User talk:Billinghurst

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Resolved sections

Hi. What criteria do you use to consider sections resolved like here?   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 15:35, 10 March 2024 (UTC)

They have an exact answer and we aren't changing our filter for them. The fact that they cannot be bothered reading their error message. I don't believe that the page is the scenario for issue resolution where we are not going to change the filter, or we think that the filter is wrong. Nor is that page the help page for how to circumvent the filter, we should be pushing them to standard help pages at that point.  — billinghurst sDrewth 22:45, 10 March 2024 (UTC)

Saint James Church, Stepanakert

Is it not a Saint James church? Laurel Lodged (talk) 12:27, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

@Laurel Lodged: Hi. Category:Saint James churches is a disambiguation category page, it is not a category for collecting files or categories of churches named St James. Its purpose is to list categories of the same name. We don't have that category specifically for collecting files "Churches named Saint James", and I doubt that there is a particular need for one, though happy to hear your opinion on how it could add value. In this situation, at some point someone has mistakenly added those aspects that have allowed for the categorisation.  — billinghurst sDrewth 21:27, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

so churches that have St James the Greater as a patron saint should be diffused to that category? Laurel Lodged (talk) 22:05, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

Unexplained revert

Why did you revert my edit at [1]? You omitted adding an explanation in the summary field. Enhancing999 (talk) 06:16, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

@Enhancing999: you removed a category redirect that was purposefully added by the move script, per its design. I am not sure why you did that either. I would think that it would be reasonably obvious why we would have a redirect for a long-existing category. FWIW my change back had as much subject summary as your edit.  — billinghurst sDrewth 10:01, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

The template I added explains why the redirect should be deleted and not kept. Not all "long-existing category" should be kept as redirects. For standard users, there is no "suppress redirect" function, so the way to go is to add the template (but I guess you knew that). Enhancing999 (talk) 10:34, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

I did not say we would keep it because it was long-existing, I said as it was long-existing that it we would keep it. This one could not be easily found through HotCat following the change of name, and as such should be kept. The indicative nature of the category redirect should be reasonably apparent that there should be a good reason to delete it. They are not problematic, and if you think that they are problematic, we have a quite reasonable deletion request process. That you added bad name template is your opinion, it is not overtly meeting that criteria.  — billinghurst sDrewth 10:43, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) @Enhancing999: See also COM:CATRED.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 12:28, 29 March 2024 (UTC)

Malloween

[2]: why? What is the connection? - Jmabel ! talk 21:51, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

<shrug>  Done  — billinghurst sDrewth 08:09, 29 March 2024 (UTC)

Text categories

Thanks for adding the nocat parameter to all those text categories. That will make it easier to work on the non-empty dab cats. Do you want any help with doing that? -- Auntof6 (talk) 07:23, 29 March 2024 (UTC)

@Auntof6: Took me a while to find that the "nocat" parameter was already coded into the template. Anyway, help yourself, I am just working through maintenance categories, none are mine, and it is nice to see them empty.  — billinghurst sDrewth 08:09, 29 March 2024 (UTC)

I took care of all but one of the ones that were in the non-empty dab cats. The one I didn't do was Category:New York (text). That one uses a different template, {{2 word text cat}}, that doesn't seem to have the nocat option. It's getting late so I'm not going to look at it right now, but if no one else does I'll look at it later. -- Auntof6 (talk) 09:30, 29 March 2024 (UTC)

@Auntof6: I have added an override for topic/$3 of nocat for {{2 word text cat}}  — billinghurst sDrewth 11:07, 29 March 2024 (UTC)

Thanks! So that takes care of the ones in dab categories.

As for others, I don't know if they should be addressed. Do we ever want to categorize the text categories this way? I would think not, because they deal with pure text, not the meaning(s) of the text. The images in the text could conceivably have nothing to do with the main subject of a term, or even of any of the alternate meanings. What do you think? -- Auntof6 (talk) 21:56, 29 March 2024 (UTC)

I haven't thought about it, though well worth the conversation. I think that the best space for these in front of the community, so here [[Com:VP]. Trying to find the balance between good categorisation, and make work; sensible <=> nonsensical; do no harm <=> focusing on best use of time. 22:12, 29 March 2024 (UTC)