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Rd232 (talk) 14:29, 26 November 2011 (UTC)

官報

How is Category:官報 not a meta category? Anything that would be in it could (and should) be sorted into one of the yearly categories. ···日本穣 ^{Talk to Nihonjoe} 23:07, 1 December 2025 (UTC)

@Nihonjoe: Hello, Nihonjoe. Thanks for your question.

A metacat's name needs to indicate what the grouping criterion (sometimes called sort criterion) is for the category. This one doesn't do that. If the name were "官報 by year", then it would be a metacategory. Without that, you could use {{CatCat}} instead.

The content here does look like a metacat, though, so I would recommend renaming the category by moving it to "官報 by year", or even "Official Gazette (Japan) by year" to match the parent category.

I hope this helps. If you would like to rename the category and would like help doing it, let me know. -- Auntof6 (talk) 23:14, 1 December 2025 (UTC)

Nature by date / location

Please, stop reverting. This categorisation is a total mess, and your edits not doing it inch better. ~Fleur~ 13:32, 17 December 2025 (UTC)

@Fleur-de-farine: I am in the process of explaining it on your talk page. Your edits were incorrect, and I hope my explanation will help. -- Auntof6 (talk) 13:34, 17 December 2025 (UTC)

With more complex double / triple intersections that template doesn’t work, so it’s better to remove it. ~Fleur~ 13:42, 17 December 2025 (UTC)

@Fleur-de-farine: Which template? -- Auntof6 (talk) 13:43, 17 December 2025 (UTC)

DMC. It’s fine, but only with one parameter (by city or by date etc), but when we need more precise categorisation (Art by date by country, Bridges by city by material by country etc) it doesn’t help. In these cases better to remove it, as for my opinion. ~Fleur~ 13:51, 17 December 2025 (UTC)

@Fleur-de-farine: Yes, I think there are many people who don't like that template for that very reason. It's true that it doesn't always add the categories you'd want. There's always the nocat parameter if you want to use that, but coding metacat directly is also fine. -- Auntof6 (talk) 13:58, 17 December 2025 (UTC)

Please look at the Category:Nature by year by country : with all three parameters template still gives a notice (but it’s metacat). I also think that DMC shows too much of visual garbage, unfortunately. ~Fleur~ 14:05, 17 December 2025 (UTC)

@Fleur-de-farine: I assume you mean this version, before I changed it again. The "nature" parameter didn't belong there. When you have a category with a name like "X by Y by Z", the syntax for the MetaCat template is this:

{{MetaCat|z|y}}

Note that the y and z parameter appear in a different order in the metacat parameters than they do in the category name.

With the DMC template, the syntax is this:

{{DMC|x|y|z}}

Note that these parameters appear in the same order as in the category name, and the main topic ("nature", in this case) is specified. That "visual garbage" can be suppressed with a parameter, but you can also avoid it by just using the MetaCat template in the first place.

I know this can be complicated and confusing. I'm considered an expert in metacats, and even I have to stop and think sometimes to make sure I get it right. -- Auntof6 (talk) 14:15, 17 December 2025 (UTC)

Thank you for such a detailed explanation. It was very helpful and I’ll try to use these given prompts. :) ~Fleur~ 19:21, 17 December 2025 (UTC)

Deletion request

Hello dear Auntof6, happy new year! Wish you a smooth new year~ (Sorry for posting this so late, I’ve been busy earlier…)

Now, regarding the matter I would like to request. I have some requests for log deletion as follows:

The logs below are related to files I uploaded when I had just joined Commons (old and regrettable uploads). I have discussed this with the original image author, and both of us would like to hide these traces as much as possible.

First, Would you be able to remove the log details and log summaries for the following entries: Special:Redirect/logid/377020464, Special:Redirect/logid/377020465 and Special:Redirect/logid/377033064? These are the logs when I uploaded those pictures.

Next, the following entries are deletion logs. I would like the deleted pages to leave no visible deletion traces for non-administrators. Could you please remove the log details for these entries: Special:Redirect/logid/377025754, Special:Redirect/logid/383291734, Special:Redirect/logid/384388174 and Special:Redirect/logid/379556505?

That’s all. Thank you very much for your help~ ShuQizhe (talk) 15:29, 11 January 2026 (UTC)

Ah, sorry about that. After posting my message earlier, I felt it wasn’t quite complete, so I made a few follow-up edits… Sorry for the disturbance.

