Template:R to anchor

When used inside the {{Redirect category shell}} template:

When used by itself:

• To an embedded anchor: This is a redirect from a topic that does not have its own page to an embedded anchor on the redirect's target page.
  • An This page is being depreciated or This page is being depreciated template, an HTML element with id="anchor name", or an |id=anchor name parameter can be placed at the beginning of a paragraph, substituted into a section header, or inserted within a table. Anchors may also be old section headers that have since been renamed, in order to preserve existing internal and external links.
  • Although section headers of the form ==(Header name)== act as anchors by default, with them use {{R to section}} instead.

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About

A redirect may target an anchor that covers a particular term that has insufficient independent scope and notability to warrant its own section, much less an entire article, and the term is nonetheless important within the field and is useful to link from other articles in the field of expertise. Such redirects allow a reader to search and find useful information about the term and similar related material in the defining article.

Usage

Use this rcat template in any namespace.

• This redirect category (rcat) template populates Category:Redirects to embedded anchors. Add this rcat to a redirect in the following manner:

#REDIRECT [[(target page name)#(target anchor name)]]

{{Redirect category shell|
{{R to anchor}}
}}

If the redirect is in mainspace, then printworthiness should also be tagged:

#REDIRECT [[(target page name)#(target anchor name)]]

{{Redirect category shell|
{{R to anchor}}
{{R unprintworthy}}
}}

This rcat may also tag a redirect individually:

#REDIRECT [[(target page name)#(target anchor name)]]

{{R to anchor}}

This is in accord with instructions found at Wikipedia:REDCAT.

• This rcat is used whenever a redirect targets:
  • an embedded {{anchor}} or {{vanchor}} on a page
  • a <span id=(anchor)> ... </span> html element, e.g. old section headers
  • the id= attribute within tables
• Please use the following rcats when more appropriate:
  • This page is being depreciated
  • This page is being depreciated to categorize redirects to existing section headers

Printworthiness

• In mainspace, many redirects to embedded anchors are considered printworthy, perhaps even with the possibility to become a separate article, project page, etc.; however, there are many other such redirects that are unprintworthy, so there is no default sort for printworthiness.
• In 2003, efforts were begun to support the Wikimedia Foundation's goal of increasing access and availability of Wikipedia articles in printed versions. Some rcats automatically populate either Category:Printworthy redirects or Category:Unprintworthy redirects by default. Others, like this rcat, do not, and that means it is up to editors to choose which of those categories, Printworthy or Unprintworthy, is appropriate and should be populated. The rcats that are used separately to populate those categories are:

• This page is being depreciated and
• This page is being depreciated

Please click on each one for more details and guidance.

• Template {{Redirect category shell}} will accept these and any other rcats:

{{Redirect category shell|
{{R to anchor}}
{{R printworthy}}
}}

{{Redirect category shell|
{{R to anchor}}
{{R unprintworthy}}
}}

See also

• {{Anchor comment}}
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Section headings
• WikiProject Redirect/Style guide

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