Category talk:Media files on Wikimedia Commons

Shortcut?
Recreating what happened,
 * On July 11, 2007, by Adambro:
 * At 1917, a redirect  was created, pointing to this category.  Presumably it was a redlink when first created.
 * At 1919, this category was created. It had a shortcut call evidently intended to identify , but the shortcut page didn't display because there was no colon-prefix on it (so instead it filed this category in that category).
 * At 1920, the redirect was edited, adding a colon-prefix so the redirect page wouldn't be added to this category.
 * At 1921, a small copyedit was made to the text in this category. However, there was still no colon-prefix on the shortcut parameter.


 * Adambro appears to have left Wikinews in 2010, and requested deletion of their user page here in 2011. They continued some wikimedia editing in 2012, but none later that I can see.
 * On May 6, 2014, Microchip08 used HotCat to de-categorize this page from Category:NC, the effect of which was to remove the category link from the parameter to shortcut. This didn't change the appearance of this category page, because that link had been invisible (having no colon-prefix, which was also why it was subject to removal via HotCat).
 * On June 16, 2020:
 * Acagastya added a properly-colon-prefixed shortcut parameter .  An eminently reasonable measure given the existence of the redirect from   and the call to shortcut.
 * Pi zero (that's me) speedy-deleted, and removed the call to shortcut.

I feel my action was a bit precipitous, as it would have been better, socially, to leave a note here before acting, for which, apologies.

I'm not sure (btw) why "CAT:NC" would be a redirect to this category. Afaik, we've always avoided redirects in category space, which in my experience cause confusion as pages categorized under the redirect tend to get "lost" &mdash; they don't appear under the target and are hard to notice since attempts to view the redirecting category are ordinarily deflected to the target category. --Pi zero (talk) 12:48, 16 June 2020 (UTC)
 * I think CAT:NC was like CAT:DEV and CAT:REV. But don't beat yourself to it. •–•  12:53, 16 June 2020 (UTC)