Forum:SH Archive/Shrinking an Image Category

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Category:Images from Star Wars Galaxies has nearly 1200 unsorted images. I propose the creation of 4 subcategories in order to shrink it: Creatures, Items, Ships, and People. SinisterSamurai 02:05, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

Don't bother sorting too many more. I'm setting a bot up to handle most of the work. SinisterSamurai 07:40, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

  • Oh, cool. I was gonna start sorting today more, but it was a rather daunting prospect. A bot will be greatly helpful. I'll go ahead and keep working on it through the first page in the category, until the bot(s) get set up. - JMAS Hey, it's me! 16:34, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
  • Er, the reasoning behind that is A) I was up 5 hours manually sorting filenames, because the bot will have to target the files one at a time. B) I don't want the bot to stall if it comes across a file that doesn't have it's target tag to edit Category:Images from Star Wars Galaxies. It'd be even worse if the bot breaks the new Cat Tags by changing only one part of it. I'd rather not have to go through 200 images across six categories to fix instances of Category:Images from Star Wars Galaxies (Objects)(Objects). Botting will, (probably) be done tonight, and there will be plenty of cleanup then. ;) SinisterSamurai 18:20, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
    • I do apologize if my starting out hindered your work on it. Let me know once the bots are done and what I can do to help with the cleanup/followup. - JMAS Hey, it's me! 01:44, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
      • Ah, well, not to put a dampener on everything, I really do support this and the work, but I think bots require permission from Wookieepedia:Bot requests. SoresuMakashi(Everything I tell you is a lie) 09:39, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
        • Ah, yes. I figured you'd already gotten the "go-ahead". I'll go on ahead with manually working on the project again then. - JMAS Hey, it's me! 13:33, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
          • Nevermind. Looks like someone did create the bot to do the job. There were only about 3 more left to do that they missed. - JMAS Hey, it's me! 14:45, 17 December 2008 (UTC)