Template:Category redirect

This category is located at [[:Category:]] Note: This category should be empty. Any content should be recategorised. This tag should be used on existing categories that are likely to be used by others, even though the "real" category is elsewhere. Redirected categories should be empty and not categorised themselves. It should not be used on categories that are misspellings and thus unlikely to be used by other people. Such categories should be tagged as: {{speedy|Wrong name, see Category:correct name}}. (delete as bad name)

Documentation

This documentation is transcluded from Template:Category redirect/doc. (edit | history)

Usage

This template can be used in categories to redirect to categories.

See Rename a category for further information.

In biology:

• Please use {{Synonym taxon category redirect}} to redirect a taxon to a synonym
• Please use {{Invalid taxon category redirect}} to redirect an invalid taxon to its valid equivalent
• Please use {{Monotypic taxon category redirect}} to redirect a monotypic taxon to its unique subtaxon (like redirect genus cat to its unique species)

Note: if you want to edit this template, first try your modifications on {{Category redirect/sandbox}}.You can then test your edits in {{Category redirect/testcases}}.
When the new version is ready, ask an administrator to move it to the main template.

Syntax

{{category redirect|Name of target-category (without the "Category:" prefix) | reason=<reason for the redirect>}}

Categorisation

All pages tagged by this template are automatically categorized in Category:Category redirects.

Redirected categories that contain files show up in Category:Non-empty category redirects.

Redirects to self or non-existent pages show up in Category:Broken category redirects with sortkeys:

* = redirects to self.

! = redirects to non-existent page (or possibly malformed, e.g. including the Category: prefix.)

- = not the category namespace.

See also

• {{Category redirect/lang}} allowing access to the different translations like:
  • {{Category redirect/en}}, {{Category redirect/fr}}…
• {{Category redirect/layout}}
• User:RussBot (cleans out redirected categories, moving any files in them to the target category)
• HotCat gadget automatically resolves category redirects when adding categories
• bugzilla:3311 — a longstanding request for automatic category redirects