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your bot is breaking stuff

At this edit and this edit, Mdann52 bot broke a reference in WMNA-FM. Please fix the bot.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 17:32, 15 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Trappist the monk: I can't see any broken references in that article caused by my bot? It look like the way that {{Infobox radio station}} is used, by the looks it takes the "name" paramater to use as the name for the FCC info which may or may not be desirable. I've fixed it here, but I don't see how I can detect this or fix it with the bot. Mdann52 (talk) 17:47, 15 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 17:52, 15 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

HBC AIV helperbot14 deleting admin comments

Hi, thanks for stepping up with the bot! I've noticed that as well as removing blocked accounts from the UAA list the bot is also deleting comments left by admins on unblocked accounts, such as here. Are you able to change this? Thanks, Pickersgill-Cunliffe (talk) 17:08, 19 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Pickersgill-Cunliffe Interesting, I think that's an issue with some cached content, where the edit you made was just after the bot updated the page.I'll add a patch in later on. Mdann52 (talk) 17:10, 19 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'll post here as well this time, instead of the BRFA, but the bot also removed a few line breaks for some reason at WP:AIV/TB2 -> Special:Diff/1235508948.

At least the one after the section title was incorrect, when looking at the way the page looked after it. – 2804:F1...2D:A904 (talk) 17:17, 19 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Interesting... I can't recreate that one!. I've tweaked some blankspace stripping which should help though. Mdann52 (talk) 19:11, 19 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Just a small follow-up quibble that the bot appears to be deleting reports but leaving the bullet points behind, resulting in pages like this. Is the bot able to remove the asterisks as well? Thanks, Pickersgill-Cunliffe (talk) 09:49, 20 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Pickersgill-Cunliffe: Interesting one - Twinkle adds an extra line when reporting sometimes, but not always. I made an assumption the only bullet we care about is the ones containing the reports. These are cleaned up if there are comments after.

I'll clean up any extra blank lines after the report now, as it seems the easier solution than trying to figure out what makes TW change behaviour - I don't know if this was added to be compatible with the previous version of the bot however. Mdann52 (talk) 10:06, 20 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Now it's removing all the bullet points, even ones that should still remain! What a monkey's paw… jlwoodwa (talk) 21:01, 20 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I had forgotten where this was so didn't mention it earlier, but the extra line is intentional: MediaWiki:Gadget-twinklearv.js#L-646

It links to this discussion on how to make the page better for people with dyslexia. – 2804:F1...0D:DFE4 (talk) 02:41, 21 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I never knew that an "empty list entry" was completely ignored. Is this an intentional MediaWiki feature? I can't find it documented anywhere on meta: oder mw:, but I haven't done an exhaustive search. jlwoodwa (talk) 04:03, 21 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Jlwoodwa: It's going to be in the HTML engine. An empty list element is renderer with "class=mw-empty-elt" applied to it in HTML, which is then supressed in CSS. Mdann52 (talk) 07:27, 21 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

extra line issue sorted. Mdann52 (talk) 10:44, 21 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I think the fix to this bug may have overcorrected a bit – comments on blocked users are now being left behind, effectively adding them to the preceding report. jlwoodwa (talk) 06:11, 22 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Another one Special:Diff/1236103305, at AIV this time. – 2804:F1...81:19C4 (talk) 23:12, 22 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Is HBC AIV helperbot14 supposed to be down?

The bot hasn't been removing reports for the last ~3 hours, is it intentional? – 2804:F1...0D:DFE4 (talk) 19:03, 20 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@2804:F14:8099:7C01:583A:B9E1:DF0D:DFE4 given it a poke, should be working now. I've moved it to toollabs, and it timed out due to a lag issue. Mdann52 (talk) 19:16, 20 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, I should have tried asking first 😅, thank you for being so prompt. – 2804:F1...0D:DFE4 (talk) 19:26, 20 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, why didn't it remove the 68.95.121.73 report at AIV?

That IP was already blocked when it removed the 2 accounts. – 2804:F1...0D:DFE4 (talk) 19:31, 20 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@2804:F14:8099:7C01:583A:B9E1:DF0D:DFE4 looks like the bot has backed off due to replication lag (aka the servers being busy - or at least, it's got a "try again later" response back the last ~30 attempts to edit). I'll dig into it tomorrow though. Mdann52 (talk) 19:44, 20 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

ACB?

I think this edit summary is a bug – neither the talk page nor the block log suggests that account creation was blocked. jlwoodwa (talk) 00:05, 22 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Jlwoodwa: - sorted. Looks like in the block info API response, "no create" actually means account creation is enabled... weird Mdann52 (talk) 05:27, 22 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

An article I created was highjacked, so I recreated the article and it got deleted.

An article I created downball was hijacked, so I recreated the article down-ball and it got deleted. I handled the AfD and Deletion Review like a newb which resulted in my article staying deleted and moved back to the draft space.

I've been taking part in a number of AfDs recently and am interested in looking into how others who nom AfDs vote and whether they have created many articles. You appear to be one of those who nom AfDs but have been quite prolific in creating articles too.

For that reason I'd like to ask for your input. I want to undo the downball hijack but my attempt to recreate the article didn't go as I expected. Any advice? thanks, Rockycape (talk) 03:11, 23 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]