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== Linking to a category by a different name ==

I have found several times that I wanted the item in the category list to have a name other than the topic name.

Example: [[:Category:Architectural elements]]. I would like to add [[Mansard roof]] to this category. However, ''Mansard Roof'' is a redirect, to [[Jules Hardouin Mansart]], who invented the Mansard Roof.  The article seems fine. However, I can't put ''Jules Hardouin Mansart'' into the category, because Jules is an architect, not an architectural element. I added a category to the redirect page (see http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Mansard_roof&action=edit) but the edit was rejected - no change, no entry in history, no feedback to suggest failure.

Is there a resolution, without splitting the main topic? [[User:Notinasnaid|Notinasnaid]] 09:59, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)

:It seems to work now. You can't add something short to the end of a redirect, but it seems that if you stop it being a redirect first (by adding something before it), you can then edit the page to add the category after it. [[User:Angela|Angela]][[user talk:Angela|.]] 12:30, Aug 20, 2004 (UTC)
:This phenomenon has caught me out before, trying to do the same thing: adding a Category to a REDIRECT. The basic problem AFAIK is that if you attempt to append to a REDIRECT, anything after the first End-of-Line is rejected. If you add your category tags or whatever so that the entire "article" is on a single line, it seems you can get away with it. HTH HAND --[[User:Phil Boswell|Phil]] | [[User talk:Phil Boswell|Talk]] 13:19, Aug 20, 2004 (UTC)