Wikipedia talk:AutoEd

Removes links in transcluded content using lsth

I’m not sure the extent of the behavior, but with #lsth AutoEd seems to remove links, at least to self.

I’m using this on a private wiki, but the following behavior was observed on many attempts:

on the page “Cleric”:

{{#lsth:Armor|[[Cleric]]}} changed to {{#lsth:Armor|Cleric}} and this no longer transcludes using lsth, since the page it’s transcluding links back to Cleric. Ryandward (talk) 19:22, 30 January 2024 (UTC)

Maybe it’s because section names aren’t supposed to have links in them on enwiki. I’ll see if I can reproduce and patch this

Also, thanks IP for formatting help Aaron Liu (talk) 19:29, 30 January 2024 (UTC)

My bad. I made the post on my phone and could not figure out how to fix it, so I went on my desktop where I apparently forgot to log in :) Ryandward (talk) 01:47, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

I missed the detail where it's a self link. That makes this a lot more plausible, though I still heavily recommend against including links in headings. Anyways, to remove that simply follow the instructions under the Configuration section to remove the Wikipedia:AutoEd/wikilinks.js module. Aaron Liu (talk) 02:25, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

Thank you. I wasn't sure where the behavior was coming from. I can easily implement this on my own. Ryandward (talk) 02:34, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

I know the linking in the headings is a bad idea, and I've been trying to figure out a way around it -- especially since #lsth is quite unstable to changes. Do you have any suggestions or further reading as to how to make this more compliant? Ryandward (talk) 02:46, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

More compliant, in what way? Why would you need to have a link in the heading? Aaron Liu (talk) 02:55, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

Three things

I'm coming here from User talk:Paulinefowler666 § Question, where I expressed concern about this edit, which I suspect may have been made using AutoEd. If so, and if the bugs are replicable, then there appear to be three issues:

1. Non-breaking spaces specified with &​nbsp; are being removed and converted to normal spaces.
2. Substituted anchors in section headings are being removed.
3. There is no tag or autosummary for edits made using AutoEd, which makes it hard to trace errors and report bugs like the two above.

I might be diagnosing what's happening here incorrectly (in which case just lmk), but if not, these are significant issues and should be resolved before this script is used further. Best, Sdkb ^talk 22:22, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

I have a config that's even completer than complete, and I do not replicate any of these issues. Plus, the editor is an IP, so I doubt that they are running userscripts. Aaron Liu (talk) 01:41, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

The editor who made the edit is Paulinefowler666, not an IP. Sdkb ^talk 01:44, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

Okay, I got confused while navigating diffs, sorry. I'll take a look at the other scripts they have and see if there's anything that can cause this. Aaron Liu (talk) 01:45, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

The culprit for removing the nbsp seems to be de:Benutzer:TMg/autoFormatter.js. Aaron Liu (talk) 01:53, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

After loading up the appropriate revisions, the German invader caused the exact erroneous changes. It seems like the invader prosecutes anchor tags that aren't self-closed (which were recently fixed into being self-closed in the university article as a linter error. So, the {{anchor}} template may be rapidly generating linter errors?) Aaron Liu (talk) 02:00, 16 May 2024 (UTC)