Author: esprit15d

Description:
#Go to en.wikipedia
#Go to Category:Proposed deletion, and then click on the current day.
#Find an article with a proposed deletion tag (the prod tag should have red text)
Notice at the bottom of the page Categories: Expired proposed deletion. Click on the category.
Notice that the category is empty, or pretty close.
#Now go to Template:Dated prod. The template contains a parser function that places articles with expired prod tags in the category. But it half works all the time, and fully works once in a blue moon.
#Then - fix the bug!

I already took this matter to the wikipedia help desk and had the following conversation:
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I added <nowiki><includeonly>[[Category:Expired proposed deletion]]</includeonly></nowiki> to the {{tl|dated prod}} template. It was in a parser function that displays a red expired message when the 5-day prod time limit is up. The template seems to work correctly, and articles with expired prod tags show the message and include the Category. For example: this article: [[CEXL]]. However, when you click on [[:Category:Expired proposed deletion]] the category is empty. Only once on the day before yesterday did I see it populated with like 20 articles. I can't fathom why that is happening. Help!--Esprit15d<big>([[Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/Esprit15d|۝]] • [[User_talk:Esprit15d |۞]] • [[Special:Contributions/Esprit15d|▲]]</big>) 13:30, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
:'''Additional note:''' well today I did see it populated with some cats, so I don't know if it's suddenly working now or not?--Esprit15d<big>([[Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/Esprit15d|۝]] • [[User_talk:Esprit15d |۞]] • [[Special:Contributions/Esprit15d|▲]]</big>) 13:38, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
::I had the same problem with the changes I made to {{tl|fair use reduced}}, to categorize into [[CAT:FURD7]]. Basically, dynamic categorization doesn't work reliably in the current software, but a null edit on the template will fix it (though it's difficult with this one, as it's protected). Also, it may take a couple of hours to fully populate the category. --[[User:Pekaje|Pekaje]] 19:45, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
:::Woah! That null edit thing worked, inexplicably. I'm an admin, so I was able to edit it. Thanks!--Esprit15d<big> ([[Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/Esprit15d|۝]] • [[User_talk:Esprit15d |۞]] • [[Special:Contributions/Esprit15d|▲]]</big>) 01:35, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
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Well, it doesn't work anymore - I've null edited that template several times since to no avail. I also tried null editing articles with the category, and it actually did place them in the category, but, obviously that is ten kinds of pointless.

Version: unspecified
Severity: normal
URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Expired_proposed_deletion