Category talk:Films by shooting location

Repopulation

The following section has been moved here with comments from various talk pages consolidated here:

I saw that the vote was 2-2 at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2007_July_2#Category:Films_by_shooting_location, but you opted to delete regardless. A well reasoned argument for any category by location is that people who focus their wikipedia contribution by region are able to make contributions more easily with such categories. At WP:CHICAGO we tag such articles and then help them to improve. For example, our project has made contributions to both The Dark Knight (film) and Batman Begins because the bot tagged them as Chicago related articles. What would be necessary for a deletion review to generate a keep.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/tcfkaWCDbwincowtchatlotpsoplrttaDCLaM) 19:56, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

Deletion debates operate by consensus, not voting. In this case, the only arguments to keep were "a defining characteristic", and there were many more and more valid arguments to delete. This deletion was appropriate. SalaSkan ^{(Review me)} 23:17, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Category:Films_by_shooting_location. Since you closed the deletion discussion for this article or speedy-deleted it, you might want to participate in the deletion review. TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/tcfkaWCDbwincowtchatlotpsoplrttaDCLaM) 15:37, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

O.K. the WP:DRV was successful. Now, do you know how to repopulate the categories. I imagine a bot depopulated them and might have produced a log which might make repopulation easier. Please advise. --TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/tcfkaWCDbwincowtchatlotpsoplrttaDCLaM) 22:20, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

(copied from User talk) Oh sorry, I hadn't noticed that one of the paragraphs higher on at my talk page had gotten a new response (it's usually easier if you add your query to the bottom). Anyway, yes, the bot has a log (to wit, its contribution history) that can be used to repopulate the cat by using the 'undo' option on those edits. HTH! >Radiant< 08:09, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

Is this a task that will be done or do I need to learn how to do it?--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/tcfkaWCDbwincowtchatlotpsoplrttaDCLaM) 11:43, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

(copied from User talk) As usual on Wikipedia, someone will eventually get around to it, for some value of eventually. >Radiant< 12:08, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

There is some confusion on this point based on discussion with the closing admin. I am asking him to come here to figure out what is to be done. --TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/tcfkaWCDbwincowtchatlotpsoplrttaDCLaM) 22:54, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

I'd ask the operator of the bot who delinked the category. --ST47Talk·Desk 00:14, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, you could contact the one who ran the bot to remove it (or check its logs) or ask for assistance anywhere, e.g. VPA. >Radiant< 08:25, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

Who ran the bot?--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/tcfkaWCDbwincowtchatlotpsoplrttaDCLaM) 16:17, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

(copied from Wikipedia:Help desk) I have been trying to get the categories and subcategories repopulated here: Category talk:Films by shooting location. I need someone to tell me who to contact to find out who ran the bot.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/tcfkaWCDbwincowtchatlotpsoplrttaDCLaM) 15:25, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

(reply copied from Help Desk now archived at [Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2007_August_23#Help_repopulating_categories_from_WP:DRV_of_WP:CFD|Help Desk Aug 23 archives]]

Kbdank71. A look at an edit history found [1] and then [2]. PrimeHunter 17:49, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

Current discussion at User_talk:Kbdank71#Category:Films_by_shooting_location_CFD_successfully_DRVed.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/tcfkaWCDbwincowtchatlotpsoplrttaDCLaM) 18:25, 5 September 2007 (UTC)