Template talk:IoT: Difference between revisions
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To summarize, I suggest replacing every occurrence of <code><nowiki>{{IoT}}</nowiki></code> with <code><nowiki>[[Category:Temperaments]]</nowiki></code>, using ReplaceText, and then deprecating this template. This would have to be done by an admin. Any thoughts? --[[User:Fredg999|Fredg999]] ([[User talk:Fredg999|talk]]) 21:21, 28 February 2022 (UTC) | To summarize, I suggest replacing every occurrence of <code><nowiki>{{IoT}}</nowiki></code> with <code><nowiki>[[Category:Temperaments]]</nowiki></code>, using ReplaceText, and then deprecating this template. This would have to be done by an admin. Any thoughts? --[[User:Fredg999|Fredg999]] ([[User talk:Fredg999|talk]]) 21:21, 28 February 2022 (UTC) | ||
: I decided to do the categorization via template to change the name of the category later. So take [[:Category:Temperaments]] as the “index of temperaments” and just change the category name within this template. But do whatever you think is right. --[[User:Xenwolf|Xenwolf]] ([[User talk:Xenwolf|talk]]) 22:37, 28 February 2022 (UTC) | |||
Revision as of 22:37, 28 February 2022
Merge categories and deprecate this template?
I think that Category:Index of temperaments and Category:Temperaments should be merged. I'd prefer keeping the latter; categories usually don't start with "Index of...", because that's just what categories are: they're indexes of wiki pages.
Right now, both categories are used for the same purpose, but pages are placed in them in different ways: with a template in the first case, and normally ("by hand") in the second case. I'm not convinced by the design choice of using a template for the sole reason of placing pages in a single category. I understand that it acts as a shortcut, but it also means that Cat-a-lot cannot handle the category added by the template; I would need ReplaceText to do that, and that requires admin privileges. Of course, I could simply edit the IoT template as needed, but that wouldn't fix the problem I just mentioned, even though it would solve the category merging.
To summarize, I suggest replacing every occurrence of {{IoT}} with [[Category:Temperaments]], using ReplaceText, and then deprecating this template. This would have to be done by an admin. Any thoughts? --Fredg999 (talk) 21:21, 28 February 2022 (UTC)
- I decided to do the categorization via template to change the name of the category later. So take Category:Temperaments as the “index of temperaments” and just change the category name within this template. But do whatever you think is right. --Xenwolf (talk) 22:37, 28 February 2022 (UTC)