Template talk:Monthly clean-up category
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Purge cache
Great template! However, the "purge server cache" link isn't working in a very intuitive fashion. For example, if you click the link in Category:Dead-end pages from August 2007, it takes you to Category:Wikify from October 2007.--Fabrictramp 21:25, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
Todo
- fix the purge - use SERVER PAGENAME etc.. currently in process of breaking it more.
- Done .. {{purge}} someone was here before...
- Remove month not necessary
- discuss TOC...
Rich Farmbrough, 16:01 2 October 2007 (GMT).
Suggestion
Would it feasable/worthwhile to get this to link to the previous/following month's worth, if it exists? -- Ratarsed (talk) 19:49, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
- It is feasible. I have written some templates that do that fro the international cinema by year articles. However I'm thinking of making the template auto calculate the month and year, so a simple wrapper would be needed. Actaully a wrapper/core might be the way to go anyway. Rich Farmbrough, 16:33, 13 October 2009 (UTC).
Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","
Some categories are displaying this message in red just after the Contents box:
Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","
It seems to happen whenever the total is over 999, for example Category:Unreferenced BLPs from March 2008 has: "The following 200 pages are in this category, out of 1,099 total."
All with problems are: Category:Unreferenced BLPs from March 2008, Category:Unreferenced BLPs from April 2008, Category:Unreferenced BLPs from October 2008 , Category:Unreferenced BLPs from December 2008, Category:Unreferenced BLPs from January 2009, Category:Unreferenced BLPs from February 2009, Category:Unreferenced BLPs from March 2009 and Category:Unreferenced BLPs from April 2009. Other categories are Ok. I could not find anything obvious in this template nor in the way it is transcluded in the categories. I tried purge cache too. 84user (talk) 23:14, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
Can we please make this template collapsible?
The list created by this template gets really long in some categories, such as Category:Merge by month and Category:Orphaned articles for example, leaving a big empty whitespace. An optional |collapse=yes
or |hide=yes
parameter would be really nice to have for these situations. Especially when the list of months is already duplicated in the "Subcategories" section below it, making the sidebar list really redundant. -- Ϫ 04:27, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
- Added to
{{Progress box}}
. Rich Farmbrough, 00:05, 14 October 2012 (UTC).
Combine boxes
Rather than producing two separate boxes like this:
this template should pass a parameter to {{wikipedia category}}
and produce this:
It also currently passes a useless inhibit parameter that isn't recognized by {{wikipedia category}}
. The following addresses this:
- Code moved to Template:Monthly clean-up category/core/sandbox for convenience. — Martin (MSGJ · talk)
Thanks Gurch (talk) 14:15, 16 June 2011 (UTC)
- Fixed your code and made a few other changes. Please confirm you are okay with these changes and I'll sync. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 11:45, 17 June 2011 (UTC)
- That looks OK. Note that the reason I didn't have
<includeonly>
's in the places you've put them is that the whole of Template:Monthly clean-up category/core is wrapped in<includeonly> ... </includeonly>
(as was my proposed replacement, before it was moved); I'll leave it up to you which method is better. Gurch (talk) 23:09, 17 June 2011 (UTC)
- That looks OK. Note that the reason I didn't have
Edit request on 1 December 2011
In the {{Db-g6}} code (within this template), please change "It" to "it" in the reason, as it appears as part of a sentence, and thus it should not be capitalized. The template currently shows up as "This category may meet Wikipedia's criteria for speedy deletion because It is a monthly clean-up category that has been emptied."
Logan Talk Contributions 00:23, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
- Done; thanks. Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) (talk) 11:46, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
Edit request
Why is this template set to tag categories for deletion at 2 months after the expiry of the category rather than the month after?
|{{#ifexpr:abs({{CURRENTYEAR}}*12+{{CURRENTMONTH}}-{{{year|0}}}*12-{{{monthno|0}}})>1
The 1 at the end should be changed to 0. — Train2104 (talk • contribs) 14:43, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
- You are asking a question, or requesting an edit? Let's wait for the answer first. Debresser (talk) 16:14, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
- I was requesting an edit, the rationale for which I stated in the form of a question. — Train2104 (talk • contribs) 20:44, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
- I had some dealings with this template one, and I asked Rich, who made it and is the expert on it,and I seem to remember that even though it says >1 and that should be 2, but it still comes down to 1, for some reason. Which is why I really think we should wait for Rich. Debresser (talk) 23:14, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
- Basically neither the current month,not the previous will be CSD'd. Obviously the current month can still have articles added to it. Less obviously the previous month can, for example by reverts, mistake and time difference. For example it is still January in parts of the US until well into the 1st of February. Comparing the two ills I prefer to leave a few empty categories rather than have categories continually created and destroyed. Rich Farmbrough, 23:17, 14 January 2012 (UTC).
- Basically neither the current month,not the previous will be CSD'd. Obviously the current month can still have articles added to it. Less obviously the previous month can, for example by reverts, mistake and time difference. For example it is still January in parts of the US until well into the 1st of February. Comparing the two ills I prefer to leave a few empty categories rather than have categories continually created and destroyed. Rich Farmbrough, 23:17, 14 January 2012 (UTC).
- I had some dealings with this template one, and I asked Rich, who made it and is the expert on it,and I seem to remember that even though it says >1 and that should be 2, but it still comes down to 1, for some reason. Which is why I really think we should wait for Rich. Debresser (talk) 23:14, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
- I was requesting an edit, the rationale for which I stated in the form of a question. — Train2104 (talk • contribs) 20:44, 14 January 2012 (UTC)