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Wording of Decline Template
Something is wrong with Draft:Dixien LLC. I don't mean that the draft is promotional and contains peacock language and is badly formatted. All of those are true. What I mean is that if I try to clean the draft, to comment on the draft, or to decline the draft for any of those reasons, nothing happens. There may be something wrong with the AFC script notations in the draft. Can someone please look at it? Robert McClenon (talk) 19:50, 17 December 2015 (UTC)
- It's not just that one; I'm having trouble reviweing other drafts too. An error with the script? /wia🎄/tlk 20:11, 17 December 2015 (UTC)
- I'm having nothing happen when I try to review other drafts also. So there is something wrong with Draft:Dixien LLC, but those are just issues that can be dealt with by declining, and there is also apparently a problem with the script. Robert McClenon (talk) 22:11, 17 December 2015 (UTC)
- My problem with Dixien LLC has been solved. It was speedy-deleted. However, I still am having problems with the script. Robert McClenon (talk) 22:12, 17 December 2015 (UTC)
- I'm having nothing happen when I try to review other drafts also. So there is something wrong with Draft:Dixien LLC, but those are just issues that can be dealt with by declining, and there is also apparently a problem with the script. Robert McClenon (talk) 22:11, 17 December 2015 (UTC)
@Robert McClenon, Wikiisawesome, and LaMona: Please try clearing your caches and reloading the script. A temporary fix has been put in place that should solve the issue for now. Sorry for the inconvience; it looks like there was an underlying MediaWiki change that the AFCH devs were not notified of... Theopolisme (talk) 23:25, 17 December 2015 (UTC)
Multiple Decline Reasons?
Can the AFCH script be given a feature to allow the reviewer to select multiple decline reasons (as is the case, for instance, with speedy-deletion for multiple reasons)? Very often a draft is a BLP that does not have in-line citations and so does not establish biographical notability, or reads like an advertisement because it fails to establish corporate notability. I think that, as a result, some submitters correct the one identified issue and think that is all that they needed to do. Can the script be modified to allow the reviewer to select two or more reasons? Robert McClenon (talk) 01:59, 5 January 2016 (UTC)
- {{AfC submission}} needs to be changed first to support multiple decline parameters, which shouldn't take that long. Once we get that done it's definitely feasible, though the code that actually declines the draft might take some effort to change. Anyway, it's a great idea. APerson (talk!) 17:04, 5 January 2016 (UTC)
I hope that this isn't considered forum shopping to report a bug and ask for help in two places.
At Articles for Creation, I requested a random article, and got Draft:Maryse Warda. I reviewed it, and found it to be ready for acceptance. However, Accept was not one of the options from the AFCH tab. I had to Submit it. I then apparently made the mistake of submitting as myself rather than as the page creator. I then accepted it. I was then notified of its acceptance, but now I can't identify the page creator to notify them of acceptance. Can an administrator please help me? I don't think that the script should destroy the history of the draft article, which it apparently has done. If it is meant to do that, then I should be warned that submitting it as myself is a drastic action that may have unintended consequences. Robert McClenon (talk) 03:43, 10 January 2016 (UTC)
- Robert McClenon, I'm pretty sure that the history of the draft article is available as the history of the page Maryse Warda before the move, and that Jillcast (talk · contribs) was the draft's author. All the script does is perform a move from the draft title to the article title; are you asking why the edits that were made to the page while it was still a draft aren't shown at Special:History/Draft:Maryse Warda? APerson (talk!) 00:50, 11 January 2016 (UTC)
- Thank you. I see that the article, although not the draft, has the history. Robert McClenon (talk) 01:27, 11 January 2016 (UTC)
Removal of comments from draft talk pages
It is intended that the script should remove comments from a draft talk page when moving a submission into mainspace (e.g. as seems to have happened here). If so, please could this be stopped as a matter of urgency? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 17:29, 13 January 2016 (UTC)
- MSGJ, strangely enough, that doesn't seem to be the desired behavior for the script, at least according to this comment. Setting mode to prependtext should force the new text to be added to the top, so it's mystifying why the script isn't behaving properly. I'll look into this a bit more. APerson (talk!) 18:53, 13 January 2016 (UTC)
Put Comments on Talk Pages
Is there a specific reason why AFC comments cannot be put onto originator talk pages? Sometimes the comments provide more useful information than the decline reason, and may be friendlier than the decline reason. For example, on a blank draft, the comment "You may have hit submit by mistake" is friendlier than just saying that we do not accept blank drafts. Even unfriendly comments may be more helpful than just decline templates. Robert McClenon (talk) 22:03, 27 January 2016 (UTC)
- I'm following the discussion on the main WT:WPAFC page; at the moment, I'm working on a couple of other features for AFCH, but I'll get on it as soon as I can. APerson (talk!) 17:09, 11 February 2016 (UTC)
Question
Is there any way, if the script's automated notification to a draft submitter about the acceptance or rejection of their article is creating a new user talk page that didn't already exist, to turn off having that new user talk page automatically added to my watchlist? These are not generally pages I want to watch as a rule, and the added step of having to manually dewatchlist them after the fact is kind of annoying — I'd much rather manually select the extremely rare instances where I actually do want to do that for some reason, instead of having to manually deselect the many more cases where I don't. Bearcat (talk) 04:19, 11 February 2016 (UTC)
- +1 LaMona (talk) 15:28, 11 February 2016 (UTC)
- I've looked into this a bit. When we send a user a message, it doesn't look like we're asking the API to avoid watchlisting the page; instead, we use the default behavior, which is to look at your preferences and follow them. By default, your preferences tell us to add every page you create to the watchlist, hence all these new user talk pages being added to your watchlist. I'm going to change it so that user talk pages never get added to your watchlist; you can track the progress of this change here. Hope this helps! APerson (talk!) 17:08, 11 February 2016 (UTC)
- If you're creating the user talk page, it's generally a good idea to have it on your watchlist in case other warnings/notices come in so that there can be a more reasonable response. Hasteur (talk) 18:28, 11 February 2016 (UTC)