so I don't know if this needs to be kept open, since I can no longer reproduce these bugs (I've since moved up to a more recent version, and haven't seen it since?)

Apologies for not getting back to you sooner.... I've just spent some time random jumping on en-wp and didn't get any 502's but??? (I suspect this can be closed)

The main problem is that it's very inconsistent; most of the pages are still working fine. Some pages break with <references/> but not <references /> (eg), some are broken with <references /> but not <references></references> (eg), others are broken with <references>...</references> but not <references /> (eg)

Hey @Aklapper I've not yet spotted any consistently

Indeed its more of a request for sane customisable url generation

Thank you so much :D

fbstj is the good one, fbstjoe is one I'd like delete/merging tbh

Thanks for taking a look :) apologies for taking peoples time from the more interesting tasks

So a reader comes along and reads a page and things 'dang this is good stuff', and wants to make sure people know that they liked it. Maybe this alerts any of the pages editors that someone liked it, but the editors would be able to disassociate from such things, or disable the alert at all. And there would be no 'this editor has been thanked for these pages' data, just 'this page has been thanked this many times. Maybe with expiry due to significant edits since? Such that a user could thank again later?