Help!

I have been trying to get {{derv}} to work as I said in the documentation page with regard to categorization: Optional expanded category name based on optional parameters. I can't understand what I am doing wrong. If you have time can you take a look? DCDuring TALK 02:34, 29 September 2010 (UTC)

Never mind. I think it had to do with my trying to make the second parameter contain a section link. To achieve that is beyond my pay grade.

OTOH, there may be something brain-damaged in what I have tried to do. If you can, take a look.

The template looks good to me. I take it you've fixed all your problems now?

By the way, the page longlegs seems to have been created in error...

Thanks for taking a look. I'm not sure what the problem was. It might have been that the categorization steps take time to propagate. Is that possible?

I don't know whether longlegs is a real word, though I think it is short for daddy longlegs. It might have preceded it. DCDuring TALK 01:14, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

Yes, I find that for categories, you sometimes need to purge the cache or save the page again but make no changes or something else. I don't really know at all how the software caches pages.

The issue with longlegs was actually not that; it was that before Martin deleted it, it had {{dervcat}} in it and looked like it should have been named Category:English words derived from: longlegs.

Even cache-purging didn't seem to work. But, when I came back some hours later all was cool.

I'm glad MG cleaned up my little mess. I have to revisit most of the {{derv}} entries and associated categories because the ideas are still evolving a bit. So I will have plenty of chances to find redlinks etc.