However… it seems that those log entries haven’t been removed yet… Actually, this is what I wanted your help with. Can you help me to remove them? ShuQizhe (talk) 03:50, 12 January 2026 (UTC)

@ShuQizhe: As far as I know, log entries cannot be removed. However, you might want to ask at the admins' noticeboard, which is actually a better place to start with requests like this. -- Auntof6 (talk) 10:00, 12 January 2026 (UTC)

Alright, and once again, sorry for the earlier interruption. Thank you~ ShuQizhe (talk) 10:09, 12 January 2026 (UTC)

Your opinion on my rollbacker application

Hello, Auntof6. I’ve recently been active in cross-wiki anti-vandalism work, and I’m planning to apply for rollback rights on Commons as well. I believe my anti-vandalism experience should be sufficient, and I’ve also just applied for rollback rights on Wikidata. However, I’m a bit unsure whether my application would be approved at this point, mainly because the number of reverts I’ve made seems somewhat low. So I wanted to ask for your opinion — do you think it would be appropriate for me to apply for rollback rights now? Thank you. ShuQizhe (talk) 14:57, 2 February 2026 (UTC)

…hi? ShuQizhe (talk) 13:05, 4 February 2026 (UTC)

@ShuQizhe: Please be patient. Sometime real life gets in the way of online time, and it can take more than two days to get to things here. (Not to mention that you yourself never replied to messages I left on your talk page.)

That being said, I looked at your contributions for things you reverted. A lot of them were reverting yourself (it happens, I know!), and there just weren't a lot of other reverts. If you think I'm missing something, you can either point to specific things or just go ahead and apply to see what other admins think. -- Auntof6 (talk) 23:34, 4 February 2026 (UTC)

Ah… I actually replied to your earlier messages on my talk page directly on your talk page… (quite a few people do that on my home wiki)

I thought you might not want to reply to me… sorry about that.

Alright, I’ll try submitting the request later. Thank you very much. ShuQizhe (talk) 04:14, 5 February 2026 (UTC)

Hi, I was busy again for a while… I’m now a rollbacker, so I just wanted to come by and let you know. Thank you for reviewing my contributions back then. 浅村しき (talk) 09:37, 11 February 2026 (UTC)

Chinese New Year

	Happy Chinese New Year
	Hello, Happy Chinese New Year! Wishing you a smooth and successful year ahead! 浅村しき (talk) 16:37, 16 February 2026 (UTC)

@ShuQizhe: Many thanks. :) -- Auntof6 (talk) 02:27, 17 February 2026 (UTC)

MetaCat (yet again)

Why are you removing the |topic= param, rather than updating it to |topic-cat= ? Andy Dingley (talk) 12:00, 17 February 2026 (UTC)

@Andy Dingley: Because:

• The topic parameters (there are 3) don't always equate to topic-cat. For example, I've seen metacats with names like "Buildings in Paris by height" coded as "Metacat|height|topic=Buildings|topic2=Paris". For that, you'd want the category "Buildings in Paris", not the categories "Buildings" and "Paris" separately. Because of this, I also disagree with the note on the MetaCat template that says the first topic parameter should be converted to topic-cat in most cases.
• I find that using topic-cat makes it harder to manage the categories because you have to change the parameter if you rename the category, rather than just moving things; therefore, I don't use it.
• In the example you link, converting to topic-cat wouldn't be appropriate because the category is already in Category:Locomotives by wheel arrangement.

Feel free to ask if you'd like any more info. -- Auntof6 (talk) 12:09, 17 February 2026 (UTC)

@Andy Dingley: Also, in most cases I've seen, if the topic indicated needs to be a category, the category is already hardcoded. -- Auntof6 (talk) 12:10, 17 February 2026 (UTC)

Of course the DRY principle (Don't Repeat Yourself) is a good one, but why favour the long-winded approach of manual categorisation rather than using the template (which I presume you're going to keep anyway?)

{{MetaCat|UIC classification|topic-cat=locomotives by wheel arrangement}}

should allow all that we need here. Even generating the interwiki links would be a possibility (I don't know why these don't appear in the message box, at least). Why have |UIC classification as a parameter, if you're against using templates? It seems strange to be enforcing using two different syntaxes on the same page and claiming this as an 'improvement'. Andy Dingley (talk) 12:48, 17 February 2026 (UTC)

@Andy Dingley: Yes, that code would provide all that we need. It just does it in a way that makes it harder to manage categories. I've seen too many cases where having categories assigned by templates made it more complicated.

I'm not against using templates. I'm just in favor of being very conservative when it comes to having them assign categories. -- Auntof6 (talk) 12:59, 17 February 2026 (UTC)