Template talk:Redirect?
Latest comment: 3 years ago by BrownHairedGirl in topic Category version of this template?
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Category version of this template?
edit@Marcocapelle, BrownHairedGirl, and Fayenatic london: I've used this template to delightful effect @ WT:Cleanup#Leftover MOS:DATERANGE page moves, and then realized a category version would be similarly useful. I don't CfD much, but y'all do. Would y'all find a category version of this template useful? That is, a new template like {{Category redirect?}} that displays either an italicized cat name if it's a redirect, or displays normally if not? The only caveat is that, being an expensive function, only 500 would be allowed on any particular page/CfD. ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 15:26, 30 April 2021 (UTC)
@Good Olfactory: for good measure. ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 15:33, 30 April 2021 (UTC)
- Thanks for the ping, @Tom.Reding. But I can't think of a situation where this would be helpful overall.
- A CFD listing consists of one or more entries of the form
'''Propose renaming''' [[:Category:Example 1]] to [[:Category:Example 2]]
- or
'''Propose merging''' [[:Category:Example 3]] to [[:Category:Example 4]]
- The only way that this could help if each category was wrapped in the new template, which I'll call {{CategoryRedirect?}}, so those entries would have to be written as:
'''Propose renaming''' {{CategoryRedirect?|Category:Example 1}} to {{CategoryRedirect?|Category:Example 2}}
- or
'''Propose merging''' {{CategoryRedirect?|Category:Example 3}} to {{CategoryRedirect?|Category:Example 4}}
- That could be built into WP:Twinkle, but many CFD noms don't use Twinkle, so they would be omitted. And multiple-cat noms can't use Twinkle ... so for a lot of nominations, this template would have to be applied manually. That adds extra work for the nominator, with low benefit because the incidence of redirects is low.
- Then, if the consensus is to merge or rename, we have a further problem. The closing admin implements the decision by copying the CFD listing line to WP:CFDW, where the bot uses those lines as its instruction. But the bot won't recognise the markup with the template, so the bot would need to be recoded.
- So, on top of the fact that use of this template would break some CFD listings when the page has more than 250 categories listed), it seems to me to cause a lot of problems for rare and minor gain. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 21:24, 30 April 2021 (UTC)