Category talk:To be checked

Checked for what? - dcljr (talk) 12:41, 15 July 2011 (UTC)

All these categories need to say what the files should be checked for, if the people who created the categories want other users to help with the "checking". - dcljr (talk) 17:57, 16 July 2011 (UTC)

You're right. But it is used most of the time for bot upload where a human check : categories, description, whatever... could be a good idea. - Zil (d) 00:19, 18 July 2011 (UTC)

So you're saying "everything" about the images needs to be checked in every subcategory here? Fair warning, I'm about to add text to that effect on every cat page, unless someone beats me to it with more specific instructions... - dcljr (talk) 14:04, 18 July 2011 (UTC)

What Zil says: these categories are for files that were mass-uploaded and therefore needing human review, not only for categories. Jean-Fred (talk) 15:03, 23 July 2011 (UTC)

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This discussion of one or several categories is now closed. Please do not make any edits to this archive. Category:To be checked step-by-step we should categorise these subcategories better until we have 0 subcategories. Then the bots can change destination to, for example, category:commons media maintenance, category:WikiProject Aviation. After that, one suspicious "waste" container category again liquidated Estopedist1 (talk) 13:06, 25 January 2020 (UTC)  Keep this is a good grouping of categories that need attention. It serves a purpose. I don't see how deleting this category will improve Commons. Multichill (talk) 13:34, 25 January 2020 (UTC) we also have Category:Media needing category review--Estopedist1 (talk) 15:03, 25 January 2020 (UTC) That category is for {{Check categories}}. All the subcategories are added by that template. You shouldn't have put manual categories like Category:Media needing category review by subject and Category:Media needing category review by source in this tree because these are not added by the template thus in the wrong place. Multichill (talk) 17:51, 27 January 2020 (UTC) in addition the note "to be check", "check needed" etc is actually redundant in cases like "Files by the SOURCE/CREATOR" (eg Category:Photographs by the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization). These categories are permanent members here: Category:Media needing category review by source or Category:Media needing category review by creator--Estopedist1 (talk) 09:35, 26 January 2020 (UTC) These to check categories are to do lists. Something needs to be done with these files usually as part of a project. Sometimes it's categorization, but it can also be to check if it fits a photo competition format. All are intended to be looked at by a human, do something and remove the category as indication that it was checked. By just upmerging some of these categories you skipped this check step. Multichill (talk) 17:51, 27 January 2020 (UTC)  Keep In the end, switching around from Category:Media needing category review to Category:To be checked to Category:Unidentified objects or Category:Buildings in unidentified countries or Category:Uncategorized (and millions other categories) does not move categorization issues further an inch. Categorization is hard and tedious work. The promise, everything will be better with structured data, did never come near to true. @Estopedist1: instead of doing such meta optimizations you could move the project further by doing real categorization. regards --Herzi Pinki (talk) 10:47, 26 January 2020 (UTC)  Keep Fully agree with Multichill. I agree with the premise that the subcategories need to be categorized, but until it's done, there's no point in deleting this 'heads-up' label.JiriMatejicek (talk) 17:19, 27 January 2020 (UTC) @Multichill, JiriMatejicek, and Herzi Pinki: almost always the case is to categorize properly. And it should be said to the header of the category (or in the name of the category) if something other is also needed. If it is said, it can be put here: Category:To be checked. This CFD can be closed, let's see how populate this maintenance category will be--Estopedist1 (talk) 06:52, 28 January 2020 (UTC)  Keep I just stumbled upon this category looking to do some categorization work. I found it to be useful and plan on working on subcategorizing some of these. -- OlEnglish (talk) 07:19, 30 July 2020 (UTC) The result was keep. Estopedist1 (talk) 20:08, 16 November 2021 (UTC)