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Citation watchlist has intermittent false positives on history tabs
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Description

Steps to replicate the issue (include links if applicable):

What happens?:

  • Intermittently, most diffs have a red exclamation mark
  • Hovering over the exclamation mark reveals wikipedia.org
  • Checking an example diff, it has no URL in it

What should have happened instead?:

  • No exclamation marks for diffs without a URL containing a bad source

Software version (on Special:Version page; skip for WMF-hosted wikis like Wikipedia):

Other information (browser name/version, screenshots, etc.):

Event Timeline

Novem_Linguae renamed this task from Intermittent false positives at User talk:Cyberpower678 history tab to Intermittent false positives on history tabs of user talk pages.Aug 11 2024, 1:29 PM

Just happened on the history tab of my user talk page too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Novem_Linguae&action=history

1239772932 is the top revision right now.

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It's not limited to talk pages, I usually experience this when looking article histories.

Novem_Linguae renamed this task from Intermittent false positives on history tabs of user talk pages to Citation watchlist has intermittent false positives on history tabs.Sep 5 2024, 6:13 PM