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Wikipedia:Magic spell to deal with "unpatrollable" pages

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There was a bug in the article patrol mechanism which made it apparently impossible to mark certain articles as patrolled. For example: Ann other was moved to Ann Other without redirect. The new pages report shows Ann other as unpatrolled but it is not possible to mark it as patrolled.

Kludge

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The kludge is this:

  • click on the link in the new pages report. This will take you to a deletion log page.
  • go to the address bar and replace the title in the URL with 0 (or any title of a page that actually exists - the important bit is to preserve the rcid= part of the URL) and load that URL.
  • the 0 article will display with a [Mark this page as patrolled] link at the bottom of the page.
  • click on [Mark this page as patrolled].
  • "The page 0 has been marked as patrolled" will display but in fact ann other page altogether has been marked.

Thanks

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Thanks to Tom Morris (talk · contribs) for describing this kludge and for raising Bugzilla case 17463 which should solve the problem. Also, thanks to Roan Kattouw for resolving the bug.

Notes

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{{db-unpatrolled}} was part of the other way of clearing unpatrolled flags. bugzilla:30368 also relates.