Template:R to joint biography/doc

Purpose

When a biographical article about more than one person (multiple subjects) has incoming redirects from the names of its subjects, monitoring those redirects is necessary for compliance with Wikipedia's policy on biographies of living persons. This rcat accomplishes that purpose by sorting all redirected subjects of joint biographies to a maintenance category.

Usage

Use this rcat template on mainspace redirects only.

• This redirect category (rcat) template populates Category:Redirects to joint biographies by default. Place this rcat on a redirect page (not a talk-page redirect) in the following manner:

#REDIRECT [[(target article title)]]

{{Rcat shell|
{{R to joint biography}}
}}

Template {{Rcat shell}} is an alias for the Redirect category shell template, which may be used to add as many appropriate rcats as needed, usually from one to seven, along with their parameters, to a redirect. For more information see the documentation on its template page. This rcat may also tag a redirect individually:

#REDIRECT [[(target article title)]]

{{R to joint biography}}

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

• Use this rcat to tag any mainspace redirect from a person's name to a biographical article that includes that person along with one or more other persons. To ensure that the redirect is correctly sorted to its categories, be familiar with the helpful information found at Wikipedia:SORTKEY.

Aliases

• Also known as... – list of templates that redirect here and may also be used

Printworthiness

• In main-article namespace, some redirects from persons to joint biography articles are considered printworthy; however, there are others 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:

• {{R printworthy}} and
• {{R unprintworthy}}

Please click on each one for more details and guidance.

• Template {{Redirect category shell}} will accept these rcats just like any other.

Examples:

{{Rcat shell|
{{R to joint biography}}
{{R printworthy}}
}}

{{Rcat shell|
{{R to joint biography}}
{{R unprintworthy}}
}}

Either {{Redirect category shell}} or its alias/shortcut, {{Rcat shell}}, may be used.

See also

• {{R from person}}
• WikiProject Redirect/Style guide