User talk:FACBot/Archive 2

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Hawkeye, FACbot is dropping the dyknom= parameter, which is provided by DYKbot, so that I am going around adding them back in. Could the bot convert nompage to dyknom= ? SandyGeorgia (Talk) 23:58, 30 November 2020 (UTC)

Resolved

 – Hmm. The Bot never had instructions to do this, but adding it in involves only a simple change, which I have implemented. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 01:11, 1 December 2020 (UTC)

Hawkeye7, the bot is still dropping the dyknom parameter. See this bot update and this correction. Bst (I lost a few days, but will get back over to your FAC today). SandyGeorgia (Talk) 16:44, 30 December 2020 (UTC)

Resolved

 – I see the problem. I updated the fac run, but had switch the processing to the ArticleHistory module. Moved the code there, updated fac run. Should be good now. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 22:44, 30 December 2020 (UTC)

Hawkeye7 Thanks! Was the bot stalled? The Chew Valley FAR has not been processed, while FACs closed after it have. (Trying to give Mike Christie timeline info he needed all day ... promise to revisit logistics tomorrow ... fell behind.) SandyGeorgia (Talk) 22:47, 30 December 2020 (UTC)

FAC and FAR are separate runs, and run at different times. I think Chew Valley just missed the last run. I ordered the Bot to run again, and it processed the article. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 00:14, 31 December 2020 (UTC)

Ah, thanks; did not realize they ran at separate times, so was afraid Chew Valley was malformed or something. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 00:55, 31 December 2020 (UTC)

So was I. Always worth reporting. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 03:55, 31 December 2020 (UTC)

Hawkeye7 would you be interested in having FACBot also update the main page date at the new Wikipedia:Unreviewed featured articles/2020 list? December is done, so there is no hurry to program this, should you be willing. Best, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 15:16, 21 November 2020 (UTC)

Sure. Will the page name stay the same, or change to "2021" at the end of the year? Hawkeye7 (discuss) 20:17, 21 November 2020 (UTC)

We will leave it at 2020, to represent the start date, I think. Best, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 00:05, 1 December 2020 (UTC)

@Hawkeye7: have you been able to add this feature yet, or should I manually update the TFAs at WP:URFA/2020? Happy New Year! SandyGeorgia (Talk) 15:57, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

great, thanks!! SandyGeorgia (Talk) 01:02, 2 January 2021 (UTC)

Yes, I had the new version sitting in a side file waiting for the New Year. I put it up a little while ago, and it should update the unreviewed list from now on. [1] Hawkeye7 (discuss) 01:09, 2 January 2021 (UTC)

Hawkeye7 it still doesn’t seem to be working. Jan 6 Homicide: Life on the Street (season 2) did not update at WP:URFA/2020. It is the only older FA for the rest of the month, so I won’t be able to check again until another older FA is scheduled in Feb. Best regards, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 14:07, 7 January 2021 (UTC)

I don't know what to say. I reverted the change [2] then ran the Bot again. It updated the unreviewed list. [3] I will monitor it. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 20:44, 7 January 2021 (UTC)

Don't worry about monitoring it yourself, as the problem is that the rest of January is new FAs, so there's nothing to monitor until Feb is scheduled ... I have reminders to self to check, and will let you know. :) Best, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 23:41, 7 January 2021 (UTC)

Why is FACBot not adding |currentstatus= FFAC on archived noms like this, which had no previous status? That leaves the article milestones looking ... naked :) SandyGeorgia (Talk) 01:40, 10 January 2021 (UTC)

Resolved

 – Looks like the FFAC and FFAC/GA statuses were not implemented. I have corrected the Bot, and the problem should not recur. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 06:15, 10 January 2021 (UTC)

Hawkeye, did the bot stall? It only did two of the six FAR closes. [4] SandyGeorgia (Talk) 01:53, 17 January 2021 (UTC)

The Bot reported an error: far: unable to edit 'Belarus' (3) : protectedpage: This page has been protected to prevent editing or other actions. FACBot was trying to remove the "featured article" star from the article page. It is not a WP:ADMINBOT, so it runs unprivileged and was therefore unable to edit the WP:BLUELOCK protected page. I have edited the article to remove the {{featured article}} template. [5] The FACBot was restarted and processed the other four articles. I could get it to recognise this particular error and proceed with processing the other articles, but otherwise the problem will recur. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 02:45, 17 January 2021 (UTC)

