Wikipedia:Categorization: Difference between revisions

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{{anchor|Redirected categories|CATRED|Redirects}}

===Redirecting categories ===

{{redirect|WP:CAT-R|the guideline on categorizing page redirects|Wikipedia:Categorizing redirects}}{{shortcut|WP:CATRED}}

{{Redirect|WP:CATRED|the guideline on red-linked categories|WP:REDNOT}}{{shortcut|WP:CATRED}}

{{for|an essay on this topic|Wikipedia:Category redirects that should be kept}}

{{see also|Category:Wikipedia soft redirected categories}}

<section begin=CATREDIRECT />Do {{em|not}} create inter-[[Help:Category|category]] redirects by adding <code><nowiki>#REDIRECT [[target]]</nowiki></code> to a category page. Unlike when [[Help:How to move a page|renaming articles]], categories cannot be [[Help:Redirect|redirected]] using "hard" redirects. Articles added to a "redirected" category will not show up in the target category. And since redirected categories do not become "[[Wikipedia:Red link|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>