[Wikia-l] Email notifications are getting deletions totally wrong

Robin-P Robin-P at slingshot.co.nz
Tue Oct 7 06:06:01 UTC 2008


Subject line says a page has been created. Which
could make me wonder why I'm being notified - how
could it be on my watchlist?

Email starts like this:
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Dear Robin Patterson,

There has been an edit to a page you are watching
on Genealogy.

See
http://genealogy.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Harrison_Surname
for the
current version.

This is a new page.

The summary of the edit is: "Category moved. See
[[Forum:Surnames]]."
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Last line gives me a clue in this case but it
might not always. In fact the page has been
deleted, not created. I click on the offered link
and see this:

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Category:Harrison Surname
>From Genealogy
View or restore 7 deleted edits?
Jump to: navigation, search

Oops! Genealogy does not have a Category page with
this exact name.

    * Click here to start this page or here to
search for this phrase on the wiki.
    * If a page previously existed at this exact
title, please check the deletion log.
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I hope this fault is on someone's TODO list.


[Mr] Robin Forlonge Patterson,
88 Motuhara Road, Plimmerton, Porirua City 5026,
New Zealand
Member of NZ Society of Genealogists since 1974
http://wc.rootsweb.com/~robinp
And see http://genealogy.wikia.com/ a free
cooperative MediaWiki site




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