Template:Category redirect/doc

Not to be confused with Template:Redirect category.

For the BattleTechWiki policy on redirecting categories, see BTW:CATRED.

Instructions

Example: To redirect from Category:Authors to Category:Writers, simply add the following to Category:Authors:

{{Category redirect|Writers}} or

{{Category redirect|Category:Writers}} with optional namespace prefix

This template adds category pages to Category:BattleTechWiki soft redirected categories.

If a category redirect is intended to be kept, then add |keep=yes to suppress a deletion link that is usually displayed to administrators.

In the case of redirects that are resolved or otherwise used by other templates, consider also adding the template {{R from category navigation}} within an {{Rcat shell}}.

Templates in the target name

Note that the use of templates in the target name will prevent the redirect from being resolved by {{Resolve category redirect}}, as will the characters | or !.

For more info, see Template:Resolve category redirect#Templates.

Exceptions

• Non-empty categories will be listed at Category:Non-empty soft redirected categories ( 1 ).
• Infinite loops of length 1 will be listed at Category:Category-redirect box parameter needs fixing ( 0 ) under ∞.
• Redirects with non-existent targets will be listed at Category:Category-redirect box parameter needs fixing ( 0 ) under ∃.

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools.

TemplateData for Category redirect

Marks category as a soft-redirect

Template parameters

This template prefers inline formatting of parameters.

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
Destination category	1	Category that this category should redirect to Example Writers	Page	required
Nocat	nocat	no description	Unknown	optional

See also

• Template:Category disambiguation
• Template:Resolve category redirect
• BattleTechWiki:Template index/Category namespace