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I stumbled upon a couple of edits like The Queers (Diff ~947631361).
This is hopefully not happening anymore? — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 11:38, 18 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Alexis Jazz. Can you clarify what is wrong with that particular diff? Maybe I'm dense but I don't see the error right off the bat. –Novem Linguae (talk) 02:29, 19 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Novem Linguae, the original URL was www.chartattack.com/news/53698/the-queers-to-drop-live-album-recorded-at-cbgb which is clearly supposed to link to some article. It was not archived, but entering this URL in the Wayback Machine gives you some redirects to www.chartattack.com, the homepage. ReFill changed the URL to the homepage (that's virtually always useless) and set the title to the title of the homepage: "Chart Attack - Best Magazine 2020". As of 2018 Chart Attack is defunct, whoever owns the domain now has nothing to do with the original publication. The original URL held some relevant information in the sense one might try to use it to track down the original article somehow. (in case the URL scheme changed or they moved to another domain or something) Reducing that to a link to a homepage just isn't helpful. — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 04:36, 19 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Citoid is still stripping this ref in the way you describe. Curb Safe Charmer (talk) 15:04, 20 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Curb Safe Charmer, thanks. That's unfortunate. Can't the user at least be warned before changing a deep link to a homepage link? — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 21:35, 20 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I suggest you take it up with Wikimedia Foundation-maintained Citoid project. Curb Safe Charmer (talk) 08:11, 21 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

phab:T351694 — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 08:45, 21 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Tool seems to be down again. I've been getting a "Webservice request timed out" error for the past hour or so. it seemed to be working ok before 9pm GMT. Cheers, This is Paul (talk) 22:07, 1 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I'm not sure if here is the place to mention this, but I wanted to bring attention to a potential issue with pages from the website https://www.rte.ie/news/. When run through the bot they are rendered as cite journal links rather than cite web, which creates an error as the site does not appear with the parameter journal=. I hope this makes sense and that someone could take a look. Cheers, This is Paul (talk) 14:17, 31 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Diff. –Novem Linguae (talk) 14:28, 31 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

hi - A news publication in NJ USA called TapInto has a number of city-based news pages by different journalists. When I put a bare URL recently using the Refill Tool forge tool, it no longer seems to fill it? Wondering why and if there is a fix? I also opened a discussion awhile back on TapInto' talk page. Thanks in advance

See this diff. ReFill keeps adding |deadurl=y to citations, which causes a CS1 error. It should use |url-status=dead instead. :Jay8g [V•T•E] 19:59, 18 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

This is one of the known issues of the tool. A fix is available but needs deploying. Keith D (talk) 01:49, 19 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

The tool adds url=https://dx.doi… links to templates with DOIs. Since most of these are not free, it is misleading to title link them. If anything, these links should be removed not added. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 12:48, 22 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hi. Are yiu going to support more language wikipedias? Thanks Xia ^{talk to me} 17:58, 31 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]