Interesting ... thanks! SandyGeorgia (Talk) 03:01, 17 January 2021 (UTC)

Resolved

 – Per Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard#Edit confirmed protection discussion. Thanks to xaosflux Hawkeye7 (discuss) 21:49, 17 January 2021 (UTC)

This bot wrecked the talk page of Talk:Suzanne Lenglen so I removed the edit. Please fix or adjust. Thanks. Fyunck(click) (talk) 00:12, 29 January 2021 (UTC)

Hawkeye7 I corrected them all, but you might want to step back through all the edits to sort the various errors. (It didn't actually "wreck the talk page"; it just got the wrong current status, and for some reason, the GA was listed twice.) Most of the errors on the page pre-dated FACbot. FACbot’s only error was the current status. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 00:16, 29 January 2021 (UTC)

It obliterated the fact that "Suzanne Lenglen has been listed as a level-4 vital article" and that it was a "Former featured article." When I found it, it was wrecked. They may have been formatted incorrectly, but they showed on my screen correctly until the bot error. Fyunck(click) (talk) 01:19, 29 January 2021 (UTC)

The vital article (just a WikiProject) was there (although oddly at the top of the page instead of with the rest of the WikiProjects): [6] As was everything else, if you just clicked the show button on milestones. The only error was the wrong current status, and the duplicate GA was pre-existing (not FACbot fault). I suspect this is the first time FACbot has encountered an FFA/GA, so that needs adjustment. Fyunck, if you have a look at Template:Article history, you'll see how easy it is for anyone to fix article milestone errors! Regards, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 01:26, 29 January 2021 (UTC)

Resolved

 – The documentation was unclear about whether it should have been a FFA/GA or FFAC/GA. Updated the FACBot to assess them correctly. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 04:10, 29 January 2021 (UTC)

Resolved

 – When an editor has incorrectly added the GAN to the article history but not removed the template, the FACBot will now detect this sitiuation and remove the template. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 04:10, 29 January 2021 (UTC)

Note that the FACBot does not deal with the Vital article templates. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 04:10, 29 January 2021 (UTC)

Hawkeye, FACBot is still missing AFDs on AH ... [7] SandyGeorgia (Talk) 00:20, 25 February 2021 (UTC)

Resolved

 – Problem matching template names ending in spaces. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 03:22, 25 February 2021 (UTC)

I find it a bit odd that we have a congratulatory talk page message for e.g. DYKs but not successful featured content nominations. I designed one at {{FC pass talk message}}, and I was wondering if it'd be possible to get the FACbot to add it to the nominator's talk page as part of its work? It'd make the process a bit less anticlimactic haha. Cheers, {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 06:12, 29 December 2020 (UTC)

Yes, it can do that. I'll let you know when it has been implemented. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 07:28, 29 December 2020 (UTC)

Awesome; thanks! {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 08:29, 29 December 2020 (UTC)

@Sdkb: Forgot to inform you when it was implemented on 10 January. You can find an example here. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 03:26, 25 February 2021 (UTC)

Hawkeye7, this is an odd one: [8] It's an WP:FFA (not an FFAC). Bst, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 14:24, 10 April 2021 (UTC)

It wasn't clear to me what all the correct statuses are; the documentation does not cover this. The relevant code now reads:

# Update the current status
    my $currentstatus = $article_history->get ('currentstatus') // '';
    my $newstatus = {
        'FFA'     => 'FFA',
        'FFA/GA'  => 'FFA/GA',
        'FFAC'    => 'FFAC',
        'FFAC/GA' => 'FFAC/GA',
        'GA'      => 'FFAC/GA',
    };
        
    my $status = $newstatus->{$currentstatus} // 'FFAC';
    $article_history->add ('currentstatus' => "$status\n");

Hawkeye7 (discuss) 00:07, 11 April 2021 (UTC)

Hawkeye, this is the third time I have encountered this oddity: [9] (GA repeated twice). Best, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 18:54, 23 April 2021 (UTC)

Y Corrected. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 21:23, 23 April 2021 (UTC)

This one was really odd ... dropped the date and dropped the nom page ... https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Berlin_to_Kitchener_name_change&diff=1020785014&oldid=1020780143 Best regards, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 00:41, 1 May 2021 (UTC)

The DYK entry was in error. According to Template:DYK talk, the date is the second parameter and the third is for an image. The article used an old form, with the third parameter containing part of the date. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 05:45, 1 May 2021 (UTC)

Resolved

 – Catered for this. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 01:12, 3 May 2021 (UTC)

Hi Hawkeye7, just to let you know I have updated some parameters that are used for old peer reviews (in particular, an automatically included ID of the page revision, and also either a full link to the peer review page or the name of the article when it was reviewed - in case of a move). You can see the new parameters that I've included at Template:Old peer review/doc.

