Community Wishlist Survey 2019/Categories/Support category redirects

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Support category redirects

Problem: What is the right name for the right category? de:Kategorie:Geschichte (Arizona)? de:Kategorie:Geschichte Arizonas? or de:Kategorie:Geschichte von Arizona? Searching is often a hard work.
Who would benefit: All categorizers
Proposed solution: Create a Category-redirect! For example: If I write: de:Kategorie:Geschichte (Arizona) (formally failed), the result changes automaticelly in de:Kategorie:Geschichte von Arizona (formally correct).
More comments:
Phabricator tickets:
Proposer: Wheeke (talk) 21:31, 7 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

@Wheeke: Is this phab:T5311, or do I misunderstand? --AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 02:53, 8 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I mean some like phab:T5311, You unterstand--Wheeke (talk) 07:18, 8 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Is this commons:Template:Category redirect? by the way, we decided at de:WP not to use that. W!B: (talk) 10:52, 18 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note MANUAL cat to cat redirect seems to work already -- Wikicat (talk) 08:37, 18 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Wheeke: Can you please elaborate on what you mean by the ”result changes automatically”? Should the wikitext be changed automagically, should the ”wrong” category name remain in the wikitext but the correct category name be shown in the bottom of the article, or something else? Thanks! /NH 11:07, 23 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Yes I mean the help- and useful thing like commons:Template:Category redirect how W!B: noted. I'm here, because de:WP decided not to use that. This is WP and not de:WP. Sorry for my bad English. --Wheeke (talk) 18:54, 24 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! /NH 10:12, 25 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Voting

Support SEMMENDINGER (talk) 19:17, 16 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Consulnico (talk) 23:59, 16 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Paine Ellsworth ^put'r there 02:16, 17 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 03:44, 17 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Xiplus (talk) 07:43, 17 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Acamicamacaraca (talk) 08:05, 17 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support ديفيد عادل وهبة خليل 2 (talk) 09:50, 17 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support FF-11 (talk) 10:17, 17 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Libcub (talk) 10:23, 17 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Gereon K. (talk) 12:26, 17 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Zoranzoki21 (talk) 14:43, 17 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Yilku1 (talk) 17:02, 17 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support –Ammarpad (talk) 21:18, 17 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Temp3600 (talk) 05:38, 18 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support AHeneen (talk) 06:18, 18 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Fixer88 (talk) 08:57, 18 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Szalax (talk) 09:17, 18 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support But isn't this doable already with normal redirects on categories + a template telling bots to recategorize articles? Jon Harald Søby (talk) 12:22, 18 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support β₁₆ - (talk) 10:32, 19 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 10:50, 19 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support RStehn (talk) 16:29, 19 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Sammyday (talk) 16:49, 19 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Lostinlodos (talk) 01:30, 20 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Gareth (talk) 11:10, 20 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Thanks to Agabi10 recent fix of phab:T96041, this proposal becomes more feasible (even with bot) eranroz (talk) 22:23, 20 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Novak Watchmen (talk) 00:08, 21 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Reptilien.19831209BE1 (talk) 06:51, 21 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Framawiki (talk) 19:49, 21 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Krinkle (talk) 02:10, 22 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Wouterhagens (talk) 22:40, 22 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Oppose for now: Firstly, I feel there is something fundamentally wrong with such a function. Secondly, I think it will cause new forms of confusion, which may be more severe than the problem of finding the correct category name. NH 10:51, 23 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support NaBUru38 (talk) 18:31, 23 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Hmxhmx 10:13, 24 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Alexei Kopylov (talk) 18:28, 24 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Arbnos (talk) 22:59, 24 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose IKhitron (talk) 19:28, 25 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Zopp (talk) 12:54, 26 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support PJTraill (talk) 01:03, 27 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support MartinThoma (talk) 06:23, 28 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Iich1960 (talk) 11:01, 28 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Nice idea! Liked it. Ldorfman (talk) 20:35, 29 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Tacsipacsi (talk) 22:09, 29 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]