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 Cydebot deletion log summaries 

Hi Cyde,

When Cydebot deletes a category that was renamed or merged, could it link to the target category in the deletion log summary?

For example, if Category:Foo is renamed to Category:Bar per a discussion at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2011 January 1, could Cydebot use the following summary when deleting Category:Foo:

Robot - Moving category to Bar per CFD at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2011 January 1

For speedy renaming:

Robot - Speedily moving category to Bar per CFDS

I realize that linking to the target category adds extra characters to the text of the log summary, which may become a problem with long category names, and that is why I've suggested dropping the name of the category being deleted. If necessary, perhaps extra characters could be saved by unlinking ""CFD"" or piped-linking ""Speedily moving"".

If Cydebot could do this, it would be a help to editors wanting to follow the history of a category (e.g., to update incoming links to a category that was renamed). Thank you,  ''''''  "