Topic on User talk:Eugene Friedriechsen

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 During my regular review of the [[Special:Log|public logs]] on '''Public Test Wiki''', I noticed your creation of the [[Ehehehe]] and [[Ehehehe teest]] test pages, as well as your recreation of [[:Category:BangBangBangaBang]].
-In terms of the [[Ehehehe]] and [[Ehehehe teest]] test pages, you proceeded to move those pages across nearly all of this wiki's namespaces, with the exceptions of the '''File:''', '''MediaWiki:''', and '''Topic:''' namespaces (likely accounting for a combination of technical or user rights group permissions limitations). Ordinarily, this would not be a problem as you ''did'' delete the final destination page, [[Gadget definition talk:Ehehehe teest]]; however, because you did not check the box to suppress the redirect left behind from your cross-namespace page move (on wheels), a trailing redirect was left behind (which also created [[Special:BrokenRedirects|broken redirects]] and [[Special:DoubleRedirects|double redirects]]. I tried to blank the trailing redirect pages, in order to utilize [[Special:Nuke]]; however, this didn't work. So, I had to manually delete all of those trailing redirects. So, if you are going to move a page across more than one namespace, please be sure to suppress the trailing redirect, ''especially'' when it's a test page that will be deleted in relatively short order. As a matter of personal curiousity, and noting the [[Ehehehe]] and [[Ehehehe teest]] test page names, I'm curious what you were testing that necessitated moving these pages through nearly every namespace on this wiki?
+In terms of the [[Ehehehe]] and [[Ehehehe teest]] test pages, you proceeded to move those pages across nearly all of this wiki's namespaces, with the exceptions of the '''File:''', '''MediaWiki:''', and '''Topic:''' namespaces (likely accounting for a combination of technical or user rights group permissions limitations). Ordinarily, this would not be a problem as you ''did'' delete the final destination page, [[Gadget definition talk:Ehehehe teest]]; however, because you did not check the box to suppress the redirect left behind from your cross-namespace page move (on wheels), a trailing redirect was left behind (which also created [[Special:BrokenRedirects|broken redirects]] and [[Special:DoubleRedirects|double redirects]]). I tried to blank the trailing redirect pages, in order to utilize [[Special:Nuke]]; however, this didn't work. So, I had to manually delete all of those trailing redirects. So, if you are going to move a page across more than one namespace, please be sure to suppress the trailing redirect, ''especially'' when it's a test page that will be deleted in relatively short order. As a matter of personal curiousity, and noting the [[Ehehehe]] and [[Ehehehe teest]] test page names, I'm curious what you were testing that necessitated moving these pages through nearly every namespace on this wiki?
 In terms of [[:Category:BangBangBangaBang]], I was a bit puzzled as to why it was undeleted. Seeing no need for this obvious test category that serves no useful purpose in our page categorization system, I have redeleted it, and '''creation protected''' (or '''salted''') it for '''three months''' at [[TestWiki:Bureaucrats|bureaucrat]] level. It will '''not''' be recreated for you, unless you can briefly explain to me (in approximately 1-2 sentences) ''why'' you would like it to exist.