I mention this because I am contemplating asking you to run the bot on the 13,500 or so articles at Category:Old requests for peer review with a view to reducing template clutter so that old peer reviews can be integrated into the article history template where possible. Tom (LT) (talk) 02:14, 12 May 2021 (UTC)

Actually, there are a lot less than that, because Module:Article history/config attaches that category to pages where the Article History template includes a Peer Review. I will start by updating the Bot to recognise the new parameters. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 04:07, 12 May 2021 (UTC)

Bit of weirdness: Nikkimaria closed 5 FARs yesterday[10] and 1 has been processed by the bot but the other 4 haven't been. DrKay (talk) 06:58, 16 May 2021 (UTC)

Resolved

 – Caused by Degrassi: The Next Generation. Reverted and the Bot was able to process. Will add some more error recovery. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 08:00, 16 May 2021 (UTC)

This one missed: [11] Best regards, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 18:57, 16 May 2021 (UTC)

Resolved

 – Handling of FFAC/GA status without a pre-existing article history. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 21:48, 16 May 2021 (UTC)

Hi Hawkeye! I forget if I've already mentioned this somewhere else, but as a follow-up to here, would it be possible for the bot to also deliver notices after successful featured list nominations? {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 23:20, 6 October 2021 (UTC)

Sure. I will implement it. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 02:44, 7 October 2021 (UTC)

Awesome; thanks! {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 02:45, 7 October 2021 (UTC)

@Hawkeye7 – Firstly, this is an excellent idea, which I was wondering for a long time. Now, I saw this on ChrisTheDude's talk page, but the message says "article" and "you may nominate it to appear on the Main page as Today's featured article" instead of list. Can this be corrected? Thanks! – Kavyansh.Singh (talk) 08:31, 11 October 2021 (UTC)

This can be solved with |type=list. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 16:14, 11 October 2021 (UTC)

Resolved

 – Yes. Thanks for that Sdkb! I have made the required change. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 18:24, 11 October 2021 (UTC)

Thanks! Just curious, since I can't find any recent changes in the listed source code, where is the code for that hosted? {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 18:36, 11 October 2021 (UTC)

The source code is hosted on Phabricator. The code for sending a notification can be found on lines 739 to 771. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 22:36, 11 October 2021 (UTC)

Thanks! I'm not quite confident enough about which code comes from where to edit the documentation at the bot's page myself, but that might help others. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 22:45, 11 October 2021 (UTC)

Just did my first promotions since this change and saw this; thanks for implementing this, Hawkeye7, and thanks for suggesting it, Sdkb! A bit of congratulations for all the work getting an FL takes is a nice addition. --PresN 02:24, 17 October 2021 (UTC)

• H'mmm. I've written multiple FAs and never seen that congratualtions message. User:Gog the Mild neither. @FAC coordinators: what know ye? ——Serial 12:28, 18 November 2021 (UTC)

• Indeed, apparently it's never been transcluded. Does this mean never used, Hawkeye7? Cheers  :) ——Serial 12:47, 18 November 2021 (UTC)

SN, I am not sure I understand the query. (No change there then.) Are you referring to this standard FAC promotion notification - User talk:Gog the Mild#Promotion of Battle of Oroscopa? Gog the Mild (talk) 12:54, 18 November 2021 (UTC)

Yeah, that's the one Gog—god knows how I managed to miss that! But It stil seems that I've never received it, and I don't think I've got a 'no bots' thing running. ——Serial 12:59, 18 November 2021 (UTC)

I think the standard message changed at the start of this year. Have you had a FAC promoted since then? Gog the Mild (talk) 13:04, 18 November 2021 (UTC)

No... no, I haven't. Wow! Must do something about that. But what message did we get before this year? ——Serial 13:10, 18 November 2021 (UTC)

Nice. Although I intend to oppose unless you add at least a dozen footnotes on obscure points.

