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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)[reply]

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)[reply]

@R'n'B: looks like this is stuck again. [1] has no links and it says "Replication lag is 3 days 14 hours 10 minutes." Natg 19 (talk) 00:25, 7 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]