lorddarkknight3 wrote:

Oh I forgot to mention-

I think it's inappropriate for this bot to be creating ANY of these babel categories unless the category is populated. There's no reason WP:CSD#C1 should not apply to every category this is creating that ends up not having anyone in it after 4 days. Someone went and tagged the majority of the categories with the "empty category" template, basically saying it is the type of category intended to be empty on occasion so as to not delete it, but in my view that tagging was improper. These categories are not intended to be empty at any time, and I would highly recommend disabling creating any categories via this bot unless it detects the category is populated. At this point going through and deleting all the empty categories the bot created would just be extra unnecessary busywork, so I won't bother, but I wouldn't fault another admin who decided to do so. Please don't have this bot create categories that aren't populated. Thanks again!

I really don't see what this request has to do with Bugzilla. This seems like something admins on-wiki should be able to handle.

lorddarkknight3 wrote:

I agree 100%. I'm annoyed I even had to make an account here to get this dealt with. However, like I said above, I was twice directed here. If it's concluded this was a mistake, then this needs to be changed:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Babel_AutoCreate

and these people need to be informed:

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_talk:Babel#User:Babel_AutoCreate_is_recreating_SALTed_categories_10504

Thanks.

(In reply to comment #2)

I really don't see what this request has to do with Bugzilla. This seems like
something admins on-wiki should be able to handle.

The issue is, Babel is recreating Create Protected categories by the looks.

I made it not able to create protected titles in r108938. I suppose 1.19 will be branched & deployed soon, but I marked it for 1.18wmf1 merging anyway to be sure.

Ideally however, all "fake users" should be subjected to usual action restrictions, similarly to what I did in r96311 for importing pages (see bug 23057).