Template:R from file metadata link/sandbox

When used with the "Redirect category shell" (Rcat shell) template:

Template {{Redirect category shell}} may be used to add one or more rcat templates, along with their parameters and categories, to a redirect. For more information, see the documentation page below.

When used by itself:

• From a file metadata link: This is a redirect from a wikilink created from Exif, XMP or other information (i.e. the "metadata" section on some file description pages) to a more detailed description of the metadata subject that is linked. Since MediaWiki offers only limited control over the targets of these camera-generated links, redirects like this are created to make them useful.
  • WARNING: It might happen that few or no pages link to this redirect. That is because the metadata links are from the File namespace (often Commons) and do not appear in those listings. This redirect is most likely not orphaned!

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Usage

Use this rcat template on mainspace redirects only.

• This redirect category (rcat) template is used for redirects of wikilinks created from Exchangeable image file format (Exif), Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP) or other information (i.e. the "metadata" section on some image description pages). Since MediaWiki may only offer limited control over the link targets of these autogenerated wikilinks, redirects are created to make the links useful. Redirects from file metadata information links often target sections and anchors of articles and tables within articles.
• Add this rcat to a redirect (not a talk-page redirect) in the following manner:

<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext">

1. REDIRECT (target article title)(#section or #anchor when appropriate)

</syntaxhighlight>

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:

<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext">

1. REDIRECT (target article title)(#section or #anchor when appropriate)

• From a file metadata link: This is a redirect from a wikilink created from Exif, XMP or other information (i.e. the "metadata" section on some file description pages) to a more detailed description of the metadata subject that is linked. Since MediaWiki offers only limited control over the targets of these camera-generated links, redirects like this are created to make them useful.
  • WARNING: It might happen that few or no pages link to this redirect. That is because the metadata links are from the File namespace (often Commons) and do not appear in those listings. This redirect is most likely not orphaned!

</syntaxhighlight>

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

• This rcat populates both Category:Redirects from file metadata links and Category:Unprintworthy redirects by default. In 2003, efforts were begun to support the Wikimedia Foundation's goal of increasing access and availability of Wikipedia articles in printed versions. Mainspace redirects from metadata information are not suitable for a printed version. In other words they are unprintworthy. See below for what to do for the few redirects from file metadata links that are printworthy.

• Common usage includes {{R to anchor}} or {{R to section}} when appropriate.
• It might be seen that few or no pages link to redirects that are tagged by this rcat. That is because the metadata links are from the File namespace (often Wikimedia Commons) and do not appear in those listings. These redirects are most likely not orphaned.
• By default, this template tags redirects as unprintworthy. To tag and categorize a redirect as printworthy, use the bar key ( ¦ ) on your keyboard to type the addition ¦printworthy in the following manner:

<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext">

</syntaxhighlight>

Note: The bar key ( ¦ ) on the keyboard renders as a pipe ( | ) on the screen.

That will subdue the default unprintworthy category and populate Category:Printworthy redirects instead. The criteria for judging whether or not a redirect from a file metadata link is printworthy is that if a redirect would have been created whether or not it is from a file metadata link, then it is very likely to be printworthy (suitable for a printed version of Wikipedia).

Aliases

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

See also

• Photograph metadata – partial list of standards
• WikiProject Redirect/Style guide

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