User talk:Andy Dingley

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If you and Cryptic-waveform don't want people like me to "overcat", then please unhide Category:Images from the National Archives and Records Administration because the 466,944 images in it show up in Category:Media needing categories requiring human attention. This would be appreciated by "humans" like me who are wasting our time trying to reduce this enormous backlog. Thanks, Krok6kola (talk) 00:41, 4 May 2023 (UTC)

Discussed at your talk page. But we don't reduce a backlog by simply hiding it, from doing something that's generally useless but that just happens to make the tag go away. See also Commons:Categories for discussion/2023/04/Category:Public transport Andy Dingley (talk) 09:45, 4 May 2023 (UTC)

141 and 181

I am trying to add simpler categories for them to match the rest.89.240.14.140 11:53, 14 June 2023 (UTC)

Please stop. Yet again, like the GCR/LNER locos and the NER/LNER electrics you're causing chaos. Andy Dingley (talk) 11:54, 14 June 2023 (UTC)

That is Britain. And I am sorry about the 201/104 but I am talking about 141 and 181.89.240.14.140 11:55, 14 June 2023 (UTC)

Whether it's Britain or not doesn't make any difference. Although you seem unconcerned about the difference between North and South.

These are EMD locos of a defined type. We should preserve their listing in the EMD supercat, in a clear fashion. Now adding the CIÉ class is a good thing, because that's a recognisable name of them too. But we shouldn't do that at the cost of the other, and there's absolutely no need to. Andy Dingley (talk) 12:11, 14 June 2023 (UTC)

Commons:Deletion requests/File:Saiyan.jpg

Might be interested in this since you voted in the DR about Xinnie the Pooh Trade (talk) 02:10, 9 July 2023 (UTC)

Category:Scaffolding,_centring_&_shoring

Scaffolding, centring & shoring has been listed at Commons:Categories for discussion so that the community can discuss ways in which it should be changed. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry. If you created this category, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for discussion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it. If the category is up for deletion because it has been superseded, consider the notion that although the category may be deleted, your hard work (which we all greatly appreciate) lives on in the new category. In all cases, please do not take the category discussion personally. It is never intended as such. Thank you!

JopkeB (talk) 12:23, 24 July 2023 (UTC)

Over de template ANEFO photographer location|Loek Tangel|Tangel, Loek|Beek|Limburg|197|1|....

Beste Andy, Ik zag dat je Category:Photographs by Loek Tangel in Beek (1971) had veranderd. De oorzaak van de problemen ligt in de template. Zou jij het voor elkaar kunnen krijgen om Category:1971 in Limburg leeg te krijgen? Ik probeerde deze categorieën te verplaatsen naar Category:1971 in Limburg (Netherlands), maar dat lukte niet vanwege de template (templates zijn geweldige tools, behalve als ze je tegenwerken, zoals hier). Heb jij misschien meer verstand van templates dan ik?
(Ik dacht dat ik ergens had gezien dat je Nederlands spreekt, dus ik waag het er maar op. Antwoord anders in het Engels.) JopkeB (talk) 12:38, 7 September 2023 (UTC)

Translation (in the hope that I can get an answer too): I saw that you had changed Category:Photographs by Loek Tangel in Beek (1971). The cause of the problems lies in the template. Could you manage to clear Category:1971 in Limburg? I tried to move these categories to Category:1971 in Limburg (Netherlands), but that didn't work because of the template (templates are great tools, except when they work against you, like here). Do you perhaps know more about templates than I do? --JopkeB (talk) 12:23, 12 October 2023 (UTC)

Cfr. voorgaande opmerking, kan je een manier vinden om er voor te zorgen dat Category:Photographs by Gerard Dukker in Aalst (1973) NIET onder "Aalst by year" categoriseert, want dat is de verkeerde locatie (België) Henxter (talk) 11:01, 12 October 2023 (UTC)

Ah, the two Aalsts problem. Then it can't go into Category:1973 in Aalst, North Brabant or Category:Aalst, North Brabant by year because they don't exist. Andy Dingley (talk) 12:16, 12 October 2023 (UTC)

So, what might be the solution? Create these red categories? Adjust the template/create a template for this place? Or remove the template and add categories by hand? JopkeB (talk) 12:26, 12 October 2023 (UTC)

The template used to work fine for this ("Aalst, North Brabant" is already supplied as the right parameter for Commons) – some of the recent changes must have broken it. But it can't create categories from nowhere. Also it has always, deliberately, if there wasn't a "by year" already it favoured redlinking to a category for the year as an encouragement to create it. Andy Dingley (talk) 12:34, 12 October 2023 (UTC)