Template talk:R for convenience

"...another name, a pseudonym, a nickname, or a synonym..."
What about acronyms and abbreviations, like DS9, ANH or NOT? Aren't they also redirects for convenience? --DocumentN (talk) 21:14, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Better late than never? In a sense, nearly all redirects are for some form of convenience or another.  That's why this rcat is better reserved for those redirects that don't easily fall into other categories, such as, ,  and so on. –   Paine Ellsworth   C LIMAX ! 01:44, 8 December 2014 (UTC)

A pointlessly vague Rcat template
R for convenience was boldly created way back on 1 December 2004 by, an editor who hasn't been active for a long time (their newest 50 edits date back to February 2007). They posted news of their creation the same day on a now inactive section of the village pump:

The village pump notice was posted a minute after Sgeo used their new template on AIDS myths, where it was the only Rcat template until I replaced it with R from alternative title. I wouldn't be surprised if this was the only instance where the template's creator used their own template.

From there after a slow start this thing took off on a life of its own eventually getting to over 4500 transclusions. I've removed this template from pages where it was redundant to another redirect-category template, and replaced it with a more specific template from those listed on the R template index where it was the only redirect-category template on the page.

So now I suppose this template is just hanging around for the convenience of editors who don't want to take the time to peruse the R template index for a more specific redirect-category template, and expect another editor (like me) to do that for them. – wbm1058 (talk) 17:19, 2 July 2022 (UTC)