Template:Category redirect

This category is located at [[:Category:{{{1}}}]].

Note: This category should be empty.

See the instructions for more information.

Administrators: If this category name is unlikely to be entered on new pages, and all incoming links have been cleaned up, click here to delete.

This template should only be used on category pages.

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Shortcuts

{{Catred}}
{{Catr}}

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.

If a category redirect exists but is not likely to be useful (see criteria in WP:Category redirects that should be kept), start a discussion at WP:CFD.

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:Wikipedia non-empty soft redirected categories ( 9 ).
Infinite loops of length 1 will be listed at Category:Wikipedia category-redirect box parameter needs fixing ( 6 ) under ∞.
Redirects with non-existent targets will be listed at Category:Wikipedia category-redirect box parameter needs fixing ( 6 ) under ∃.

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. See a monthly parameter usage report for Template:Category redirect in articles based on its TemplateData.

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 name	required
nocat	`nocat`	no description	Unknown	optional

Template:Category redirect

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Instructions

Templates in the target name

Exceptions

TemplateData

See also