Category talk:Pages using duplicate arguments in template calls

March 2018

Today's flood of articles is brought to you by the argument flag alias-naval and the template {{Country data Maryland}}. Have reverted the error. Going to contact an editor who runs a null-edit bot to see if they can help with the clean up. - X201 (talk) 08:37, 6 March 2018 (UTC)

Clean up category

Ever since I dumped a bunch of page into this category, I'm trying to join the list of editors who keep this category clean. One question I had is that there are a number of pages that are in user drafts. I'm curious whether we might want to consider omitting those from this category? Or perhaps sorting them differently? Just food for thought... I think the emphasis here is cleaning up articles/templates in the main space (may be totally wrong though). Curious what others think? --Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 18:13, 27 September 2018 (UTC)

This category is assigned by the MediaWiki software. I don't think we can change its scope. In any event, it can be useful to fix pages in Draft and other spaces; for example, a maintenance template on a Draft article may benefit from having a duplicate parameter removed. – Jonesey95 (talk) 18:44, 27 September 2018 (UTC)

@Jonesey95: ah gotcha. Good to know! Thanks for the info. --Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 18:46, 27 September 2018 (UTC)

Flood of Phillies Articles

Today's flood of articles brought to you by The Transhumanist. I've fixed it but obviously will take a little while unless someone wants to do a bunch of null edits? --Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 22:22, 8 October 2018 (UTC)

@Zackmann08: Thank you for catching that. So that I know for future reference, how did it cause a flood?    — The Transhumanist   23:01, 8 October 2018 (UTC)

@The Transhumanist: because it was a template, every page that uses the template gets added to the category. It isn't really a big deal, mostly just an annoyance that goes away after an hour or two. --Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 23:05, 8 October 2018 (UTC)

Thank you for fixing that for me.    — The Transhumanist   23:34, 8 October 2018 (UTC)

@The Transhumanist: Anytime! We've all been there... I monitor this category solely because I once did the same thing and dumped a ton of pages in here. :-p --Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 00:24, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

Flood of school articles

So there is now a huge flood of articles being added thanks to a very poorly written script by Primefac. Personally I find it very concerning that this script never went through a new WP:BRFA... --Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 07:06, 11 November 2018 (UTC)

Because the script was poorly written and the bot began editing before we were ready to migrate these infoboxes, I recommend leaving these articles alone so that Primefac can develop a second script to clean up the edits (or revert them all with a bot, if that is not feasible). Cleaning them up by hand will likely make things worse, not better, unfortunately. Patience. – Jonesey95 (talk) 07:28, 11 November 2018 (UTC)

October 2020

The 200 (or so) articles bulking out the cat today are from a user clean up of infobox settlement, that added an extra coordinates field to the infobox, I've alerted the editor. A bot run or AWB will probably be the quickest way to fix it. - X201 (talk) 08:35, 27 October 2020 (UTC)

Template:Infobox country/sandbox

The dozens of archive, sandboxes and userpages in the category this week appear at first glance to arise from a problem with Template:Infobox country/sandbox, which has just had settlement_type added. Yet my simple-minded test revert failed to fix the problem. Can anyone shed any light on this? @Davemck, Ira Leviton, and MicroSupporter: any thoughts? Storchy (talk) 10:39, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

@Storchy:

Hi,

When I go to https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Infobox_country/sandbox&action=edit, there are two subheader parameters near the beginning of all the coding in the edit box. Deleting the second "| subheader =", seems to solve the problem including the duplication message, but the page has so much info that I'm not yet sure that I'm not changing anything else, losing anything, or messing up other pages, and not confident enough with the rest of the coding to pull the trigger and get a Wikiyelling. I was also hoping somebody else would figure it out before me but quickly, too.

Ira

Ira Leviton (talk) 12:31, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

Perhaps @Frietjes: has a minute to look at it. Davemck (talk) 17:06, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

since it's a sandbox, I resolved it by adding 1 and 2 to the duplicate subheader parameters. Frietjes (talk) 17:32, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

Thanks. Davemck (talk) 17:34, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

Yes, thanks for the quick response everyone, especially Frietjes. Storchy (talk) 17:42, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

Pennsylvania

To save others tracking the error down. The Pennsylvania articles taking up most of the category today are caused by an extra footnote parameter in Infobox settlement, there's nothing wrong with the US Census population template. I've notified the editor. - X201 (talk) 07:18, 28 September 2022 (UTC)

Removing non-article namespace

Is there an easy way to update this category so that pages in the user namespace will be omitted? -Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 08:13, 18 January 2023 (UTC)

No. The category, as explained on the page linked on the category page, is "automatically populated by the MediaWiki software". You can add a Petscan link that returns only non-Userspace pages. – Jonesey95 (talk) 14:51, 18 January 2023 (UTC)

Well, as can be seen at Category:Pages with missing files, it is possible to split them. The page at MediaWiki:Broken-file-category controls the category names in that case. For Category:Pages using duplicate arguments in template calls, the page to update it is at MediaWiki:Duplicate-args-category. -- WOSlinker (talk) 19:38, 18 January 2023 (UTC)

@WOSlinker and Jonesey95: been out of the game for a while (had some health issues so haven't edited since 2019...). Both your user names look familiar so good to hear from you again. My understanding is that somewhere there is a call being made, presumably in a module, to add these pages. It would appear that this could be updated to just check the mainspace, right? --Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 20:41, 18 January 2023 (UTC)

Welcome back! I remember you. It looks like WOSlinker may be on to something. We would not want to exclude User pages entirely, but we could probably shunt them into their own subcategory. Something like this:

{{#ifeq:{{NAMESPACE}}|{{ns:2}}|User pages using duplicate arguments in template calls|Pages using duplicate arguments in template calls}}

Pinging Frietjes, who does a lot of work with this category, for an opinion. – Jonesey95 (talk) 22:15, 18 January 2023 (UTC)

I've just split out articles into Category:Articles using duplicate arguments in template calls for now. -- WOSlinker (talk) 22:40, 18 January 2023 (UTC)

Religious jobs flood

Today's flood is caused by edits to {{Occupation by nationality and century category header/nationality}} and duplicate use of the "Title_continental" parameter. Judging by the normal editing window of the user who made the edit, they won't be back for another four hours. The template has undergone a number of edits over the last week, so it will take a little time to evaluate if a straight revert will fix it or cause more problems. - X201 (talk) 07:49, 12 September 2024 (UTC)

User has fixed it. Just waiting for the changes to rumble through the system. - X201 (talk) 12:53, 12 September 2024 (UTC)