User:AddWittyNameHere/RCATDIFF

If you're at this page, you most likely followed a link in one of my edit summaries looking for more information.

The following taxonomic redirect categories have several functional subcategories using Module:Science redirect, but still have a large number of the applicable redirects lingering in their main category:
 * Category:Redirects to monotypic taxa
 * Category:Redirects from monotypic taxa
 * Category:Redirects to scientific names
 * Category:Redirects from scientific names
 * Category:Redirects from alternative scientific names

What I am doing is adding the appropriate parameter switch to the relevant R-template(s) so they get sorted down into the appropriate subcategory. The reasons for this are two-fold: by actually diffusing the redirects to their subcategories, those subcategories become useful (which they aren't when only a very small fraction of the relevant pages are in there) and by thus removing them from the main category, it becomes more apparent which other groups have sufficient numbers of templated redirects to warrant their own subcategories (which is just about impossible to tell when they're stuck in the middle of thousands to tens of thousands redirects that already have an appropriate subcategory).

I originally started by detailing every exact parameter and template in the relevant edit summaries (somewhat tedious, if not as bad as it may seem because the great majority of what I did so far was sorting insects with the R from alternative scientific name template), then for a short while used a different edit summary as a catch-all to save on tediousness (but said summary was rather overlong). I figured this is an easier method (and allows for a more detailed explanation, to boot) to do the same thing.