User:AilurophobiaBot
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Task
AilurophobiaBot escapes categories that should only be used in articles but have been used in userspace pages. "Escape" in this context means to add a colon before the category link. For example [[Category:Living people]] becomes [[:Category:Living people]]. The result of this is that the page no longer appears in the category listing, but instead a link to the category is produced.
Why?
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When the page is moved into the article-space, the category links can be reactivated by removing the colon. For example; [[:Category:Living People]] would become [[Category:Living People]]
The reason for this is so that user pages or unfinished articles are not included in article categories, as this could cause confusion for a person using the categories to navigate or someone downloading Wikipedia content based on categories.
Think of a category as an ordinary list-type article; if you would not edit a list to include a link to the page then you should not include it in the category using a category link.
Ownership of the user space
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Name
The bot's name is a play on words; Ailurophobia is a fear of cats and in Wikipedia terminology "category" is usually abbreviated to "cat". Also, in modern contexts a fear usually correlates to a dislike of something. Therefore "AilurophobiaBot" is an automated process that dislikes cats.