Template:R from American English/doc

Usage

 * This redirect category (rcat) template populates and, when the redirect is in main-article namespace (mainspace),  is also populated by default.  In 2003, efforts were begun to support the Wikimedia Foundation's goal of increasing access and availability of  Wikipedia articles in .  American English redirects that are in mainspace are most often not included in a printed version.  In other words they are usually unprintworthy.  See below for how to tag those few anchor redirects that are printworthy.


 * Add this rcat to a redirect in the following manner:
 * 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:


 * This is in accord with instructions found at REDCAT.


 * Use this rcat to tag any redirect in any namespace from a title with a different correct spelling of the target.
 * Do not use this rcat to tag a redirect from an incorrectly spelled title – misspelled redirects should be tagged with R from misspelling instead – such "typo" redirects are frequently good search terms.
 * Pages that link to these redirects may be updated to link directly to the target pages if that results in an improvement of the text. Do not "fix" such links if they are not broken.  In addition, these links should not be replaced with piped links.

Parameters

 * The first unnamed parameter, 1: may be used to alter the text when the non-American spelling is of a name that is different from the target's title. It is used as follows:
 * or the may be omitted:


 * The text will be changed from to.


 * The second unnamed parameter, 2: by default, this template tags and categorizes redirects as unprintworthy. Use the second parameter to subdue this behavior and populate  in the following manner:
 * or


 * (leave first parameter "empty") or

Aliases

 * [ Also known as...] (list of all redirects to this template that may also be used).