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{{outdent}}{{Reply to|Anne Delong}} A disadvantage of the way templates and categories work in our system is that when we update a deep level template, the changes may not populated up to pages that call in the template (i.e. the change to the Declined template doesn't apply computations and transclude the G13 candidates category in). Untill a [[WP:NULLEDIT]] is performed the page may not show up in all the categories. Part of the HasteurBot 2 task is to perform a null edit so that the template will re-compute and get the age calculations in so that it'll auto-magically add the category once it is valid in the future. [[User:Hasteur|Hasteur]] ([[User talk:Hasteur|talk]]) 16:29, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

:Sorry, I know that I am being a pest, but now I would like to know where the 2000 or so current entries come from. Is the Hasteurbot 2 active now and going through the backlog? Or have these been identified in some other way? —[[User:Anne Delong|Anne Delong]] ([[User talk:Anne Delong|talk]]) 16:37, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

::{{Reply to|Anne Delong}} HasteurBot is not yet flagged nor approved so it's hands are tied by the bot rules, though I wouldn't be opposed to people poking the "active" BAG members with a sharp stick on my behalf. There are other bots out there that do null edits but mine is specifically to give a flying-kick to all the 180 days stale pages that are in the [[:Category:AfC submissions by date]] categorization tree that start with the pattern "Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/".I would not be suprised if other editors were also traversing records to give the same kick to the templates (or the global update pass is finally getting to these). And you're not being a pest, you're asking questions to gain knowledge. Gaining knowledge is never a bad thing.[[User:Hasteur|Hasteur]] ([[User talk:Hasteur|talk]]) 16:57, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

== Update to the latest version of the [[WP:AFCH|Articles for creation helper script]] ==