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==When editing this navbox template itself==
{{Hatnote|'''Note:''' Changes made to this navbox must '''also''' be made to the [[#See also|functional index]], and vice versa.}}

===Avoid double redirects in the navbox===
{{Further|Wikipedia:Navigation template|Wikipedia:Redirect#Bypass redirects in navigational templates}}
As with all navbox templates, if you edit the contents of the nest box template itself, please do not use aliases (titles of redirects) Use a direct link to the title, in either plain or piped format. In any navbox, redirects are not any [[WP:AUDIENCE|audience's]] friend. 

If the title of the target page of the redirect page, that is, the title of the non-redirect subject page is used in the navbox, then the title will appear not as a link, but as a bold, unclickable entry that's easy to find when the navbox is placed on that entry's page. 

However, a redirect listed in the same navbox on the same page will not appear in unclickable bold text but as a link, which could send an editor on a confusing runaround if they click the redirect's title.

==When looking through this navbox or adding its template to other pages ==
===Purpose of this navbox template===
{{Linking and page manipulation|categorization}}   
You can use this [[Wikipedia:Navboxes|navbox (navigation box)]] template to quickly find the [[WP:RCAT|redirect category templates]] (rcats or, much more rarely, redcats) to add near the bottom of a redirect page that you are creating or editing. The rcats are organized by function. For information on placing these rcats on redirects (redirect pages; a Wikipedia page that sends the browser to a different article, [[Wikipedia:Project Page|project page]], or other type of English Wikipedia page), see the rcat's own documentation page or  [[WP:REDCAT]].

For an expanded index (not a navbox) with examples and a complete [[Alphanumeric|alphanumerical]] listing of redirect category templates, see [[Wikipedia:Template messages/Redirect pages]]. The links on this page's navbox template lead either to sections on that expanded index page or less often to other explanatory pages associated with rcats.

=== Usage ===
This navbox belongs at the bottom of template documentation pages (above the categories). Add either {{tlc|R template index}} or its shortcut, {{tlc|Rcats}}, in the following manner:
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{{R template index}}
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=== Visibility parameter <code>|state=</code> and its options===
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=== See also ===
* {{section link|Wikipedia:Template messages/Redirect pages#List of redirects by function}}, a functional index that is composed of each and every rcat (Redirect CATegory) template in this navbox.
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* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Redirect/Style guide]] 
* [[Wikipedia:Printability]] 
* [[:Category:Redirect templates]]
* {{Section link |Wikipedia:Categories, lists, and navigation templates#Navigation templates}}

{{Wikipedia template messages|expanded}}
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