robchur wrote:

Example?

a.appleyard wrote:

On 13 May 2007 I was going through the to-be-speedy-deleted lists. The list
(catalog) for db-author contained several files in a user's filespace. Those
files did not have a speedy-delete tag, but they were allegedly in
[[Category:Candidates for speedy deletion by user]]. I looked at one of them in
edit mode. The list of transcluded templates at the end included two red names,
for nonexistent templates: one of them was [[User:The Haunted Angel/General
Userboxes]]. I created those two templates as dummy templates {{}} . I refreshed
the display of [[Category:Candidates for speedy deletion by user]], and those
spuriously listed files went away.

Later that day I found that [[User:The Haunted Angel/General Userboxes]] had
existed before and shortly before this someone deleted it "CSD G7: Author
Requests Deletion", although it did not contain a speedy-delete tag.

I have had similar cases before. That is why, when I delete a speedied page, I
always read it to check that it does contain a speedy-delete tag.

a.appleyard wrote:

On 13 May 2007 I was going through the to-be-speedy-deleted lists. The list
(catalog) for db-author contained several files in a user's filespace. Those
files did not have a speedy-delete tag, but they were allegedly in
[[Category:Candidates for speedy deletion by user]]. I looked at one of them in
edit mode. The list of transcluded templates at the end included two red names,
for nonexistent templates: one of them was [[User:The Haunted Angel/General
Userboxes]]. I created those two templates as dummy templates {{}} . I refreshed
the display of [[Category:Candidates for speedy deletion by user]], and those
spuriously listed files went away.

Later that day I found that [[User:The Haunted Angel/General Userboxes]] had
existed before and shortly before this someone deleted it "CSD G7: Author
Requests Deletion", although it did not contain a speedy-delete tag.

I have had similar cases before. That is why, when I delete a speedied page, I
always read it to check that it does contain a speedy-delete tag.

Please give a repeatable set of instructions to duplicate this behavoir.

a.appleyard wrote:

I do not know that it is reliably repeatable. It "happens sometimes". OK, I
know, intermittent faults are a nuisance. But it happens sometimes.

a.appleyard wrote:

It seems to happen when a file tries to transclude a template which has been
recently deleted.

chemicalbit wrote:

A way to duplicate this behaviour (although it's a intermittent trouble, so this
way doesn't work every time) is:

*Create a page A
*Create a page B (for example a template, or a subpage)
*Edit page A and transclude page B in it.
*Edit page B and add (transclude) the template (let's call it C) that request
speedy-deleting. (without noinclude instuction)
*As template C add a <includeonly>[[Category:X]]</includeonly> instuction, both
A and B pages are showed in the category:X page (which lists all the page marked
for speedy-deleting.
*Delete the B page.
*Now the A page may be still listed in the category:X page (may = it's a
intermittent trouble)
*If you look at the A page, there is no category:X sign at the botton.
*Page A will goes away from category:X after an indeterminate time.

Further information:

*the time of "phantom" staying in Category:X is inteterminate. Pages go out
without a "First in, first out" way: (In a test of our, a page B-2 was delteted
some hours after the deletion of B-1. A-2 (related to B-2) went out after less
than 1 hour, but A-1 (related to B-1) were still there!!)
*I have not checked if the trouble may sometime happends if template C is
transcluded in B page with a noinclude. We can test it, if you think that this
could be usefull.
*I can rememember some trouble like this some time ago (even months and months,
I think) , but it looks like that these troubles have become more frequent in
the last week).
*Tests done on it.wikpedia.org

This is to be expected when you mark templates as speedy.