Category:Country data redirects

The pages in this category are redirects from country data templates. To add a redirect to this category, place {{Rcat shell|{{R country data}}}} on the second new line (skip a line) after #REDIRECT [[Target page name]]. For more information follow the links. Never substitute redirect template(s), nor place them on soft redirects. See also the complete list of redirect templates and the redirect style guide.

This is a maintenance category, used for maintenance of the Wikipedia project. It is not part of the encyclopedia and contains non-article pages, or groups articles by status rather than subject. Do not include this category in content categories. This is a tracking category. It builds and maintains a list of pages primarily for the sake of the list itself. They are not part of the encyclopedia's categorization scheme. This category is hidden on its member pages—unless the corresponding user preference (Appearance → Show hidden categories) is set. These categories can be used to track, build and organize lists of pages needing "attention en masse" (for example, pages using deprecated syntax), or that may need to be edited at someone's earliest convenience. These categories also serve to aggregate members of several lists or sub-categories into a larger, more efficient list (discriminated by classifications).

The pages listed in this category are templates. This page is part of Wikipedia's administration and not part of the encyclopedia. Further template category notes This category contains pages in the template namespace. It should not be used to categorize articles or pages in other namespaces. To add a template to this category: If the template has a separate documentation page (usually called "Template:template name/doc"), add  [[Category:Country data redirects]] to the <includeonly> section at the bottom of that page. Otherwise, add  <noinclude>[[Category:Country data redirects]]</noinclude> to the end of the template code, making sure it starts on the same line as the code's last character.

Pages that link to redirects may be updated to link directly to target pages; however, this is not recommended if the redirects are NOTBROKEN. Also, a redirected link should not be replaced with a piped link as the sole reason to edit a page.

This category is intended to hold redirects to templates in Category:Country data templates. Recent changes can be seen at Special:Recentchangeslinked/Category:Country data redirects. The redirects' sort keys omit the leading "Country data" string. In those cases where the redirect is recognizably about a country or comparable geographical entity, the sort is analogical—for instance, Template:Country data Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Template:Country data SFR Yugoslavia and Template:Country data Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia are all filed under Yugoslavia. Variant spellings, on the other hand, are filed as they are—for instance, Template:Country data Euskadi is filed under Euskadi because not everybody will know this is the Basque name for Basque Country.