We didn't. Goodness me, I had forgotten that. Gog the Mild (talk) 13:54, 18 November 2021 (UTC)

Ah! Well, that explains all my queries nicely; I now support this nomination's promotion  :) ——Serial 14:12, 18 November 2021 (UTC)

@Serial Number 54129 and Gog the Mild: Yep, I only created {{FC pass talk message}} earlier this year, and before that there was nothing (!), so unless you've had an FA this year you wouldn't have received anything. There aren't transclusions because as a talk page message it's substituted. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 16:04, 18 November 2021 (UTC)

It's a great idea. One of those where you wonder how you ever managed without it. Many thanks. Gog the Mild (talk) 18:12, 18 November 2021 (UTC)

According to MOS:ORDER, {{Featured article}} should be at the top of the article, after Short description and Hatnote templates. The relevant RfC was closed in May. However, FACBot places these templates at the end of the article. Can this be fixed? I would also love to see the template name capitalized, but that is only a personal preference. Regards, IceWelder [✉] 12:15, 18 July 2021 (UTC)

It was placing the template down the bottom where the MOS specified it should be located; the MOS was changed to move it up higher. It's a bit more work for the Bot, but it can be done. I'll report back here when it is implemented. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 19:27, 18 July 2021 (UTC)

This has now been implemented. The code is as below. Note that this only affects featured articles and lists; good articles are not handled by the FACBot. (Also: the "F" has now been capitalised.)

sub addStar ($@) {
    my ($self, @elements) = @ARG;
    my @hatnotes = $self->find ($hatnotes);
    my $hatnote = pop @hatnotes;
    my $position = $hatnote ? $self->_pos ($hatnote) + 2 : 0;
    splice @{ $self->{'elements'} }, $position, 0, @elements;
}

Resolved

 – Changed to match the MOS Hawkeye7 (discuss) 01:08, 19 July 2021 (UTC)

Looks fantastic, thanks! IceWelder [✉] 14:59, 21 July 2021 (UTC)

@Hawkeye7, I think something went a bit wrong: This template placement seems a bit off. Could you investigate? Thank you, —Kusma (talk) 12:20, 18 November 2021 (UTC)

Resolved

 – Mistakenly thought that Further2 was a hatnote template. Ensured that the hatnotes intended for use in sections are not considered. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 08:17, 19 November 2021 (UTC)

I just noticed that the bot's FA template placement was really off in this edit. That edit is from August, mind you, so it might already be fixed. I just wanted to make sure that this was seen and confirmed. IceWelder [✉] 08:16, 2 January 2022 (UTC)

Hi, in this edit the bot placed the Leonardo di Caprio FAC in the wrong place—after all other FACs even though it's not the oldest. Is there some text in the FAC that's confusing the bot? I've moved it to the correct place, but will it get messed up again in the next update? Thanks, (t · c) buidhe 07:59, 29 January 2022 (UTC)

Resolved

Some joker added this line to Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Leonardo DiCaprio/archive2:

<nowiki>#REDIRECT [[Leonardo da Vinci]]</nowiki>

This made the Bot think it was a redirect, and it loaded Leonardo da Vinci instead. The date was therefore 2006, making it the oldest nomination. I have removed this line, and it should be fine from now on. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 10:06, 29 January 2022 (UTC)

Thanks! (t · c) buidhe 19:05, 29 January 2022 (UTC)

I could implement a fix to make the Bot ignore stuff in the nowiki tags, but don't think this occurs often enough to make it worthwhile. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 20:11, 29 January 2022 (UTC)

Have I done something wrong at Wikipedia:Featured article review/Zelda Fitzgerald/archive1? I closed it yesterday and the bot has run but it hasn't processed. Thanks. DrKay (talk) 13:39, 14 February 2022 (UTC)

You need to add a {{FARClosed}} template. The Bot looks for this. I suspect that you substituted it instead of adding it. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 19:13, 14 February 2022 (UTC)

@Hawkeye7: When FACBot adds a list of recently featured articles to each TFA that contains a language template, the result is an error. For instance: my article has an Italian language-template in the lede title (as well as on the TFA) and is scheduled for TFA on April 18, 2022. The issue is that the bot gets confused by the template; see the April 19th TFA, the April 20th TFA, and the April 21th TFA. I hope this can be promptly fixed. Cheers - Wretchskull (talk) 12:44, 7 March 2022 (UTC)

