User talk:Deadfire/Archive 2018

Trial of Retribution

Very, very happy to see the Trial of Retribution WWE finally getting some coverage. We really need to nail down those real-world events while people still remember what went down. (Myself, I only came back to BT in 2007 so I completely missed out on these, and have to rely on internet forums and the like to piece the information together.) Frabby (talk) 06:42, 16 December 2017 (EST)

Finally got it done tonight, though not only is it in need of an editor, but for me it has spawned so many pages elsewise that need to be looked at and edited now too. The great work is never done lol --Deadfire (talk) 02:27, 4 January 2018 (EST)

Category Link Template

I'm a bit dumbfounded by the Template:Category link you created. What does it do? Were you perchance unawares of the [[:Category:CategoryName]] link format to link to a category without actually sorting the article into the category? Frabby (talk) 02:37, 26 February 2018 (EST)

Without knowing myself, but taking a guess, it might be something to do with the categories not working since the update a couple of weeks ago. Maybe Deadfire knows a workaround. Dmon (talk) 06:51, 26 February 2018 (EST)

Aye that was what I was attempting, using Wikipedia's current catagory link code. With the code I used the options with-in it to display the number of articles with-in an catagory which does not display. This leads me to think it's a database issue as either the data is incorrectly being stored or incorrectly being recalled. Without access to server logs or the code it's self at this time I really can only troubleshoot so much. As mediawiki checks an article after It's saved and stores the catagory tags to label the article. The first catagories added to articles are being saved and recalled just fine, but additional ones are not. This is such the case I ran into updating the bloodname articles with additional categories after they had been already created. Though I have seen this issue before, it moreover shows there is an issue with new article saves not having their catagory tags being updated. Along with the above supposed database issue, there may be an additional server cache issue. -Deadfire (talk) 08:17, 9 March 2018 (EST)

I think the original problem has been fixed. I'll revisit the Category Link template soon to verify, but I think it can be consigned to the dustbin now as the problem it was supposed to solve is gone. Frabby (talk) 15:22, 26 March 2018 (EDT)