User talk:DPL bot/Archive 9

I have just finished a page with name Francisco Xavier da Cunha Aragão. I want you to come and inspect the reference and please correct the reference no. 30,31,32 as they are showing errors which cannot solved by me. Thanks & Cheers. I ame Shears (talk) 07:37, 25 August 2021 (UTC)

DPL bot can't help with such things, but I've removed the empty parameters. ("1=" just means a stray extra "|" character.) Certes (talk) 10:35, 25 August 2021 (UTC)

@JaGa: This edit. It is true that What links there shows a bunch of incoming links. But these are all false positives. They refer to {{Shopping malls in India }}, which had an ambiguous link until this edit removed it, more than a week ago.

WP:DisamAssist is not tripped up by this situation, it ignores the false positives. Paradoctor (talk) 09:16, 25 December 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads-up! Keep up the good bot work. Mgrē@sŏn (Talk) 03:29, 13 February 2022 (UTC)

I am Added just Real Language of Film, there is no disambiguation check out article of that film check out this link Shiva20202020 (talk) 06:16, 19 May 2022 (UTC)

@Shiva20202020: Thank you for fixing the links to those disambiguation pages. Certes (talk) 15:20, 19 May 2022 (UTC)

Thank you for the clarification. I already fixed the link to Filip Filipović (water polo), in mentioned articles. Οσελότος (talk) 12:10, 21 September 2022 (UTC)

I would like you to delete these, because OsvátA is no longer editing the Uncyclopedia:

• http://unciklopedia.org/wiki/Párizs
• http://unciklopedia.org/wiki/Pocahontas_(film)
• http://unciklopedia.org/wiki/Miniszoknya
• http://unciklopedia.org/wiki/Macskarisztokraták_A_szörnyek_királya
• http://unciklopedia.org/wiki/Lippai_Klaudia
• http://unciklopedia.org/wiki/Kötény
• http://unciklopedia.org/wiki/Ilyen_ma_egy_lány
• http://unciklopedia.org/wiki/Bimbalattyó
• http://unciklopedia.org/wiki/Amte_Starčević
• http://unciklopedia.org/wiki/Apple
• http://unciklopedia.org/wiki/Köllő_Babett
• http://unciklopedia.org/wiki/Kateg%C3%B3ria:Azonnali_t%C3%B6rl%C3%A9sre_v%C3%A1r%C3%B3_lapok

Apród (talk) 10:44, 18 October 2022 (UTC)

This is not correct. In that edit, I did not add any link at all. I can see that the problem exists. But I did not cause it. I don't think it is reasonable to spam every editor of every article where there is a pre-existing problem, with a notification like this. The bot needs to be modified. Ettrig (talk) 06:24, 27 March 2023 (UTC)

I looked again and found my mistake. It is fixed now. Sorry for complaining erroneously.--Ettrig (talk) 06:30, 27 March 2023 (UTC)

I wanted to clarify, were the mistakes because I just put down KNOE instead of KNOE-TV? Same with ACC instead of Atlantic Coast Conference. If that's the case I did fix them. If not, I'm sure you'll let me know. Thanks User:Dwightforrm (talk) 05:30, 22 April 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for reminding me. I'll make the necessary correction right away. Kampolama (talk) 09:32, 3 July 2019 (UTC)

I was going to make a mistake at some point as I am responsible for nearly every edit on the page. I have corrected it now. Thanks--Mikey'Da'Man, Archangel (talk) 07:25, 11 July 2019 (UTC)

Thank you for letting me know about the "Church station" disambiguation link I placed on that Muni Metro station listing article. Thank you for informing me right away. P.S. Don't worry, I changed the link. — Preceding unsigned comment added by User98207252129 (talk • contribs) 01:49, 27 November 2021 (UTC)

Not a big issue, but I received a notification about adding a dablink to Courage (2021 film). The dablink was added by another editor whose edit also added copyrighted material (). As such, their revision was deleted to remove the copyvio, but the dablink remained. As the editor who made the next not-revision-deleted edit (), it seems DPL bot assigned that dablink creation to me instead. Bennv123 (talk) 06:35, 10 April 2023 (UTC)

@JaGa: I understand that this bot isn't the same as the toolforge account "dplbot", but I'm sure you know where to pass this query on to. Does the notice at WP:VPT#Toolforge Grid Engine shutdown mean the end of useful reports such as https://tools.wmflabs.org/dplbot/disambig_links.php and, if so, what can we do to prevent that? I see it has jobs running today, according to https://grid-deprecation.toolforge.org/ Certes (talk) 16:46, 30 November 2023 (UTC)

• User:JaGa is fairly inactive, as you probably know, and I am the active maintainer of DPL bot. I'm aware of the grid engine issue, and plan to address it, but I'm not certain when. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 18:51, 30 November 2023 (UTC)

  Thanks Russ. I doubt there's much I can do to help but if you can think of anything, please let me know. Certes (talk) 19:09, 30 November 2023 (UTC)

