All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XX

[GethN7]

You broke categories on BlazBlue - you replaced "[[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]]" with "[[Category:BlazBlue]]".

[[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]] is the preferred format, and is also the format used in the new-page templates. I have been fixing those manually on existing pages every time I see them for years. I don't appreciate a bot coming in and re-breaking them.

EDIT: I have blocked Gethbot for one day, for the protection of the wiki, with the reason "repeatedly breaking something that a moderator had to step in to fix"

Thank you for doing that.

I cut short the use of AWB last night just in case it did too much it shouldn't. It was coded based on fixing mistakes on English Wikipedia, and while I tried to ensure it fixed only really basic stuff, I had no idea it was breaking things it shouldn't.

{{PAGENAME}} is a generic "magic word"" used to call the actual name of the page, so "BlazBlue" would actually be correct by that measure in a technical sense, so I had no idea it caused a breakage of what it should not, that is genuine news to me, so thank you for intervening to protect the wiki.

From now on, I'll further restrict generic cleanup jobs to more specific rules to avoid this. Also, I'll fix the damage from Gethbot on that score.

This can be fixed easily with this, I'll ask Miraheze to fix it in one shot, with this:

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:RollbackEdits.php

Edit: Filed this, it will fix it all in one shot far more efficiently than can be done by hand:

https://phabricator.miraheze.org/T7635