User:Fayenatic london/AB

Going above and beyond at WP:CFD
Categories_for_discussion/Log/2023_August_18 merged Category:Hindi songs and Category:Hindi-language songs to Category:Songs in Hindi.
 * Case study

This was processed by renaming one and merging the other. As the merged one had been the parent, the bot put the surviving category into itself. To fix this I looked at the categories on the deleted parent category, and put the needed ones back onto the surviving page instead of itself.

The deleted Category:Hindi-language songs also had the majority pattern in Category:Songs by language, so was liable to be re-used. I therefore undeleted it, redirected it, and added Old CfD on its talk page.

I suspected that both the old pages might have had interwiki links, so I checked the Wikidata contribs of JJMC89 bot III. This showed that Category:Hindi-language songs had been removed from a Wikidata item. I looked at that item and it still had four other-language Wikipedia links. Only one of these languages also had a page on the Wikidata item for Category:Songs in Hindi, namely Urdu.

I merged and redirected the least-used Urdu category to the better-used one. (I intend to make notes on how to do that later.)

Then I removed that Urdu category redirect from its Wikidata item, then merged the two Wikidata items. I updated the name of the Wikidata item, leaving both old names in "Also known as".

I checked incoming links to both the old category pages. There were two user drafts, on which I updated the category. One was an initial draft for a page later created in draftspace which had been deleted, and the user had been blocked, so I deleted that page under WP:U5. The other was an old initial draft for a live article that had later been edited by the user in question, so I blanked that as WP:COPYARTICLE to save future maintenance.

Only four of the above actions remain visible in my enwiki contributions.

Apart from the first step (fixing recursion), none of this is required as standard practice, but it gives me satisfaction.