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Did the bot screw something up? Suggestions? Leave a message on this page and I'll get back to you. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 20:13, 5 September 2011 (UTC) [reply]

Multiple errors

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In this edit the bot subtly made most of the references disappear by leaving the opening half of hidden comment code in the reference. When it removed the Amazon link from a different reference, it didn't check if the ASIN parameter was already there before adding it. And it mysteriously deleted a forward slash from the title parameter of yet another reference. Modulus12 (talk) 09:15, 17 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Modulus12: I'd fix the comment stuff, but the bot is dead for a little while. Duplicate ASINs should be caught by WP:AWB, so I'd report it there. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 14:33, 18 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Turns out I had a backup. I put in new safeguards again this. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 15:21, 18 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
The same error was still made on 20 August 2018[1]. --Mewaqua (talk) 04:15, 26 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Website cleanup error

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In this edit, the bot removed the parameter "website" and created a date and journal error. It's been there for a while apparently. I stumbled across it. MartinezMD (talk) 23:00, 28 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

JSTOR refs

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Changing a JSTOR URL + |via=[[JSTOR]] to a |jstor= is not always an improvement. I've just reverted this edit to Bobbi Campbell, as it broke the rest of the reference. Is there something I should tag the reference with to prevent the bot making the same edit again? — OwenBlacker (talk; please {{ping}} me in replies) 16:17, 25 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The problem was that it was |via=[[JSTOR]] blah blah blah and the bot ignored the blah part. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 19:51, 1 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

caused duplicate ref defs

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In this edit, CitationCleanerBot made some changes to a few references (but not to others) so they didn't match. After that edit, there were duplicate reference definitions in the article. I fixed it with this change. -- Mikeblas (talk) 23:39, 16 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Sadly, that's due to an AWB bug, which I can't do anything about until there's an AWB update with the fix. I do patrol things after the bot to cleanup those issues when they arise however. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 06:37, 17 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]