Wikipedia talk:Article alerts/Bugs/Archive/2013

AfD from 2005 popping up at WP:VG/AA

  Bug fixed

Filled by: Salvidrim (talk · contribs)

Time filed: 08:27, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

Link(s): Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Nightmare Before Christmas: The Pumpkin King

Comments: Not so much as bug as I have a pretty good idea why it is showing up now, but considering the... unusual formatting of the page, I'm not sure exactly what needs to be done to stop the AA bot from reporting it? Salvidrim! 08:27, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

The page originally had the wrong discussion linked, and that's what the bot parsed. Hence the old date. Only new entries are re-retrieved, so the bot never rechecked the page. I made it recheck records that are really old are are probably an error. Should be fixed now. —  HELLKNOWZ  ▎TALK 23:41, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

Wrong "Requested move" (template) attributions on two WikiProjects’ article alert pages: Japan, Actors and Filmmakers

  Bug fixed

Filled by: Macropneuma (talk · contribs)

Time filed: 07:32, 14 January 2013 (UTC)

Link(s): --

Comments:

Please help us to fix the article alert bot’s (AAlertBot) attribution of the wrong username for the move request on page Talk:Jūzō_Itami.

The wrong user attribution has happened on article alert pages: Wikipedia:WikiProject_Japan/Article_alerts & Wikipedia:WikiProject_Actors_and_Filmmakers/Article_alerts (see their histories where i've frustratedly tried to manually fix the wrong, after not having success finding and fixing the wrong on the talk page).

Obviously user:JoshuSasori (diff) requested that move, not me.

Please help to fix the article alert bot in effect misattributing the username, presumably caused by some unknown–to–me aspect of the talk page’s past edits by user:JoshuSasori. i am aware that the section creation seen here (diff) by user:JoshuSasori, was accidentally substituted partly incorrectly, by their leaving the move request reason and their signature outside of the "Requested move" template.

I've made a few attempts at fixing that talk page layout and 'encouraged' user:JoshuSasori to re-sign their requested move template, which they’ve now done, but the last daily article alert bot run (about 17 hours ago, last night my time), again did not attribute it right.

Also, i’m comparing another "Requested move" template setup: –diff, with that problematic talk page requested move template setup: –diff—for my comparison example.

No worries! I'm confident that you the coder know simply and directly why this problem occurred and can fix it for us easily (and a please!). ——--macropneuma 07:32, 14 January 2013 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for reporting this (I moved this to Bugs page).

The problem initially was that the revision history API syntax changed and I didn't realize that, so the bot would never get the right number of pages. This also affected lots of other pages with >20 edits between nomination and bot's visit. That is fixed now.

The other issue is bot mis-attributing nominations. Without going into too much detail why, I'll make it looks further into recent history to see if the template was more likely added by someone else. This may have false positives, but not as many as false detections. Here's an example with WP Japan RMs. It should update with next run (tomorrow). —  HELLKNOWZ  ▎TALK 17:01, 14 January 2013 (UTC)

Thanks. Waiting to see it for real with the next run. ——--macropneuma 02:38, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

Looks good [1]. —  HELLKNOWZ  ▎TALK 12:59, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

Yep! Looks good. All done! Thank you for your prompt fix. For my days of frustrations of figuring out, how to try to fix it and who to call about fixing it: At last! Thx. ——--macropneuma 06:24, 16 January 2013 (UTC)

Wrong date (talk page creation, not move request date) being reported

  Bug fixed

Filled by: PamD (talk · contribs)

Time filed: 13:49, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

Link(s):http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Disambiguation/Article_alerts&diff=next&oldid=533024484

Comments: The entry for Brand New, under "Requested moves", is dated 4 September 2007. In fact the talk page was created on that date, but the move request was on 15 January 2013. Something weird here.

Thank for report! Now that this is reported, I realize exactly what mistake I made.. This is why I was putting off doing that bug for so long, it's a bugnest waiting to happen.

