User:Furey/apply.c.c broken redirects - Revision history

Furey: /* Action taken */ ... done.

2024-06-09T04:19:01Z

‎Action taken: ... done.

Furey: /* How it hurts */ oops :(

2024-06-08T02:10:15Z

‎How it hurts: oops :(

Furey: /* How it hurts */ word fixed. hat tip umbire.

2024-06-08T02:09:50Z

‎How it hurts: word fixed. hat tip umbire.

Furey: Document the apply.c.c broken redirects.

2024-06-06T01:06:46Z

Document the apply.c.c broken redirects.

New page

== The problem ==

https://nethackwiki.com/index.php?title=Special:BrokenRedirects&limit=5000&offset=0
2307 entries
Most or all of them look like:
* Source:Ref/343/use candle (edit) → Source:NetHack 3.4.3/src/apply.c.c#use candle
* Source:Ref/343/snuff candle (edit) → Source:NetHack 3.4.3/src/apply.c.c#snuff candle
* Source:Ref/343/snuff lit (edit) → Source:NetHack 3.4.3/src/apply.c.c#snuff lit
* ...

Note the filename of "apply.c.c". These redirect pages are not usable.

It looks like DizzyBot created these pages in May 2018.

== How it hurts ==

Makes Special:BrokenRedirects unables. We can't see anything with 2000+ noisy lines in the results.

More subtly, encourages people (both readers and maintainers) that BrokenRedirectsa are not important and that we don't fix them.

Doesn't seem to have caused any direct problems in 6 years, though. We can wait a while for a fix.

== How to fix them ==

Need either a bot runner (are there any active bot runners on NethackWiki) or an admin to do a mass action.

What action? We could delete them. Or we could edit them and change "apply.c.c" to "apply.c".

← Older revision		Revision as of 04:19, 9 June 2024
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	What action? We could delete them. Or we could edit them and change "apply.c.c" to "apply.c".		What action? We could delete them. Or we could edit them and change "apply.c.c" to "apply.c".
		+
		+	== Action taken ==
		+
		+	Ion Frigate prepared a list of 2,307 article titles. dtype ran a batch deletion script. Furey checked the visible logs from the user side. 2,307 articles deleted.
		+
		+	... done!

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 Makes Special:BrokenRedirects unusable. We can't see anything with 2000+ noisy lines in the results.
-More subtly, encourages people (both readers and maintainers) to believe that BrokenRedirectsa are not important and that we don't fix them.
+More subtly, encourages people (both readers and maintainers) to believe that BrokenRedirects are not important and that we don't fix them.
 Doesn't seem to have caused any direct problems in 6 years, though. We can wait a while for a fix.

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 == How it hurts ==
-Makes Special:BrokenRedirects unables. We can't see anything with 2000+ noisy lines in the results.
+Makes Special:BrokenRedirects unusable. We can't see anything with 2000+ noisy lines in the results.
-More subtly, encourages people (both readers and maintainers) that BrokenRedirectsa are not important and that we don't fix them.
+More subtly, encourages people (both readers and maintainers) to believe that BrokenRedirectsa are not important and that we don't fix them.
 Doesn't seem to have caused any direct problems in 6 years, though. We can wait a while for a fix.