Template:Resolve category redirect
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Resolves a category redirect.
It takes one parameter, which is the name of a category. It returns that category name, unless the category exists and is a {{Category redirect}} ... when it returns the name of the redirect target.
Usage
{{Resolve category redirect|categoryname}}
Examples
- Category exists and is not redirected
- Category:1970s
{{Resolve category redirect|1970s}}→ 1970s{{Resolve category redirect|Category:1970s}}→ Category:1970s
- Category exists and is a soft redirect
- Category:View
{{Resolve category redirect|View}}→ Views{{Resolve category redirect|Category:View}}→ Views
- Category exists and is a soft redirect
- Category:Organisations (uses alias Template:Seecat)
{{Resolve category redirect|Organisations}}→ Organisations{{Resolve category redirect|Category:Organisations}}→ Category:Organisations
- Category exists and is a soft redirect
- Category:Wellcome Library manuscripts (uses alias Template:Catredirect)
{{Resolve category redirect|Wellcome Library manuscripts}}→ Manuscripts in the Wellcome Collection{{Resolve category redirect|Category:Wellcome Library manuscripts}}→ Manuscripts in the Wellcome Collection
- Category exists and is a soft redirect
- Category:Rail cars of Italy (uses alias Template:Redirect category)
{{Resolve category redirect|Rail cars of Italy}}→ Rail cars of Italy{{Resolve category redirect|Category:Rail cars of Italy}}→ Category:Rail cars of Italy
- Category exists and is a soft redirect
- Category:Coretos in Portugal (uses alias Template:cat-red)
{{Resolve category redirect|Coretos in Portugal}}→ Bandstands in Portugal{{Resolve category redirect|Category:Coretos in Portugal}}→ Bandstands in Portugal
- Non-existent category
- Category:Colourless green things
{{Resolve category redirect|Colourless green things}}→ Colourless green things{{Resolve category redirect|Category:Colourless green things}}→ Category:Colourless green things
- MediaWiki:Babel-category-override
- This resolves, among others, Category:User pt-BR to Category:User pt-br
- Similar with Module:Redirect
- (fails on some others, basic syntax: {{#invoke:redirect|main|[[Category:View]]}}
- Category:View: Category:Views
- Category:Organisations: Category:Organizations
- Category:Organizations: Category:Organizations
- Category:Coretos in Portugal: Category:Coretos in Portugal
- Category:Rail cars of Italy: Category:Railway coaches of Italy
- Category:Wellcome Library manuscripts: Category:Manuscripts in the Wellcome Collection
Uses in templates
Template currently using it: Search
Category redirects
Do not use templates in the target name of category redirects.
{{Resolve category redirect}} cannot expand any templates in the target name, and the { character caused crashes (as did } and !). So it does not attempt to resolve any redirect where the target includes those characters.
- Example (from English Wikipedia)
- Category:1781 in Mexico contained
{{category redirect|{{title year}} in New Spain}}which cannot be resolved. To be safe,{{Resolve category redirect|1781 in Mexico}}simply returned1781 in Mexico.
The above example has since been changed to{{category redirect|1781 in New Spain}}, which can be resolved.
See also
- Template:Category redirect
- Module:Redirect (more complex module)
- Category:Non-empty category redirects (some populated by templates that don't resolve redirected categories)
- User talk:RussBot/category redirect log (templates identified)
- User:RussBot/category redirect log (daily fixes and checks on redirected categories)