Yorkporter

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Mellk (talk) 21:09, 3 February 2024 (UTC)

Emptying out categories

Hello, Yorkporter,

Please do not remove all of the contents from a category so that it gets tagged for CFD C1 speedy deletion as an empty category. This is called "emptying categories out of process" and is greatly discouraged. If you believe a category should be deleted, merged or renamed, please make a proposal at Categories for Discussion so other editors can examine your nomination and see if it fits in with our current category hierarchy. There are instructions on the main CFD page or, if you use Twinkle, you can make a nomination easily with Twinkle. Thank you. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 21:55, 3 February 2024 (UTC)

Hello, Yorkporter,

You are still emptying out categories and creating new but similar categories. Please consider going to WP:CFD and asking for a speedy rename rather than editng as you are doing. It is worth keeping older categories around along with their page history rather than having them be deleted. But definitely do not empty categories out of process.

If you have questions about categories, please bring them to the Teahouse. Thank you. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 22:25, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

Looking at your Contributions, I see you are using Speedy renames for categories so I stand corrected. I was mainly looking at Category:Palestinian centenarians. Thank you for working in the system that is established. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 22:27, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

Special:WantedTemplates

Hi, I have been cleaning up Special:WantedTemplates and noticed that your javascript page is showing up in Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Check categories. This is because the backend software is parsing the curly braces as templates. An easy way to fix this is to put

// <nowiki>

just before line 8 your script, and

// </nowiki>

around line 56, to get the "Check categories" inside of the nowiki tags. This won't impact the functionality, since they are in javascript comments, but will remove the pages from Special:WantedTemplates. Thanks in advance for your help! Plastikspork _―Œ^(talk) 15:56, 10 February 2024 (UTC)

 Done Yorkporter (talk) 20:05, 10 February 2024 (UTC)