Template talk:Redirect

message: I've created a redirect for The Present Tense, which is the name of a song by Radiohead, pointing to A Moon Shaped Pool, the album it appears on. I think it might be a good idea to display a hatnote saying "for the grammatical tense, see Present tense", but I only want that to appear if the user arrived at A Moon Shaped Pool by searching for The Present Tense. Does that make sense? If so, is there a way to do it? Popcornduff (talk) 12:58, 16 December 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: , wow, my original comment was 3 years ago. I recall there was some suggestion of this idea somewhere else at some point but it didn't get much discussion there either. A while ago I typed up some more thoughts on my userspace here but I didn't do anything with the idea. Disambiguation hatnotes still bother me. Popcornfud (talk) 21:22, 30 June 2021 (UTC)

text: , thanks. I'm not technical at all and I don't know anything about how you get this kind of thing changed on Wikipedia. Good luck! Popcornfud (talk) 22:02, 30 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Different hatnotes depending on what the user searched for

message: Would it be possible (or a good idea) for this template to put pages into a maintenance category if it includes more than a certain number of links, for example Category:Hatnotes with more than three linked pages? In cases like that, you really should be creating a disambiguation page, so if this template could put pages in such a category, it would help us find pages that need one. Oiyarbepsy (talk) 06:12, 24 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Maintenance category for excessive links 

message: Hi all. I have two requests: for the usage in an example, and for improving the documentation. Can someone let me know which template would be appropriate for National World War I Museum and Memorial? Is that article's requirement too complicated for this template? Part of the reason for asking is that the documentation for this template is incomprehensible, even while testing it in preview. The example lists several numerical arguments like "1=" but the explanations are perfectly obtuse, recursive, and meaningless. Could someone please elaborate there, even with a few more words? Thank you. — Smuckola(talk) 22:53, 15 August 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: The template should never be as complex as the current version of the hatnote at that article would require. The hatnote is simply way too long. First and foremost, Liberty Memorial should probably be a disambiguation page. Other memorials can be covered by linking to List of World War I monuments and memorials. A link to those two should be all that is included. I'll start working on that later today. Oiyarbepsy (talk) 23:58, 15 August 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  the right template for that article would be  (and for even more complicated scenarios, either  or  can be used). – Uanfala (talk) 12:06, 18 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Documentation and example 

message: I've added a mention of  with its "redirect" parameter, as this creates a hatnote like 
:""Foo" redirects here. For a definition of the term "Foo", see the Wiktionary entry Foo.", 
which looks like the output from this template, and will be of use to some editors who come to this template's documentation page hoping to make such a redirect. (In my case I wanted to replace the Wiktionary redirect at SMIDSY after retargetting it to Beryl (company): see discussion at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Redirect#Hatnote_for_a_Wiktionary_redirect?) PamD 07:36, 19 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  "See Wiktionary" template 

message: Cf. Wikipedia:Village_pump_(idea_lab)#Redirect_hatnote_link. --Joy (talk) 11:43, 3 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  linking of the original redirected term for use with section redirects 

message: Unlike ,  has no support for a self reference parameter. I believe that would be a useful feature in some cases like  (this example happens to use redirect2). Nickps (talk) 11:39, 6 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Selfref parameter 

message: Since no one objected above, I'm now asking that a selfref parameter be added to this template, analogous to the one  has. Nickps (talk) 19:28, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done:  is already implemented. See the testcases for it in action. SWinxy (talk) 21:20, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: I guess I should have done better due diligence. Thanks for updating the docs. Nickps (talk) 22:43, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template-protected edit request on 10 April 2024 

message: In certain cases this template would inject  in content, which have no text in it. How to fix that? See this screenshot. -- Great Brightstar (talk) 19:32, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template inject blank paragraph