@TFA coordinators The Bot doesn't look in the lead of the article - it only looks at the TFA page. (ie [12]). I have instructed the FACBot in how to handle the {{lang}} template, and you can use it in the TFA pages from now on. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 00:08, 8 March 2022 (UTC)

Hawkeye7 Thanks for that. I had to fix the TFA recentlist manually, and remove the lang template to prevent the error occurring again on the next bot pass. I guess Wretchskull can replace the lang template now Jimfbleak - talk to me? 11:29, 8 March 2022 (UTC)

@Hawkeye7 and Jimfbleak: This edit by Wretchskull has confused AnomieBOT again, see User talk:AnomieBOT#TFATitleSubpageCreator: Cannot find featured article in Wikipedia:Today's featured article/April 18, 2022, --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 06:27, 17 April 2022 (UTC)

Wrong venue. Please move to User talk:AnomieBOT Hawkeye7 (discuss) 06:53, 17 April 2022 (UTC)

Hi there. Can you make it so, when User:FACBot adds the newest featured lists to Template:Announcements/New featured content, it capitalizes the first letter? It looks a bit funny. Thanks! — PerfectSoundWhatever (t; c) 00:34, 15 June 2022 (UTC)

 Done Hawkeye7 (discuss) 00:43, 15 June 2022 (UTC)

An error seems to have been introduced at Talk:Pronunciation of GIF with your edit here. — Fourthords | =Λ= | 01:12, 15 June 2022 (UTC)

 Done Added code to recognize more date formats. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 04:09, 15 June 2022 (UTC)

In this defeatured article, the bot left the FA class on one WikiProject (Children's literature). SandyGeorgia (Talk) 02:35, 7 August 2022 (UTC)

 Done Hawkeye7 (discuss) 05:54, 7 August 2022 (UTC)

When FACbot notifies me of a problem... it deletes my entire talk page. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.1% of all FPs} 00:48, 14 August 2022 (UTC)

Ooops. Will fix that. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 03:45, 14 August 2022 (UTC)

 Done Corrected. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 03:58, 14 August 2022 (UTC)

Thank you! Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.1% of all FPs} 06:26, 14 August 2022 (UTC)

What does the bot use to identify where to update this page? I'm intending to move it over to CSS Grid / more flexy / media query-ey and I don't want to mess with the bot. Izno (talk) 23:07, 23 September 2022 (UTC)

There are two of them, for Featured Articles and Featured Lists. For the former, it looks for the comment

<!-- Articles ((\d+), most recent first) -->

and puts the new article after it. It then reads until it finds the comment:

<!-- Topics ((\d+), most recent first) -->

The number of articles to list is controlled by the regular expression. If it would be exceeded, then the last one will be dropped.

The Featured list processing works the same way, but looks for "Lists" and "Pictures" instead.

I can alter the way it works of course. Let me know what you propose. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 00:21, 24 September 2022 (UTC)

That shouldn't be an issue. Thanks. Izno (talk) 05:13, 24 September 2022 (UTC)

Hi Hawkeye, the bot doesn't seem to have closed this withdrawn nom although I can't see anything obvious like a change of article name mid-review or some such. OTOH the nominator had themselves removed the FAC template from the article talk page before I performed the archive -- that screw up the works...? Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 18:33, 9 October 2022 (UTC)

Resolved

Unlimitedlead (talk) tried to withdraw the nomination out of process. [13] I reverted their change, and the FACBot has processed the archive. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 23:49, 9 October 2022 (UTC)

I deeply apologize for any mishaps I may have caused. I’m still new to this whole FA thing. Unlimitedlead (talk) 00:56, 10 October 2022 (UTC)

No worries. Best of luck in the future. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 06:05, 10 October 2022 (UTC)

Tks guys. Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 07:26, 10 October 2022 (UTC)

Hello. I closed 8 FARs yesterday but the bot has only recognized 2 of the closures. Did I forget a step? Thanks, DrKay (talk) 07:48, 16 October 2022 (UTC)

Someone created a bad entry for Borat. I have removed it. It shouldn't have stopped the job from processing the others, but there is a problem with Kubernetes. Not sure how to fix it. The others have been processed now. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 08:45, 16 October 2022 (UTC)

