Template talk:Category redirect

message: See :Category:Language articles with undated speaker data. The page shows a red error text: . When I remove this template and preview, it disappears (so it is not from a regular, listed page, I think). Possibly related: at this moment the category is not empty though does not show in :Category:Wikipedia non-empty soft redirected categories. Last week, there have been edits in the template that autofills this category, also wrt this cat name (into and out of). Can someone take a look? -DePiep (talk) 16:32, 31 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Found:  produces  at the moment. Self-solving. -DePiep (talk) 16:50, 31 March 2012 (UTC)

text: It can be fixed by changing to . Peter James (talk) 19:31, 9 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  The template gives error message 

message: It would be enormously helpful if this template accepted both the current parameter (the name of the category to which to redirect, e.g. "People," sans the "Category:" namespace) but also the full name of the category, including namespace (e.g. "Category:People"). In other words, I want to be able to use this template with either of the two following calls:
*
*
It's not immediately intuitive which form to use, so it would be nice for the template to accept both.
Furthermore, I often have something like "Category:People" on my clipboard and I'd like to just copy and paste it into the template when I use it. As it stands, I have to delete the word "Category:", or else accidentally save the redirect in a malformed way (so it will redirect to something like "Category:Category:People"). Thank you. CaseyPenk (talk) 03:40, 2 September 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I've put some mods into the sandbox which should do what is suggested above. --Redrose64 (talk) 09:50, 2 September 2013 (UTC)
replies: text:  Please wait 48 hours on this so I can check how it will affect the category redirect bot. Thanks.  --R'n'B (call me Russ) 13:22, 2 September 2013 (UTC)
replies: text:  The sandbox revisions may produce undesired results if, for example, someone creates a redirect to :Category:Wikipedia:Trolls.  (Try .  In fact, now that I think about it, I think this was the reason that previous efforts to modify the template to allow including the "Category:" prefix were unsuccessful. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 18:38, 2 September 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: This is why we sandbox proposed changes to templates. Anyway,  --Redrose64 (talk) 19:21, 2 September 2013 (UTC)
replies: text:  Yes, that seems to do the trick.  Very nice!  But I still need to check the bot code to make sure it will work with this version.  --R'n'B (call me Russ) 00:30, 3 September 2013 (UTC)

text: OK,  Done --Redrose64 (talk) 15:09, 4 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Allow for flexibility in parameter passing 

message: Can this template be converted to use template protection instead of full protection? Thanks. —mc10 (t/c) 01:08, 28 October 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: requests for changes to the page protection level should be made at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection. Jackmcbarn (talk) 01:46, 28 October 2013 (UTC)
replies: text:  Alright, thanks for the notice. —mc10 (t/c) 01:58, 28 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template protection 

message: Hello there, I just changed a few categories into redirect categories (for example this one) and I wonder if there are robots that hunt for ":Category:Wikipedia non-empty soft redirected categories" and move the articles in the right categories automatically.
Thanks.
—  Ark25  (talk) 06:03, 5 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Do robots patroll automatically the redirect categories? 

message: I think that we should add, to this template, a speedy tag which appears if the target category is deleted. The template , which applies to "a redirect to itself, or to a page which does not exist, has been deleted, or is itself currently tagged for speedy deletion" should apply here if the target is deleted. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 07:18, 15 December 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: We should consider the case if there is a rename. I am also concerned as to who is responsible for the placement of the speedy delete tag (no one but it should be the target deleter.  And also any notification that would not occur).  It would be even better to notify the deleter at the time of deletion that there are these redirects pointing to the just deleted target.  This would apply to other things apart from category redirects. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 09:42, 15 December 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Technically, the soft redirects are nothing but incoming links, so it would probably be nearly impossible to have the software notify the deleter about these. We do have warnings about incoming links, but since there nearly always are incoming links for other reasons, this warning would tend to be useless. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 11:45, 15 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Change to include a speedy tag when target doesn't exist? 

message: Could you please wrap the Administrators: If this category name is unlikely to be entered on new pages, [&action=delete click here to delete]. part in s, so that that text isn't visible for non-admins.
Pppery  (talk) 01:13, 19 August 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Done — Andy W. (talk · ctb) 01:43, 19 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template-protected edit request on 19 August 2016 

message:  → .  The image is in the public domain. ~~ CAPTAIN MEDUSAtalk 23:58, 14 November 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Done DannyS712 (talk) 00:34, 15 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template-protected edit request on 14 November 2019 

message: ‘See instructions[…]’ would be more natural than the current wording, ‘See the instructions[…]’. Would someone kindly remove the definite article? Cheers —jameslucas ▄▄▄ ▄ ▄▄▄ ▄▄▄ ▄ 02:50, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I followed the link to "the instructions" from this new category I created - 'Category:Musicians with Dystonia' - but I don't understand what I'm supposed to do. Thank you in advance for more instructions. Kire1975 (talk) 23:48, 5 May 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Belated thanks for your note. I have deleted the redirect :Category:Musicians with Dystonia which was left by moving the page to :Category:Musicians with dystonia, and added some instructions about keeping or deleting redirects. – Fayenatic London 08:05, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  The instructions 

message: Template:Category redirect has been listed at Templates for discussion (nomination), but it was protected, so it could not be tagged. Please add:

to the top of the page to complete the nomination. Thank you. HouseBlastertalk 14:53, 15 December 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 16:32, 15 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit request to complete TfD nomination 

message: Description of suggested change:
Add the skin-invert to the icon per 
Diff:
 Andumé  (talk) 02:07, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: . P.I. Ellsworth , ed. put'er there 04:22, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit request 22 May 2024