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{{see also|Wikipedia:Redirect#Category redirects|Category:Wikipedia soft redirected categories}}

<section begin=CATREDIRECT />Do {{em|not}} create inter-[[Help:Category|category]] redirects, by adding a line <syntaxhighlight inline lang="wikitext"code><nowiki>#REDIRECT [[:Category:{{var|''target category}}'']]</syntaxhighlightnowiki></code> to a category page. Unlike when [[Help:How to move a page|renaming articles]], categories cannot be [[Help:Redirect|redirected]] using "hard" redirects (i.e. <code><nowiki>#REDIRECT[[''target'']]</nowiki></code>). Also, articles added to a "redirected" category do not show up in the target category, preventing proper categorization. What's worse, since redirected categories do not become "red links", editors won't be aware even when they add an article to a redirected category.<ref>For an attempt to fix this issue in [[MediaWiki]], {{crossref|pw=y|see {{Phab|T5311}}}}.</ref>

Instead, a form of "'''[[Wikipedia:Soft redirect|soft redirect]]'''" may be used in limited circumstances. You can create a [[Wikipedia:Category redirects|category redirect]] by adding {{tlx|Category redirect|target}} to the category page. [[Wikipedia:Bots|Bots]] patrol these categories and move articles to the "target" of the redirect.