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== Crashed bot ==

The bot appears to have stopped mid-run today (it updated only one of the four alerts pages I watch), the status report says it's crashed, I think just after 10am. [[User:Thryduulf|Thryduulf]] ([[User talk:Thryduulf|talk]]) 14:20, 18 March 2021 (UTC)
:Thanks for notice. I reset it for a rerun today. It "lost" some edit summaries because it got logged out and failed to log back in, but kept processing. —&nbsp;<small>&nbsp;[[user:Hellknowz|<span style="color: #B00;">HELL</span>KNOWZ]]&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;▎[[User talk:Hellknowz|TALK]]</small> 14:36, 19 March 2021 (UTC)

== TALKPAGE ==

Any way we can get the bot to stop using [[Template:TALKPAGE]] (see history for [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Television/Article alerts]] for example) so my bot can stop fixing it?  I think it all started when an editor improperly linked to the discussion [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bal%C3%A3o_M%C3%A1gico&diff=prev&oldid=1014109317 here] and now the bot continues to use that edit for linking.  Thanks! [[User:Plastikspork|Plastikspork]] [[User talk:Plastikspork|<sub style="font-size: 60%">―Œ</sub><sup style="margin-left:-3ex">(talk)</sup>]] 15:48, 28 March 2021 (UTC)
:I set the bot to reget the data for the page, so it should hopefully refresh the page link on next run. —&nbsp;<small>&nbsp;[[user:Hellknowz|<span style="color: #B00;">HELL</span>KNOWZ]]&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;▎[[User talk:Hellknowz|TALK]]</small> 16:14, 28 March 2021 (UTC)

== Frequency of updates ==

How often does the bot update AfC entries at [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Australia/Article_alerts|this page]]? I'd've liked to see at least daily updates. Currently it seems less frequent. --[[User:Gryllida|Gryllida]] ([[User talk:Gryllida|talk]]) 08:51, 5 June 2021 (UTC)
:It is updated daily, but if there's nothing to report, then there's no update. See the footnote at the bottom of the page for when the bot last ran. &#32;<span style="font-variant:small-caps; whitespace:nowrap;">[[User:Headbomb|Headbomb]] {[[User talk:Headbomb|t]] · [[Special:Contributions/Headbomb|c]] · [[WP:PHYS|p]] · [[WP:WBOOKS|b]]}</span> 09:59, 5 June 2021 (UTC)

== Incorrect proposer listed ==

I made [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Johor%E2%80%93Singapore_Causeway&type=revision&diff=1051301323&oldid=1051299224&diffmode=source this edit] just to fix a template date in a article split request so the article would be correctly categorized by the month/year. This got listed under '''Articles to be split''' at [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Singapore]] as ''proposed'' by me when it was in fact an IP that first added {{txl|split-section}}. Another editor did a split, without there having been any discussion.  After that, they discovered it was suggested by an IP, and mentioned on my TP that they were mislead and may not have done the split had they realized the request came from an IP (not to disparage all IPs). Regardless, the "proposer" of the split was listed incorrectly. Can this be fixed (identifying the edit that added first added the template)? [[User:MB|<b style="color:#034503">MB</b>]] 20:25, 24 October 2021 (UTC)

==Failed subscription==
I tried to set up a subscription for [[Wikipedia:WikiProject United States/Hispanic and Latino Americans task force/Article alerts]] but the banner is red-linked [[Wikipedia:Article alerts/Subscription list]]. [[Carley Shimkus]] is currently an AfD. I must have done something wrong. Is it possible to check this out for me? Thanks!15:35, 25 October 2021 (UTC) <!-- Template:Unsigned --><span class="autosigned" style="font-size:85%;">—&nbsp;Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[User:Patapsco913|Patapsco913]] ([[User talk:Patapsco913#top|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Patapsco913|contribs]]) </span>
:{{re|Patapsco913}} I added the appropriate category the subscription should use [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Article_alerts/Subscription_list&diff=1051789888&oldid=1051623641]. —&nbsp;<small>&nbsp;[[user:Hellknowz|<span style="color: #B00;">HELL</span>KNOWZ]]&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;▎[[User talk:Hellknowz|TALK]]</small> 16:26, 25 October 2021 (UTC)
::{{re|Hellknowz}} Thanks!! 18:20, 25 October 2021 (UTC)

== How does one fix this warning? ==

<code>[Warning] (11-02-2021 08-06-48) Record List of aviation shootdowns and accidents during the Iraq War with subscription-based ACR date and user retrieval method had more than one compatible subscription but with different options -- will only process one</code>
:Hi, when the above warning shows up on the run log (for several different pages), what would be the procedure to fix it, so it doesn't trigger the warning? Thanks, --[[User:Funandtrvl|Funandtrvl]] ([[User talk:Funandtrvl|talk]]) 18:56, 2 November 2021 (UTC)
::Hey! It's impossible to fix on Wikipedia. (Technically, you could remove banners of other projects, but that's not really a solution.) The bot just doesn't currently know which subscription added the A-class review. It gets ACR pages, then get pages belonging to projects and matches them. I already have per-project rules to report them, but it seems a lot of pages fall under multiple projects doing ACR so the bot gets confused. I would need to do special pre-processing on ACR pages to see which exact project category it has before I match things. This is somewhat convoluted with the way I have things set up from the start. Unfortunately, I really haven't had the time lately to do lots of work like this. —&nbsp;<small>&nbsp;[[user:Hellknowz|<span style="color: #B00;">HELL</span>KNOWZ]]&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;▎[[User talk:Hellknowz|TALK]]</small> 19:13, 2 November 2021 (UTC)
:::Thank you for the explanation! I wondered why it was showing up, but that makes sense :) --[[User:Funandtrvl|Funandtrvl]] ([[User talk:Funandtrvl|talk]]) 17:29, 3 November 2021 (UTC)

== Bug report template typo ==

The link to file a AA bug report creates a new talk page topic with pre-filled text for the different bug report items. I just happened to notice that this text includes "Filled by" when it should say "Filed by". Typo has been around for a while! -- <b style="background:#006A4D; padding:2px">[[User:Ljthefro|<span style="color: white;">LJ</span>]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Ljthefro#top|<span style="color: white">↗</span>]]</b> 19:47, 11 November 2021 (UTC)
:It's meant to be "filled" from "fill", not from "file". As in, the person who filled out the form (not the person who filed a bug report). That said, it should have been "Filled out by" then. But I guess "Filed by" is simpler, so I changed to that. —&nbsp;<small>&nbsp;[[user:Hellknowz|<span style="color: #B00;">HELL</span>KNOWZ]]&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;▎[[User talk:Hellknowz|TALK]]</small> 19:59, 11 November 2021 (UTC)