Beginning Saturday22 September 2018, user comfr on wikipedia began getting notices that various pages had been linked to Flame treatment, even though no such links had been made. Every day, several more notices appeared.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Notifications for user comfr.
@Comfr Only you can see your notifications. Can you create a screenshot image of the problem, and then share that image by dragging it into a comment below?
Probably caused by this change in a navbox: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Packaging&diff=860763498&oldid=860763072&diffmode=source
I'm not sure if links from templates are supposed to be filtered out?
This is not a screenshot. I copied and pasted from the page into this box.
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Today28 September 2018
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A link was made from Reusable shopping bag to Flame treatment.
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View changes 4h
A link was made from Bulk box to Flame treatment.
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View changes 12h
Yesterday27 September 2018
A link was made from Intermediate bulk container to Flame treatment.
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View changes 1d
Wednesday26 September 2018
A link was made from Flameless ration heater to Flame treatment.
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View changes 3d
Tuesday25 September 2018
A link was made from Reuse of bottles to Flame treatment.
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A link was made from Plastic container to Flame treatment.
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A link was made from Plastic milk container to Flame treatment.
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A link was made from Shipping container to Flame treatment.
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Monday24 September 2018
A link was made from Milk bag to Flame treatment.
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A link was made from Plastic bag to Flame treatment.
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A link was made from Shelf-stable food to Flame treatment.
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A link was made from Tin can to Flame treatment.
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A link was made from Paperboard to Flame treatment.
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Sunday23 September 2018
A link was made from Aerosol spray to Flame treatment.
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A link was made from Package handle to Flame treatment.
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A link was made from Jerrycan to Flame treatment.
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Saturday22 September 2018
A link was made from Bioplastic to Flame treatment.
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A link was made from Surface modification to Flame treatment.
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19 September 2018
matmarex, I see what you mean. The template was added, resulting in Flame treatment being added to all those pages.
But why are they showing up, one by one? For example, I got notified September 27 about "Intermediate bulk container," even though the template had been added earlier. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Intermediate_bulk_container&oldid=857651935
Even more confusing, the notifications provide a link to "View changes," but the changes have nothing to do with a link to Flame treatment.
Here is an example of where I get by clicking on "View changes."
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Egg_carton&diff=861739677&oldid=prev
Similar issue reported in 2013, marked as declined: T50547: Echo: Pagelink notifications triggered on template update. I'm afraid it is still unfeasible to improve this behavior.
rECHOa01ebbc045c2: Fix page-linked notifications could be the cause, in particular this remark:
Also remove the code that refused to route events to a page creator if
they didn't have an agent. It's perfectly legitimate for events not to
have an agent, that shouldn't preclude them from using non-agent-related
locators.
Per T205742#4626983, the notifications seem to have no reference to the users...