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There is a possible issue with a disambiguation finder on toolforge. I have started a discussion here and am asking for assistance/input if possible. Thanks! Primefac (talk) 09:32, 3 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Major has been moved to Major (rank) following a RM, and the dab to the base name. I just fixed the 200 affected templates, but there are still over 6,000 articles to fix. As usual, a few of them may refer to other uses of "major". Certes (talk) 11:35, 29 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Update: incoming redirects fixed. I scanned incoming links from articles selectively and disambiguated two to academic major but the rest may well be for the rank. Certes (talk) 12:02, 29 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

BTW I moved a handful of redirects over to the rank article, and actually found one that was better retargeted to Major (France). I was looking at dozens of entries in whatlinkshere, and there seemed to be mostly cursory references to the rank, but also a fair bit of overlinking. I found a case where Captain, Lieutenant and Major were linked with various levels of intricate disambiguating detail, but then also some where Major was linked but Lieutenant wasn't :) --Joy (talk) 18:11, 29 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Many individual links could also be retargetted to Major (Someland) but that's a tedious and thankless task which I'm too lazy to perform. I've found a few which should target Mayor, or occasionally Alcalde, which are called "major" in some languages. Certes (talk) 22:18, 29 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Major is now finished or at least down to negligible proportions. Thanks to all who helped. Today's awkward move is Al Jazeera; discussion here. Certes (talk) 19:11, 5 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Can anyone work out what is causing links to Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy. There are 15 articles shown at Disambig fix list for Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy but I can't see where. They have Template:USSecNavy in common but this was last edited in June. Any ideas appreciated.— Rod ^talk 15:19, 28 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I haven't found the exact cause but it may be related to recent changes to Template:Infobox officeholder/office. I suspect that when the infobox lists holders of Assistant Secretary of the Navy it also checks the existence of Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy (but then doesn't link to it anyway). Template talk:Infobox officeholder#Edit request 14 November 2023 might have solved the problem had it been accepted. Pinging Neveselbert and GuardianH who may have useful insights. Certes (talk) 15:57, 28 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Should be  fixed now. The conditionals had been set to {{{office|}}} rather than the names of the parameters filled in the data beneath the label, which appears to have activated these links. ‑‑Neveselbert (talk · contribs · email) 16:33, 28 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Did that edit have anything to do with the 789 new links to Deputy that just appeared today? —R'n'B (call me Russ) 12:45, 29 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

 Investigating... ‑‑Neveselbert (talk · contribs · email) 16:50, 29 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Probably, since if the |office= parameter is missing (or blank) we'll just check the existence of Deputy. Certes (talk) 17:36, 29 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I think I've fixed it now. ‑‑Neveselbert (talk · contribs · email) 18:53, 29 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! The links to "Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy" have gone. We still have a lot of links to Deputy, but they may disappear without further effort as the affected pages reach the top of the queue. Certes (talk) 19:17, 29 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Deputy is now free of unwanted incoming links. Certes (talk) 18:31, 3 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I think something, similar to my query above, may be going on with Formation in the Template:Infobox Indian state or territory. I can't see any other reason why these articles are producing the error.— Rod ^talk 16:34, 28 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It may have something to do with |formation_date3=formation which indicates a bifurcation from another state. This idea is supported by the incoming links for Formation1, used in |formation_date2=formation1. I don't see exactly how it's getting linked though. Certes (talk) 18:15, 28 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

On several articles (1835 Liverpool Town Council election, 1836 Liverpool Town Council election, 1839 Liverpool Town Council election, 1840 Liverpool Town Council election, 1841 Liverpool Town Council election) there is a link to "Reformers" in Template:Election summary party which should go to Whigs (British political party) but I can't work out what is happening in the template. (NB it works in the infobox but not in the Election results per ward). Any help appreciated.— Rod ^talk 17:46, 3 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The party name has been changed from "Whigs" to "Reformers". The citations all require login and probably go to someone's personal Google Drive account, and their archives just show Google's login page. If we want to display the the Whig party as "Reformers" just for these few elections then that needs a new entry in Module:Political party/R, probably under some unique name (to avoid clashes with the existing Hungarian party) which redirects to Whigs (British political party). Or we could just change them back to Whigs, which they were known as everywhere else. Certes (talk) 18:49, 3 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks - I think the easiest will be to change the links to Whigs (British political party).— Rod ^talk 10:37, 4 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Great work in the last 24 hours to reduce the links to Sydney Football Stadium from 1,000+ to 24 however these seem to be generated by links to "Allianz Stadium" in Template:Rugby union stadium ("RUS") and I can't see any way to dab in this template.— Rod ^talk 10:40, 4 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

They seem to have gone away now. Certes (talk) 19:24, 23 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Does abyone know if a tweak has been made to bot operations over the last couple of days. When Today's Dablink Report is published all articles are struckthrough as if they have been edited and on Templates with disambiguation links articles are no longer struckthrough when they have been edited.— Rod ^talk 18:15, 23 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The reports now seem to be fixed. Certes (talk) 21:36, 23 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks- I don't know what you did but seems to be working fine now.— Rod ^talk 08:55, 24 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't do anything, but I also add my thanks to whoever mended them. Certes (talk) 09:55, 24 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Several articles (shown on this list) include a template titled "Romani people in Asia" but when you try to edit this it takes you to a protected Template:Asia topic. On the 2nd line of "Sovereign states" there is a link to Iran which should go to one or other (or both of the articles at Romani people in Iran. Any help sorting this one out wiuld be appreciated.— Rod ^talk 17:47, 2 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

My gut is that "Romani people in Iran" is a WP:BCA and not a proper disambiguation page. The term refers to both of the topics, not to one or the other of the topics. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 22:33, 2 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Also, Persian Romani is not a people but a language spoken by several groups such as the Ghorbati who are related to but not obviously subgroups of the Romani people. That just leaves the Zargari tribe as actual people who are Romani and in Asia (though there may well be other groups not listed on the dab, with or without articles). Certes (talk) 22:55, 2 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I was wondering who wrote/created/maintains the Toolforge DAB Challenge tool?--Commander Keane (talk) 20:08, 22 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I believe DPL bot which manages the lists etc, was written by User:JaGa.— Rod ^talk 20:16, 22 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Since the list was added, links to and is updated by his bot I'd assume it's JaGa. But he hasn't edited for the last 3 months. Nobody (talk) 20:18, 22 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

As noted by others, User:JaGa originally wrote it, but I'm currently maintaining it. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 20:48, 22 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ahh ok that is great R'n'B. Perhaps a link at the bottom of the page with contact details of the maintainer and source code would be good. I may have a general Toolforge request not related to DPL for you soon.--Commander Keane (talk) 20:52, 22 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

There's already a link there to the bot's User talk: page (which I watch). Source code is available although you'd have to know a lot about Toolforge to know where to look for it, so adding a link for that seems like a good idea. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 21:20, 22 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]