Wikipedia talk:Template index/Redirect pages

Broken?
The support for redirect templates seems to be broken in MediaWiki 1.4. It seems to work in previews and diffs but not on the actual redirect pages  and the categories are empty, containing only the templates themselves, not the redirect pages using them (e.g. follow the Category:Redirects from plurals link in the diff). I noticed that there are no template messages and category links on the redirect pages when I first saw the new layout with large type and redirect.png just after upgrading to MediaWiki 1.4, which looked like a minor display issue, but now I see that the categories are empty, making the entire Category:Redirects hierarchy useless. I assume that was not intentional. Can the old redirect page layout be used until the problem is solved? Rafa&#322; Pocztarski 18:16, 30 Dec 2004 (UTC)

OK, I&rsquo;ve read Bug reports and found 927 bug report. Rafa&#322; Pocztarski 18:26, 30 Dec 2004 (UTC)


 * Note that "Whatlinkshere/Template:R from whatever" pages do work still. -- Paddu 03:04, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Suggested change to article text
The opening words of the article currently read


 * One or several to be placed at the bottom of a redirect page. This doesn't prevent the redirect from working. Note: This feature is broken right now. See: the explanation and Bugzilla:927 bug report.

I would like to change this to read


 * Typically add one on the same line as the REDIRECT command on a redirect page, as

example for a redirect from Glops to Glop  #REDIRECT Glop
 * Placement of the template in other positions will either result in the template not being saved or the redirect page not working properly.

Thoughts? Courtland 17:32, July 23, 2005 (UTC)

Example colors
Would anyone object if the examples were made color-blind friendly by prefixing them with "YES: " and "NO: "? I'm not even color blind and I still need to squint to distinguish between the green and very dark red used here. Ljleppan (talk) 09:49, 3 March 2023 (UTC)


 * Agree on some sort of accessibility improvement, though I'd slightly prefer usage of ✅ and ❌. Skarmory   (talk •   contribs)  03:29, 7 August 2023 (UTC)

Ligatures
There's something weird going on between Template index/Redirect pages and R from ligature/R to ligature. The former gives ß as a ligature that should be under R from ASCII-only when it's used to substitute for SS, while it gives R to ligature when a B is used to substitute for it, but the ligature template pages make no such distinction and seem to imply that they should be used any time an ß is involved. I'm left confused as to what redirects including the ß should cover – the template index seems to imply that the ligature template is for characters that look similar, which I don't think is accurate, but I don't know for certain. I would think some more clarification is needed, or an updating of the examples in some fashion; I'd do it myself, but I don't know what these templates' intended (and actual) use-cases are. Skarmory  (talk •   contribs)  03:41, 7 August 2023 (UTC)

Wise 148.252.147.102 (talk) 12:17, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

Recommend {from alternative word order}/{from alternative ordering} template
Of course {from alternative spelling} works fine, but I'm sure this redirect comes up a fair amount. Tule-hog (talk) 06:49, 20 July 2024 (UTC)