Template talk:IoT

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)

I changed the target category for now. I'm still unconvinced by the usage of this template, though. I don't think we'll have to move this category so often, and if we do need to do so, then we can do it with Cat-a-lot very easily. --Fredg999 (talk) 23:10, 28 February 2022 (UTC)

The template was introduced when the recategorization tool was not yet available, so its value is no longer present.It should also be a performance issue: direct categorization should be cheaper. That's why it should be deprecated. --Xenwolf (talk) 07:18, 1 March 2022 (UTC)

I will make the mass changes soon (and turn into a "bot" for this). --Xenwolf (talk) 11:01, 1 March 2022 (UTC)