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:::Basically, I want there to be only one cities category for most pages, corresponding to most specific ''known'' location. And I agree that there aren't enough cities for certain states to warrant their own category, so I would put [[Philadelphia]] and [[Colombia]] in "Cities in the United States" and remove them from "Cities." The same for countries; [[Dushanbe]] would go in just [[:Category:Cities]] since there's never going to be a "Countries in Tajikistan" category. The only exception to the one-category rule would be for the L.A. area, as it seems wrong to me to put cities in there and then leave them out of California, so to speak. I don't predict there being any more local area categories like that so it would be the one exception. --[[User:Pyramidhead|Pyramidhead]] ([[User talk:Pyramidhead|talk]]) 19:29, August 9, 2013 (UTC) |
:::Basically, I want there to be only one cities category for most pages, corresponding to most specific ''known'' location. And I agree that there aren't enough cities for certain states to warrant their own category, so I would put [[Philadelphia]] and [[Colombia]] in "Cities in the United States" and remove them from "Cities." The same for countries; [[Dushanbe]] would go in just [[:Category:Cities]] since there's never going to be a "Countries in Tajikistan" category. The only exception to the one-category rule would be for the L.A. area, as it seems wrong to me to put cities in there and then leave them out of California, so to speak. I don't predict there being any more local area categories like that so it would be the one exception. --[[User:Pyramidhead|Pyramidhead]] ([[User talk:Pyramidhead|talk]]) 19:29, August 9, 2013 (UTC) |
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::::I see, that all makes sense - I guess it will be obvious on the [[:Category:Cities in the United States]] page that there are more contained in the subcategories. Sounds good!--[[user:Acer4666|Acer4666]] ([[User talk:Acer4666|talk]]) 21:48, August 9, 2013 (UTC) |
::::I see, that all makes sense - I guess it will be obvious on the [[:Category:Cities in the United States]] page that there are more contained in the subcategories. Sounds good!--[[user:Acer4666|Acer4666]] ([[User talk:Acer4666|talk]]) 21:48, August 9, 2013 (UTC) |
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| + | :Got another one: I'd like to add a DEFAULTSORT to every character page that doesn't have one yet and needs one. I don't know why on earth so many use the pipe on every single category, but I'm noticing a bunch of them are getting improperly sorted in all the new categories. --[[User:Pyramidhead|Pyramidhead]] ([[User talk:Pyramidhead|talk]]) 19:20, August 12, 2013 (UTC) |
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Revision as of 19:20, 12 August 2013
Forum: The Situation Room > Bot edit policy proposal
This is a policy proposal: whenever a large series of repetitive edits (whether they are automated by a bot account or simply done by a regular account en masse) are planned by any contributor, the contributor must first post their intent and wait 48 hours for consensus by silence or discussion. This is to ensure that everyone who has ideas related to the edits can weigh in. Blue Rook talk contribs 19:27, September 15, 2010 (UTC)
- I agree. I'm obviously not the best judge of what constitutes an allowable mass change, and as you said, it'll be much better to get everyone's opinion before doing anything. --Pyramidhead 19:43, September 15, 2010 (UTC)
- In case anyone starts panicking, the changes the bot's currently busy with are just changing back the sidebars to the original template. Nothing drastic going on. --Pyramidhead 20:11, September 15, 2010 (UTC)
Adding release dates
I'm planning to use the bot to add the DVD/VHS/Blu-ray release dates to the sidebar on each episode page. --Pyramidhead 23:50, September 22, 2010 (UTC)
- I added a param to the sidebar template that will turn the OOU line on or off, regardless of what other parameters are present. Right now the bot is adding "line = 1" to the appropriate pages. --Pyramidhead 02:13, October 14, 2010 (UTC)
Some edits
- The current category is preventing me from making an in-universe Music category under Category:Culture. This would be similar to Memory Alpha's use of "Star Trek music".
- Similarly, prevents the creation of an in-universe Magazines category to go under Category:News media. Also, current name is misleading as it's really just cataloging one single magazine.
- Category:FBI agents → Category:FBI personnel
- For consistency with other categories, plus not all FBI employees are agents.
- Rework city page categories
- Now that there are a number of them, I'm not a fan of putting cities in every possible category they belong to, as it defeats the purpose of all the subcategories. What I propose is to limit each page to one "Cities in..." page, either the state or country where they are located, except for ones in a more localized area. So Los Angeles would go in both Cities in California and Cities in the Los Angeles area, while Phoenix would go in Cities in Arizona only, and Berlin would go in Cities in Germany only. This is based on Wikipedia's system. --Pyramidhead (talk) 18:00, August 9, 2013 (UTC)
- I agree with the top 3 but think I need clarification on the last point. What sub-categories are going to be created? At the moment it seems that "Cities in Los Angeles" is the only subcategory more localised than state, but will there be others? And which state ones will be created? For example, I believe Pittsburgh is currently the only Pennsylvania city on the wiki, so will "cities in pennsylvania" be created with only that article in - and what about Columbia, whose state hasn't been mentioned in the 24verse?--Acer4666 (talk) 18:50, August 9, 2013 (UTC)
- Basically, I want there to be only one cities category for most pages, corresponding to most specific known location. And I agree that there aren't enough cities for certain states to warrant their own category, so I would put Philadelphia and Colombia in "Cities in the United States" and remove them from "Cities." The same for countries; Dushanbe would go in just Category:Cities since there's never going to be a "Countries in Tajikistan" category. The only exception to the one-category rule would be for the L.A. area, as it seems wrong to me to put cities in there and then leave them out of California, so to speak. I don't predict there being any more local area categories like that so it would be the one exception. --Pyramidhead (talk) 19:29, August 9, 2013 (UTC)
- I see, that all makes sense - I guess it will be obvious on the Category:Cities in the United States page that there are more contained in the subcategories. Sounds good!--Acer4666 (talk) 21:48, August 9, 2013 (UTC)
- Basically, I want there to be only one cities category for most pages, corresponding to most specific known location. And I agree that there aren't enough cities for certain states to warrant their own category, so I would put Philadelphia and Colombia in "Cities in the United States" and remove them from "Cities." The same for countries; Dushanbe would go in just Category:Cities since there's never going to be a "Countries in Tajikistan" category. The only exception to the one-category rule would be for the L.A. area, as it seems wrong to me to put cities in there and then leave them out of California, so to speak. I don't predict there being any more local area categories like that so it would be the one exception. --Pyramidhead (talk) 19:29, August 9, 2013 (UTC)
- I agree with the top 3 but think I need clarification on the last point. What sub-categories are going to be created? At the moment it seems that "Cities in Los Angeles" is the only subcategory more localised than state, but will there be others? And which state ones will be created? For example, I believe Pittsburgh is currently the only Pennsylvania city on the wiki, so will "cities in pennsylvania" be created with only that article in - and what about Columbia, whose state hasn't been mentioned in the 24verse?--Acer4666 (talk) 18:50, August 9, 2013 (UTC)
- Got another one: I'd like to add a DEFAULTSORT to every character page that doesn't have one yet and needs one. I don't know why on earth so many use the pipe on every single category, but I'm noticing a bunch of them are getting improperly sorted in all the new categories. --Pyramidhead (talk) 19:20, August 12, 2013 (UTC)