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I notice a few articles that carry full album track listings inside the infobox now have this feature appearing either unformatted above the lead section (e.g. My Sweet Lord), or with a similarly strange cluster of codes inside the infobox (Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)). Because I happened to notice it today, I'm wondering if this change by Jc86035 might have inadvertently triggered it – but perhaps not. Does anyone know how to sort out the issue? (The articles in question look awful, obviously.) Thanks, JG66 (talk) 12:48, 4 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

JG66, I have reverted the change for now. we could create a separate parameter for tracklistings. or, we could change all of them. but, it looks like any change needs more testing. Frietjes (talk) 13:22, 4 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

(edit conflict)@JG66: Sorry, didn't realize there were some things used in the parameter which weren't child infoboxes.

@Frietjes: Should ((Extra track listing)) be modified to use ((Infobox))? It could be better for accessibility to avoid nesting tables, although the edit was mostly for the headers to have the same width and that could be fixed with a padding: 0. Jc86035 (talk) Use ((re|Jc86035))
to reply to me 13:28, 4 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Frietjes, and no worries Jc86035. All looks good now. JG66 (talk) 13:41, 4 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

• And another one … After this, I guess, B-side parameters containing more than just a song title carry a second set of quotation marks/inverted commas. For example: Imagine (John Lennon song), Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da, Jet (song). Sorry to always be the bearer of bad news … JG66 (talk) 13:43, 24 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • @JG66: I think it's fixed now, sorry about that. Jc86035 (talk) Use ((re|Jc86035))
    to reply to me 13:56, 24 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    • @Jc86035: Thanks, those look good. Unfortunately, there are also examples like What Is Life … JG66 (talk) 14:12, 24 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
      • @JG66: Not sure what the issue was, it should look fine now. If there are any others try appending ?action=purge to the URL and reloading first to see if it goes away. Jc86035 (talk) Use ((re|Jc86035))
        to reply to me 14:33, 24 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
        • @Jc86035: Thanks, I did that at My Sweet Lord (yes, that one again) and it solved the problem. I also noticed in some other articles that the inclusion of <br /> rather than <br> created the second set of quote marks (or allowed them to be created). Then I found that having <br> appear in the Album parameter, to knock over a long album title, also created the issue. If you follow my contribs, you'll see a couple of examples. Cheers, JG66 (talk) 15:25, 24 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
          • • @JG66: now this edit completely screwed the template causing a massive amount of red link and texts to appear beneath the infoboxes. —IB ^{[ Poke ]} 09:03, 2 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
              • Update: Jc86035 fixed it now. —IB ^{[ Poke ]} 09:16, 2 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
                • Okay. I wasn't sure how it concerned me, though …?

It looks like right now a lot of the current population of Category:Errors reported by Module String is from unusual usage of next/previous single parameter not being handled robustly. 108.56.246.15 (talk) 02:38, 25 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

On "Love Will Tear Us Apart", which had two B-sides, quotation marks aren't appearing before the first one or after the second one; get rid of the comma between them, however, and it's fine. Esszet (talk) 20:19, 23 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Jc86035: Thanks, it's fine now. Esszet (talk) 20:58, 24 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Jc86035: can you add proper tracking to this template to track the pages that are using the deprecated parameters. I tried to but I can't figure out how to work with the subst stuff you've got going on. --Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 20:38, 16 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Zackmann08: If the template is being used on a page then it needs to be substituted anyway, so I don't understand why you would need to track this – all of the parameters are deprecated. Tracking could be done without leaving the category in the page, but you would have to use ((issubst)). Jc86035 (talk) 05:04, 17 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Jc86035: well that certainly simplifies matters! Lol. I didn't realize that the entire template was deprecated. You can disregard the request. :-) From the looks of it here there are just of 43,000 of them. I'll get started on converting these this weekend. Confirming they are just being replaced with ((Infobox song))? --Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 05:40, 17 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Zackmann08: Yes, although TheSandDoctor's bot is supposed to be handling that (though it is currently inactive). Jc86035 (talk) 05:52, 17 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@TheSandDoctor: care to chime in? I don't want to duplicate your efforts. --Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 05:53, 17 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Zackmann08: Ah, yes. It was underway but I had deactivated it over concerns it was orphaning some song bytes. Jc86035 that was resolved as not being an issue for the bot to worry about, right? --TheSandDoctor ^Talk 06:10, 17 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@TheSandDoctor: I'm not sure. The table category has no more articles in it, so substitution of the remaining infoboxes should be fine, but there might be a couple of edits where child templates were unintentionally removed from ((Infobox single)). Jc86035 (talk) 07:36, 17 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]