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

This page is a redirect. The following categories are used to track and monitor this redirect:

From personal name: This is a redirect from an individual's personal name to an article titled with the subject's professional stage name, pen name, or other better known moniker.
- This redirect leads to the title in accordance with the naming conventions for common names; it may help writing and aid searches. It is not necessary to replace these redirected links with a piped link.
- If this is the name of a living person, then one or more reliable sources must be included in the target article that will support the existence of this personal name, or else a reference(s) must be added to this redirect's talk page. This is in accord with Wikipedia's biography of living persons (BLP) policy, which applies to all Wikipedia pages, to include redirects.
- Use this rcat only on redirects that are in Wikipedia's main-article namespace, and only when the personal name differs from the subject's name when born. If the redirect title is the subject's birth name, use ((R from birth name)) instead.

When appropriate, protection levels are automatically sensed, described and categorized.

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 personal name: This is a redirect from an individual's personal name to an article titled with the subject's professional stage name, pen name, or other better known moniker.
- This redirect leads to the title in accordance with the naming conventions for common names; it may help writing and aid searches. It is not necessary to replace these redirected links with a piped link.
- If this is the name of a living person, then one or more reliable sources must be included in the target article that will support the existence of this personal name, or else a reference(s) must be added to this redirect's talk page. This is in accord with Wikipedia's biography of living persons (BLP) policy, which applies to all Wikipedia pages, to include redirects.
- Use this rcat only on redirects that are in Wikipedia's main-article namespace, and only when the personal name differs from the subject's name when born. If the redirect title is the subject's birth name, use ((R from birth name)) instead.

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Usage

This redirect category (rcat) template populates both Category:Redirects from personal names 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. Redirects from personal names are usually not suitable for a printed version. In other words they are unprintworthy. See below for what to do for those few personal-name redirects that are printworthy.

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.

Add this rcat to a redirect (not a talk-page redirect) in the following manner:

#REDIRECT [[(target article title)]]

((Rcat shell|
((R from personal name))
((R unprintworthy))
))

Use the DEFAULTSORT magic word to ensure that the redirect is sorted in the categories by surname rather than given name.

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:

#REDIRECT [[(target article title)]]

((R from personal name))
((R unprintworthy))

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

Use this rcat to tag any redirect from a subject's personal name, if other than a birth name, to its corresponding common name. If the redirect title is the subject's birth name, then use ((R from birth name)) instead.
By default, this template categorizes a redirect as unprintworthy. To subdue this default sort and categorize a personal name as printworthy, use the unnamed parameter in the following manner:

((Rcat shell|
((R from personal name|1=printworthy))
((R printworthy))
))

or the 1= may be omitted:

((Rcat shell|
((R from personal name|printworthy))
((R printworthy))
))

and if used individually:

((R from personal name|printworthy))
((R printworthy))

That will subdue the default Unprintworthy redirects category and populate Category:Printworthy redirects.

Important note: If this is the personal name of a living person, then one or more reliable sources must be included either in the target article or on the talk page of the redirect. This is in accord with Wikipedia's biographies of living persons policy, which applies to all pages on the project, to include redirects. Any personal-name redirect that does not have a reliable source(s) to support the personal name may be speedily deleted as a BLP violation.
- The following phrase, ... or else this redirect's talk page must be created and the reference(s) added there, will appear in the rcat text if the redirect does not have an existing talk page (if it is red-linked).
  - Example: Samuel ClemensMark Twain

Aliases

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

Abbreviation	((R to acronym)) ((R from acronym)) ((R to initialism)) ((R from initialism)) ((R from numeronym)) ((R from Bluebook abbreviation)) ((R from ISO 4 abbreviation)) ((R from MathSciNet abbreviation)) ((R from NLM abbreviation))
Capitalisation	((R from CamelCase)) ((R from other capitalisation)) ((R from miscapitalisation))
Grammar & punctuation	((R from modification)) ((R from plural)) ((R to plural))
Parts of speech	((R from adjective)) ((R from adverb)) ((R from common noun)) ((R from gerund)) ((R from proper noun)) ((R from verb))
Spelling	((R from alternative spelling)) ((R from alternative hyphenation)) ((R from alternative punctuation)) ((R from alternative spacing)) ((R from alternative transliteration)) ((R from American English)) ((R from ASCII-only)) ((R to ASCII-only)) ((R from British English)) ((R from diacritic)) ((R to diacritic)) ((R from ligature)) ((R to ligature)) ((R from misspelling)) ((R from stylization))

