All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XXVII

[robkelk]

Bad news, folks... Bot runs do something bad to the database, and generate false-positive results in DPL lists.

Evidence: Both this list and this list were down to a couple-dozen pages before somebody did a bot run. Now they're so long that they overflow the DPL lists.

I propose that we not allow bot runs at all unless there's an emergency that needs to be fixed immediately (as in "the wiki has been served with a court order" immediately)... and, even then, somebody needs to go in afterwards and manually edit every page touched by the bot run so that the database is updated correctly.

Not the fault of the bot jobbing.

What we have is the templates applying the correct category on a backend level, which saves valuable processing cycles as opposed to manual place, as we bundle it in the templates for those specific pages

https://allthetropes.org/w/index.php?tit...artwarming

This puts the appropriate CSS in the background to display the page appropriately, and if you check the bottom of the template in edit view, it includes the proper category when said CSS is applied as well. I suggest looking for all pages that link to the Heartwarming Template if you want more accurate results. Same for Nightmare Fuel or any other page we use the backend template load method for.

Aw, for...

The lists of pages that do use the templates are useless for determining which pages need the templates. The whole point to the lists is that they show which pages d not link to templates that they should link to. That suggestion won't work.