I recently went into NFD Guardian and voted for several titles for “dup” reasons. While some of them ended up getting their templates removed accurately, when I later went into RCP, I was noticing ICGIL correcting for some of the mistakes the Guardian was doing when it was deleting the dup articles - sending them to https://www.wikihow.com/wikiHow:Deleted-Article
when in fact when I voted the title was listing in the tool’s information box.
I think this bug is a medium priority. While it’s not good to lose redirects to correct articles, it’s definitely not something that needs quick fixing if there are “other fish to fry” with a small engineering team. A shout out to @ICanGuessItLol
(for fixing the tool’s mistakes) and @Eric
(for being the Admin that allowed the deletions to process) - although I guess looking at the wikiHow logs, you’d probably see this anyway.
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Eric
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Interesting. I can try to help watch for some specific examples, if needed.
I think this is generally expected behavior if there is no asserted duplicate article listed in the NFD tag at the time the tag is first added to the article. However, if the duplicate title is added when the article is NFD’d then it should redirect.
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Eric
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Ahh, so there was no dup article included in the NFD tags when they were first
placed:
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Eric
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You’ll find the same sort of thing happens, for example, when an article is NFD’d for one reason, then changed to a different reason… the NFD Guardian hangs on to that first reason and doesn’t update to reflect any changes from the initial tag.
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Oops. Sorry. Maybe someone can look into a better solution to fix this if a mergeable title gets later included.
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