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Info about the "Old orphaned XfD" report

I'm not very familiar with the inner workings of database reports, but I'm interested in making sure all the old XfDs are taken care of. Is this something you can assist with? :) :) ·Salvidrim!· ✉ 17:30, 20 May 2013 (UTC)

What kind of assistance do you need? (I'm not an admin) — Train2104 (talk • contribs) 21:51, 20 May 2013 (UTC)

Dunno, how is that report generated, automatically? I'd like to be able to "keep tabs" on the thing. :) :) ·Salvidrim!· ✉ 22:03, 20 May 2013 (UTC)

This page is auto-generated. According to the list its scheduled to update weekly but in practice it sometimes goes a few weeks between updates. — Train2104 (talk • contribs) 22:06, 20 May 2013 (UTC)

• Thanks for substing all those templates, I'll keep that in mind next time around. The AfD tool doesn't subst them; is there some guideline saying it should? Please point me to it and I'll try to get that fixed. :) ·Salvidrim!· ✉ 01:18, 2 June 2013 (UTC)

WP:AFD/AI — Train2104 (talk • contribs) 01:19, 2 June 2013 (UTC)

Category deletion

When I created Category:Category:Misplaced Pages articles incorporating a citation from The American Cyclopaedia with no wstitle or title parameter it was clearly a cut and past error. But before putting it up for deletion why did you not inform me so that I could correct the mistake?

If you had looked at its parent: Category:Misplaced Pages articles incorporating a citation from The American Cyclopaedia you would have seen that it is one of a number of hidden categories which are used to monitor the parameters of {{Cite AmCyc}} and {{AmCyc}}. Removing such templates without editing the template so that it can not populate the category in the future, will, if populated in the future, case this maintaince template to appear in article space, which would be an undesired outcome. -- PBS (talk) 09:27, 28 May 2013 (UTC)

I work en-masse from a database report, and since double namespace prefixes are obviously typing errors and I think the category was empty I just tagged it at first glance. Sorry that I didn't investigate further. — Train2104 (talk • contribs) 02:45, 29 May 2013 (UTC)

In future, so that this type of initial error can be fixed quickly, please see if the misspelt category contains a translucent to {{hiddencat}} or similar and if it does first notify the creator of the category that there is a problem. -- PBS (talk) 15:29, 29 May 2013 (UTC)

In principle, unless there is evidently no reason to, I find it is always a good thing to notify the editor involved; that, or just move double-mainspace pages to their simple-namespace equivalent. :) ·Salvidrim!· ✉ 01:20, 2 June 2013 (UTC)

1986 establishments in Florida

The category Category:1986 establishments in Florida is no longer empty.John Pack Lambert (talk) 22:50, 11 June 2013 (UTC)

CSD C1

I removed the tag for WP:CSD#C1 you placed on Category:Musical groups established in the 1858 because I had very recently emptied the category. You politely reverted me. I checked and, although the CSD wording and background is not at all clear, I think you were correct. However, the category has now been deleted on 23 June here even though I only emptied it on the 20 June, here. Do you know what has gone wrong? Obviously the category should be deleted but I am wondering about the principle. Thincat (talk) 22:54, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

I've never seen this before...could it be the fact that I reverted vs. readding the tag caused problems? Or when I first placed the tag the category wasn't empty? I don't know. — Train2104 (talk • contribs) 23:00, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

I'll look into it more. Yes, perhaps the reversions mixed things up. The category was empty when you placed the tag (it would have been crazy if someone had put another article there after I'd emptied it and before you tagged it). As well as emptying it I edited the category itself to remove a navigation template. That put it on my watchlist which is the only reason I noticed all this. Thincat (talk) 07:46, 24 June 2013 (UTC)