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Babel Extension

Instead of editing my talk page to reflect incorrect information, please configure the Babel Extension properly to use the correct categories. If you are unaware of how to configure the Babel Extension, please see this link or ask for help. Thanks. -Vandraedha (talk|contribs) 10:15, 30 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Help was asked for for years on this and little was forthcoming beyond that at Wikipedia talk:Babel#Category redirects which was followed. (As noted there, your suggestion of switching to lower case does not work and just clogs up the category redirect system.) Simply restoring the redirects is not a solution and that media page shows a convoluted task that doesn't seem to currently be maintained. If you want to keep using those entries you'll need to get the Babel Extension configured yourself. Timrollpickering (Talk) 12:49, 30 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

You should follow your own advice. Since you were the one who decided to take it upon yourself to edit my userpage, it's your responsibility to make sure that it does not break existing (working) code. This would be like me going on to your user page and changing all of the university names in your userboxes to "a generic university". I will consider any further edits of my userpage by you to be intentional vandalism and report them as such. If you actually wish to "get help", you should read Wikipedia:FAQ/Technical#How_do_I_report_a_bug?. It would actually let you correct what you perceive as a problem, instead of creating more problems by blindly running a bot.-Vandraedha (talk|contribs) 22:29, 1 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

First off the code is not working correctly in the way you wish it to because the dialects are not supported by the Babel extension. And I have sought help for this over the years and applied the only solution that has been forthcoming that actually works. For the record AWB is a tool not a bot and it is not "run blindly"; it is run to apply the necessary changes to work around the problem. As the extension does not fully support what you wish it to do and you oppose the application of the only available fixes it is down to you to sort out the configuration. I posted once again on Village Pump on this matter this month but no alternative technical solution was suggested. If you insist on maintaining the mess I will have to take what advice there has been. Timrollpickering (talk) 17:05, 25 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

JP High School is not second oldest school of Nepal. It is Tri-Juddha Mahavir Prasad Raghuvir Ram Higher Secondary School.

JP High School was established in 1995 BS whereas Tri-juddha was in 1994 BS. So it's my request to please research on it and correct it if it is wrong. 🙂🙂 RohitShah98 (talk) 09:28, 12 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I have never edited that article. I do not know what edit you are referring to. Timrollpickering (talk) 10:05, 12 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Deletion review for Category:KROQ

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Category:KROQ. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. --evrik ^(talk) 18:38, 12 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

CFD work on media categories

Thanks for fixing the list at CFDW today. I had hoped the new bot would handle the list without trimming. Something else came up and I did not get back to check promptly.

About the back links for Stub categories, please would you fix the red links at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types/Culture? – Fayenatic London 23:07, 15 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Oregon Territory election categories

Thanks for reworking the Oregon election categories. Can you figure out how to make the template work for the years at the top? And it also created an odd category: Category:Template Category U.S. State elections by year with place parameter not matching title place. —GoldRingChip (it/they) 15:33, 25 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The easiest way is probably to create them using the existing naming structure of using "... Territory" for the pre state era as that's the existing consensus. I find these templates an utter nightmare because they are often created too simplistically with no consideration for how to handle situations where the names aren't simply the same. Timrollpickering (talk) 16:40, 25 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted category

Hi. Category:Moses Sumney songs was previously deleted because it was populated solely with redirects, per Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2020 May 17#Category:Moses Sumney songs. With the creation of Virile (song), this is no longer the case. Per WP:SMALLCAT: "subcategories of Category:Works by creator may be created even if they include only one page." Per the CSD you cited (WP:G4): "It excludes pages to which the reason for the deletion no longer applies." I grieve in stereo (talk) 12:33, 28 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

A look at the article history shows that's not the case - it was already in the category. Recreating a category the very next day is clearly an applicable case especially as it's still on the processing page (and will likely stay there for some days yet). Try Wikipedia:Deletion review to get the deletion decision superseded. Timrollpickering (talk) 13:17, 28 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The article was already in the category when it was merely a redirect (created by myself), not a written article. I'll check out deletion review. Thank you. I grieve in stereo (talk) 16:23, 28 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Quick note on Template:SouthAfrica-newspaper-stub

Thanks for your edits to Template:SouthAfrica-newspaper-stub.

Don't forget to review the changes you make with AWB! You changed the category name to "South Newspapers published in Africa stubs". Good luck figuring out what that means xD A a s i m 15:23, 28 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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 :A look at the article history shows that's not the case - it was already in the category. Recreating a category the very next day is clearly an applicable case especially as it's still on the processing page (and will likely stay there for some days yet). Try [[Wikipedia:Deletion review]] to get the deletion decision superseded. [[User:Timrollpickering|Timrollpickering]] ([[User talk:Timrollpickering#top|talk]]) 13:17, 28 May 2020 (UTC)
+::The article was already in the category when it was merely a redirect (created by myself), not a written article. I'll check out deletion review. Thank you. [[User:I grieve in stereo|I grieve in stereo]] ([[User talk:I grieve in stereo|talk]]) 16:23, 28 May 2020 (UTC)
 == Quick note on [[Template:SouthAfrica-newspaper-stub]] ==
 Thanks for your edits to [[Template:SouthAfrica-newspaper-stub]].