User:Dude RB

User Dude RB: Registered Oct 30, 2020 (and a viewer for many years prior.)

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I am currently working on pages related to Miniatures, Miniature History, Products, and Product History.

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• Miniatures
  • Miniatures - FASA
  • Miniatures - Catalyst Game Labs
  • Ral Partha Catalogs
  • Miniatures - Ral Partha
  • Miniatures - Iron Wind Metals
  • Miniatures - Ral Partha (Uncategorized)
  • Miniatures - Armorcast
• BattleTech boxed set
• List of BattleTech products
• Product Type Classification Tree
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• Categories
  • Category:BattleTech Universe Products
  • Category:Core Game Sets
  • Category:Miniatures
  • Category:Miniature Sets
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  • Template:InfoBoxProduct
• Resources
  • BattleTechWiki:Administrators
  • BattleTechWiki:Research Desk
  • Help:References
  • Policy:Images
• External Resources
  • Wiki Table Converter
  • The Web Archive
  • BookFinder.com (has some good search options for books)
  • ISBNSearch.com (simple, includes small image sometimes, useful for quick double checks, but finicky about hyphens)
  • Spanish Independent Bookstores (search for Spanish books, see Spanish formatting of title)
  • Database of books published in Spain (search for Spanish books)
  • Article on Currency Formatting
  • Imperial College Style Guide on Currency

Some Outstanding Issues with Categories

Background: On Sat April 30, I recategorized pages with the “Pilot Cards” tag as “Characters with Pilot Cards”. To track which pages I converted, I activated the category page “Characters with Pilot Cards”, with the plans to later replace such with the description from “Pilot Cards”. I learned afterwards that one can’t move pages to overwrite another. I then moved “Category: Characters with Pilot Cards” to “Category:Characters with Pilot Cards(temp-delete)” in the hopes to move “Category: Pilot Cards” to “Category: Characters with Pilot Cards”, but that did not solve the issue either. I did manage to move the talk page for “Category talk: Pilot Cards”. But “Category: Characters with Pilot Cards” has been locked for six days now. Plus I am uncertain if move would allow me to overwrite a redirect page that corresponds to a different page. [FYI: I have now learned it is best to move the category page first before changing category tags.]

Dmon has noted that there have been some unsusual things happening with categories moves over the past month or so and that the issues will need further investigation. I am documenting the issues here so that the matter can remain on the radar until an appropriate time in the future.

What needs to be done

• Move “Category: Pilot Cards” to “Category: Characters with Pilot Cards” replacing the latter (but leaving the talk pages untouched).