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When used with the "Redirect category shell" (Rcat shell) template:
This page is a redirect. The following categories are used to track and monitor this redirect:
From an avoided double redirect: This is a redirect from an alternative title for (redirect page name), another redirect to the same title. Because double redirects are disallowed, both pages currently point to (target article).
If (redirect page name) is expanded into a separate article or it is retargeted, this redirect will be recategorized to be updated.
When appropriate, protection levels are automatically sensed, described and categorized.
Template {{Redirect category shell}} may be used to add one or more rcat templates, along with their parameters and categories, to a redirect. For more information see the documentation page below.
When used by itself:
From an avoided double redirect: This is a redirect from an alternative title for (redirect page name), another redirect to the same title. Because double redirects are disallowed, both pages currently point to (target article).
If (redirect page name) is expanded into a separate article or it is retargeted, this redirect will be recategorized to be updated.
Because the saved version of a page is used to determine if it is a redirect, this template may incorrectly give an error in preview mode. Save the page to be sure if the error is true or not.
Some redirects should target other redirects, but that is not allowed by Wikipedia software. A redirect that targets another redirect is called a "double redirect". This redirect category (rcat) template may be used to tag redirects from alternative forms (abbreviations, disambiguated titles, etc.) of titles that are themselves redirects to broader-topic articles (whether or not marked as redirects with possibilities). To avoid a double redirect, any alternative-title redirect must also target the same broader article, and must be updated if the redirect from the more specific title is converted to a separate article.
The "(specified page)" is the other redirect that has possibilities of being converted into an article, and to which the tagged redirect may someday be retargeted.
Template {{Rcat shell}} is an alias for the Redirect category shell template, which may be used to add as many appropriate rcats as needed, usually from one to seven, along with their parameters, to a redirect. For more information see the documentation on its template page. This rcat may also tag a redirect individually:
Use this rcat to tag any mainspace redirect from a title that should target another redirect. For example, so far there is no article Harriman Nelson yet, and that title is a redirect to Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (TV series). Alternate forms of that redirect, such as Admiral Harriman Nelson, must also redirect to the "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (TV series)" article in order to avoid a double redirect. In this case the Admiral Harriman Nelson redirect should be tagged with this rcat template as follows:
#REDIRECT [[Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (TV series)]]
{{Rcat shell|
{{R avoided double redirect|Harriman Nelson}}
{{R unprintworthy}}
}}
or if applied individually:
#REDIRECT [[Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (TV series)]]
{{R avoided double redirect|Harriman Nelson}}
The individual usage on the Admiral Harriman Nelson redirect would display (without the border):
From an avoided double redirect: This is a redirect from an alternative title for Harriman Nelson, a former redirect to the same title.
Harriman Nelson is not a redirect. Most likely this redirect should be updated to point to Harriman Nelson now that it is no longer a redirect, and this template removed.
If that is not the correct target for this redirect, update or remove this template and/or the redirect itself and/or the other page as appropriate.
Please do not alter the printworthy settings of this rcat without first notifying the Version 1.0 Editorial Team, who are responsible for any and all materials, including redirects, that go into a printed version of Wikipedia.
In main-article namespace, many redirects from avoided double redirects are considered printworthy; however, there are many others that are unprintworthy, so there is no default sort for printworthiness. In 2003, efforts were begun to support the Wikimedia Foundation's goal of increasing access and availability of Wikipedia articles in printed versions. Some rcats automatically populate either Category:Printworthy redirects or Category:Unprintworthy redirects by default. Others, like this rcat, do not, and that means it is up to editors to choose which of those categories, Printworthy or Unprintworthy, is appropriate and should be populated. The rcats that are used separately to populate those categories are:
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This redirect category (rcat) template may be used to tag redirects from alternative forms (abbreviations, disambiguated titles, etc.) of titles that are themselves redirects to broader-topic articles (whether or not marked as redirects with possibilities). To avoid a double redirect, any alternative-title redirect must also target the same broader article, and must be updated if the redirect from the more specific title is converted to a separate article.