Last modified: 2014-07-10 00:02:56 UTC
Wanted to make "Template:Redir" like this: #REDIRECT [[{{{1}}}]] [[Category:Redirects - {{{2|All}}}]] to be called eg. on page "Kg": {{Redir|Kilogram|Abbreviation}} to categorize redirects and allowing writing of redirect in much shorter and more intuitive form. The page Kg is rendered with ordered list though such as: 1. #REDIRECT [[Kilogram]] Categories: Redirects - Abbreviation The general problem: redirect itself is sometime rendered as ordered list before recaching, which confuses people, who try to rewrite it again. That produces unnecessary mess in RC list. Question: Why redirect is not rendered properly while being used as described above? Suggestion for general problem: Changing of syntax. eg. %REDIRECT [[...]]% or __REDIRECT__ [[...]] or whatever else what can't be mixed with other current syntax.
Redirects are static. Please don't abuse templates like this; it's not meant to work, it doesn't work, it's a waste of time. If it did work it would be fragile and cause things to break when they're tweaked or the software changes. WONTFIX.
REOPENing and marking as duplicate of Bug 1575: #REDIRECT with transcluded string does not redirect having also another duplicate Bug 1685: Template name as redirect
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 1575 ***
*** Bug 61791 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***