I recently had this with https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/applications/evaluate/14163/ Possibly the problem only occurs with renewals of accounts that were created before the real name requirement was configured?

In T97936#6953683, @RoySmith wrote:

From an editor point of view, it's very much not a bad idea. We have broken cite templates all over the place because the automated tool incorrectly generates "cite web". The only way to fix them now is to delete the reference and create a new one manually. An automated process, even if it's "fundamentally lossy" would be a big help, because deleting the existing one and starting over is also "fundamentally lossy".

This should be prioritized to something more than "low".

@jsn.sherman Actually, it started working again on Thursday, not sure why. I assumed it had been fixed already.

Still happening on test-wiki, any updates on this?

In T173437#5059006, @Esanders wrote:

An alternative would be to change the rendering of the temporary citation, so that it is more clear that is hasn't been finalised yet, e.g.

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In T195397#4238636, @Anomie wrote:

I manually refreshed the count for just this category. Let's see if it gets bad again.

In T192461#4139755, @Samwalton9 wrote:

Thanks for reporting - this issue should now be fixed, can you verify?

Sounds like a task for a bot, no? Running such a bot once a day should be sufficient since the list probably does not have to be dynamic, does it? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bot_requests seems to be the better venue

Sorry to reopen this old task but apparently {{REVISIONUSER}} has been forgotten when fixing this back in 2011. Can someone take care of that?

In T163540#3252688, @Whatamidoing-WMF wrote:

Option (a) requires CC-0 licensing, which means that only @SoWhy could add that great description from VPT's archives.