Template talk:Deleted

Rcats needed

­This redirect needs Rcats (redirect categories) added. Please modify it as follows:

• from this...

#redirect [[Wikipedia:Protection policy#Creation protection]]

• to this...

#REDIRECT [[Wikipedia:Protection policy#Creation protection]]
*WHEN YOU COPY & PASTE, PLEASE ERASE THE TEXT ON THIS LINE & LEAVE THIS LINE BLANK.
{{Redr|to project|to section|from shortcut|protected}}

Template {{Redr}} is a shortcut for the {{This is a redirect}} template, which is itself a shortcut used to add categories to redirects. Also, please don't make this a "template shortcut", which is only applicable when the target is a template. Thank you in advance! – PAINE ELLSWORTH ^CLIMAX! 20:51, 7 April 2013 (UTC)

Done but not sure what you mean by 'don't make this a "template shortcut"' - I just copied the {{redr|...}} that you gave above. --Redrose64 (talk) 21:09, 7 April 2013 (UTC)

 Thank you very much! – Redrose64 Examples would be the T:S and T:N shortcuts, which are redirects from Mainspace to the Template namespace. Even though they're in the Main article namespace, they are "template shortcuts" because they target a template. (They don't work like shortcut redirects that are templates that target another template. All they do is take you to their template pages. They do not actually activate the templates they target.) Thank you for asking. I've always found this an interesting difference. To clarify, if a shortcut in any namespace targets a template, then it is a template shortcut. If a shortcut in the template namespace, targets a page that is not in template namespace, then it's not a template shortcut and {{R from shortcut}} should be used. You were probably already clear on this, but there was a time when I wasn't clear on it and had to find out about it. I reason that there may be others who may not quite be clear that it's the target that determines the difference, not the shortcut itself. – PAINE ELLSWORTH ^CLIMAX! 22:43, 7 April 2013 (UTC)

OK, but how does that affect how the edit request is performed? What I mean is, have I omitted some action that needs to be taken in addition to adding the {{Redr|to project|to section|from shortcut|protected}} --Redrose64 (talk) 22:49, 7 April 2013 (UTC)

Now I see what you mean. I could have worded it better. I was concerned that the third line would be altered from:

{{Redr|to project|to section|from shortcut|protected}}

to:

{{Redr|to project|to section|from template shortcut|protected}}

...by someone who might not know that this is not a template shortcut just because it's a template. My bad, very sorry. Your edit was right on. – PAINE ELLSWORTH ^CLIMAX! 23:08, 7 April 2013 (UTC)