Category:Redirects from less specific names

The pages in this category are redirects from less specific, more general names to more specific names, when the narrower, target article may still be useful for someone seeking the broader-scoped topic. To add a redirect to this category, place {{Rcat shell|{{R from less specific name}}}} 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).

Titles that appear here are sometimes good candidates for creation of new, more overarching articles and, if so, they should also be tagged with {{R with possibilities}}. In other cases they may indicate that the target article's scope (or at least name) are too narrow, an issue that should be raised on the article's talk page. Occasionally, this tag may indicate that an article should simply be renamed, if its content is not as specific as its name suggests.

Sometimes titles like these are the result of previous requested moves discussions, most commonly when WP:COMMONNAME or some other such concern has resulted in an article being at a narrower, less general term than its content might naturally suggest.

Less specific names are not necessarily shorter versions of the same name, for which see Category:Redirects from short names.