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bot adds an inaccurate edit summary
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Affected wiki(s): en,wiki
Diff(s) (if applicable): https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Deaths_in_September_2016&diff=1116814216&oldid=1116245482
What is happening?: bot added this edit summary: "(Rescuing 20 sources and tagging 0 as dead.) InternetArchiveBot (v2.0.9.2)" But, for 17 of those 'sources', the bot added |url-status=dead which is contrary to the edit summary of 'tagging 0 as dead'. Further, if the original source is dead and the cs1|2 citation template has a value assigned to |archive-url=, |url-status=dead is superfluous an can (should) be omitted.
What should happen instead?: edit summary should accurately reflect (in layman's terms) what the bot did. For this example, it might have been better to write: '(Rescued 20 sources and tagged 17 as dead.)' or omit dead-tagging entirely and write: '(Rescued 20 sources.)'