User talk:rchard2scout
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Charlotte Gordon
[edit]That was such a nice message. I totally need help. I read the draft-space page but got confused. I wish I had left the Charlotte Gordon page alone! I deleted the references by mistake. Anyways, I can't figure out how to submit a draft despite the clear instructions. Sorry about this. Conover62 (talk) 12:36, 3 July 2024 (UTC)
Drafts in categories
[edit]Just wanted to thank you for your sandbox report that you pinged me to last week; as of today, Dannybot still hasn't updated the official report since July 1, so that report's definitely helping me stay on top of the job in the meantime until the regular report starts working again.
I did want to ask, however, if there's a way that the report can also be made to skip over hidden maintenance categories that are tagged with the {{Polluted category}} template. Categories of that type aren't things I actually have to worry about cleaning up, and are sometimes even impossible to clean up anyway because they're template-generated — so that template has existed for years to flag "this category doesn't need to be cleaned up, so skip it in cleanup reports", but the regular draft report has never actually excluded those categories properly even though the separate report for user pages with categories on them (which is still working properly) already does. So is there a way to make your temp report skip over categories with that tag on them? Bearcat (talk) 16:19, 20 July 2024 (UTC)
- Oof, I just copied the SQL query that already existed (linked to by Cryptic in the VPT discussion), and put it into a {{Database report}}. I'm not actually good at writing my own SQL, so I think your best option is to ask the good people at Wikipedia:Request a query to create a query for this. Pointers to my sandbox and Wikipedia:Database reports/Polluted categories/Configuration (which contains the query that excludes {{Polluted category}}) may help them. Hope this helps! --rchard2scout (talk) 09:29, 22 July 2024 (UTC)