Template talk:R from ASCII

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This template survived a request for deletion. The result of the discussion was keep.

Courtland 02:44, 3 September 2005 (UTC)

And what exactly is this template for? Promoting higher bandwidth usage? Halibutt 22:11, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
I found it useful. I'm categorizing redirects for an eventual paper edition, and was able to use the template to put all ASCII redirects into Category:Unprintworthy redirects, since "See: Spelled exactly the same, minus the dots and squiggles" in an alphebatized print volume is a waste of space. That's just my hack of the system, tho': the real reson d'ee of this template is that categories & text appended to redirects are automatically deleted if they're not all on the same line as the redirect itself. The template allows an easy escape from this quirk of the system.--Joel 23:49, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Description

I'm going to un-link the word diacritic. There's simply no need for the diacritic page to have thousands of "What Links Here" references to redirects that are not about diacritics (by definition). Anybody that's confused about the meaning of the word can easily look at the category page. Same for "See also".

--William Allen Simpson 12:04, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

I've finished converting all those miscategorized here to {{R from title without diacritics}}. Hopefully, the better explanations will help folks use the templates.

--William Allen Simpson 16:47, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Deprecated

Hi, using templates within redirects is deprecated, so the {{R from...}} templates shouldn't be used anymore, although categories in redirects are probably safe. See discussion. Wmahan. 05:16, 1 September 2006 (UTC)