like the Village pump sections.

This is a redirect from a title with another method of capitalisation. It leads to the title in accordance with the Wikipedia naming conventions for capitalisation, and can help writing, searching, and international language issues. Apply one of the below templates to redirects created for this purpose. Other variants should use one of the other redirect templates such as from alternative spelling or from alternative name.

Pages linking to any of these redirects may be updated to link directly to the target page. However, do not replace these redirected links with a piped link unless the page is updated for another reason.

For more information, follow the category link Category:Redirects from other capitalisations.

This template name redirects to {{[[Template:|]]}} which may be edited using [[Template:Fullurl:Template: edit]].

[edit] See also

1. category:Redirects
2. Category:Redirects from other template
3. Wikipedia:Template messages/Redirect pages

This is a redirect from a title for a topic far more detailed than what is currently provided on the target page, or section of that page, hence something which can and should be expanded.

When the target page becomes too large, this redirect may be replaced with an article carved out of the target page. See also {{R to section}}, and when appropriate, use both together, and perhaps add a stub template or two to the redirect page as well.

Conversely, if the topic is not susceptible to a major expansion, tag instead with {{R to section}}, or {{R to list entry}}, depending on how the topic should be handled.

Do not replace these redirected links with a link directly to the target page.

For more information, see the auto-category: Category:Redirects with possibilities.

This is a redirect from a plural word to the singular equivalent.

This redirect link is used for convenience, usually for plurals that do not follow simple conventions. In many cases, it is preferable to add the plural directly after the link (that is, [[link]]s). However, do not replace these redirected links with a simpler link unless the page is updated for another reason.

For more information, follow the category link.

This is a redirect from a related word.

Related words in an article are good candidates for Wiktionary links.

Redirects from related words are not properly redirects from alternate spellings of the same word. But at the same time, they are also different from redirects from a subtopic, since the related word is unlikely to warrant a full subtopic in the target page.

For more information, follow the category link.

This is a redirect from a school article that had very little information.

The information from this article has been merged into an appropriate location or school district page.

For more information, follow the category link.

This is a redirect from the binomial nomenclature to the common name.

• See also Template:R to scientific name

This is a redirect from a fictional character's secret identity.

Usage:

{{r from secret identity|last name, first name}}

[[Category:Printworthy redirects|]]

This is a redirect to a "list of minor entities"-type article which is a collection of brief descriptions for subjects not notable enough to have separate articles.

This is a redirect from a Wikipedia shortcut. Shortcuts are generally reserved for Wikipedia project reference pages.

For more information, follow the category link.

This is a redirect from a song title to a more general relevant article.

There is consensus that the majority of songs do not meet Wikipedia's notability guidelines. Songs should only have an individual article when there is enough material to warrant a detailed article.

For more information, follow the category link.

This is a redirect to sort people by surname / family name, such as on List of people by name.

This is a redirect from a title with a different spelling.

Pages using this link may be updated to link directly to the target page. However, do not replace these redirected links with a piped link unless the page is updated for another reason.

For more information, follow the link to Category:Redirects from alternative spellings or see this reference page.

This is a redirect from a stock symbol.

For more information, follow the link to: Category:Redirects from stock symbols.

This is a redirect from a surname.

It is used because Wikipedia has only one biographical article of a person by this surname, or because one individual is ubiquitously known by this surname (other persons sharing this name might be listed at a primary topic disambiguation page).

For more information, follow the category link.

This is a redirect from a title that is an UN/LOCODE geographic code.

[edit] See also

• UN/LOCODE
• Talk:UN/LOCODE—information about UN/LOCODE shortcuts on Wikipedia

This is a redirect from a Unicode character to a relevant article and unprintworthy.

For more information, follow the category link.

This is a redirect from a title with a U.S. postal abbreviation. List others; Edit the message.