User talk:Derivative

Rather than redirecting EarthBound's subpages to Mother's, I think it would be better practice to move the EarthBound and Mother 3 sections out into their own pages.

They were double redirects, I was merely doing routine work. You'd need to see the history and talk to whoever redirected it in the first place.

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Nothing should be pointing into the Workshop (if something is, fix that, don't create a redirect). Once a trope launches out of the Workshop nothing should remain behind, otherwise the Workshop will end up being more fossil redirects than actual new trope proposals.

I was merely trying to fix broken redirects by pointing them to the new locations. I'm happy that I've basically been given the go-ahead to delete such when they occur. Thanks for the info.

No prob. One thing to check before you do anything along those lines is whether anything actually uses the potential redirect -- do that with the "What Links Here" tool in the sidebar. If nothing links to it, nuke it, don't (re)create it.

And then after clicking the "What Links Here", use the "Edit All" tab to MassEditRegex all of the old links to new locations :)

Lab, I've been having problems using regex anyway because regex seems to be impossible to learn.

Yeah, Regex isn't exactly the easiest thing in the world to understand. I'm a programmer in my day job, for pete's sake, and I barely grasp it.

This might help -- it's a regex tester website that will help you debug your expressions. I use it all the time. It also explains what is wrong when something's broken, and why, and usually how to fix it.

Thank you LT, it turns out I needed to use parentheses.

Cool. Glad I could help.

Huh, weird. I'm a programmer in my day job, and regex is like second nature to me. I think I mainly learned by reading man perlretut. Am I just odd or something?

It might be dependent on its prominence in our respective work. I'm not doing a lot where regex is the best tool for the job. I've done (and learned) more regex for my bot than I have for tasks in my day job.

It was accidental -- I'm on a tablet right now and brushed the wrong link. I hadn't even noticed it had happened before you fixed it.

No worries, I was a bit confused.

They're there for a reason.

I've made a lot of edits recently so you'll need to clarify what you exactly meant here.

You have been busy, yes. (Thank you!)

What prompted my comment was you removing "Category:Space Cadet" from "Space Cadet (novel)", "Space Cadet (novel)/YMMV", and "Eager Young Space Cadet". With the common category on the pages, people can click on it and see the other pages, so we don't need to clutter the pages with links back to the disambiguation page. Without the category on the pages, people might not even realize that the pages have a name in common.

Thank you for clarifying, because it made it now clear what you meant.

I was under the impression that I was just removing redundancies, and giving pages their correct categories by cleaning it up. You might see that that's been the general nature of my category-related edits. I don't recall this being mentioned in policy anywhere, and it's probably a wise idea if someone does so they don't repeat the same mistake.

On a side-note, a friend who I work with on other projects has potentially suggested the use of navboxes, what would you think how that would apply in the scope of ATT, because I think it is a rather good idea, and likely more effective than categories, which what we could call normies might not use.

I do like the idea of navboxes. I wish we had time to implement them.

That's the same as blanking the page, which is something that could earn you a tempban. Add the tag to the top of what's there; don't replace what's there with the tag.

All that's really ever been there is an empty category I believe in the cases you're talking about, I'm merely performing cleanup when it comes to consolidating categories per misspelling, punctuation, etc. Looney Toons never seemed to have a problem, neither did Geth.

Tell you what, in the interests of preventing heads from smashing together on this, just stick a delete tag on the page with a reason, leave the content be, and we'll take it from there.

Fair enough.

Actually, it did bug me, but I never got around to saying anything about it. I should have. Regardless, thank you for changing your usual practice on this.

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