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Listas for "List of…" articles
Currently the template for List of Grateful Dead members has |listas=List of Grateful Dead members. Should this, and the hundreds of other similar cases, be re-arranged as such: |listas=Grateful Dead members, List of? --LukeSurl t c 14:00, 22 August 2018 (UTC)
Feedback sought for merger discussion at Adrienne Rich
Your feedback would be appreciated at Talk:Adrienne Rich#Merge discussion. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 19:07, 16 May 2019 (UTC)
TemplateData error
Bad JSON format. You can cancel this operation so you can correct it, delete the current
<templatedata>tags and try again, or continue to replace the current TemplateData with a new one.
@Christian75, I'm getting the above error when I attempt to edit TemplateData via the edit page button. Do you want to try to resolve the error rather than reverting the changes you made in late May? (not watching, please {{ping}} as needed) czar 09:52, 9 June 2019 (UTC)
- @Czar:I removed a "," - but I can not test it (because I do not know where you got the error). I'm only using json via the script User:Evad37/rater.js Christian75 (talk) 10:55, 9 June 2019 (UTC)
old peer review category
Hello. I've noticed that Category:Old requests for Biography peer review has been deleted since 2011, but still part of the Template:WikiProject Biography per the |old-peer-review= switch. Is there a reason for this inconsistency? Thanks! --MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 17:23, 3 August 2019 (UTC)
- It was deleted under WP:CSD#C1 by Skier Dude (talk · contribs). It should probably be undeleted, and marked
{{possibly empty category}}. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 18:33, 3 August 2019 (UTC)
Detecting use in user space
Category:User-Class biography articles is showing up in the Special:WantedCategories backlog because User:Auric has tagged a couple of articles such as User talk:Geo Swan/Abdul Hafiz (Guantanamo captive 1030) as "User" class after they were moved to user space. Per WP: REDNOT Auric should not have made an edit that left a page with red links to a category, but per WP:USERNOCAT this template shouldn't be creating categories when it's in user space anyway. I don't know how often bio articles get moved to user pages, but would it be worth doing some user space detection that disables categories on user pages? Le Deluge (talk) 12:56, 30 December 2019 (UTC)
- Sorry about that. I think I got that from Category:User-Class biography (military) articles. --Auric talk 13:03, 30 December 2019 (UTC)
- WP:USERNOCAT is about not putting user pages into content categories. Categories with names like "Foo-Class bar articles" are not content categories, they contain only talk pages. An example of a content category is Category:Afghan extrajudicial prisoners of the United States, from which the user page User:Geo Swan/Abdul Hafiz (Guantanamo captive 1030) has correctly been excluded. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 22:40, 30 December 2019 (UTC)