Issue has been fixed, please use AWB snapshot release if this affects you. Later full releases of AWB will include this fix.

@scarecroe See https://sourceforge.net/projects/autowikibrowser/files/autowikibrowser/Snapshots/ - AutoWikiBrowser6401-12997.zip includes fix on this ticket.

If I understand this correctly, then on https://uk.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%D0%A2%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0_%D0%94%D0%B0%D1%80%27%D1%8F_%D0%84%D0%B2%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%96%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%B0&action=edit&oldid=44633542 there are two instances of "<ref>name="ббс арештована"</ref>" but both are like that, so if both were condensed to <ref name="ббс арештована"/> as you say should happen, there would be no ref of that name with some content. So this doesn't appear to be a scenario that AWB can fix.

rev 13008, will be included in next release of AWB.

OK, so we have:

As you identified in your next edit, there was a stray bracket in the "Festival de Cannes : la petite histoire de la montée des marches et son célèbre tapis rouge" citation further down the page. AWB can't always get bracket fixes right. Following your correction to the page AWB now doesn't propose any bracket-related fix to the page so I propose to resovle this as a source data issue.

AWB currently sets a maximum edit summary length of 255 characters (or "bytes" when dealing with UTF-8).

rev 13007

rev 13005

rev 13003 Enable page range dash formatting etc. for sfn templates as is done for harv templates

rev 13000 add missing DEBUG condition to unit test

Was added under T337532

rev 12998 Add Control+N as shortcut for Preview

rev 12997

rev 12997

rev 12996

I think when AWB is left idle for some time (not sure, many hours etc.) the edit token we got on first AWB login from the API will have expired, and either we don't get told by the API that we need a new token, or we don't handle that 'new token' message correctly. I will aim to look into it further but it may be an API-side issue that we can't resolve within AWB.

rev 12995

@GoingBatty Please expand on Nothing, per [[WP:ORDER]]

rev 12994

rev 12993

rev 12991: {{Cleanup infobox}} isn't an infobox template

rev 12990

rev 12990

rev 12989: support CamelCase template redirects. Will be in next release of AWB.

rev 12988

rev 12987

OK, rev 12985 adds the redirects too for orphan and wikify.

rev 12984 FixSyntax handling of template calls whose contents are wikitables

@SyntaxTerror No AWB doesn't automatically know about redirects. You can either add them to Template Redirects config (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Template_redirects) if you have a fr-wiki localised version, or tell me them here so I add them directly to AWB code.

@GoingBatty When {{multiple issues}} template is added, it's added at the top of the article and the templates that go into it are removed/or moved up into it, depending on how you want to think about it.

rev 12983

Under T386303 we added the rule that MetaDataSorter could not safely apply to zeroth section if there were unbalanced brackets. This article had an unbalanced bracket which I've now fixed - https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=College_of_Engineering,_Trivandrum&diff=prev&oldid=1280653096

rev 12982 localisation of orphan and wikify for fr-wiki.

rev 12981: "Old news" is another maintenance template

rev 12980 {{Inc-up}} and {{list scope}} as additional hatnote, maintenance templates

rev 12979 MetaDataSorter restriction on category sorting for magic word switches only needs to apply when then switches are after the cats

rev 12978

rev 12977 handle website=web.archive.org

@GoingBatty Under T387084 we established that magic word switches such as _ _FORCETOC__ are allowed on mainspace anywhere in page. As there is no rule as to their placement we disabled defaultsort/cat sorting on pages containing such a switch. List of Pennsylvania fire departments has _ _FORCETOC__ so what are you now expecting to happen?

rev 12976 Handle another valid variation of <references> use

rev 12975 minutes is valid cite web param

At https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:DISPLAYTITLE#Instructions it says merely "Type {{DISPLAYTITLE: anywhere in the wikitext." MOS:ORDER also documents scenarios where DISPLAYTITLE must be before or after infoboxes. I am concerned that infoboxes are not banned from later sections of articles, so if we pull DISPLAYTITLE from the end/a near-end section of an article we could introduce a problem.

@GoingBatty MetaDataSorter sorting of zeroth section was disabled where the zeroth section had a wikitable, this was for T386285 which you also raised. This page has a wikitable in zeroth section, so is your request then that zeroth section sorting can take place but only on the content before any wikitable?

@GoingBatty We'd previously established that MOS:ORDER has Level 9 for language maintenance templates. On MOS:ORDER that Level 9 links directly to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Language_maintenance_templates which {{Korean script needed}} is in.

rev 12963

rev 12969: disable ReorderReferences for uk-wiki

rev 12968: FixSyntaxTemplateWhitespace: handling of unnamed template call (article text error)

Article had unnamed template call, fixed by https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=California_City,_California&diff=prev&oldid=1278666970

@GoingBatty Before making the change we'd need to check for any false positives (any other users where a number followed MW doesn't mean megawatt). Would you be able to run a database scan and check? For simplicity a regex search for \d\s*MW\b should do the job.

rev 12964 collaboration= is a valid citation parameter for cite arxiv

rev 12963 MetaDataSorter: zeroth section sorting to handle both {{hatnote group}} and standalone dablinks in same article

resolved by rev 12936. (AWB 6.4.0 is 12928)

rev 12955: MetaDataSorter/MoveTemplate: limit number of comments before a template to avoid regex backtracking issue on articles with multiple consecutive comments

rev 12953

rev 12952 MetaDataSorter: don't sort zeroth section of article or do cat sorting if magic word behaviour switch present on mainspace article (these can appear anywhere in article)

rev 12950 mainspace only syntax fixes: removal of INDEX and NOINDEX magic words that don't apply to mainspace

@GoingBatty Are there any requirements for other similar magic words such as FORCETOC / NEWSECTIONLINK?

rev 12948 Empty "nowiki" tags can be removed alongside other empty tags

rev 12947 Add webm as another file extension used for images

rev 12946: Add {{Sky}} and {{Authority control}} as templates to be moved to end of article - same treatment as {{coord}}

rev 12945

rev 12944

rev 12941

rev 12940: MetaDataSorter: don't sort zeroth section if it has any unbalanced brackets, to avoid problems on articles with existing issues

rev 12939 Further update to sectstub for uk-wiki

rev 12938: Add {{Being translated}} as another maintenance template

rev 12937 Add more templates {{Collapsed infobox section begin}}/{{Collapsed infobox section end}} to list of templates that MetaDataSorter cannot handle

rev 12936 further changes to {{coord}} moving to support scenario of standalone {{coord}} template, and another one nested in an infobox

rev 12935: FixHeadings to remove identical duplicated headings with only whitespace in between

@GoingBatty I had to revert use of HideText as it caused multiple other problems. I resolved original issue by ignoring stuff in comments, I can't do that here.

rev 12934: FixReferenceTags to handle "< ref name" whitespace too.

rev 12933: remove website when converting URL to archive-url if website is for the archive service.