Template:Category redirect
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This category is located at [[:Category:{{{1}}}]].
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- This template should only be used on category pages.
| This template is used on approximately 67,000 pages, so changes to it will be widely noticed. Please test any changes in the template's /sandbox or /testcases subpages, or in your own user subpage. Please consider discussing changes on the talk page before implementing them. |
| This template should not be substituted. |
For the Wikipedia policy on redirecting categories, see WP: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:Wikipedia soft redirected categories.
Exceptions
- Non-empty categories will be listed at Category:Wikipedia non-empty soft redirected categories.
- Infinite loops of length 1 will be listed at Category:Wikipedia category-redirect box parameter needs fixing under ∞.
- Redirects with non-existent targets will be listed at Category:Wikipedia category-redirect box parameter needs fixing under ∃.
See also
This is the TemplateData documentation for this template used by VisualEditor and other tools; see the monthly error report for this template.
TemplateData for Category redirect
Marks category as a soft-redirect
| Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Destination Category | 1 | Category that this category should redirect to
| Page | required |
| Nocat | nocat | no description | Unknown | optional |
| The above documentation is transcluded from Template:Category redirect/doc. (edit | history) Editors can experiment in this template's sandbox (edit | diff) and testcases (edit) pages. Please add categories to the /doc subpage. Subpages of this template. |