Template talk:R from other capitalisation

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The use of "alternate" for "another", "different" or "alternative" is wrong. This page needs to be renamed. — Chameleon 13:00, 17 May 2004 (UTC)

It's the terminology used on the main page on the subject. -- User:Docu
I was referring about the main page on the subject, not this talk page. Wake up. — Chameleon 11:46, 1 Jun 2004 (UTC)
I'll be renaming this page within a week unless someone can put forward arguments for alternate being better than the correct alternative or other. — Chameleon 09:21, 4 Jun 2004 (UTC)

This page (as well as the category) should use "from" instead of "for", like the other redirect templates. ··gracefool |☺ 08:12, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

No problem for this one, so I moved it to {{R from other capitalisation}}. I used "other" instead of "alternative" as the later (and "alternate") seem to create lengthy discussions. -- User:Docu
I always thought the answer to that was "alternative" is a noun and "alternate" is not. But "other" is indeed less ambiguous. --Stratadrake 22:29, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 2005 August TfD

[edit] Duplicate templates...

So how did we end up with eight templates saying the exact thing? It's misleading to say that any one of them redirects to another when this is the case, and couldn't we establish redirects without causing recursion issues? --Stratadrake 22:27, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Request for category modification

{{editprotected}} Hello! As you can tell if you browse through Cat:Redirect templates, they've been thinned out into a bunch of subcategories for a while. In keeping with this, whenever someone can get around to it, I'd like for this template to be placed in the following categories: Templates for redirects from a modification of the target name (with a sort key like "Capitalisation") and All redirect templates (with no sort key whatsoever). It should also be removed from Cat:Redirect templates. Thanks! \sim Lenoxus " * " 02:05, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

Y Done I moved the categories to the doc page, so you can edit them at your own will now. Let me know if you need other changes made to the template. --CapitalR (talk) 17:42, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
Thanks! Now I have a question... Why does the documentation put the template into the categories Cat:Redirects from other capitalisations and Cat:Unprintworthy redirects (the ones that it sorts tagged redirects into)? I've seen this elsewhere, but it doesn't quite make sense to me... \sim Lenoxus " * " 18:29, 24 May 2008 (UTC)