Category talk:Character Evolution

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Takedown

So, why'd we take the real evolution page down? What was wrong with it? Just wondering. -FaceCrap 14:38, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

Please? -FaceCrap 16:08, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

My guess is, someone thought of it as redundant. I do not see discussion on it though. --Stux 01:44, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

You don't see discussion on it because the discussion took place on the talk page for Character Evolution, which was deleted along with its talk page before it was a redirect (my fault). It was deleted because it consisted of nothing but a list of links to the character evolution pages, exactly like this page but requiring manual updating. If someone has an idea for how a Character Evolution page could include better content not included on this page, we could reinstate it. Homestar Coder 01:52, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

Oh! Makes sense. But the page has its history intact it seems, (maybe it was undeleted), and so can't the talk page be undeleted as well? --Stux 01:57, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

So, will we be putting the page back or not? -FaceCrap 00:51, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Some bug

Hey this must be some bug, but when I go here and it redirects me back to this category, the articles in the category do not appear! Just the text for the page itself. I was thinking of placing a notice like:

If you do not see the category articles, please click here.

Or something like it. --Stux 01:43, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

Whoa, that just happened to me when I rid the redirect (further up)! -FaceCrap 00:54, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

I'm not sure this is a bug, but there's definitely something wrong. Tom should be able to figure out what's going on. — User:ACupOfCoffee@ 01:01, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

I have left a message in his talk page. --Stux 20:25, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

We could try using the {{soft redirect}} template on the Character Evolution page, like this: — Kilroy / talk 21:59, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

	Soft redirect
	This page can be found at Category:Character Evolution

Yeah, thanks for the suggestion! Although it's not the greatest solution, it's good for the time being. I was checking out the SR discussion page and noticed the reference to the anchor redirect bug that's been around. Though I think this is a totally different bug and needs a little bit of research. Ok I forgot I hadn't finished typing this so here's the research: the bug details can be found here. So far it looks that Hopefully, it'll be resolved in Mediawiki 1.6. --Stux 22:32, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

I fixed the bug with a workaround. (Thanks for asking me, by the way. :P) A couple things to note, however: First, when you reach the page via redirect, it will no longer alert you to this fact (the line "Redirected from <original page>" will be missing). That also means that to edit the redirect you have to type the full URL yourself: http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php/Character_Evolution?redirect=no. — It's dot com 23:42, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Oh so THAT's why the wiki was being weird. I think. Yeah I noticed the redirect thing being gone. Did you hard code it into Apache? Anyway, well I did think of asking you but I figured I'd have to ask Tom for something at some point you know? ;) --Stux 00:52, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

Okay, I tweaked it a bit more so that it at least reports in the URL that you're being redirected. If I really spent some time poring over the code, I'm sure I could get it to show the redirect line under the title. On the other hand, it's working fine enough now, and so I'm probably not gonna mess with it anymore tonight. Please report any bugs. — It's dot com 02:12, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

Cool! That looks awesome! Just for reference I'll leave the link to the unredirected page here but I do have a question: will modifying that page (say by a troll) tear a hole in the fabric of space... er, mess the redirect or something? Would it, should it be protected for technical reasons? --Stux 02:32, 2 February 2006 (UTC)