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Bug report: order of items

The bot puts {{Good article}} as a first line of an article; still, according to MOS:LAYOUT, "{{Good article}}" should be after {{Short description}}, DISPLAYTITLE and Hatnotes. Please consider improving the bot the following way: finding an offset from the start of the article, i.e. finding a value GA_OFFSET which is a max value of the four of the following:

0
{{Short description}}
DISPLAYTITLE
Hatnotes

and putting the {{Good article}} not at the beginning but a position of that value GA_OFFSET. You can use the other way to improve the bot to be compliant with the MOS:LAYOUT. Thank you! Maxim Masiutin (talk) 19:12, 3 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi -- thanks; I agree this should be fixed but I don't know when I'll get to it. I've been working on the bot this week so I might be able to fit it in. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 22:28, 3 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Do you have the bot on Github? Maybe other people could contribute. Maxim Masiutin (talk) 10:21, 4 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I don't; I've never used it though I should probably figure out how. Until I do I'm afraid it's just me maintaining the code. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 10:26, 4 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The citation bot is developed this way: https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot

However, if you manage to maintain alone, than it is good and no code sharing is useful.

Probably, at this point, just putting the "good article" after "short description" and "DISPLAYTITLE" should cover most cases. Maxim Masiutin (talk) 11:51, 4 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Maxim Masiutin: it should now be fixed for those two cases. I haven't come up with a reliable way to identify the hatnotes so the template will still be inserted before those where they exist. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 14:11, 10 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Mike Christie Short article and display title probably cover 95 percent cases or more, Thank you! Maxim Masiutin (talk) 16:56, 10 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

GAs nominations count

My issue is pretty simple, I have brought 5 articles to GA and the bot is only counting 4. What can I do about it? Thanks. The Blue Rider 14:20, 30 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

See here -- the bot thinks you've made six nominations. For the GAN page it only counts successful nominations, so four seems to be the right number. Is there another nomination the bot is missing? Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 15:01, 30 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the reply, yes it is missing Resplendent quetzal. The Blue Rider

18:34, 30 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, now that I see, I made the nomination with a previous username, maybe it is that. The Blue Rider

18:36, 30 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, that's under your old username. I assume you'd like to have that credited to you instead? I'll connect the two names in the database this evening and leave you a note when it's done. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 19:27, 30 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Redlink talkpage on GAN

Hi Mike, just a note that User talk:MemeGod27 has been deleted, so I'm not sure how ChristieBot will interact with it. There are a couple of user name moves going on here, so thought worth letting you know.

Best, CMD (talk) 05:54, 10 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the note! I will have to look at this later, but so long as any nominations are changed to the new name there should be no errors. I can connect the old and new user names on request. What's the new user's name? Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 13:15, 10 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I've updated the only nomination to the new name. There's no GA nomination under the old name, so I think everything should be fine now. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 16:27, 10 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, apologies I didn't reply in time. I had a look at the nomination and was unsure about changing a custom signature myself. Best, CMD (talk) 02:14, 11 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Well, the bot does its best to parse weird signatures, but it doesn't actually care about them -- all it wants is to find a page link that looks like "User:<something>". So if you ever need to reset a nominator in a nomination template, just putting in the usual [[User:Fred|Fred]] will always work. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 02:24, 11 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Self-inflicted errors

ChristieBot is transcluding some non-existent reviews [1][2] and then complaining about it, not sure why as the process to reset those seemed normal and the pages were deleted hours before. CMD (talk) 01:57, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

As far as I can tell the pages were deleted after the reset, so when ChristieBot ran it could see the page existed. Looking at the code I'm not certain what it does when the old nomination exists, the status parameter has changed, and the new status is blank, but it evidently decided transclusion was necessary. I have debugging turned off for those paths, so I can't be sure of the details, but generally if the bot sees a review page exists, and it's referenced by the nomination template, it will usually want to transclude it. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 08:47, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

GA credit

Yesterday, Wo Gott der Herr nicht bei uns hält, BWV 178 was reviewed for GA, but I didn't receive credit on my talk. It would be meaningful today, as it's the composer's day of death ;) -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:13, 28 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure what happened there, but several dozen articles were not fully processed, though I don't think all of them failed to get talk page messages. I've cleaned up the data, so your GA statistics here now correctly reflect the promotion. I'll have a look in the code and see if I can understand what caused this -- thanks for the ping. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 20:59, 28 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the fix, Mike, - I'd still be grateful for a talk page message because of the sentimental reason mentioned above. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:20, 29 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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