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Formatting error

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 [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Infobox_single&diff=773758222&oldid=761760065 this change] by {{u|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)

: 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)

: {{ec}}{{re|JG66}} Sorry, didn't realize there were some things used in the parameter which weren't child infoboxes.

: {{ping|Frietjes}} Should {{tl|Extra track listing}} be modified to use {{tl|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}}
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13:28, 4 April 2017 (UTC)

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

  • And another one … After [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Infobox_single&diff=prev&oldid=781984469 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)
  • {{re|JG66}} I think it's fixed now, sorry about that. Jc86035 (talk) Use {{re|Jc86035}}
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    13:56, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
  • {{re|Jc86035}} Thanks, those look good. Unfortunately, there are also examples like What Is LifeJG66 (talk) 14:12, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
  • {{re|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}}
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    14:33, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
  • {{re|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
    rather than
    created the second set of quote marks (or allowed them to be created). Then I found that having
    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)
  • {{ping|JG66}} now [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template%3AInfobox_single&type=revision&diff=783099134&oldid=782797851 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)
  • Update: Jc86035 fixed it now. —IB [ Poke ] 09:16, 2 June 2017 (UTC)
  • Okay. I wasn't sure how it concerned me, though …?

Next/previous string errors

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)

A bug

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)

: {{ping|Jc86035}} Thanks, it's fine now. Esszet (talk) 20:58, 24 June 2017 (UTC)

deprecated params

{{ping|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)

: {{re|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 {{tl|issubst}}. Jc86035 (talk) 05:04, 17 November 2018 (UTC)

::{{ping|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 [https://petscan.wmflabs.org/?psid=6456673 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 {{tl|Infobox song}}? --Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 05:40, 17 November 2018 (UTC)

::: {{re|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)

::::{{ping|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)

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

:::::: {{re|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 {{tl|Infobox single}}. Jc86035 (talk) 07:36, 17 November 2018 (UTC)