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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:57, 15 October 2015 (UTC)

Category:Immediate children/

Hi. Why do categories such as Category:Immediate children/ and Category:Immediate children/Cichlidae exist? --MZMcBride (talk) 04:23, 19 October 2015 (UTC)

@MZMcBride: At one point, they were on Special:WantedCategories for a while, and so I would create them as they popped up, based on existing categories I had found when I started. It seems like a good majority of those categories have been emptied, however, and could probably be deleted. Avicennasis @ 09:48, 6 Cheshvan 5776 / 09:48, 19 October 2015 (UTC)
Cool, thanks. The empty categories (configuration) database report exploded in size recently and I was trying to figure out why. There's a thread on my talk page if you're curious. --MZMcBride (talk) 22:20, 19 October 2015 (UTC)

User:AvicBot/G13 and Google

Dear Avicennasis: I was doing a Google search and the tracking page above came up in the results. If that's what you intended, no problem, but just in case it was an oversight and you had intended the list to be private but forgot to add a "NOINDEX", I thought I would point it out.—Anne Delong (talk) 15:50, 31 October 2015 (UTC)

Templates

A month ago the bot made this edit. I was wondering if it would be possible to have the bot leave a message some place that a template page is redirected to a article page. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Sunasuttuq 00:04, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

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List of non-books

Hi. Here you created a list of non-books in the Book namespace. Could you create an up-to-date list and/or let me know how you generated the list? DexDor (talk) 20:10, 17 December 2015 (UTC)

I believe I used AWB, and made a list from "What transcludes page (all NS)" to {{Saved book}} and compared that against a list of all pages in the Book namespace from the latest database dump at the time. You would need a bot or admin account to duplicate this, since {{Saved book}} has ~39,830 transclusions, and AWB limits lists creation to 25,000 without a bot/admin account. If you don't mind waiting, I can get one made within a few days for you. If you need it sooner, you can ask at WP:BOTREQ and I'm sure someone will help. This could also probably be done via an SQL Query using Quarry, but I admit I lack the SQL skills needed to figure that out. Avicennasis @ 11:57, 6 Tevet 5776 / 11:57, 18 December 2015 (UTC)
@DexDor: is this still needed? I can help with SQL. --Edgars2007 (talk/contribs) 10:19, 21 January 2016 (UTC)
Thanks, I'm still interested, but at the moment I'm concentrating on anomalies that can be detected using category intersection. That has some limitations so to complete the matrix I'm working on other tools will be needed. DexDor (talk) 20:39, 21 January 2016 (UTC)

Happy New Year, Avicennasis!

Happy New Year!

Avicennasis,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia. Liz Read! Talk! 23:08, 31 December 2015 (UTC)


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