Teamplaid:Soft redirect/documentation

This is a documentation subpage for Teamplaid:Soft redirect.
It contains usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original teamplaid page.

This template is used on many pages and changes may be widely noticed. Test changes in the template's /sandbox or /testcases subpages, or in your own user subpage. Consider discussing changes on the talk page before implementing them.


mta	Meta-wiki	Interwiki redirect
wpd	Wikipedia	Soft redirect/documentation
cms	Commons	Soft redirect/documentation
wbk	Wikibooks	Soft redirect
wqt	Wikiquote	Softredirect
wsr	Wikisource	Softredirect
wnw	Wikinews	Softredirect
wsp	Wikispecies	Softredirect
wvy	Wikiversity	Softredirect
mdw	Mediawiki	Softredirect

Summary

This template is for creating soft redirects, that is to say, short pages inviting readers to visit another page on a different Wikimedia project. This cannot be performed with a classical redirect due to technical restrictions.
This template is also used to redirect an entry to a special page, in which case hard redirects have been disabled.
Occasionally it is used to effectively disable a redirect that has been deprecated, e.g. WP:DIVA, in which case {{Historical}} is usually also used, above the soft redirect template.
For redirecting categories, use {{Category redirect}} instead.
For all other redirects within the English Wikipedia, please continue to use #REDIRECT {{enUici|Other article}}.

This places tagged pages in Roinn-seòrsa:Wikipedia soft redirects or Roinn-seòrsa:User soft redirects.

Ùsaid - Usage

Single parameter

{{Soft redirect|target}}

Example

{{Soft redirect|Meta:Template:Interwiki redirect}} will produce:

Meta:Template:Interwiki redirect
This page is a soft redirect.

Two parameters

{{Soft redirect|target|label}}

Example

{{Soft redirect|Lawn mower|grasscutter}} will produce:

grasscutter
This page is a soft redirect.

Please remember that this is just to illustrate the second "label" parameter. Template:Soft redirect should not be used when #REDIRECT [[:en:w:Lawn mower|Lawn mower]] should be used.

Other examples

Faic cuideachd - Also see

Soft redirect guideline
{{Double soft redirect}}, a template for a "soft redirect with two targets".
Wikipedia:Wikimedia sister projects § Specialized soft redirect templates