You’ve landed here. An empty hallway in a library of everything. This isn't your destination; it's a course correction for your sloppy navigation. The place you were actually looking for is over here:
This page, in its breathtaking simplicity, is a redirect. It exists only to point elsewhere, a silent, digital usher for the lost. It has no content because its entire purpose is to acknowledge you were close, but not close enough.
And because humans have an insatiable need to file, label, and categorize every atom of existence, this particular void has its own administrative tags. The following categories are employed to track and monitor this redirect, a task I can only assume is performed by a very lonely algorithm.
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From an initialism: This designation clarifies that this is a redirect from an initialism to a topic to which it is related. An initialism, for the uninitiated, is a collection of first letters from a name or phrase. This exists because you couldn't be bothered to type the full name, and the system, with a patience I will never possess, has accounted for your haste by creating this signpost.
And since we’re on the subject of tedious but necessary distinctions, observe the taxonomy of truncation. There are rules for how you classify your shortcuts. Getting them wrong won't break the internet, but it will disappoint a server somewhere, and we can't have that.
- You are to use {{R from acronym}} for abbreviations that have evolved into pronounceable words, such as the ever-present NATO or the elegantly functional RADAR. These are the ambitious ones that escaped the alphabet soup.
- You will use {{R from short name}} when dealing with the initials of a person's name. Because individuals, unlike organizations, are apparently granted this specific courtesy.
- For any other desperate attempt at brevity, any other reduction of length that doesn't fit the neat boxes above, the catch-all is {{R from abbreviation}}.
When circumstances demand it—and they so often do—protection levels are automatically sensed, described, and categorized. A quiet, efficient machine guarding the gates from digital vandals. It’s an elegant solution, devoid of the usual human melodrama. Pity we can't apply it to everything.