Template:R from ISO 639 code/doc
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Purpose
This redirect category (rcat) template is added to redirects that are related to ISO 639, the language code developed by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). The redirect titles have the form ISO 639:xxx, where xxx is a three-letter ISO 639 code. In the category they are automatically sorted by the "xxx" (without the "ISO 639:" prefix).
These redirects are maintained by PotatoBot's Task 2.
Usage
- In basic usage, this rcat populates both Category:Redirects from ISO 639 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. Since this encyclopedia is not a directory, redirects from ISO 639 language codes are not suitable for a printed version. In other words they are unprintworthy.
 | Please do not alter the printworthy settings of this rcat without first notifying the Version 1.0 Editorial Team, who are responsible for any and all materials, including redirects, that go into a printed version of Wikipedia. |
<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext">
- REDIRECT (target article title)
This page is a redirect. The following categories are used to track and monitor this redirect:
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- 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">
- REDIRECT (target article title)
- From an ISO 639 code: This is a redirect from a title that is an ISO 639 language code to an article about the language.
</syntaxhighlight>
- This is in accord with instructions found at Wikipedia:REDCAT.
- Use this rcat to tag any mainspace redirect from an ISO 639 language code to an article about the language. An example is ISO 639:zho
Chinese language.
Additional parameter
- An optional unnamed parameter,
|1=, may be used to alter the language series and the category in the following manner:
<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext">
This page is a redirect. The following categories are used to track and monitor this redirect:
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</syntaxhighlight>
- or the <syntaxhighlight lang="text" class="" style="" inline="1">1=</syntaxhighlight> may be omitted
<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext">
This page is a redirect. The following categories are used to track and monitor this redirect:
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</syntaxhighlight>
- and if used individually:
<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext">
- From an ISO 639 code: This is a redirect from a title that is an ISO 639 language code to an article about the language.
</syntaxhighlight>
- ...where <syntaxhighlight lang="text" class="" style="" inline="1">N</syntaxhighlight> is the part number of the ISO 639 standard; currently, <syntaxhighlight lang="text" class="" style="" inline="1">N</syntaxhighlight> may be a <syntaxhighlight lang="text" class="" style="" inline="1">1</syntaxhighlight> or a <syntaxhighlight lang="text" class="" style="" inline="1">5</syntaxhighlight>.
- Instead of the basic category Redirects from ISO 639, the redirect will then populate either:
- The final number in each of those two category titles corresponds with the part number of the ISO 639 standard.
Aliases
- Also known as... – list of templates that redirect here and may also be used
See also
- Talk:UN/LOCODE – information about UN/LOCODE redirects on Wikipedia
- WikiProject Redirect/Style guide