Alternative
names

General	((R from alternative language)) language codes ((R from alternative name)) ((R from ambiguous sort name)) ((R from antonym)) ((R from colloquial name)) ((R country data)) ((R from former name)) ((R from incomplete name)) ((R from incorrect name)) ((R from less specific name)) ((R from long name)) ((R from more specific name)) ((R from non-neutral name)) ((R to numerals)) ((R from numerals)) ((R to Roman numerals)) ((R from Roman numerals)) ((R from portmanteau)) ((R from short name)) ((R from sort name)) ((R from synonym))
People	((R from birth name)) ((R from given name)) ((R to joint biography)) ((R from married name)) ((R from name with title)) ((R from person)) ((R from personal name)) ((R from Eastern name)) ((R from pseudonym)) ((R from surname))
Technical	((R from CAS Registry Number)) ((R from court case)) ((R from drug trade name)) ((R from filename)) ((R from identifier)) ((R from Java package name)) ((R from chemical formula)) ((R from gene symbol)) ((R from technical name)) ((R to technical name)) ((R from radio frequency))
Organisms	((R to scientific name)) ((R from scientific name)) ((R from alternative scientific name)) ((R from scientific abbreviation)) ((R to monotypic taxon)) ((R from monotypic taxon)) ((R taxon with possibilities)) ((R from species to genus))
Geography	((R from name and country)) ((R from more specific geographic name)) ((R from postal code))

Navigation
aids

Navigation	((R to anchor)) ((R avoided double redirect)) ((R from category navigation)) ((R from file metadata link)) ((R to list entry)) ((R mentioned in hatnote)) ((R to section)) ((R from shortcut))
Disambiguation	((R from ambiguous term)) ((R to disambiguation page)) ((R from incomplete disambiguation)) ((R from incorrect disambiguation)) ((R from other disambiguation)) ((R from predictable disambiguation)) ((R from unnecessary disambiguation))
Merge, duplicate & move	((R from draft namespace)) ((R from duplicated article)) ((R with history)) ((R from merge)) ((R from move)) ((R with old history))
To namespaces	((R from remote talk page)) ((R to category namespace)) ((R to draft namespace)) ((R to help namespace)) ((R to main namespace)) ((R to portal namespace)) ((R to project namespace)) ((R to talk page)) ((R to template namespace)) ((R to user namespace))

Media

General

((R from book)) ((R from film)) ((R from upcoming film)) ((R from journal)) ((R from meme)) ((R from radio program)) ((R from work)) ((R from creator)) ((R from radio frequency)) ((R from broadcast translator))
Music	((R from album)) ((R from lyric)) ((R from song)) ((R from cover song)) ((R from band name))
Television	((R from television episode)) ((R from television program))

Fiction

Comics

Miscellaneous

Related information	((R to article without mention)) ((R to decade)) ((R to century)) ((R to millennium)) ((R from city and state)) ((R from domain name)) ((R from second-level domain)) ((R from top-level domain)) ((R from gender)) ((R from legislation)) ((R from list topic)) ((R from member)) ((R from phrase)) ((R from quotation)) ((R to related topic)) ((R from related word)) ((R from relative)) ((R from spouse)) ((R from school)) ((R from subtopic)) ((R to subtopic)) ((R from gap in series)) ((R from team)) ((R from Unicode character)) ((R from Unicode code)) ((R from emoji))
With possibilities	((R with possibilities)) Category:Template redirects with possibilities ((R category with possibilities))
ISO codes	((R from ISO 4 abbreviation)) ((R from ISO 639 code)) ((R from ISO 3166 code)) ((R from ISO 4217 code)) ((R from ISO 15924 code))
Printworthiness	Printability ((R printworthy)) ((R unprintworthy)) e.g. ((R with possibilities)) is printworthy by default; ((R from misspelling)) is unprintworthy by default; some have no default
Protection	((R extended-protected)) ((R fully protected)) ((R semi-protected)) ((R template-protected)) ((R from high-use template))
Tools	Category:Miscellaneous redirects Protection policy ((R from template-generated category)) ((Redirect category shell)) ((Talk page of redirect))
Wikidata	((R with Wikidata item)) ((Soft redirect with Wikidata item))

Complete alphanumeric index
- for the full list of rcat templates
Category
WikiProject Redirect
Categorizing redirects

The above documentation is transcluded from Template:R from personal name/doc.
Editors can experiment in this template's sandbox and testcases pages.
Add categories to the /doc subpage. Subpages of this template.

Usage

Aliases

See also