id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc
8119,Attempts to edit deleted categories are not properly handled,mrmist,westi,"Fairly obscure. 

If one user has the edit cats view open, then another user deletes one of those categories, and the first user then attempts to edit the deleted category, they get - not unreasonably - an empty view on the edit screen.  (As the data has been correctly deleted.) Ok. Not too much we can do about that.  However, after that, it falls down.

It seems that if you replace the various data and then press ""edit category"" it can go one of two ways -

1. The user recieves the message 

Your attempt to edit this category: """" has failed.

2. The user recieves the message

Fatal error: Cannot use object of type WP_Error as array in /home/www/misthaveneu/htdocs/svn/trunk/wp-includes/functions.php on line 1238

Scenerio 2 seems to be vaguely related to using the word ""Error"" in the description, but that could just be conincidence. 

In any event, the handling of this situation is broken.  The fact that a category has been deleted since in-between the user viewing the edit category screen and choosing one to edit needs to be recognised. (Even if it's the same sort of nasty wp_die message you get when a post has been deleted.)",defect (bug),new,normal,Future Release,Taxonomy,2.7,minor,,has-patch,jtatum