Template:R from abbreviation/doc

Usage

• This redirect category (rcat) template populates Template:Category link/core. Add this rcat to a redirect (not a talk-page redirect) in the following manner:

#REDIRECT [[(target article title)]]

{{Rcat shell|
{{R from abbreviation}}
}}

Template Template:Tl 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:

#REDIRECT [[(target article title)]]

{{R from abbreviation}}

This is in accord with instructions found at Wikipedia:REDCAT.

• Use this rcat to tag only mainspace redirects from abbreviations to their expanded forms. Please do not use this template to tag an initialism or acronym, which are special types of abbreviations consisting of [usually] capital letters, such as HIV and NATO. For those, instead use Template:Tl for those sounded out as letters, like CIA and USSR; or Template:Tl for those read as words, like UNESCO and NASA. Also, if the redirect is from the initials of a personal name, then use the Template:Tl rcat instead.
• If an abbreviation-type redirect is not in mainspace, then tag it with Template:Tl or Template:Tl instead.

Aliases

• Also known as... – list of templates that redirect here and may also be used

Printworthiness

• In main-article namespace, many abbreviation redirects to expanded forms are considered unprintworthy; however, there are many others that are printworthy, 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 Template:Category link/core or Template:Category link/core 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:

• Template:Tlx and
• Template:Tlx

Please click on each one for more details and guidance.

• Template Template:Tl will accept these rcats just like any other.

Examples:

{{Rcat shell|
{{R from abbreviation}}
{{R printworthy}}
}}

{{Rcat shell|
{{R from abbreviation}}
{{R unprintworthy}}
}}

Either Template:Tl or its alias/shortcut, Template:Tl, may be used.

See also

• Template:Tl
• Template:Tl
• Template:Tl
• Template:Tl
• WikiProject Redirect/Style guide