Category talk:Article history templates with errors

Query

Hilst, could you explain what the "issue" is in this edit? I am concerned because this category is designed/intended to be a means of tracking errors, so that it should be empty most of the time. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 10:32, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

@SandyGeorgia: Issue? I was just including this category in Category:Featured content templates parameter issues, since Category:Article history templates with linked otd dates is in there as well. I don't see how that affects its purpose of tracking errors. – Hilst [talk] 11:08, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

I don't know what "issues" are referred to in "parameter issues" ? SandyGeorgia (Talk) 12:17, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

Okay, I'm even more confused now. I'll just revert my edit. – Hilst [talk] 12:35, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

A template "parameter" is any of the data that you give to the template. So one of the parameters of {{Article history}} is action1. A "parameter issue" would just be a problem with the template parameters. Adding a category to this category won't affect the emptiness of this category, it just adds it to the parent category. If we take a peek at Category:Featured content templates parameter issues, we can see that it is just a list of the categories related to fixing featured content templates. That could be useful to someone who is looking for templates to fix. Up to you two, but Hilst's edit seemed OK to me. –Novem Linguae (talk) 13:21, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

Thanks, Novem Linguae ... Yes, I know what a template parameter is. But I still don't know what is the "problem with [one of] the template parameters", that is, I still don't know what "issue" we are identifying, why, or what needs to be fixed. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 10:40, 12 June 2024 (UTC)

The name of this page is "Article history templates with errors". We could go read the code to see exactly what errors trigger this tracking category I guess. But for me, the fact that it has "error" in the name seems good enough proof that this tracking cat will always contain templates with errors in them, and would therefore fit in the proposed parent category.

The parent category is just a list of categories that track errors. In my opinion, it does not imply that this tracking category itself is an error. –Novem Linguae (talk) 11:30, 12 June 2024 (UTC)