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Failure to close ref tag and surrounding template
[edit]See the bottom of Special:Diff/1382696534, where the bot botched a cite template conversion of a multi-cite list ref inside a {{blockquote}}. Gamapamani (talk) 11:26, 30 October 2026 (UTC)
- Core-code bug fixed. Found 9 other articles in previous jobs, they are repaired. Thank you. -- GreenC 16:01, 30 October 2026 (UTC)
Why did the bot do this?...
[edit]On November 1, at Hollin Hills, the bot added the following code to this article:
- {{dead link|date=October 2026|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}
I'd like to know why. The link - https://repository.upenn.edu/handle/20.500.14332/37309 - is ok, it works, and ultimately resolves to - https://repository.upenn.edu/entities/publication/140512f9-73ee-4b2f-ad4b-2c3a8e7ac46e . But it isn't "dead" and was subsequently fixed in this edit. Thanks - Shearonink (talk) 03:23, 5 November 2026 (UTC)
- URLs under repository.upenn.edu are mostly not working but a few are and the bot missed them, it requires headless browser to detect. Analyzing which need to be restored to live. -- GreenC 07:35, 5 November 2026 (UTC)
- Identified and repaired: 310 URLs flipped from url-status=dead to url-status=live, or {dead link}{cbignore} removed eg. Special:Diff/1383141376/1383927432 -- GreenC 17:17, 5 November 2026 (UTC)
Hi. The above project, and all its linked archived pages, uses the simple cite format of sourcing for one important reason - to prevent slow page loading times due to the potentially over-fattened page sources which result from use of the full cite in a very long list. This is done via a long-standing editor consensus, so is important to maintain. Your bot is currently undertaking an exercise (usually identified with the edit summary Pass A) which, in most cases, does nothing but convert an existing valid source URL/title to the full cite, thus increasing the source loading for the page. (I'm quite happy to source alternatives to those identified as "dead", so no worries there.) I have been patiently reverting these edits to simple cite, so I wondered if there was a "stop visiting" tag which could be inserted into the page source for the project and its related archives, to prevent the bot being active there? Otherwise I shall have to trawl the Deaths project pages reverting it forever. Thanks. Ref (chew)(do) 07:56, 7 November 2026 (UTC)
- User:Refsworldlee: OK understood thanks for the notice. There are two ways to handle it. Add
{{bots}}with|optout=CS1to every page. My bot honors this, although if every bot does I don't know. Once in place it becomes a request "please honor this tag". The other way is I add an internal exception so my bot skips anything "Deaths in*" - this is a quick change in one place, but does not solve the larger problem with other tools and bots. Suggest do both. -- GreenC 16:23, 7 November 2026 (UTC)- An exception rule has been added to my bot. -- GreenC 16:31, 7 November 2026 (UTC)
- I did some analysis, and skipping "Deaths in*" would be a blunt instrument. Most already use CS1 and don't have that many references. Plus there are "List of*" pages with similar issues. I think my bot will follow style rules: Skip conversion when the article has at least ~300 refs, and under half of them are CS1. Skip conversion when the article has at least 30 refs and none of the are CS1. Also honor
{{bots}}. I think these rules will solve most problems. -- GreenC 16:48, 7 November 2026 (UTC)- Thank you very much. Best wishes. Ref (chew)(do) 00:00, 8 November 2026 (UTC)