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.

Template documentation

This documentation is  transcluded from Template:Category redirect/doc. (Edit | history)
Note to editors: Please don't categorize this template by editing it directly. Instead, place the category in its documentation page, in its "includeonly" section.

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), tag it with {{db-c1}} for deletion.

Exceptions

• Non-empty categories will be listed at Category:Wikipedia non-empty soft redirected categories ( 2 ).
• Infinite loops of length 1 will be listed at Category:Wikipedia category-redirect box parameter needs fixing ( 1 ) under ∞.
• Redirects with non-existent targets will be listed at Category:Wikipedia category-redirect box parameter needs fixing ( 1 ) under ∃.

TemplateData

This is the  TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard,  VisualEditor and other tools. Click here to see a monthly parameter usage report for this template based on this TemplateData.

TemplateData for Category redirect

{
	"params": {
		"1": {
			"label": "Destination category",
			"description": "Category that this category should redirect to",
			"example": "Writers",
			"type": "wiki-page-name",
			"required": true
		},
		"nocat": {}
	},
	"description": "Marks category as a soft-redirect",
	"format": "inline"
}

See also

• Template:Category disambiguation
• Template:Resolve category redirect
•  Wikipedia:Template index/Category namespace