https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33553
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Bug #: 33553
Summary: User:Babel AutoCreate creating categories it shouldn't
Product: Wikimedia
Version: unspecified
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: General/Unknown
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
Classification: Unclassified
First and foremost I apologize if this is not the correct location to be
reporting this, but http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Babel_AutoCreate says to
report here any "Categories we want disabled". Additionally when I brought
this up on the Mediawiki talk page for the babel extension I was directed here.
I'm having a problem with this bot re-creating a category I salted, at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:User_simple-3.
I'm not sure why this bot should have administrative capability of being able
to recreate creation protected pages. Presumably if a page is creation
protected, this bot should not be going in and recreating it.
In any case, this CfD:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/User/Archive/February_2008#Category:User_simple_and_all_subcategories
concluded that all the simple categories should be merged with the parent
category. Therefore:
User_simple-1
User_simple-2
User_simple-3
User_simple-4
User_simple-N
Should be disabled from being created. At the time of the CfD User_simple-5
had not been created so it wasn't included, but there's no logical reason to
allow that one either, so please disable that as well.
Furthermore, I noticed this bot also recreated the previously deleted User
bat-smg series of categories. This was originally deleted here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/User/Archive/September_2007#Category:User_bat-smg
and later re-deleted here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/User/Archive/September_2008#Category:User_bat-smg
While those debates only included Category:User bat-smg and Category:User
bat-smg-3 (the only two existing at the time), again there would be no logical
reason, based on the discussions, to exclude Category:User bat-smg-1,
Category:User bat-smg-2, Category:User bat-smg-4, Category:User bat-smg-5, and
Category:User bat-smg-N as well.
Therefore, please disable both of these categories trees from being created.
Ideally this bot should not have the permissions to recreate salted categories
so someone wouldn't have to file a bug report each time a babel user category
is deleted (admittedly rare, but as above you can tell it happens from time to
time).
Thanks
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