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WPCleaner error on QUIC

Hi, this is just a note that a recent use of WPCleaner in revision 1151390411 to QUIC resulted in a page rendering error. It's fixed now, no worries. The rest of this note is the outcome of me digging into what went wrong, finding that it isn't a serious or bug-based problem, and now I'm documenting my findings for our benefit. :-)

The immediate symptom: The edit to the image map on line 62 ("Title linked in text") broke the image map, since a link is required to complete the definition of the rect line. (Having the QUIC part of the image clickable along with the rest is debatable, but seemed intentional.)

I ran WPCleaner on the page to reconstruct the event. It suggested a "Title in page text" problem, and its suggested edit removed the whole rect line involved, leaving the syntax valid. This behaviour by WPClean isn't ideal if the link is intentional, but it would leave the image map without an error—and including a click-target for QUIC in the image map is debatable. I suspect what happened is that, faced with a block of unfamiliar code and WPCleaner removing more text than is usual for that problem type, you opted for what seemed like the correct manual edit that removed only the square brackets. After all, that's normally what WPCleaner would do with a link in paragraph text. In this case removing only the wikilink brackets actually left the syntax invalid.

I just want to reassure you then: WPCleaner does the right thing by default in this case, and you can safely let it remove self-links inside image maps, no worries. :-) I'd suggest that when considering a WPCleaner suggested edit to unfamiliar syntax, it's okay to ignore the suggestion entirely if it makes unexpected changes.

Anyway, I'm just happy it's not a bug in WPCleaner—that would be quite a headache. And, thanks for your editing work, it's appreciated. Cheers! — Saxifrage 20:36, 15 May 2023 (UTC)

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Editing

Sir,you have rejected my request of the page 'Balban's expedition of Mewat'. I am a new editor and it will be good if you told me the mistake i made. Thank you Ajayraj890 (talk) 07:04, 31 May 2023 (UTC)

Blanking old IP talk pages

Rich, when you blank old IP talk pages, please leave shared IP templates such as Template:SharedIPEdu remaining in place. Someone like myself has gone to the effort to determine and then document who owns and uses an IP. That, in turn, helps inform editors and administrators when dealing with problematic edits in the future. Thanks, --A. B. (talkcontribsglobal count) 20:30, 31 May 2023 (UTC)

@A. B.: If you are going to accuse me of doing something incorrect, please at least have the courtesy of showing diffs. Of the two IPs I cleared the rubbish from, neither had any pre-existing template touched... in fact This is where it was removed on one of them- RichT|C|E-Mail 20:51, 31 May 2023 (UTC)
Rich, you're right — I was wrong. I misread the page histories. My apologies. —A. B. (talkcontribsglobal count) 21:16, 31 May 2023 (UTC)
All good :) - RichT|C|E-Mail 21:17, 31 May 2023 (UTC)

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