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)

As it turned out, Special:ReplaceText seems kind of broken in this wiki, it produces SQL syntax errors. So one option would be to do it by hand (it's this list that provides direct edit links). We could deprecate it first and make this obvious to people who use the preview function (BTW: the access key is p). --Xenwolf (talk) 19:46, 1 March 2022 (UTC)

The replacement is now done. @Fredg999 Would you please do the deprecation part? Thanks in advance. --Xenwolf (talk) 21:38, 1 March 2022 (UTC)

The deprecation part is done. Please let me know if there is anything else we should do here. --Fredg999 (talk) 03:53, 2 March 2022 (UTC)

Maybe this template and talk page should be deleted as well? @Fredg999 do you see anything that would argue against that? --Xenwolf (talk) 16:10, 27 October 2022 (UTC)