Thread:User talk:CodeCat/Template:term/reply (3)


 * 1) That doesn't exclude trivial edits such as these.
 * 2) It doesn't change the functionality of the template itself, as pages still look the same.
 * 3) No I didn't, and in any case I don't understand why having a long job queue for a short time is bad. The job queue exists in the first place to spread the load, for exactly these kinds of situations.
 * 4) I'm not really promoting any opinion. Not all cleanup categories are errors. For example, Category:Entries with Pronunciation n headers doesn't say whether such headers are always bad, it just keeps track of them.
 * 5) Not everyone is able to use XML dumps because they don't know how. But now that you mentioned this, I thought of the bot that adds entries to a cleanup category when  isn't used right. A bot like that might be useful in this case because it can sort the entries by the language section they appear in as well.
 * 6) My experience with discussion is that it works when there aren't too many conflicting opinions. But as we've seen with the number-numeral problem or the question of UK and US spellings, sometimes discussion doesn't really get anywhere. A lot of discussions stagnate and people just forget about them until someone brings it up again, which is rather frustrating. The general sentiment seems to be 'we have a problem, but we don't know what to do about it because we can't agree, so let's pretend it doesn't exist'.
 * 7) Better is subjective.

I've undone the change now because I didn't expect this many entries in the category. There are so many now that it's pretty useless for cleanup purposes so I might as well. And I think the solution I mentioned under point 5 is better too.