What stops this category being renamed? [closed]

Question

[[Category: German Emigration to Cape of Good Hope]] does not comply with the migration category structure.

On 24th July I asked for this category to be renamed to [[Category: Cabo de Goede Hoop, Immigrants from Holy Roman Empire]]. There is some problem delaying the BOT processing the change of name.

Can someone tell me what is the problem? 

Answer 1

EditBot has not been run since the 30th, so the category went to review on that date. It was reviewed and sent back to the bot but the bot has not been run again. These things can take some time.

Comments

Thanks Natalie. I was concerned that I needed to change something. This was complicated and I understand that it could take some time.

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Actually the reason was the size of the category. If there are over 100 members, I have to explicitely confirm the rename. I also wait for a few days if there would be a change of hearts for the rename, becouse undoing such a big change is time consuming. I also estimate if a rename is really needed. So there are multiple factors for renaming a big category.

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Thanks for the extra comment Ales. I knew that it was a huge category and would be slow. I asked my question to check whether there was a hard, unavoidable barrier (500?) that forced me to make a change.

I am very happy with the final result.

Thank you.

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There is no actual limit. I did rename categories with 15K profiles, bot the bigger it gets, more confirmation is needed if it is really correct and needed rename.

Answer 2

Steve I approved it on the 28th, since then there has been one Editbot run, but because there are a large number of profiles it doesn't necessarily go first time. Ales manages Editbot's runs so he will include it at some stage, it will happen. 

Comments

Cheers Margaret. I didn't know about the schedule of Editbot runs. I was concerned that there was still something I needed to fix. I'm happy with "at some stage, it will happen".