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:
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- 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 monotypic taxon: This is a redirect from a monotypic taxon to its only lower-ranking member. In a biology-related article, when for example a family has only one genus, the family may be a redirect to the genus.
- Use {{R to monotypic taxon}} when making a redirect to a monotypic taxon from its only member, for example, from a species to the genus of which it is the only member.
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Usage
- This rcat template populates Category:Redirects from monotypic taxa by default. Add this rcat to a redirect (not a talk-page redirect) in the following manner:
#REDIRECT [[(_target article title)]]
{{Rcat shell|
{{R from monotypic taxon}}
}}
- 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 monotypic taxon}}
- This is in accord with instructions found at WP:REDCAT.
- Use this rcat to tag any mainspace redirect from a monotypic taxon to its only lower-ranking member. In a biology-related article, when for example a family has only one genus, the family name may redirect to that sole genus.
- Use {{R to monotypic taxon}} when making a redirect to a monotypic taxon from its only member, for example, from the species (binomial name) to the genus.
- An unnamed parameter may be used to specify more precisely the kind of organism involved and to sort the article in the appropriate subcategory. At present the eight possible sorts are:
{{Rcat shell|{{R from monotypic taxon}}}}- populates Category:Redirects from monotypic taxa
{{Rcat shell|{{R from monotypic taxon|plant}}}}- sorts the redirect to Category:Redirects from monotypic taxa of plants
{{Rcat shell|{{R from monotypic taxon|fish}}}}- sorts the redirect to Category:Redirects from monotypic taxa of fish
{{Rcat shell|{{R from monotypic taxon|fungus}}}}- sorts the redirect to Category:Redirects from monotypic taxa of fungi
{{Rcat shell|{{R from monotypic taxon|spider}}}}- sorts the redirect to Category:Redirects from monotypic taxa of spiders
{{Rcat shell|{{R from monotypic taxon|crustacean}}}}- sorts the redirect to Category:Redirects from monotypic taxa of crustaceans
{{Rcat shell|{{R from monotypic taxon|reptile}}}}- sorts the redirect to Category:Redirects from monotypic taxa of reptiles
{{Rcat shell|{{R from monotypic taxon|insect}}}}- sorts the redirect to Category:Redirects from monotypic taxa of insects
- Other parameter values and subcategories may be added.
Aliases
- Also known as... – list of templates that redirect here and may also be used
Printworthiness
 | Please do not alter the printworthy settings of any 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 monotypic taxa are printworthy; however, there are 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 rcats automatically populate either Category:Printworthy redirects or Category:Unprintworthy redirects by default. Others, like this rcat, 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 rcats that are used separately to populate those categories are:
{{R printworthy}}and{{R unprintworthy}}
- Please click on each one for more details and guidance.
- Template {{Redirect category shell}} will accept these and any other rcats:
{{Redirect category shell|
{{R from monotypic taxon}}
{{R printworthy}}
}}
{{Redirect category shell|
{{R from monotypic taxon}}
{{R unprintworthy}}
}}
TemplateData
This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. See a monthly parameter usage report for Template:R from monotypic taxon in articles based on its TemplateData.
TemplateData for R from monotypic taxon
No description.
| Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Taxon type | 1 | Taxon type. May be blank, or filled with plant, fish, fungus, spider, crustacean, reptile, or insect.
| Line | optional |
| Printworthy | 2 | Set to "unprintworthy" to indicate unprintworthy redirect | Line | optional |
