Wikipedia talk:Special:UnusedCategories
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redirects
This Special page would be more useful if it excluded category redirects. Stepheng3 (talk) 00:14, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
Suggest removing redirects from this list
There are currently a lot of redirects on this list such as
- Also skip categories that contain talk) 01:14, 25 May 2012 (UTC)]
- This. It makes actually empty categories stand out. talk) 06:08, 20 August 2016 (UTC)]
- This. It makes actually empty categories stand out.
- To editors GeoffreyT2000, Vanisaac and Hello71: If any of you are interested, it may help to get some action on this if you subscribe and/or comment on the Phabricator ticket. —swpbT 15:15, 26 January 2017 (UTC)]
- To editors GeoffreyT2000, Vanisaac and Hello71: The ticket to fix this is on the developer wishlist; if you want to see it acted on, you can vote for it there. —swpbT 19:10, 7 February 2017 (UTC)]
RfC on redirect categories
The consensus is that the special page should exclude categories that are solely redirects. Cunard (talk) 02:03, 21 November 2016 (UTC)
- The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
Relisted RfC that asked "Should the special page exclude categories that are solely redirects?" Cunard (talk) 23:13, 9 October 2016 (UTC)
Should the special page exclude categories that are solely redirects?
- Support I agree that category redirects should be excluded from talk) 02:25, 10 September 2016 (UTC)]
- Relisting comment: Relisted RfC to generate more input. Cunard (talk) 23:13, 9 October 2016 (UTC)
- RFCbot invite - Support. Redirect categories that need to be deleted along with the category it redirects to can be speedy deleted under the G8 criterion - and should show up in reports and tools as being eligible - and those that don't meet G8 need to be investigated under a different process. There very well could be a justification for a separate Special:UnusedRedirectCategories if someone decides that's a maintenance task worthy of pursuing, but those redirect categories definitely don't belong here. VanIsaacWScont 06:26, 19 October 2016 (UTC)]
- Support for the reasons given above. ⁓ Hello71 13:47, 30 October 2016 (UTC)
- The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
Frequency of updates to list
Any chance this list could be updated daily? It includes a lot of categories that are, unfortunately, excluded from the database empty categories list. It would be very helpful to see it daily rather than every 3 days. Thanks. Liz Read! Talk! 17:29, 20 April 2022 (UTC)