Template:R to century/doc

Usage

 * This redirect category (rcat) template populates both and, which populates  by default. In 2003, efforts were begun to support the Wikimedia Foundation's goal of increasing access and availability of  Wikipedia articles in . Any mainspace redirect from a year or decade to a century has the possibility of becoming an article and is usually suitable for a printed version.  In other words they are almost always printworthy. See instructions below for those few unprintworthy ones.


 * Add this rcat to a redirect (not a talk-page redirect) in the following manner:
 * 1) REDIRECT (target article title)


 * 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:


 * 1) REDIRECT (target article title)


 * This is in accord with instructions found at REDCAT.


 * Use this rcat on any redirect from a year or decade to the associated century article. Years from 4000 BC to 1700 BC should redirect to the relevant century per Timeline standards.
 * Important note: The R with possibilities rcat is automatically added, so it should not be included in the tagging of the redirect. If it is included in the tagging of the redirect, then it will appear twice on the redirect page. The R printworthy template should be added to provide information to redirect editors.
 * There may be the rare redirect that has little or no possibility of becoming an article. For these, the associated categories, ' and its default ', may be suppressed by use of the unnamed parameter in the following manner:


 * or


 * This will sort the redirect to instead of the Printworthy redirects and Redirects with possibilities categories.


 * Do not replace these redirected links with a link directly to the target page. Individual articles may be created for these titles years into the future.

Aliases

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