Shortcuts are wikilinked on community pages, talk pages, and edit summaries, but not in mainspace articles. Transclusions in mainspace are common and do not need to be "fixed".
From outside the template namespace: This is a redirect from a page outside the template namespace to a template page. This redirect page must be outside the template namespace.
To a section: This is a redirect from a topic that does not have its own page to a section of a page on the subject. For redirects to embedded anchors on a page, use {{R to anchor}}instead.
When appropriate, protection levels are automatically sensed, described and categorized.