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Hi Nilfanion, independent of your current conflict with Foroa, I want to suggest that it might be wise to add some small note for admins, as myself, to such redirect-cats as [[:Category:People from Osaka]] stating that they were created intentionally and should not be deleted. Otherwise there is always a risk that a user puts a media into this redir-cat, then another user discovers this and moves the media into the regular-cat and then tags the redir-cat for deletion. --[[User:Túrelio|Túrelio]] ([[User talk:Túrelio|talk]]) 13:12, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

Hi Nilfanion, independent of your current conflict with Foroa, I want to suggest that it might be wise to add some small note for admins, as myself, to such redirect-cats as [[:Category:People from Osaka]] stating that they were created intentionally and should not be deleted. Otherwise there is always a risk that a user puts a media into this redir-cat, then another user discovers this and moves the media into the regular-cat and then tags the redir-cat for deletion. --[[User:Túrelio|Túrelio]] ([[User talk:Túrelio|talk]]) 13:12, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

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:I agree that is a risk. I haven't created that many (so am able to actively monitor them), so I feel no particular need to add such a note. The cat-redirect emptying bots are reasonably prompt so its unlikely a file will remain there for too long.

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:What I would say is the conflict between myself and Foroa ought to be solved by developing some sort of community consensus. Once that is established, I'd imagine we will have a relatively circumscribed set of situations where category redirects ought to be used. I didn't create any redirects from meta-categories, for example, as I see no potential for someone to use link to such a category externally.

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:{{tl|category redirect}} itself can then be edited to directly reflect that consensus, making additional notes redundant.--[[User:Nilfanion|Nilfanion]] ([[User talk:Nilfanion#top|talk]]) 13:19, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

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