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 a television episode: This is a redirect from a television or radio episode title to a related work or lists of episodes. The destination may be an article about a related episode, a subsection or a standalone list of episodes.

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 a television episode: This is a redirect from a television or radio episode title to a related work or lists of episodes. The destination may be an article about a related episode, a subsection or a standalone list of episodes.

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Purpose

This redirect category (rcat) template is used to categorize redirects from a title of a television episode to a related article or to a list of episodes, a type of article that is a collection of brief descriptions and covers the subject more comprehensively. Links to episodes should use this redirect and should not be piped with the target pagename. This allows "what links here" to be used to identify the links to the individual sections. This redirect template populates Category:Redirects from episodes and when the first parameter is not used, Category:Episode redirects to lists is also populated.

Usage

General usage

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

#REDIRECT [[(target article title)]]

((Redirect category shell|
((R from television episode))
))

Template ((Redirect category shell)) may be used to add as many appropriate redirect categories as needed. For more information see the documentation on its template documentation.

This redirect category may also tag a redirect individually:

#REDIRECT [[(target article title)]]

((R from television episode))

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

Usage with TV series parameter

An optional unnamed parameter, |1=(name of work), may be used to supply the name of the TV series in which the episode is part of. This will sort the redirect into a more specific category for that work. For example:

((Redirect category shell|
((R from television episode|1=Friends))
))

((Redirect category shell|
((R from television episode|Friends))
))

((R from television episode|Friends))

All three of the above will populate Category:Friends episode redirects to lists.

Usage with sort key parameter

A second optional unnamed parameter may be used to provide a category sort key for the episode that is redirected. For example:

((Redirect category shell|
((R from television episode|1=Stargate Atlantis|2=Hive, The))
))

((Redirect category shell|
((R from television episode|Stargate Atlantis|Hive, The))
))

((R from television episode|Stargate Atlantis|Hive, The))

In Category:Stargate Atlantis episode redirects to lists, all three of the above will sort the episode redirect, "The Hive", in alphabetical order by "Hive" ("H") instead of by "The" ("T"). Without the second parameter, the category sort key will be either the redirect page name or the DEFAULTSORT:, if included.

TemplateData

See a monthly parameter usage report for Template:R from television episode in articles based on its TemplateData.

TemplateData for R from television episode

A redirect category template which is used to categorize redirects from a television episode to a related article to a list of characters.

Template parameters[Edit template data]
This template prefers inline formatting of parameters.
Parameter		Description	Type	Status
Series name	`1`	The series article name.	Page name	required
Sort key	`2`	A sort key for the redirect entry.	String	optional

Corresponding category

Important note: the very first time that a TV series-specific subcategory is named in the first parameter, that category will appear as a red link (Category:(series name) episode redirects to lists) at the bottom of the redirect page (if this is not seen or no categories can be seen at the bottom of the page, then be sure your user preferences are set to see hidden categories). If the category link is red, it means that the category must be created to correctly sort the episode.

The category name should be similar to TV series article. So if the article uses disambiguation, the category should use it as well.

Category:(series name) episode redirects to lists

When creating the new category, place ((Fiction-based redirects to list entries category handler)) at the top as follows:

((Fiction-based redirects to list entries category handler|media=Television))

Printworthiness

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.

In main-article namespace, many redirects from television episodes are printworthy; however, there are many others that are unprintworthy, so there is no default sort for printworthiness. In 2003, efforts were begun to support the Wikimedia Foundation's goal of increasing access and availability of Wikipedia articles in printed versions. Some redirect category templates automatically populate either Category:Printworthy redirects or Category:Unprintworthy redirects by default. Others, like this template, do not, and that means it is up to editors to choose which of those categories, Printworthy or Unprintworthy, is appropriate and should be populated. The templates that are used separately to populate those categories are:

((R printworthy))
((R unprintworthy))

Click on each one for more details and guidance.

Usage with printworthy and unprintworthy templates

((Redirect category shell|
((R from television episode))
((R printworthy))
))

((Redirect category shell|
((R from television episode))
((R unprintworthy))
))

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 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))