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Feature request - notify RfC creator when expired RFC template is removed

@Legoktm: Is it feasible to have Legobot notify the creator of an RFC – eg with a message on that user's talk page, or {{ping}} on the RfC talk page – when Legobot removes an expired RFC template?

Eg Legobot removed the template here, legitimately because the RfC was expired, but I did not realise this for several weeks because:

there was no other activity on that page (the RfC had gone stale)
my watchlist normally excludes bot edits, so I did not see that edit

I'd rather not have to show all bot edits on my watchlist, because there are many of them, and generally I don't care about them. An explicit notification would be helpful. Mitch Ames (talk) 12:14, 17 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page watcher) @Mitch Ames: It's certainly possible, but for several years now, Legoktm has been unwilling to add new features to Legobot. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 21:17, 17 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I think if someone were to write a pull request to do it Legoktm would probably be willing to deploy it. But I'm not volunteering. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 21:20, 17 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

RfC listing has broken formatting

An RfC listed in [1] was added in such a way that the formatting broke. The RfC header begins with a numbered list, which does not format properly in this template. –LaundryPizza03 (d c̄) 11:11, 13 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page watcher) @LaundryPizza03: This is nothing to do with Legobot, which copies everything from the {{rfc}} tag (exclusive) to the first valid timestamp (inclusive). The copying is verbatim, it does not alter anything. If there is any problem, it lies with {{rfcquote}}. See WP:RFCNEUTRAL: the statement should not begin with a list. There's an easy way of fixing it. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 18:28, 13 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Feature request: Allow supplying a custom summary for when the bot copying the first part of the RFC does the wrong thing

Not all RFCs work very well with the vagarities of formatting that are needed to avoid breaking the list pages. I suggest you make it so that something like {{rfc|topic|summary=Some text goes here.}} has the bot use the "Some text goes here." as the summary in the list rather than trying to copy up to the first timestamp, so we don't have to have editors who care more about the list than the RFC itself reformatting things in ways that make the RFC formatting worse. Anomie ⚔ 23:49, 10 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ha, I found a workaround after looking at the bot's code. The bot takes everything between the {{rfc}} and the first timestamp, lightly munges it, and dumps it into {{rfcquote|text=}}. One thing it doesn't do is escape pipes, so something like this

{{‌rfc|topic|rfcid=XYZ}}
<div style="display:none">|text=
This text is hidden on the RFC page, but is shown on the listing. 00:00 11 July 2024 (UTC)
</div>

results in the listing page having this:

{{rfcquote|text=
<div style="display:none">|text=
This text is hidden on the RFC page, but is shown on the listing. 00:00 11 July 2024 (UTC)}}

The second |text= parameter overrides the first, effectively removing the div so the text displays properly on the listing page. Anomie ⚔ 01:01, 11 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Task 33 stopped

Hi Legoktm. Doesn't look like the bot has run at WP:MFD since the 17th—maybe you could have a look? Extraordinary Writ (talk) 20:26, 26 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Now working again. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 03:47, 30 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

So it had gotten stuck...

tools.legobot@tools-bastion-13:~$ kubectl get pods
NAME                       READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
mfd-rs-28686902-62fkh      1/1     Running   0          11d

I fixed that.

And then when I ran it manually, it was hitting some error with Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Valjean/Archive 32, and I didn't have time to finish investigating (I suspect the notavote template threw it off somehow?)...but I guess it fixed itself? Yay? Legoktm (talk) 05:02, 30 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Miscellany for Deletion relisting

I relisted Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:TalkSubject a couple days ago, but the bot has not moved it to the new day (based on the technical timestamp, e.g. {{mfdr}}). Does the bot still perform this function? — Godsy^(TALK_CONT) 21:51, 7 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]