Duplicate cemetery category page [closed]

Question

Help please, this page is a duplicate, please make it go away? All cemetery residents are listed on the other page for this cemetery.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Holy_Hope_Cemetery_%26_Mausoleum%2C_Tucson%2C_Arizona

Thank you,
Russ Gunther
US Cemeteries subproject, Arizona state Cemeteries coordinator

Answer 1

I've marked it for deletion.  Give it until the next Bot ckeanup and it should disappear.  Seems one entry had 'and' while the other had '&".

Comments

Great, thank you!

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How does BOT know that the & and AND are not the same?

It might delete the wrong one. A better way would be to rename bad one and merge, leaving Bot out of it. Bot is not foolproof.

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I told it which one to delete by marking it 'Delete Category'

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Actually Bot is debugged and tested, It can handle & sign and does the job as it should be. The problem is, that users can't edit the category with & in it. 

That was the case also here. According to log, Holy_Hope_Cemetery was deleted.

• Processing Category:  Holy_Hope_Cemetery
  Last Save: Hvitfeldt-7, Gunther-113, Gunther-113, Gunther-113, Gunther-113, Gunther-113, 
  Deleting Category: Holy_Hope_Cemetery Done.

And it was deleted for the second time.

• 14:04, 17. oktober 2017 WikiTree-3 (Talk | prispevki | blokiraj) je izbrisal(-a) »Category:Holy Hope Cemetery« ‎ (BOT Maintainace) (Obnovi)
• 01:56, 24. junij 2017 WikiTree-3 (Talk | prispevki | blokiraj) je izbrisal(-a) »Category:Holy Hope Cemetery« ‎ (BOT Maintainace) (Obnovi)

So let me explain, how to edit the category with & in name.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Holy_Hope_Cemetery_%26_Mausoleum%2C_Tucson%2C_Arizona

As you can see in category URL, & is replaced with %26 which is correct. After you click edit link changes into this.

https://www.wikitree.com/index.php?title=Category:Holy%20Hope%20Cemetery%20&%20Mausoleum,%20Tucson,%20Arizona&action=edit

Where %26 is replaced with & and misdirects WikiTree into editing category only up to & sign. You must manually replace & in URL to %26 and you will be editing the correct category.

 

Due to this problem, & shouldn't be used in category name. Each day I prepare a list http://www.softdata.si/wt/Cat/All_Separators-And_0.htm of all categories with & in name, and all of them should be deleted or even better renamed or merged into correct one. Here are Editbots instructions https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:EditBOT.

 

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I get that, but the original post was asking that the Category with the & sign in it be removed completely as it has no profiles and is a duplicate of the one with the word 'and' which does have the profiles in it.

If the deletion is "done", isn't it gone?

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No, because you marked category Category:Holy Hope Cemetery to be deleted.

I will mark it now.

It is better to use Rename or Merge, since it will correct categories also in the future.

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OK, thanks Aleš.  I didn't understand that business with the & sign, but now I think I do.

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Aleš,

Going forward should I just post a request to Merge the incorrect category name into the correct category name? Will that then transfer all the profiles into the new correct category? 

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Or I guess I can just mark the incorrect category to Merge:

{{Merge Category|Holy Hope Cemetery and Mausoleum, Tucson, Arizona}}

Is this correct?

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That is correct. It will transfer all the profiles, subcategories and links to this category to a destination one. It will also merge content of the page.

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Awesome, much easier and quicker than getting pm's to migrate/update categories on all unopen profiles ...thanks!

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That was what I was saying Alex. With both named the same the correct one could be deleted if not renamed. When you substitute %20 for both & and the word AND. Renaming and merging is the best option.

Jon