Category talk:Unsynchronized talk page redirects

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Bot1058 mostly clears this category now

@Paine Ellsworth: FYI, in case you hadn't noticed, my Bot1058 task 4 is mostly clearing this category now. The algorithm for this one is more complicated than what's used to clear the other categories that the bot handles. But a more robust process than your previous combo of AWB followed up by AnomieBOT. My bot still leaves behind those talk pages which should be moved to re-sync them with their corresponding articles. Cases where someone moved the article but neglected to move its talk page as well. Best, wbm1058 (talk) 18:38, 1 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

To editor wbm1058: thank you for this, thank you beyond words! Shall try to make time to help with the pages that need extra care. Paine Ellsworth ^put'r there 18:45, 1 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Articles with talk page redirects

I created a new maintenance list using a Quarry query, Articles with talk page redirects which currently has over 2500 pages on it. This query is catching issues that our categorization system is not, because not all bad redirects have {{R from move}} templates populating maintenance categories on them.

As I started to work down this list I've run into some May 2017 edits which replaced redirects with the {{Talk page of redirect}} template to fix unsynchronized redirects using AWB and were briefly discussed at User talk:Paine Ellsworth/Archive 16#Redirect issue. I've begun fixing some of these by replacing the {{Talk page of redirect}} with a correct redirect. There's no reason for having a page with {{Talk page of redirect}} where there's not at least some old discussion(s) on the page below that template. Some that I've fixed so far include:

Talk:An-Nabek and then moved page Talk:An Nabk to Talk:Al-Nabek to sync with article and then Xqbot fixing double redirect to Talk:Al-Nabek
Talk:Rajahmundry (urban) mandal
Talk:List of highest grossing kannada films
Talk:Black Flag (Machine Gun Kelly album), Talk:Black Flag (mixtape), and Talk:Black Flag (MGK album)
I reverted Paine's edit to Talk:Zoo (film) and then my Bot1058's task 4 synced the unsynchronized talk page redirect. This task 4 was approved in late 2017 and wasn't running earlier that year when Paine's May 2017 AWB edits were done.
- Same deal with Talk:Zhonghe Line (Taipei Metro) and Talk:Zero (2014 film)
Talk:Zeyashwemye F.C. – Xqbot will fix the double redirect to Talk:Zeyar Shwe Myay F.C. if my bot doesn't get in the way first, the same way Paine's AWB run did
I moved page Talk:Zayar Shwe Myay F.C. to Talk:Zeyar Shwe Myay F.C. to sync with article, and then made sure that Bot1058 didn't get in the way of Xqbot

I guess maybe I should make Bot1058 a little smarter. – wbm1058 (talk) 22:01, 1 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The >1,600 pages to be reviewed – wbm1058 (talk) 01:22, 2 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]