Anyway, should not do that now [2]. —  HELLKNOWZ  ▎TALK 16:33, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

Looks good [3]. —  HELLKNOWZ  ▎TALK 12:45, 16 January 2013 (UTC)

Multiple AfD closure string matches in discussions

  Bug fixed

Filled by: Randykitty (talk · contribs)

Time filed: 18:28, 6 April 2013 (UTC)

Link(s): [4] AfD

Comments:

Hi, the bot just marked a closure as keep, although the decision actually was "redirect". I think that makes some difference and would appreciate if you could look into this. Thanks and keep up the good work! --Randykitty (talk) 18:28, 6 April 2013 (UTC)

There was another string that matches a closure result, I'll have the bot parse it a bit smarter. —  HELLKNOWZ  ▎TALK 19:08, 6 April 2013 (UTC)

I see. That may have been a previous irregular non-admin closure that was reverted. --Randykitty (talk) 20:25, 6 April 2013 (UTC)

Should be good now [5]. —  HELLKNOWZ  ▎TALK 09:30, 7 April 2013 (UTC)

Unbelievable how fast, thanks a lot!! --Randykitty (talk) 09:50, 7 April 2013 (UTC)

AfD closed as keep reported as no consensus

  Bug fixed

Filled by: Thryduulf (talk · contribs)

Time filed: 09:30, 20 April 2013 (UTC)

Link(s): Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mozart (train)

Comments: At Wikipedia:WikiProject Trains/Article alerts#AfD the bot reported the closure of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mozart (train) as "no consensus". The AfD was actually closed as "keep. WP:SNOW". Thryduulf (talk) 09:30, 20 April 2013 (UTC)

Whoops, I had the wrong label on keeps... I will be reparsing all AfDs next run and that should hopefully fix it. —  HELLKNOWZ  ▎TALK 11:56, 20 April 2013 (UTC)

Reparsed all AfDs. Appears to have fixed all the entries with this issue. Thanks for report. —  HELLKNOWZ  ▎TALK 14:09, 21 April 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for such a quickly executed fix. Thryduulf (talk) 09:21, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

Wiki Monument Link Error

Filled by: 103.21.126.55 (talk · contribs)

Time filed: 07:11, 2 September 2013 (UTC)

Link(s):

Comments: The Wiki Monument contest box appearing on each wiki page on en.wikipedia.org/<some-article> is redirecting to the same article page.

Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 103.21.126.55 (talk • contribs)

I don't really know what you are talking about and as far as I can tell, this is not related to Article Alerts (bot). —  HELLKNOWZ  ▎TALK 09:32, 2 September 2013 (UTC)

I guess this is about the problem at commons:Commons talk:Wiki Loves Monuments 2013#Site notice broken? It says it should be solved now. PrimeHunter (talk) 11:31, 2 September 2013 (UTC)

Article title is different than article name in Details

Filled by: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Deepak_dsingh (talk · contribs)

Time filed: 18 November 2013, 6:47 PM IST

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brihadeeswarar_Temple

Comments:

There is a article named "Brihadeeswarar Temple". But in description of the Article the name is mentioned as "Brihadeeswara Temple".

Expected:It should be same on both occurence.

Deepak [email redacted]

I guess you are referring to Wikipedia search results for Brihadeeswarar Temple. This is unrelated to Wikipedia:Article alerts. The search shows an excerpt from the article Brihadeeswarar Temple. It correctly shows what the article says: "The Peruvudaiyar Kovil, also known as Brihadeeswara Temple". If you think the article should spell it differently then you can edit the article. PrimeHunter (talk) 13:36, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

Closed TfD for Template:Doctor Who actors listed as new

  Not a bug

Filled by: Redrose64 (talk · contribs)

Time filed: 17:02, 11 December 2013 (UTC)

Link(s): http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Doctor_Who/Article_alerts&diff=585586410&oldid=585269887

Comments: The TfD for Template:Doctor Who actors was raised on 19 November 2013, and notified via Article Alerts the following day. It was closed as "keep" on 6 December and two days later was removed from the Article Alerts. All this is correct behaviour, if a little late. However, it showed up on Wikipedia:WikiProject Doctor Who/Article alerts today, although there had been no changes to the TfD page which might have caused it to show as reopened. --Redrose64 (talk) 17:02, 11 December 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for report, but that's because of this edit (now fixed). —  HELLKNOWZ  ▎TALK 17:06, 11 December 2013 (UTC)