https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5451

--- Comment #22 from Philippe Verdy <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to John Mark Vandenberg from comment #21)
> Another way to improve the situation is for the output of the target
> (reached via a redirect) to say more than 'redirected from [category:old
> category]'.  If automatic category member moving is not implemented, it
> could say 'redirected from [category:old category] which has 10 members',
> which alerts the reader to the fact that they should visit the old category.

That's clearly not needed ! We don't have to use any template in the target
category, only the soft-redirected category uses a template that will
automatically recategorize as a subcategory of the target category, using a
sort key listing it with an index character like a backward arrow.

I don't see any rationale for modifying the target category (i.e. the former
category page that has been moved). Listing the older category as a
subcategory, as long as it is not empty, is enough !!! (and this works well in
Commons, Meta-Wiki, Wikipedia... except that sometime we need to null-edit the
empty soft-redirected category to unlist it from the target category and remove
if from the maintenance category listing non-empty soft-redirected categories)

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