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Deleted templates still appear in Special:Whatlinkshere
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Hello, I made hundred of edits with Mass Edit Regex to delete obsolete templates on Nonciclopedia and while the operation was mostly successfull many pages still appear to be using those templates in Special:Whatlinkshere, so maybe the database needs to be refreshed?

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Wedhro created this task.Nov 15 2020, 16:18
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Unknown Object (User) triaged this task as Normal priority.Nov 15 2020, 21:45
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Unknown Object (User) added a comment.Nov 16 2020, 21:38

Do they still appear in Special:Whatlinkshere? It may have take a day or 2 to update Whatlinkshere sometimes.

Wedhro lowered the priority of this task from Normal to Low.Nov 17 2020, 03:36

They still do, I'll report in a couple days.

Unknown Object (User) added a comment.Nov 23 2020, 09:01
In T6441#126542, @Wedhro wrote:

They still do, I'll report in a couple days.

Does the issue still persist?

Wedhro added a comment.Nov 23 2020, 09:14

Yep. The number of falsely included templates just went down a little, for example from 370+ to 351 in one case.

RhinosF1 added a comment.Nov 23 2020, 13:33

Could you link to an example page with a false entry and which is the false one?

Wedhro added a comment.Nov 23 2020, 13:47

For example, checking all pages including Template:S the first entry is the page Jim Morrison but there's no {{S}} to be found there.

Unknown Object (User) added a comment.Nov 23 2020, 17:27
In T6441#127294, @Wedhro wrote:

For example, checking all pages including Template:S the first entry is the page Jim Morrison but there's no {{S}} to be found there.

Can you try to purge or null-edit that page and then see if it still says they're included?

Wedhro added a comment.Nov 23 2020, 17:30

Just did both and no, it still says it's included.

Unknown Object (User) added a comment.Nov 23 2020, 17:31
In T6441#127343, @Wedhro wrote:

Just did both and no, it still says it's included.

Hmm ok I will look in a little bit then

Wedhro added a comment.Nov 28 2020, 17:16

Finally there's only a couple dozen pages left still resulting as using those templates, I can now check them personally and find out if MassEditRegex just happened to miss them. I believe the issue is solved, I just wonder if it will happen again when doing similar operations because I have to delete much more templates.

Unknown Object (User) added a comment.Dec 6 2020, 05:00

Hello, is the issue resolved? If not please let me know, and I'll look into it.

Wedhro added a comment.Dec 6 2020, 12:04

Today I mass removed another template, and 7 hourse later it still results used by lot of pages even after purging, for example these are the first 20 pages that are supposed to link Template:Vandalo but they don't: https://nonciclopedia.org/w/index.php?title=Speciale:PuntanoQui/Template:Vandalo&hideredirs=1&hidelinks=1&limit=20

Dmehus subscribed.Dec 6 2020, 15:45
Unknown Object (User) claimed this task.Dec 6 2020, 19:42
Unknown Object (User) moved this task from Backlog to Maintenance Script Run on the MediaWiki board.

A script is in progress, which seems to be working to fix it.

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Unknown Object (User) closed this task as Resolved.Dec 7 2020, 19:14

Seems to be fixed. The pages that remain in Whatlinkshere seem to still use the template.

Dmehus awarded a token.Dec 8 2020, 02:17
Wedhro added a comment.Dec 8 2020, 06:14

Did this fix the issue in general or will it happen again and I shall report when it does? Can't test it myself right now because a bug prevents me from logging in.

Unknown Object (User) added a comment.Dec 8 2020, 07:54
In T6441#128727, @Wedhro wrote:

Did this fix the issue in general or will it happen again and I shall report when it does? Can't test it myself right now because a bug prevents me from logging in.

There is a good chance it did not fix in general and the script may need run again if further issues. As for the bug that is preventing login, there is a global site notice active, that you can follow the steps listed there to resolve.