  @R'n'B: You probably have a better way of doing this, but one approach is something like User:Certes/Reports/Disambiguation pages with links. It has the advantage(?) that anyone can re-run it by clicking the link. Certes (talk) 20:22, 30 November 2023 (UTC)

  That page is pretty cool (although it's extremely long; have you considered splitting into subpages?). Have you compared your results to the bot's? --R'n'B (call me Russ) 15:39, 5 December 2023 (UTC)

  Results look pretty similar to the bot's, though not identical because I don't know the bot's schedule and have limited control over when the new page runs. Splitting into subpages could be inefficient and inaccurate: the obvious way to do it is for each subpage to do all the work then discard most of it, and there's a risk of data changing between runs causing some results to be duplicated or omitted. We might be able to do something more complex like having the query insert labeled section transclusion tags and have a subpage for each group of 500 lines extract one section each (ugly), or by writing a template/module to show another page with its table limited to a subrange of lines (potentially, more generally useful). Alternatively, have two queries, one full and one limited to dabs with more than one incoming link (661 rows today). Certes (talk) 16:02, 5 December 2023 (UTC)

  I've created User:Certes/Reports/Disambiguation pages with links/Multiple, which suppresses dabs having only one incoming link. That leaves a list of roughly the top 500 dabs. It's less functional than the real thing but may be enough, and it should be efficient. Certes (talk) 18:40, 5 December 2023 (UTC)

The message the bot is putting on user pages starts "An automated process has detectedthat when you recently edited"... obviously, a minor matter, but the next time you're delving into things, might as well put the space between detected and that. -- Nat Gertler (talk) 15:53, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

Fixed, thanks! --R'n'B (call me Russ) 16:06, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

The page Georgia received an automated message about a large number of dablinks even though almost all of them correctly pointed to the dabpage. The proper title for the page is Georgia and not Georgia (disambiguation). I attempted to "fix" the problem by adding (disambiguation) to various redirects before noticing that I created a bunch of double redirects. Helpful Raccoon (talk) 19:40, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

The bot flagged that page because a user had added an incorrect link to Georgia on Template:Peabody & Stearns, which then got transcluded into roughly 100 articles that use that template. Once the error was detected, another user quite promptly fixed it, so nothing else needs to be done. The bot would have removed the template the next time it runs (tonight), except it seems that someone else has done so manually. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 21:24, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

Got it. Apologies for misinterpreting the situation. Helpful Raccoon (talk) 22:22, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

I just got a message from this bot, regarding this change I recently made . I got the message because part of my change was adding links for a few previously unlinked things like towns and people. Upon preview, I saw that two of them (Savigny and Domfront) were to disambiguation pages. So, I tried to figure out which Savigny and which Domfront were being referred to, but I was unable to do so. So, before submitting my changes, I added {{Disambiguation needed }} markers for both of them.

That seems to me to be exactly the purpose of the "Disambiguation needed" template. So these hits by the bot seem like false positives to me. Perhaps it should be coded to not operate on disambiguation links that are marked with "disambiguation needed"? -Rwv37 (talk) 22:02, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

The list of disambiguation pages hasn't updated in 34 hours, and the fix lists for all entries are empty. Cg2916 (talk) 16:06, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

I'm aware. Unfortunately, the scripts that generate these lists depend on the (shared) Toolforge database servers, and every once in a while these servers get overloaded or have some other issue that prevents updates from occurring on schedule. It's outside of our control. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 13:58, 5 March 2024 (UTC)

@R'n'B: looks like this is stuck again. has no links and it says "Replication lag is 3 days 14 hours 10 minutes." Natg 19 (talk) 00:25, 7 August 2024 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#XTools Edit Count down?. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 12:28, 7 August 2024 (UTC)

https://dplbot.toolforge.org/disambigs_in_an_article.php?title=Ben_Sheets

The links are all correct in the nest nav box but they are still coming back as disambiguation Links.

RCSCott91 (talk) 14:37, 8 October 2024 (UTC)

It sometimes takes time for the database that the bot uses to catch up to template edits. Solution is a null edit of the page containing the "phantom" links. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 18:33, 8 October 2024 (UTC)

When I looked at the open source code, after writing, I assumed it was just a delay but wanted to make certain in case there might be an emerging glitch.

Thank you for the speedy response and solution.

RCSCott91 (talk) 19:00, 8 October 2024 (UTC)

There seems to be an interaction between the Nihongo template which uses Lua code.

If the English text parameter is bolded with 5 apostrophe as opposed to the proper 3, it will register a disambiguation link to Over Your Dead Body. There is no link, the tool seems to simply pick it up. Without diving into the template code or testing in sandbox I won't know more.

It's an interesting interaction. I'm gonna take care of the ones I am aware of. Please let me know if you find out how the addition of extra apostrophe in the template is registering as a false disambiguation link.

