Category talk:English terms suffixed with -phytic

RFD discussion: April 2024
Empty. All English terms ending in 'phytic' are terms composed of -phyte + -ic. DCDuring (talk) 21:03, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Speedied as an empty category- something you could have done yourself. Aside from maintenance categories, just about any category with plain auto cat that has no parameters can be deleted without losing any content. Benwing2 runs a script at least once a month that deletes all the empty categories that are eligible, anyway. Chuck Entz (talk) 03:39, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Who knew? DCDuring (talk) 16:23, 28 April 2024 (UTC)
 * @DCDuring It's been happening for months. Theknightwho (talk) 17:10, 28 April 2024 (UTC)
 * I don't actually spend much time monitoring scripts or bots. I had long assumed that such things would be announced somewhere. But in the current regime that does not seem to be the case. DCDuring (talk) 17:43, 28 April 2024 (UTC)
 * : You might have noticed that "Empty category" is one of the listed reasons in the deletion menu, as it has been for many years. Perhaps my extensive work with categories in the "catboiler" period has given me more exposure due to deletion and recreation of things on my watchlist, but this is very old news. It was started by Mewbot perhaps a decade ago, and Wingerbot just picked it up after Mewbot stopped. I can't remember the last time anyone objected to deletion of an empty category. That said, removing a category from the modules is different- that usually requires RFDO so that no one can recreate the category. In that respect, my response was somewhat misleading. Chuck Entz (talk) 22:00, 28 April 2024 (UTC)
 * @DCDuring I don't think anyone wants to have notices for hundreds of categories being deleted simply because they're empty. It would serve no purpose, because nothing of value is being removed. Theknightwho (talk) 00:55, 29 April 2024 (UTC)
 * I doubt that anyone wants to get chided for following a deletion process that duplicates another one also taking place from time to time. DCDuring (talk) 11:39, 29 April 2024 (UTC)
 * @DCDuring If you really want some kind of vote on this we can do that, but I don't think anyone wants this page to be clogged up with empty category deletions, and I doubt anyone wants to maintain a list of them either. Theknightwho (talk) 11:46, 29 April 2024 (UTC)
 * I was complaining about being chided. Not clogging common resources, like this page, other request pages, BP, TR, Special:Wanted[Pages|Categories|Templates] etc. with junk of marginal utility has my enthusiastic support . I have 'nowiki'ed template mentions on my talk pages and some of my user subpages that generated the sole "wants" for some templates. The number of deleted templates, pages, and categories that clog 'Special' likely exceeds 24,000, based on transclusions of undefined and its siblings. DCDuring (talk) 14:19, 29 April 2024 (UTC)