Talk:Cousin german

Soft redirect

From the history of the page:

21:41, 3 September 2015‎ PBS (There is no mention in the cousin article and it is better this is a soft redirect to Wiktionary:cousin-german)
21:53, 3 September 2015‎ TexasAndroid (Change to wiktionary-specific template)
4 September 2015‎ PBS (If I had thought the other template better I would have used it! Dictionary definitions are inappropriate for Wikepidia, so it is inappropriate to use a template that suggests it.)
13:02, 4 September 2015‎ TexasAndroid (Add long comment to move down the Short Pages list. Also, please respond on the talk page over the issue of which template is appropriate.)

-- PBS (talk) 13:18, 4 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

All other soft redirects to Wiktionary use the Wiktionary template. That is the appropriate template for soft redirects to Wiktionary. Why is your one redirect different from every other redirect to Wiktionary?

If the "dictionary' template is inappropriate, then how the heck is it appropriate to point to a dictionary in the first place? If the redirect is appropriate, then using the proper form of the template would be appropriate, I would think.

Also, in general, very few pages actually use the generic soft redirect template. Check out Category:Wikipedia soft redirects. The vast majority of soft redirects are not in that category directly, but are rather down in one of the sub-categories, because they use one of the more specific templates that are more appropriate than the generic template. - TexasAndroid (talk) 13:00, 4 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The advantage of {{Soft redirect}} is that it makes it easy to see and to cut and past the necessary code to be included in an article bypassing this soft redirect. {{wiktionary redirect}} offers no such advantage and the instructions it gives are inappropriate for a word that properly belongs in Wiktionary. As to the categories add any that you think are necessary. -- PBS (talk) 13:18, 4 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]