Forum:Pages deletion from a specific category?

Is there a way to delete every page within a category?


 * You could either do it manually by deleting every page yourself or get a bot to do it.--


 * Do you know how to get the bot?


 * You would have to talk to someone who operates one. I know Grunny helped me out before.--
 * I can run it myself if you outline what you want deleted and where  Random Time  19:56, May 29, 2011 (UTC)


 * Thanks but if there is a bot then it will be easier for us to clean up the wiki and a normal user can also help us to delete by just tagging them with those categories. It will greatly help the glee wiki because sometimes users makes spam pages and it isn't sighted by an admin.
 * What?
 * If you're asking for it to run periodically, then I'd advise against it. It would be easier if admins just monitored the candidates for deletion page, as that would stop users tagging legitimate articles in the hope they'll be bot deleted and cause confusion.  Random Time  20:12, May 29, 2011 (UTC)

I know what you meanbut many pages that are unnecessary are not being tagged with those categories and is not sighted until later by an admin and it is hard to get sight of pages like that. Plus the legitimate pages are all monitored by admins and good editors so they won't be tagged with those categories.
 * If the pages aren't seen, how would they be tagged with this category in the first place?  Random Time  20:20, May 29, 2011 (UTC)
 * The problems with those pages is that many users sees them but doesn't link them to an admin but they do tag them with those categories so we thought it would be better if there's an auto-delete options for it.
 * So you're saying that you don't think that users will put the delete tag on them, so you want to create a separate tag that users will put on the page? How does that work?  Random Time ' 20:46, May 29, 2011 (UTC)
 * Finchel, you are not going to get a full time bot unless you put one together yourself. You should just check the category once a day and delete what is in there. Someone else's bot can do it once but after that you need to do it yourself.--
 * You have a Template:Delete on your wiki. Pages that are tagged with this template automatically get put into Category:Pages needing attention which admins can monitor for deletion requests.--AB 23:43, May 29, 2011 (UTC)


 * The guy is simply asking for tips on how to set up a bot.


 * If a useful page is deleted by an oversight, it can be restored, so it's not a concern. -- 04:36, May 30, 2011 (UTC)


 * As Icecreamkitten said we can restore a deleted page. @God, ok thanks.
 * Hum... None of that makes any sense. Listen to Randomtime and Anne Behnert. ;)
 * If the administrators can't be bothered to look at the candidates for deletion page once in a while then they are never going to look at the logs of deleted pages. Thus the only way they will know a valid page has been deleted is when someone notices that something is broken; that is a lot worse than having a page waiting for deletion for a day.
 * Use the Template:Delete.
 * Use the Template:Delete.
 * Use the Template:Delete.


 * What about using Special:Nuke (see also mw:Extension:Nuke) or Auto Wiki Browser? — Spike Toronto  00:01, June 1, 2011 (UTC)
 * Nuke is not available to anyone but staff and vstf and AWB can't delete pages.--
 * AWB can be used to delete pages so long as you are a sysop. It's quite fast especially if you're using the same summary. --Cook Me Plox