Wikipedia talk:WPCleaner/Archive 2009

Please stop introducing bad links with Wikicleaner
✅ Recently I have noticed several edits where people using Wikicleaner have alterd links to Atlanta, Georgia to be links to Atlanta, Georgia. This damages Wikipedia. Georgia is a disambiguation page, and should not normally be linked to. The American state is at Georgia (U.S. state). DuncanHill (talk) 10:41, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
 * You should ask these people, because Wikicleaner is only a tool doing what the user is asking it, edits are done manually (the tool only provides functions helping to clean disambiguation links). The replacement you are talking about is not proposed by Wikicleaner when editing a page, so the user has done it completely manually (even if it's through WikiCleaner interface). --NicoV (talk) 11:47, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Taking a closer look at the latest one I spotted, the editor was using Wikicleaner to avoid redirects - which they shouldn't be doing anyway. DuncanHill (talk) 11:57, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
 * On the recent versions of WikiCleaner, links to redirect pages are not displayed in orange anymore (request from xeno), but in cyan, because links to redirect pages are often correct. --NicoV (talk) 19:50, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

Why is this tool fixing redirects that aren't broken?
✅ An automated tool should not be running afoul of our guidelines. See WP:R2D. –xenotalk 18:42, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
 * On the recent versions of WikiCleaner, links to redirect pages are not displayed in orange anymore (request from xeno), but in cyan, because links to redirect pages are often correct. --NicoV (talk) 19:52, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

Inaccurate edit summary
This tool clearly does more than repair links to disambiguation pages. I have seen this tool used many times by a certain user to make changes to pages on my Watchlist, and I think every change I've seen has been to bypass a redirect, not a disambiguation page. (This has posed a problem in some cases because many of those pages being edited are disambiguation pages themselves, where redirects are sometimes used for good reason.) I asked this user why he always uses the edit summary "Repairing link to disambiguation page" and he has indicated to me that he cannot change the default edit summary text that WikiCleaner uses.

So I'm asking here -- why is the automated edit summary for this tool misleading? Can it be changed? I don't know the full capabilities of the tool, so I don't know if "Repairing link to redirect or disambiguation page" would be more accurate, or if there are more functions it can perform, perhaps just something like "Cleaning up links"? There certainly must be a better solution than using an edit summary that is often, if not usually, misleading about the nature of the actual edits being made. Propaniac (talk) 13:45, 21 October 2009 (UTC)

Bad token
✅ I'm a heavy user of WikiCleaner. I make hundreds of edits a day with it. I've noticed an increase in the amount of the "bad token" error. When I first started using WC, I'd get it after the first edit and that was it. Now its 9 or 10 times in a session. It's extremely annoying because the only one to stop it for me is to completely close WC and reload it. Anybody else reporting an increase? --User:Woohookitty Disamming fool! 09:00, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
 * I saw that the problem has increased in frequency with the last versions of MediaWiki and its API. I have just released v0.99 that should take care of the problem (by requesting a new edit token, and retrying to update the page with the new token). I still the problem is with the MediaWiki API.
 * Just as a reminder : the hosting for WikiCleaner has changed a few months ago, and removing and installing it again may be required if you don't have v0.98 or above. --NicoV (talk) 19:46, 2 March 2010 (UTC)