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This template was considered for deletion on 2018 June 23. The result of the discussion was "speedy keep". |
I think the following text in the template:
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...but instead that it is sorted by either the first letter following the at sign or by the surname of the subject – the preferred sort key for human names..."
...should be changed to read the following:
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...but instead that it is sorted by the first letter following the at sign..."
...The reason for this is that we are not sorting these redirects by the name of their target, but rather the name of the redirect. This category currently contains a mixture of redirects which target not only biographical subjects, but also companies, television shows, and other various forms of media. For this reason, the text should be readjusted as I propose so that readers are not confused why, for example, a redirect that starts with "@J" shows up under the "B" section of Category:Redirects from Twitter usernames. (Pinging Paine Ellsworth.) Steel1943 ( talk) 19:32, 23 June 2018 (UTC)
To editors Steel1943, QYYZ and Compassionate727: just fyi, all the redirects in Category:Redirects from Twitter usernames have been correctly sorted by the new criteria, that is, by the first letter/number/symbol that follows the @ sign, and all unnecessary hard category links have been removed from them. Paine Ellsworth put'r there 08:08, 29 June 2018 (UTC)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Murals, Ancient}}
and we want a certain category to sort to the A's, we would use [[Category:Murals|Ancient Murals]]
to override the default sortkey. I know of no way to do that with redirect categorization where templates are used to categorize each redirect (I've tried). I would surmise that the creators of template categorization probably didn't think this would result in any major problems for the bots that monitor the categories.
Paine Ellsworth
put'r there 10:18, 3 July 2018 (UTC)
[[Category:Redirects from Twitter usernames|name without @ sign]]
to the redirect. Omit the DEFALTSORT key althogether because it should categorize with the @ sign in most categories. The category with the sortkey would need to be added manually, but so does the DEFAULTSORT, so it's not any extra effort. —
Compassionate727 (
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[[Category:Category for talk page archives|{{BASEPAGENAME}}]]
to {{
archive}}. The problem is that there isn't a magic word that omits a specified character from a title. But I don't see how any of this is relevant. Categorizing via templates is preferred because it's easier and tells searchers and editors what the redirect is and does, which helps with maintenance. We can add both {{R from Twitter username}}
and [[Category:Redirects from Twitter usernames|Title without @ sign]]
with no more effort than adding {{R from Twitter username}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Title without @ sign}}
and to the exact same effect, save for the benefit of properly categorizing in other categories. Is there a page somewhere explaining why we cannot use directly transcluded categories that I'm missing? —
Compassionate727 (
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Steel1943 and QYYZ, do you have any thoughts? — Compassionate727 ( T· C) 01:39, 6 July 2018 (UTC)
Redirect Template‑class | |||||||
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This template was considered for deletion on 2018 June 23. The result of the discussion was "speedy keep". |
I think the following text in the template:
"
...but instead that it is sorted by either the first letter following the at sign or by the surname of the subject – the preferred sort key for human names..."
...should be changed to read the following:
"
...but instead that it is sorted by the first letter following the at sign..."
...The reason for this is that we are not sorting these redirects by the name of their target, but rather the name of the redirect. This category currently contains a mixture of redirects which target not only biographical subjects, but also companies, television shows, and other various forms of media. For this reason, the text should be readjusted as I propose so that readers are not confused why, for example, a redirect that starts with "@J" shows up under the "B" section of Category:Redirects from Twitter usernames. (Pinging Paine Ellsworth.) Steel1943 ( talk) 19:32, 23 June 2018 (UTC)
To editors Steel1943, QYYZ and Compassionate727: just fyi, all the redirects in Category:Redirects from Twitter usernames have been correctly sorted by the new criteria, that is, by the first letter/number/symbol that follows the @ sign, and all unnecessary hard category links have been removed from them. Paine Ellsworth put'r there 08:08, 29 June 2018 (UTC)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Murals, Ancient}}
and we want a certain category to sort to the A's, we would use [[Category:Murals|Ancient Murals]]
to override the default sortkey. I know of no way to do that with redirect categorization where templates are used to categorize each redirect (I've tried). I would surmise that the creators of template categorization probably didn't think this would result in any major problems for the bots that monitor the categories.
Paine Ellsworth
put'r there 10:18, 3 July 2018 (UTC)
[[Category:Redirects from Twitter usernames|name without @ sign]]
to the redirect. Omit the DEFALTSORT key althogether because it should categorize with the @ sign in most categories. The category with the sortkey would need to be added manually, but so does the DEFAULTSORT, so it's not any extra effort. —
Compassionate727 (
T·
C) 20:38, 3 July 2018 (UTC)
[[Category:Category for talk page archives|{{BASEPAGENAME}}]]
to {{
archive}}. The problem is that there isn't a magic word that omits a specified character from a title. But I don't see how any of this is relevant. Categorizing via templates is preferred because it's easier and tells searchers and editors what the redirect is and does, which helps with maintenance. We can add both {{R from Twitter username}}
and [[Category:Redirects from Twitter usernames|Title without @ sign]]
with no more effort than adding {{R from Twitter username}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Title without @ sign}}
and to the exact same effect, save for the benefit of properly categorizing in other categories. Is there a page somewhere explaining why we cannot use directly transcluded categories that I'm missing? —
Compassionate727 (
T·
C) 23:05, 3 July 2018 (UTC)
Steel1943 and QYYZ, do you have any thoughts? — Compassionate727 ( T· C) 01:39, 6 July 2018 (UTC)