Talk:Humboldt Bay Eco-Hostel and Center for Sustainable Living

Category name[edit source]

Latest comment: 13 years ago6 comments2 people in discussion

I suggest changing from "Category:HBCSL" to "Category:Humboldt Bay Center for Sustainable Living" - otherwise people won't know what it means. It's long, but that's okay.

That might seem like a double standard since I created Category:ICT4D but I don't think that's as obscure. Could be wrong.

If there's a move to be done can move the articles to the new category with my bot, and any admin can move the category page with history intact.. --Chriswaterguy 11:14, 16 September 2010 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hi,

I would love to wait until December 15th, 2010 for this to happen. The main reason is that this category is in the midst of a lot of action with a lot of players (about 80 for sure, and probably over 100) for the next couple of months. Changing now would be a hardship.

Is December 15th, 2010 acceptable for the name change?

Thank you, --Lonny 11:40, 16 September 2010 (UTC)Reply[reply]

No problem! Just let me know when I can help with the bot. --Chriswaterguy 11:43, 16 September 2010 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Thanks! But if you got those bot juices flowing, I would love to get Category:Engr305 to Category:Engr305 Appropriate Technology.

:)--Lonny 11:47, 16 September 2010 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Done. :-). Sorry, just noticed the message - the move itself was quick. The bot copied the very short category page itself without the history, but added the edit comment Robot: Moved from Category:Engr305. Authors: Lonny. --Chriswaterguy 15:39, 25 September 2010 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Great. Thanks! When doing a category move, is there a way to check what links to that category and make changes? I just changed the pages at Special:WhatLinksHere/Category:Engr305 (except for a couple that seemed useful to leave how they were). Thanks again, --Lonny 17:04, 25 September 2010 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Belated response from me... no way to automate that checking, AFAIK. Someone would have to run the bot script "replace.py" and replacing "[[:Category:Old category name" with "[[:Category:New category name" would work - and "{{cl\|Category:Old category name" with "{{cl|Category:New category name" - manually checking each before approving. Worthwhile if there are more than a handful. --Chriswaterguy 05:12, 14 April 2011 (PDT)