Hawkeye7 when a TFA is changed long after scheduling, is FACbot able to re-update WP:URFA/2020, or do I have to watch for those manually ? Bengali language movement was switched out, but WP:URFA/2020A still shows it at 2023-02-21 (that needs to be reverted to its maindate1). I don't mind changing them manually if necessary, as that sort of thing is rare and probably hard to code, but I'm not sure if I'll be notified on all of them. Bst, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 23:09, 20 January 2023 (UTC)

Yes, if an article gets swapped out it must be processed manually. It used to be unheard of, but it has happened a bit lately. It is quite a challenge for the bot to recognise that this has happened; it starts with the schedule, and if an article slips off the schedule, then the bot doesn't know about it any more. But it is also difficult to process manually. So I will consider how it can be done. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 02:04, 21 January 2023 (UTC)

That is what I suspected. I don't mind watching for post-scheduling TFA changes to adjust them manually, but I won't always know. @TFA coordinators and Gog the Mild to remind them to remind me if they remember :) SandyGeorgia (Talk) 02:35, 21 January 2023 (UTC)

I'll try to remember to tell you when I have a role in it and it's before what, 2015?--Wehwalt (talk) 15:17, 21 January 2023 (UTC)

Wehwalt, yes, the URFA/2020 cutoff is 2015. I have always hoped that by keeping the TFA dates in the sortable charts, it will be easier for all of you to locate "Satisfactory" or "Kept" old FAs for TFA purposes.

On a separate followup on Bengali language movement, pls see here. I had a rather dreadful November through December, and wish I had checked that article's history more closely, but don't want the wrong impression left about Antoine's review.

Jimfbleak I recall there being another swap last month, that ended up at ERRORS, but I don't remember the article; if you can remember, I'd like to check that the URFA pages get updated. Regards, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 11:02, 22 January 2023 (UTC)

Don't think this is the one you are thinking of, but Basiliscus was swapped out for 14 January 2023. Wikipedia:Unreviewed featured articles/2020/2004–2009 was not updated. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 18:01, 22 January 2023 (UTC)

Yes, I think that was it; thank you! Will adjust URFA/2020 ... SandyGeorgia (Talk) 18:31, 22 January 2023 (UTC)

In this edit, FACBot added an AfD to the template and listed the result as "Speedy keep (joke AFD for April Fools Day)", which the template cannot parse. Is it programmed to do this? Looking at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wikipedia, "joke AFD for April Fools Day" does not appear. CMD (talk) 01:10, 5 February 2023 (UTC)

It took the existing result from {{Old XfD multi}}, which has no such restrictions on the result parameter. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 02:09, 5 February 2023 (UTC)

Thanks, I wonder why it only pulled one of the AfDs from there. CMD (talk) 02:48, 5 February 2023 (UTC)

Hawkeye7, since Jan 21, FACbot has been forgetting to strip FA status on WP assessments, eg here. I fixed them all manually [14] ... December seems to be OK. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 04:11, 5 February 2023 (UTC)

@Hawkeye7: ? SandyGeorgia (Talk) 02:18, 10 February 2023 (UTC)

Should be okay now. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 03:41, 10 February 2023 (UTC)

Hawkeye7 here is an odd thing. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 01:04, 21 May 2023 (UTC)

Gave the bot some more instruction on how to deal with this table. Should not recur. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 02:57, 21 May 2023 (UTC)

@SandyGeorgia:: Facbot missed a Failed GA here [15] The FACBot never had any instructions to deal with the {{Failed GA}} template. I have added instructions to handle it. While I was at it I also added instructions to place the {{ArticleHistory}} template after the talk, attention, guideline and language templates per WP:TALKORDER. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 04:31, 5 July 2023 (UTC)

Thanks (and sorry for the edit summary ping while iPad editing from my care :) SandyGeorgia (Talk) 11:55, 5 July 2023 (UTC)

Hawkeye7 I suspect Wikipedia:Featured article review/Keith Miller in the 1946–47 Australian cricket season/archive1 foiled the bot as the article was deleted before the FAR closed; would you like me to process it manually? SandyGeorgia (Talk) 14:23, 15 July 2023 (UTC)

Yes please. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 19:32, 15 July 2023 (UTC)

Will do, not worth adjusting the bot to deal with such oddities. Give me ten or fifteen ... SandyGeorgia (Talk) 20:46, 15 July 2023 (UTC)

Done, Talk:Keith Miller in the 1946–47 Australian cricket season, think I got all the pieces (rusty memory). SandyGeorgia (Talk) 21:05, 15 July 2023 (UTC)

