Category talk:CZ Authors

What's with the userlist in special pages? It lists a bunch of accounts that aren't names. Why do they exist? -- Melanie St Clair 10:51, 22 December 2006 (CST)

It should be anonymous that created accounts. --Versuri 11:23, 22 December 2006 (CST)

A few of those accounts are test accounts made by Larry Sanger or the tech guys in the early days of the wiki that they were scared to delete for fear of making pages explode (which happened once). The rest are likely people who didn't read the directions and then had to remake their accounts the right way. As far as I know, none of those accounts that aren't names have write-access on the wiki, since the personnel people only give access to proper names. We just haven't cleared off those improper names because deleting accounts is time-consuming and possibly dangerous. --ZachPruckowski 14:19, 23 December 2006 (CST)

• The edit page is blank. What gives?

Help

Notice "U"...we would be doing folks a great help by editing their user pages so that their names appear under the correct letter. --Larry Sanger 21:27, 26 February 2007 (CST)

well User does start with "U", it seems 'User:' needs beinf filtered out specifically in the U case. Something I would call a bug. Robert Tito | Talk 21:53, 26 February 2007 (CST)

so you saying I should stop changing these things? The problem is that they need to be alpha by last name, not first?? Matt Innis (Talk) 22:12, 26 February 2007 (CST)

No have you ever met Mr 123gimme 66uatry?, it is the combo User: with the lastname staring with U as some get through not all though. Robert Tito | Talk

CZ Authors First Page

Could the first page to access Authors please be an outline that will take you to a specific letter? The list has grown a lot since I started looking at the list. Robert Winmill 08:26, 23 April 2007 (CDT)

I just registered as an author and thought exactly the same thing as Robert. I'm amazed that no-one else has taken action on this yet! If I am on Robert's wavelength it would be something like this:

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

I hope this helps --Graham Proud 04:08, 25 April 2007 (CDT)

Nested category?

Is there any particular reason this isn't a nested category, i.e. contains Category:Computers Authors, Category:Visual Arts Authors, etc? J. Noel Chiappa 15:08, 24 February 2008 (CST)

That might be nice. Stephen Ewen 18:04, 24 February 2008 (CST)

trimming of names

Would it possible to "trim" the names on this list, autmatically, so that User:David E. Volk could be listed as David E. Volk? Just a little program to double the name separated with a pipe and then trim out the User: at the second occurance? ...said David E. Volk (talk) 15:42, 17 April 2008

Copied here from User talk:Robert W King‎

Short answer: "no". Slightly longer answer: "not easily; it would take a MediaWiki change". The list of constituent pages in a category is generated by MediaWiki code, and we have no control over it.

Ironically, if you include a category in [[Talk:Foo]], when you go look at the category, it only lists [[Foo]] - very confusing! I don't know if this is a 'bug' or a 'feature'. J. Noel Chiappa 17:22, 17 April 2008 (CDT)

Its a feature, it was done so that all the clean up etc. categories could live on the talk page but not all be listed as Talk:Foo. I see no reason why this could not be done for the User pages too. We should start a thread in the technical section of the forum to see if this sounds like a good idea to others. Chris Day 17:26, 17 April 2008 (CDT)

Probably ought to be controllable on a per-category basis, through magic words such as __NOTALK__ and __NOUSER__. I think it's a good idea, but we have no active MediaWiki hackers at the moment (although I keep threatening... :-), so I'm not sure the thread's much use. J. Noel Chiappa 17:42, 17 April 2008 (CDT)