User talk:とある白い猫/Archive/2016/11

Nomination for deletion of Template:TS
Template:TS has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. — billinghurst  sDrewth  05:15, 13 November 2016 (UTC)

CIA World Factbook (for bot)
A bot can be utilized to correct the directory change of the CIA World Factbook.
 * Sample page with issue: WikiProject Sudan
 * Bad Directory and Redirect: https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/su.html
 * Correct Directory and Redirect: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/su.html

Twillisjr (talk) 20:53, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

The suggestions were made for the following:
 * Use: (See Code)
 * Helpful Template Link 1: Template:CIA World Factbook
 * Helpful Template Link 2: Template:CIA World Factbook link

Twillisjr (talk) 21:04, 15 November 2016 (UTC)
 * As per your request the bot processed CIA World Factbook urls query (actual list) that lists all pages using the old/broken URL. Re-run of the query reveals 7 continued uses I will investigate. At a glance they seem to be protected pages.
 * In the next step, I will process CIA World Factbook urls in articles query which lists all articles that use the new URL such that they benefit the templates you suggested. This will take a considerable amount of time since some of the listed pages already use the template or use other templates such as citation templates.
 * -- A Certain White Cat chi? 13:24, 16 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Wonderful. Twillisjr (talk) 17:59, 17 November 2016 (UTC)

Redirects to redirects-with-possibilities
Hi! I recently created some redirects with possibilities containing diacritics (Småland (cattle), Skåne (cattle), Herrgård), and then created redirects to them without those diacritics to make them easier to find. Your bot has changed those diacritic-free pages to redirect directly to the destination article. That seems to go directly against the advice given at Category:Redirects with possibilities: "Do not retarget links to these redirects directly to the article to which they redirect". Could you get the bot to ignore redirects of this particular type in future? Obviously I won't bother changing the pages back until that's been done. Many thanks for all your useful work, Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 17:41, 23 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Hello, the bot processes Special:Doubleredirects which is when a redirect points to a redirect. My suggestion would be to use soft redirects which would not appear on the special page if you want to keep it in redirect form. Another possibility is to create stub articles if you think the topic has enough content for an expansion. Thirdly creating sections in the main article for the individual breed and redirecting to those sections specifically is also an option. The last one I mentioned would probably be the easiest and my preferred option. -- A Certain White Cat chi? 11:45, 24 November 2016 (UTC)

Category:TempCatForname_trans
Hi. Could you take a look at my question at Template talk:Infobox eSports player? Thanks. --Paul_012 (talk) 01:13, 27 November 2016 (UTC)
 * I am a bit puzzled why you asked me this question. -- A Certain White Cat chi? 19:37, 27 November 2016 (UTC)
 * I ask because it appears that you added the category to the template in this edit. --Paul_012 (talk) 04:32, 28 November 2016 (UTC)
 * I probably created it for temporary usage and then forgot about it. Probably to check a parameter. I think it can be removed and speedy deleted. A nomination is an overkill. Do you need bot help to remove it from individual pages? -- A Certain White Cat chi? 21:27, 28 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Okay, thanks. It only appears to be referred to via the template, so no bot work is needed. --Paul_012 (talk) 02:47, 29 November 2016 (UTC)