Yes. Thank you. This hasn't happened for a long time. The easiest way would have been to undelete the article, run the Bot, and then delete it again. But I am not an admin, and cannot do that. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 21:43, 15 July 2023 (UTC)

I will remind people in the future, it if happens again, to first have the article defeatured, then submit to AFD. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 21:48, 15 July 2023 (UTC)

Hi Hawkeye. I hope you don't mind me bothering you with this. Sarcophagus of Eshmunazar II has just been promoted to FAC. It was a joint nomination by two editors. Elias Ziade was duly notified - [16]. But Onceinawhile wasn't. I also note only one credit at Wikipedia:Featured articles promoted in 2023. Any ideas as to what went wrong? Or, more to the point, how to fix it? I am quite happy to "hand correct" this one, but it seemed worth checking to see what was causing it. Thanks. Gog the Mild (talk) 00:16, 10 September 2023 (UTC)

 Fixed @Gog the Mild: Okay. The problem is related to this change in September 2022. By altering the format of the nomination statement, the FACBot was unable to find the nominator(s). Nobody has noticed until now because the FACBot has a fallback: it goes through the nomination history and locates the creator. This only works when there is one nominator, but it is frequently the case. I have instructed the FACBot in how to identify the new format, and the problem should not recur. (NB: Wikipedia:Featured articles promoted in 2023 is not maintained by the FACBot.) Hawkeye7 (discuss) 00:09, 11 September 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for that, much appreciated. Hmm, Featured articles promoted in 2023 is not maintained by hand so I wonder how it happens? It does hiccup occasionally so I am used to keeping and eye on it and tidying up. Thanks again. Gog the Mild (talk) 00:15, 11 September 2023 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured articles promoted in 2023 is maintained by Rick Bot (talk · contribs). I could have run the notification task again, but the Bot would have notified Elias Ziade again as well. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 04:00, 11 September 2023 (UTC)

@Hawkeye7: FACBot posted this, despite the fact that the page contains {{nobots}}. Just letting you know FYI, as the BRFA says that it should be exclusion compliant.

All the best, ‍—‍a smart kitten_[meow] 00:21, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

 Fixed The bot does honour {{nobots}} but there was a loophole. I have corrected this, and it should not recur. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 23:42, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

Hey Hawkeye7, the bot does not seem to have processed any FACs since May 24, even though multiple nominations have been promoted and archived. This one was archived manually a few days ago, but the others are still pending. Is this normal behavior, or does the bot need a drop of motor oil? (@FAC coordinators: Courtesy ping.) —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 19:21, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

Hmmm. Looks like some changes on the grid. I have corrected the problem, and the FACBot is processing FACs again. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 20:03, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

Appreciate it! —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 20:22, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

Hey @Hawkeye7, just wanted to report something I came across at Green Bay Packers draft history. This list was promoted on March 24, 2024, and FACBot added the featured list template to a section of the article and not to the top of it (diff here). Hey man im josh (talk) 12:48, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

Interesting. I will investigate. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 18:59, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

The problem is that the Bot has instructions to put the featured list template after the hatnotes, and there is a For hatnote at that point. Will need some more logic. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 05:57, 31 May 2024 (UTC)

@Hawkeye7: Hello again! In this edit, the bot mistakenly changed the |class= parameter of an unrelated template in a user's comment along with the banner shell class, which you may want to look into. Thanks! —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 00:39, 3 June 2024 (UTC)

Is this intentional? I'm a bit confused as to what's going on with that edit. Hog Farm _Talk 01:54, 9 June 2024 (UTC)

Looks like a nomination was created but never posted on the candidates page. After a few days the bot removes them. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 11:31, 9 June 2024 (UTC)

That's not the case though - mine has been at the main FAC page since June 3. Hog Farm _Talk 18:47, 9 June 2024 (UTC)

The log says:

00:06:28 Sun 09 Jun 2024 Battle of Plum Point Bend: no nomination

00:06:33 Sun 09 Jun 2024 Battle of Plum Point Bend: was nominated by Hog Farm at 2024-06-03 17:17:28

00:06:33 Sun 09 Jun 2024 Battle of Plum Point Bend: Updating the talk page

All I can think of is that there was a network problem, and the bot was unable to retrieve the FAC nomination page. The bot checks that the nomination was created over five days before, but cannot access results on previous days. For now, I am going to remove this check. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 04:19, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

