Commons talk:Village pump/Archive/2009
This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Phantom file
Could someone please look into the following problem for me? It concerns this category view: Category:Colubridae. In it you'll see that while most of the subcategories are indicated to contain subcategories and pages of their own, two of them also contain files. The first of these, "Ahaetulla (3 C, 3 P, 2 F)," does indeed contain two files as expected. However, the problem is with "Drymarchon (1 C, 1 P, 1 F)," which is supposed to contain one file, but actually doesn't. A file may have been there in the past, but if so it was moved elsewhere months ago. Is it perhaps because there is still something there that I can't see? We may need a SysOp to fix this one. Thanks, --Jwinius (talk) 22:05, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
- Have you tried to purge the cache for that page? --J.smith (talk) 17:25, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
- I just tried a purge and it dosn't seem to have fixed it. I have no idea whats going on here. :) --J.smith (talk) 17:28, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
- I see the same as Jwinius. It's not about cache. NVO (talk) 08:49, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
- Isn't the file in the subcategory Category:Drymarchon couperi (File:EasternIndigo.jpg)? TimVickers (talk) 21:43, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
- Yeah, but that's not supposed to show up in the Category:Colubridae view. Apparently. this has been a problem for a while... --Jwinius (talk) 07:33, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
(copied from Commons:Village pump#Phantom_file)
There are plenty of such cases, especially when categories are changed through bots or templates; Category:Halo and Category:Pagos since several months, Category:2008–2009 Israel–Gaza conflict casualties, Category:Duplicate, Category:Universally replaced by CommonsDelinker, Category:Candidates for deletion, ... These counters don't seem to work correctly. Deletion and recreation does not solve the problem. Moving (which is a delete and create under another name) neither. Purge neither. I have never seen a workaround for that. I think that is one of the reasons why these counters are not displayed on (all ?) other wikipedias. --Foroa (talk) 13:41, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
- Buggy code, huh? Unfortunate, but thanks for your response. Cheers, --Jwinius (talk) 16:10, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
- Work around? :-)
- I just had a play, I added two files to your category Drymarchon which was showing as (1 C, 1 P, 1 F), that changed to (1 C, 1 P, 3 F), but when I removed my two files it fixed itself, now (1 C, 1 P). Did a bit of further testing, method that works: add file to category, refresh category page display (clear cache), delete file from category, refresh category page display (clear cache). Counts should be fixed. --Tony Wills (talk) 09:26, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
- This section was archived on a request by: Rd232 (talk) 09:43, 26 December 2011 (UTC)