Template talk:Tracking category

Example of ALTTEXT
 
 * Call example:


 * results in:

Example above removed from template page // Fra nkB 08:25, 8 February 2007 (UTC)


 * What are you talking about?  McLerristarr &#124;  Mclay1  10:12, 19 July 2011 (UTC)

Purpose
"This is a tracking category[.] It is used to build and maintain lists of pages—primarily for the sake of the lists themselves." Do lists have feelings, or am I misinterpreting this template? Hyacinth (talk) 23:00, 10 March 2018 (UTC)
 * They're called tracking categories because we use then to keep track of information, usually in order to find out which pages have, or do not have, a particular item of information. For example, the template has code that adds articles to, so by examining that category we know which articles are using that template. Another example is , which has code that adds articles to  - but only when the railexits1617 and raillowexits1617 parameters are both empty or missing; in this way we can find out which articles we still need to add usage statistics to. -- Red rose64 &#x1f339; (talk) 08:10, 11 March 2018 (UTC)

Empty category
about this, I had filed Bots/Requests for approval/MalnadachBot 14 to remove the duplicate empty category from category pages that transclude this template. Considering that a lot of tracking categories are often empty and to prevent admins from unnecessarily deleting them (see Bearcat's comment in BRFA), embedding it in this seems like a good idea. Will you consider restoring it and letting the bot remove duplicates? ಮಲ್ನಾಡಾಚ್ ಕೊಂಕ್ಣೊ (talk) 03:08, 7 February 2023 (UTC)


 * This is the kind of unnecessary hassle that can be avoided by embedding the template. I have restored it since the bot has been approved for trail and all duplicates will be removed soon. ಮಲ್ನಾಡಾಚ್ ಕೊಂಕ್ಣೊ (talk) 06:25, 8 February 2023 (UTC)