To date the bot has updated Talk:John Savage (soldier) EIGHT (8) times in four days for one review. Is this normal behaviour? DuncanHill (talk) 12:11, 21 June 2024 (UTC)

Yikes! I will investigate. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 18:59, 21 June 2024 (UTC)

It is hard making bots foolproof when the fools are so clever. The {{featured article candidates}} template was placed inside the {{WikiProject banner shell}}, so the bot could not find it to remove it. I have corrected the talk and archive pages, and added a check for this situation, so it can be handled manually. If it recurs, I will instruct the Bot on the correct procedure for handling the situation. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 21:24, 21 June 2024 (UTC)

Thanks Hawkeye. Gog the Mild (talk) 21:54, 21 June 2024 (UTC)

Thank you. DuncanHill (talk) 22:12, 21 June 2024 (UTC)

Hi @Hawkeye7, just wanted to report that when List of accolades received by Joker (2019 film) was promoted and FACBot placed the featured list template, it also resulted in an extraneous space being added to the top of the article (see diff here). This also happened at the accolade lists for The Boy and the Heron, Interstellar and Hacksaw Ridge.

It could be an issue because {{Italic title}} is present. The space seems to get added with every promotion, but I haven't seen it show up in the actual text of any other type of featured list. Sgubaldo (talk) 13:37, 9 June 2024 (UTC)

I have implemented a fix. Let's see how it goes. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 02:56, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

Worked perfectly with List of accolades received by Inception, thank you again. Sgubaldo (talk) 00:29, 26 June 2024 (UTC)

Great work on that list! So thank you too. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 00:53, 26 June 2024 (UTC)

Hey Hawkeye7, we just added a new FL delegate, Hey man im josh. The ancient closing instructions imply that the bot only closes nominations correctly if the template is placed on the nomination by a coordinator it recognizes. I don't know if that's true or not, but if it is, then there's a new authorized closer at FLC it should know about. Also, thanks for all this bot does for us! --PresN 14:57, 1 July 2024 (UTC)

The Bot figures out who the coordinators are by looking in Template:@FLC. You updated this to add the new coordinator, so everything should be fine. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 18:57, 1 July 2024 (UTC)

Hey Hawkeye7, looks like FACBot hasn't closed anything at FLC or FAC since the 22nd. Don't know about FAC, but I promoted 4 lists (example) on the 24th, and it's run a couple times since then without doing any closes. --PresN 00:48, 27 July 2024 (UTC)

Actually, looking at the above, on the 22nd the @FLC and @FAC templates got modified slightly (diff); don't know if that's at all related. --PresN 00:49, 27 July 2024 (UTC)

Yeah, I mentioned this to Gog the Mild on my talk—both Tiger and Genghis Khan were promoted on the 25th but the bot hasn't done its stuff. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 00:54, 27 July 2024 (UTC)

There is an error. I will investigate. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 09:28, 27 July 2024 (UTC)

Y Found the problem and corrected it. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 01:29, 28 July 2024 (UTC)

For size reasons, part of Wikipedia:Good articles/all had to be split off into Wikipedia:Good articles/all2. There was an HTML comment on the page noting that this bot used those transclusions, so it may need to be updated. Thanks! -- Beland (talk) 20:00, 29 July 2024 (UTC)

Y The bot has been updated to handle this. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 19:05, 30 July 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the quick fix! -- Beland (talk) 19:37, 30 July 2024 (UTC)

Further changes: Special:Diff/1237436963/1240124928 .. now has a generic warning at the top of the section for all bots. -- GreenC 17:21, 13 August 2024 (UTC)

Looks like Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Godzilla Minus One/archive1 was not completely processed. I spot these as I go through the monthly archives for the FAC statistics; do you want me to continue to let you know when I come across situations like this, or does it not matter? Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 12:42, 9 October 2024 (UTC)

Yes, please. For some reason an editor took it upon himself to process the talk page manually.[17] The bot will not handle the nomination if it believes that it is being manually processed. I have reverted this change, and the bot has processed it.[18] Hawkeye7 (discuss) 21:36, 9 October 2024 (UTC)

OK, will do. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 22:48, 9 October 2024 (UTC)

@Mike Christie: The bot does not notify me unless there is an error. It is logged, but nowadays I seldom check the logs unless something is reported. I may tell the bot how to detect it and notify me. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 23:52, 9 October 2024 (UTC)