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In Special:Diff/1166940873, there was a situation where someone had somehow put almost the whole content of the section inside the |date= parameter of a maintenance tag. This bot strangely lowercased everything in that content and removed all the commas. WTF? Anomie⚔ 11:29, 30 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Très WTF indeed. I got no explanation. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 13:05, 30 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Two issues really, on this edit. For one, its edit summary suggested it was removing a full-stop from a journal name (I think), but its actual change didn't involve that reference. Instead it tried to condense a repeated ref by replacing the duplicate with a named ref. That would've been helpful, except the ref name it picked, "ReferenceA", doesn't actually exist on the page. -- Fyrael (talk) 19:34, 7 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello – looks like this has blanked a page, see Special:Diff/1186424381. Tollens (talk) 02:01, 23 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

This was the intended edit. No idea why it crapped the bed there. Likely server issues. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 02:04, 23 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Category:CS1 errors: dates has suddenly ballooned from about six articles yesterday to 235 articles as I write this. Those additions appear to be the work of this bot. Please fix the bot.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 18:25, 28 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The bot exposed the error, it did not cause it. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 18:48, 28 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Britfilm: It appears that you created some of the articles that have this error, such as A Rum Affair. Could you please remove the incorrect |year= parameters? Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 19:24, 28 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, that editor. It is a lot more than just the nonsense |year= parameter. In the past, I have raised the issue of malformed Trove templates on their talk page. I have gotten nothing back but lip service so I no longer attempt to educate them. Perhaps you will have better luck.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 19:58, 28 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]