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There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The discussion is about the topic Moons of Neptune. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 05:16, 13 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, it was closed as not an ANI issue, but the issue of removing a large chunk of content while de-tagging a demoted FL still warrants investigation. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 07:54, 13 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

My apologies. This was a one-off manual run to correct the issue reported in the section above. I will investigate the root cause and ensure that it cannot happen again. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 09:30, 13 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The problem has been investigated. The root cause has been found. The library has been updated to resolve the issue, and a test has been added to the test suite to ensure that it will not recur. Again, apologies for this, which I should have noticed. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 20:32, 13 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

List of The Real Housewives of Atlanta episodes was closed at FLC on December 15, but has still not been closed by the bot. Bgsu98 (Talk) 21:40, 22 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You had me as confused as the FACBot. I looked at the talk page, and then its history and could not see any evidence that the article was ever a candidate - there was no template on the talk page, hence it was never in the featured list candidates category. Then I went to the FLC page and saw it. So now that I could see a nomination page (but how was it created without the talk page template I wondered) I added the template to the talk page [1] to make it a candidate and the FACBot processed the nomination [2]. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 00:40, 23 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, the bot closed Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Electoral history of Al Gore/archive1 today, which was nominated by Olliefant, but posted the closing notice on Generalissima's talk page instead for some reason, who had no connection besides being one of the reviewers. Not sure why, though I note that both that and List of Batwoman episodes were closed in the same run and bother were by Olliefant, and that the bot also removed the Batwoman list from FLC in the same edit that it removed a different list? So maybe something about 1 nominator having 2 closed nominations confused things. --PresN 01:18, 23 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

It is all about Olliefant using a talk page instead of a user page as her nomination signature. The Bot therefore could not see it and reported an error. I corrected the signature in Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Batwoman episodes/archive1 but in Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Electoral history of Al Gore/archive1 the Bot kept looking and found Generalissima's signature, which looked like the nomination signature as it was enclosed in <small> tags. I will teach the Bot how to deal with Olliefant. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 02:33, 23 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! --PresN 03:23, 23 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

User:FACBot has neglected to archive both Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Swiss Figure Skating Championships/archive1 from January 16th and Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Soviet Figure Skating Championships/archive1 from today. Did I run over somebody's dog or something? Bgsu98 (Talk) 23:45, 19 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

It's not you; it is this person. They created a nomination but never completed it. The FACBot stopped processing nominations at this point and waited for the nominator or coordinator to resolve the issue. I had already instructed the FACBot on how to handle (i.e ignore) this, but had not moved the new version to the Toolforge. I have given the new version a run and it has processed the approved nominations. I've also remove the incomplete nomination template so processing will proceed as normal pending the update. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 01:44, 20 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! Also, super cute dog! 🥰 Bgsu98 (Talk) 01:59, 20 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]