Edit: I misspoke: it isn't the template that is causing it, seems that using 5 apostrophes for bolding of words will cause this. So this can be alleviated with either a small change to the bot or simply writing a bot that changes any matching set of 5 apostrophes to a matching set of 3 apostrophes. RCSCott91 (talk) 18:45, 21 October 2024 (UTC)

Seems the apostrophes can be accumulative like the example on article, Yatterman (film), where two apostrophe were placed inside the template around a parameter and 3 were placed outside the template. RCSCott91 (talk) 19:19, 21 October 2024 (UTC)

I will check if it is actually due to Kuime redirect having some type of interaction with it redirecting to the Disambiguation article for "over your dead body" coupled with the R language template. If that proves the case I will request creation of two separate redirects, one for Kuime the film and the other for the book. RCSCott91 (talk) 20:01, 21 October 2024 (UTC)

Test came back positive. Something about the interaction between that redirect page for Kuime. Going further, when checking the film article, all the articles that showed linking to the Disambiguation page are now showing a false link to the film article "over your dead body".

Reverted both test edits to check my hypothesis. I apologize for the wordiness because I realize that this error turns out to have nothing to do with this bot, this bot only helped to discover it.

Will attempt to summarize and post on R language template talk page. Then investigate if any other disambiguation links are actually false positives created by R language template. RCSCott91 (talk) 20:15, 21 October 2024 (UTC)

Checked R language template, interaction is not causing it. But now that I am behind my desktop, I think I see the common denominator. All this film articles share a the Takashi Miike template. The template is not the issue as it is piped correctly. I don't write in LUA so I don't know why 5 apostrophes would cause linking to a disambiguation page over the proper link. But I will change the redirect link in Kuime redirect page with a note in its talk page. I will then add a link to "over your dead body (film)" article that links to the Japanese book article for those looking for it. RCSCott91 (talk) 21:44, 21 October 2024 (UTC)

Thie link to maiden voyage in the List of Liberty ships (A–F) is correct. I'm not sure exactly what has happened, but it appears that a perfectly valid article has been turned into a disambiguation page. Please take this off you list of links to flag up. Mjroots (talk) 06:53, 24 February 2025 (UTC)

First, what list are you talking about? As far as I can tell, List of Liberty ships (A–F) does not currently contain any links to disambiguation pages.

Second, I've looked at the history of maiden voyage; apparently, over five years ago, it was a redirect to List of maiden voyages, but that list subsequently was deleted by consensus. Since then, this title has strictly been used for a disambiguation page (or a redirect to one). If you think that there should be a full article with that title (which I wouldn't agree with, see next point), the correct place to raise it would be on the article talk page, not by complaining about appropriate correction of links pointing to disambiguation pages.

Third, a link to maiden voyage in the sense it would be used in List of Liberty ships (A–F) would appear to run afoul of WP:OVERLINK and WP:NOTDICT. We don't create encyclopedia articles just to state the definition of a common word or phrase. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 15:18, 24 February 2025 (UTC)

I'm puzzled why the bot said it found me linking to a disambiguation page. Here is the line it flagged. I don't see a disambiguation page anywhere: "He sometimes takes on comedic parts, for example playing a father who calls in an exorcist priest when his son wants to play rock music instead of studying in Lucio Corsi's hit music video 'Volevo essere un duro.'^[1] " Can someone help me understand what the bot was flagging?

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• As for your question, the text you pasted into your message above is not identical to the text you added to the page Massimo Ceccherini. Specifically, when you edited that article, you wrote [[Il Giorno]], not [[Il Giorno (newspaper)|Il Giorno]]. That's why the bot flagged the edit. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 13:31, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

@R'n'B That's odd, I cut and pasted what I put in from the page. I did not change it, I just cut and pasted the text. I had to use the markup language because it would not let me cut and paste in visual editing. I wonder why this happened. Oh-Fortuna! (talk) 13:36, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

I'll try to fix it when I'm back in the office. and I'm not a newbie, but I forgot to sign my post. Sorry. I'm grateful for your response. Oh-Fortuna! (talk) 13:37, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

Think I got it now, thank you again, someone else fixed it. Oh-Fortuna! (talk) 18:07, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

The citation template I have used for years to site articles in medical journals in PubMed such as I used for IFI44L which I recently published has not been working all day. When I click on Wikit (going to https://citation-template-filling.toolforge.org/cgi-bin/index.cgi?ddb=&type=pubmed_id&id=25052386&add_param_space=1&add_ref_tag=1&full_journal_title=1) I get an error message "Can't call method "findnodes" on an undefined value at /data/project/citation-template-filling/perl/ActivePerl-5.26/site/lib/WWW/Search/PubMedLite.pm line 117". Can you please help me correct this? Thank you. (talk) 22:41, 1 March 2025 (UTC).....Yesterday afternoon, the citation template started working.(talk) 4:41, 3 March 2025 (UTC)

I appreciate this bot so much. Thanks to whoever made it. Helps make articles I edit better! SamuelNelsonGISP (talk) 16:13, 19 October 2025 (UTC)