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Remove the "xxx redirects here" part from the top, that would go in the {{redirect-distinguish}} , not this one Cyber the tiger🐯 (talk) 21:41, 31 August 2025 (UTC)
- @CyberTheTiger, Could you identify a case where this occurs? Sohom (talk) 02:42, 1 September 2025 (UTC)
Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. Are you perhaps talking about the hatnote "Template:Confused" redirects here. Not to be confused with 'Template:Confused?'.
at the top of the documentation of the template? —andrybak (talk) 23:31, 8 September 2025 (UTC)- I just came to comment on the same thing, maybe moving that line above the shaded box will help differentiate that that is not a sample of this template. It kind of appears that way now. - Adolphus79 (talk) 23:49, 17 December 2025 (UTC)
link to section heading
[edit]Can this template be formatted as Not to be confused with Interagency Weaponization Working Group, instead of the following?
rootsmusic (talk) 22:18, 2 April 2026 (UTC)
- I needed to do this for something else so I worked out that you can do this by escaping the vertical line
|such as by using the magic word{{!}}. This is actually explained in the documentation when it's talking about how to remove (disambiguation) at the end. So what you would do is: {{distinguish|Targeting of political opponents and civil society under the second Trump administration#Interagency Weaponization Working Group{{!}}Interagency Weaponization Working Group}}→- That's a bit more satisfying than what I proposed on your talk page.
- And just in case anyone sees this, you're not really supposed to do this and remember redirects are cheap! – Mullafacation『talk』 17:27, 12 April 2026 (UTC)
- Thanks @Mullafacation, I didn't know about magic words! Creating a redirect to that section is the ideal solution. If that redirect's linked section changes its heading though, that redirect would subsequently need to be modified. (By the way,
{{!}}changes the formatting of a section heading in the {{copied}} template but doesn't actually scroll the display to that section, when the link is clicked.) rootsmusic (talk) 18:53, 12 April 2026 (UTC)- Yeah, that's a good point. I can't remember where it says this but one of the applications of redirecting is to have a central way of retargeting all of the wikilinks after a section changes name but when I'm retargeting wikilinks I generally won't create a redirect if it's the only page that links there because it doesn't make things any easier having a redirect in that case because of the problem you mentioned. Redirects can be costly indeed.
- That's odd with the {{copied}} template. I could poke around at it until it works I suppose but the actual thing is written as a Lua module so I wouldn't know what I'm doing. Normally templates are actually written in normal wikitext but that gets a bit complicated and hard to manage. Up until 2014 in fact, {{!}} used to be just a regular template and the entire coding behind it was just
|and that worked. – Mullafacation『talk』 19:55, 12 April 2026 (UTC)
- Thanks @Mullafacation, I didn't know about magic words! Creating a redirect to that section is the ideal solution. If that redirect's linked section changes its heading though, that redirect would subsequently need to be modified. (By the way,
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The redirect Template:NTCBW has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2026 July 7 § Rarely used redirects to Template:Distinguished until a consensus is reached. Beland (talk) 06:38, 7 July 2026 (UTC)