Template talk:Resolve category redirect

Tricky cases
I inserted this in Image requested, but it is not working as expected to empty Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Northwest Territories. Please can you help?

So far it is only working on Talk:Back River volcanic complex and four others after null edits on the whole set, plus 5 using WP Canada template, leaving 33 still in the old category.


 * D'oh! The redirect reqphoto uses a separate template. All done now.
 * This "resolve" template is coming in very handy, as noted at CFDWM. – Fayenatic  L ondon 10:27, 29 May 2021 (UTC)

Rcat needed
I suggest we need a new Rcat template, like R from category navigation, for other cases where categories are generated by templates, to notify that the redirect should not be deleted.

"R from autogenerated category"? – Fayenatic  L ondon 10:31, 29 May 2021 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the ping, @Fayenatic. As usual, I think you are right. There have been several occasions where I used R from category navigation as the best tag available, even tho that description wasn't strictly true.
 * It seems to me that a full description of the function of these redirects would be something like "R from a category which has been autogenerated by a category header template which can resolve this category redirect". That's obviously much too verbose for a title, and while I think it might help to include "category header template" in the title, I can't see any way of doing so which is both concise and meaningful.
 * So I'll go with your proposed title. -- Brown HairedGirl  (talk) • (contribs) 14:06, 29 May 2021 (UTC)
 * what are some examples?  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  12:05, 30 May 2021 (UTC)
 * @Tom.Reding: e.g. Category:Establishments in Pondicherry by year. -- Brown HairedGirl  (talk) • (contribs) 12:26, 30 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Northwest Territories, using Photo requested and Image requested
 * Category:Fair use images of movie posters, using Non-free poster – Fayenatic  L ondon 07:23, 31 May 2021 (UTC)
 * interesting - I don't know the details why these #Rs have to exist (haven't looked deeper, but might later), but if they and/or others must exist, then R from autogenerated category or R from template-generated category seems very appropriate to make.  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  11:00, 1 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks, Tom. R from template-generated category is a bit more self-explanatory. The purpose of the Rcat is to avoid deletion of category redirects which appear at first glance to be eligible for deletion as empty, yet are having a necessary effect.
 * do you want to be able to track redirects specifically from category header templates? My examples above are from other types of templates, e.g. file templates/ talk page templates. – Fayenatic  L ondon 21:35, 1 June 2021 (UTC)
 * these redirects need to exist when a category series changes name. E.g. "Cat:Years in Foo" may include pages "Cat:yyyy in FooBar", before the country's name was changed in 1532 after the Great FooBarian War.  So when the cathead templates is used on years before 1532, it will try to parent that cat in "Cat:Years in FooBar".   However, it resolves the catredirect from "Cat:Years in FooBar" to "Cat:Years in Foo".  That's the type of catredirect to be tagged.
 * I agree with @Fayenatic that R from template-generated category is more self-explanatory. No, I don't think we need tie this explicitly to catheads, and if other types of template may use this, we need the more inclusive name. --  Brown HairedGirl  (talk) • (contribs) 21:56, 1 June 2021 (UTC)